Mission:

Puppetools is a puppet-based arts education technology designed to integrate puppets as a widely used educational tool to improve creativity, team work, focus, interest in obtaining knowledge, build self-esteem, and bring back joy and fun in learning. Puppetools is a global community of people interested in proactive education and is available in 20 countries and being used in over 1,000 classrooms worldwide.

Current Programs:

We are available for workshops, residencies, training, and staff development.

• Workshops
  • Discovering Puppetools in this stimulating workshop, teachers will explore learning through a new communication tool integrating simple paper puppets models with the world of proactive learning and play which can be used to create a new educational model for the classroom.
  • Discovering Puppetools for Children in this hands-on workshop, students will learn to design & create puppet models they will use as part of an in class learning project delivering a short presentation at the end.
• Residencies
  We are available for one day and multi-day puppet residencies where we will work with your needs to create an exciting educational event. We have many ideas of puppet integration with classroom activities including:

• Training
  We can train existing school or church puppet programs to improve manipulation, staging and other skills.

To learn more go to www.puppetools.com (use Referral Code 100–385–1934 to get 10% off)

• Puppetools Events

  September 25,2008  Puppetools Workshop at Greenfield City Hall 7325 West Forest Home Avenue, Greenfield
  at 6 p.m. Come learn more about Puppetools and create your own puppet model.