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.
- 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.
- 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:
| Historical Reenactments | Astronomy |
| Biographical Puppet Project | Dramatic Literary Presentations |
| Exploring the Sea Environment | Many others |
- 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.