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 ...

When you flip through Folkmanis' catalog or look at their fun and easy-to-navigate website, the first thing that hits you is the wide variety of puppets that they have for sale. Each member of the ...

It’s a technique the Bronx Zoo has been using for more than 40 years. Gabby Rosato, a senior keeper in the ornithology department, is putting on what’s known as a ghost outfit. The bird is being ...

Stuffed toy is dead ringer for Bob Carolgee's 1980s TV puppet Spit the Dog A DISTRAUGHT pet lover who found a dead cat, wrapped it in a blanket and took it to an animal shelter — then discovered it ...

NEW YORK – A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

Walk into the Fremont studio of puppetmaker Annett Mateo and you’ll find yourself in a marionette menagerie. There’s a swan and an elephant from Camille Saint-Saën’s “Carnival of the Animals” and a ...

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