MAM Day Twenty Three – World Puppetry Day!!!

Today is World Puppetry Day so to celebrate I’ll show you a few of my puppet creations. I like to make all different kinds of puppets:

This is Yin and Yang. Hand puppets made as a therapeutic tool for counselors and teachers who work with children.
Shadow puppets of the story of Esther for Purim
This is one of my companions – a finger puppet named Honey (Full name: Honey Bee Good). Honey likes to join in parades and hang out with me at airports. She is very sociable and children and adults often get attached to her. One little girl was so distraught when Honey had to leave she cried and cried inconsolably. Her dad had to make a fast getaway with her.
This is Eloise Guttersnitch, a bag lady. She was the first marionette I made when I joined the “Wisdom Marionette Troupe” in Seattle. That was my first job fresh out of college. She is made completely out of materials scrounged from “Dempster Dumpsters”. A true bag lady.
Not exactly a puppet, but a mask that I made for my niece’s one woman play. It was based on a Nazi propaganda poster depicting Jews.🤮
This is a dragonfly marionette. It was in the Adamant Blackfly Parade.Dragonflies love to eat blackflies. Good thing we have lots of dragonflies in Adamant because we sure do have plenty of blackflies for them to devour.
This is an Emerald Ash Borer costume used to warn people of the dangers of the borers to the Ash trees. I didn’t make the costume but I loved parading in it.
The bottom photo is of the marionettes that participants made at a puppet workshop in Prague for a production of Sleeping Beauty. The faces, hands and bodies were all carved out of wood. We performed the play at the Prague Arts festival. It was a wonderful workshop and Prague is a beautiful city. My friend Rosa (top photo) fell in love with the Jester I made. They were fast friends for quite a while.
This is a rod puppet of a caterpillar I made for a puppet workshop I helped organize for people with mild dementia. We all wrote the script, made the puppets and props, and performed the play together. What a lark!
Me and my buddies.

HAPPY WORLD PUPPETRY DAY!!!

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