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68 Ways to Make Really Big Puppets:

(click on name to see diagram and explanation of puppet (* includes photo))
Simple Puppets: Backpacks: Animals: Birds: Dragons: Giant Puppets: Hoop and Cloth Puppets:
Fathead* Jo's Ladies* 2-person Fish Bread and Puppet Flying Bird* Ground Dragon* Kid-King* Wiggletree*
Purely Cardboard* Jose's Ecstatic Cats and Dogs* Flapping-wing Bird* Half-hoop Caterpiller* Preying Mantis Mr. Punch*
Pole Dragon Demonoid* Riding Horse* Heron* Half-hoop Dragon Mr. America* Big Fish
Face Banner* Hep Cat* Wire Demon* Amusing Bird* Mermaid Poseidon* Big Croc*
Star Banner* Skeleton* Circus Stilt Ape Wire Bird* Heads Flora* Other:
Hat Cat* One-person horse* Stilt Bird Other Dragons* Dorchester African King* Foam Puppets
Opera Singer* Two-person Cat* RISD Fisherman* Printed Banners*
Totem* Four-person Beast* Samba Dancer* Plaster Casting
Flier* Frog* George's Jumping Jack Death
Jo's Penguin Other Animals
Shimmy Dancer
Hattifatner
Other (Flapping Angel)*
Technical Information:
Making Faces Costumes Attaching Heads Hands About Backpacks*
Stilts/ Crankie (paper movie)/ Materials

The Patternbook of Pageants and Processions

.....And some scripts
Rain (on some other) Forest Parade Good for Kids!The Story of a Stone
The Street is a Shining Sea* The Story of Fred and Ed (2001-2005)
Urbanity* Romeo and Juliet on Earth
Midnight Ramble Parade The Odyssey
Rites of Spring* Iqbal Masih or Dreams of a Better Life
Masque of the Five Senses The Rights of Spring
Metropolis
Purim Play
King Lear of the Insects

The Puppet Free Lending Libraries

Wanna be in a pageant? Pride and Prejudice and Real Estate, Lincoln Center, Aug. 7

About Us

Who we are
What we're up to
What we're up to II: Making a Dinosaur
What we're up to III: Making sorta kinda bunraku puppets
What we're up to IV: Making a Giant Puppet Pageant (The Rights of Spring)
What we're up to V: Making a Giant Puppet Parade (First Night Boston)
Why we're doing this
George Konnoff
About Organizing Pageants and Parades
NEW!
We have some Videos on Youtube.

Perhaps we're being too subtle...............

you can hire us, you know!

about Plays New!
about Dancing Puppets and Puppet Romps about workshops about The Construction Section about impromptu parades and instant pageants about Play Making

Hey puppetistas! police rules against giant puppets containing sticks at demonstrations getting you down?
Have you considered Inflatables? pig

Links

For more information about all sorts of puppetry, visit: The Puppetry Home Page
The Bread and Puppet Theater is the great granddaddy of giant puppet theaters in the United States.
Making puppets, fun, and trouble in Philadelphia: Spiral Q! Resource List
Here is a good and interesting site about Karagoz, the traditional Turkish shadow puppet Theatre: KARAGOZ
For all our beatboxing needs, the Puppet Co-op turns to our friend: Kid Lucky and Beatboxer Entertainment
The Puppet Co-op does a Fourth of July Parade every year with The Governor's Institute on the Arts of Vermont; see The GIA Home Page for the Triumph of the Arts samba parade.
It was at the Governor's Institute that we heard the poetry of Geof Hewitt
And also of the (found and written) poetry of Verandah Porche
We've often worked with the puppeteers of the Luna Theater
William McCurtin, one of the puppeteers, publishes a zine: The Story of My Scab ...Check it out!
The Puppet Library is in the basement of wonderful Emmanuel Church

We offer a xerox version of '68 Ways to Make Giant Puppets' for $4,
¡Y ahora, en el español!
and a 'How to Make Giant Puppets' video for $10.
Now also on DVD!
For these, or for help if you run into technical difficulties, write, call or e-mail:

Sara Peattie
20 Grove Street
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 263-2031
email: puppetco@gis.net
Or:
Theresa Linnihan
3396 12th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Versions of "68 Ways" are also sold by:
!In German!
Wilfried Nold
Versandbuchhandlung
Eppsteinerstr. 22
60323 Frankfurt
Tel: 069 72 83
www.puppenundmasken.de

In England
Ray DaSilva
63 Kennedy Road, Bicester
Oxfordshire OX26 2BE UK
Tel/Fax: +44 (0) 1869 245793
www.puppetbooks.co.uk

In the USA:
The Bread and Puppet Press
Bread and Puppet Theater, Box 153
Glover, VT 05839


The Puppetry Store
783 South Agate Road
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814-7691
www.puppeteers.org

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