For children facing serious medical conditions, the hospital can be a confusing and scary place. Unfamiliar people, weird machines, and strange sounds can be startling and uncomfortable. Which is why ...

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 ...

Puppets are everywhere—on beloved TV shows and movies, in local theatre productions, in classrooms, and even at the doctor’s office. And while most parents may not know this, puppets are also integral ...

BLOOMSBURG — Looking for something fun and different for kids to do? Try creating a shadow puppet and acting out a story. The Bloomsburg Children’s Museum, in partnership with the Weis Center for the ...

Seoul, South Korea, September 1959: Children carefully paint the features on puppets in one of the classroom of the Seoul Children’s home. The girls live at the orphanage together with some 250 other ...

This was a kiln-er find. Puppets with remarkable facial features believed to date back some 2,400 years have been discovered at the top of an ancient pyramid in the jungle of El Salvador. The ...

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

Bullicio Puppets, a death metal puppet act from Chile, encourages children to mosh and rock out with a lovable, headbanging puppet character named Jack Distortion that mimes classic heavy tracks from ...

Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been an L.A. institution for 60 years. Although it was forced to move in 2019 from its original location in downtown L.A., which had been designated a historic ...