I bought a bunch of puppets from a local church today. One of their members remembered me from years past when we attend a different church at the same time. Their new church doesn’t have a puppet team anymore and she was wondering if I knew anyone who would be interested in purchasing them at a really good price. After she sent me pictures, I decided to purchase them.

They a mostly people puppets and they will be great for working with the children in the schools. I teach a variety of classroom lessons using puppetry and storytelling. Some of them are vowel sounds, place value, conflict resolution, there are just a bunch!  If I am in a classroom of 25 students for 45 minutes I can get a puppet on the hand of every child, and allow them time to manipulate that puppet.  I will develop some new lessons and assembly programs with these puppets.  I will also be able to use them in workshops, too. People often come and do not have a puppet, so I’ll have some different ones for them to use.  I am excited about this purchase.  It’ll be fun to include some new characters to the cast (I just hope my old and new puppets all get along with each other. So many different personalities, you never know how they will react to one another!).

Below are some photos of my new friends!