PUPPET SHOWS MADE EASY

Two unique products from The Creativity Institute (www.creativityinstitute.com) are helping to introduce more and more children to the imaginative fun found in putting on puppet shows. By bundling puppet scripts with a companion cast of puppets, this online child-creativity resource offers an easy way to get children involved in creative pretend play.

The Creativity Institute's Old MacDonald Puppet Set comes with Farmer MacDonald, seven barnyard animal puppets and a scripted adaptation of the familiar song. The song can be acted out with anyone (or everyone) in the room singing the song or with the puppets performing along with any prerecorded version. Up to eight children can perform the skit at one time, though it can really add to the fun when the cast is smaller and the children take on double roles. (Imagine the giggles when the pig quacks by accident.)

The Aesop's Fables Puppet Set packages together five animal hand puppets that frequently appear in Aesop's stories: a Lion, Mouse, Fox, Rabbit and Turtle. The set also includes, at no additional charge, Creativity Institute adaptations of four Aesop's Fables stories that have been modified and contemporized without losing their original story line or moral. The adapted scripts include