When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Playing make-believe with hand puppets is one of the healthiest playtime activities for bonding with your child. Not only do puppets provide a chance for your child to engage in storytelling in an ...

How to make a puppet easy and on the fly to keep young children occupied and bring a smile to their faces by learning how to make hand puppets with just a napkin and a character voice. There’s hardly ...

In Bunraku, each puppet is operated by three people - the head puppeteer, and two others dressed in black, their faces covered. The head puppeteer manipulates the head and right hand, while one person ...

Jeff has been hopping on Goombas and collecting Triforce shards since the late NES era. Today, he appreciates all things console games - with a slight favoritism towards his Nintendo franchises. He's ...

Teacher Leticia Denoya stands at the front of her classroom, at Natchaug Elementary in Windham, Connecticut. Her first-graders sit criss-cross applesauce on the reading rug. "Do you remember last week ...

A new study by researchers at the Yale Child Study Center demonstrates that puppets can attract and hold the attention of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), raising the potential for ...

Long before AI chatbot therapists, a hand puppet had made a young girl feel safe enough to gently open up about her sexual abuse experience. This happened inside 'Vaatevarati Kachaa', a Marathi play ...

OSAKA, Japan, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his ...

OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances ...