Easy-to-Make Puppets
Stockwell
1973
Submitter: Easy To Make Puppets allows you to make…
- Middle Finger Dumbo (Handy to keep at the circulation desk for those fun patrons)
- High as a Kite Clown
- Stop wasting food heads (A mom’s favorite)
- And many more!
Holly: The disembodied head on the cover ought to give Mary sweet dreams. And if that doesn’t do it, the double-whammy clown puppet in the last image below will for sure. (You’re welcome!)
disturbing – I wont be able to sleep.
It is a ladybird book, so hawk it overseas for some library funding.
Oh, are those books worth something in some countries? I have a learn to knit book from this line.
I remember my mother having this book back when she was a Girl Guides leader. I ruined quite a few apples making the food head puppet.
We made paper bag puppets for EVERY unit when I was in second grade. I remember a groundhog for February, a lion and a lamb for March, etc. And they all looked better than the paper bag puppet shown here. You use the shape of the bag to your advantage – the part that folds over becomes the mouth. No cutting holes required (which would require some trial and error for kids to actually do anyway).
Exactly, the whole POINT of paper bag puppets is that they have a built-in mouth for hand puppetry.
Grown people I know will occasionally still turn bags into puppets when they’ve finished the food and feel like doing something silly.
Then you hang out with the right grown people. Congratulations!
Cover thought: “Someone’s made a toilet-paper roll Martha Stewart — and beheaded it. Not a Good Thing.”
Just eat the food, don’t turn it into creepy dead-eyed puppets. I swear if you see that apple/hankie combo on your TV, you’re dead in a week.
The other thing is, a lot of old craft books ask for supplies which were once common household items but basically don’t exist any more.
The book “Cup and Saucer Chemistry” calls for “para crystals” among other things. One edition or printing allegedly used half-smoked cigarettes as an ignition source, but my investigation hasn’t found where.
I had this book when I was kid. I had a shelf full of Ladybird books. They got passed on to my sisters children. Probably long since been either jumble-saled or in cases of extreme trauma, to the book, binned.
That clown is absolutely the most stoned person (thing?) I’ve ever seen.
It’s a Ladybird book! I loved Ladybird books when I was a kid. The “disembodied” head is part of the process of making a puppet, and shows what it’s made of. How else is a book about making things supposed to show the steps involved, and how easy it is? (I don’t get the thing about the clown – it’s a clown, and any clowns made by kids using this book would look different anyway.)
Exactly, the whole POINT of paper bag puppets is that they have a built-in mouth for hand puppetry.
Grown people I know will occasionally still turn bags into puppets when they’ve finished the food and feel like doing something silly.