I was trying to think of a great gift to give my great niece who is 2 and her parents were needing ideas to keep her busy at church and restaurants. These adorable crochet finger puppet patterns were ...

Sometimes a small, seemingly insignificant event can have an enormous impact on your life. Take, for example, the time more than five decades ago that Brenda Hanna stumbled across a pattern to make ...

The young mothers laughed as Quackers, the puppet duck, helped Kurth Memorial Library director Sue Randleman sing a children's song as the women temporarily forgot the adult stress of tests, papers, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — From Pinocchio to Kermit the Frog to ... Joyce Carol Oates? Yes, it’s a brave new world for puppets, a theatrical zeitgeist where suddenly it seems every playwright is grabbing a sock or ...

Puppeteer Barnaby Dixon takes inanimate objects and turns them into uncannily real characters. Barnaby's creations have brought joy to millions over the last decade. His unique take on puppetry is ...

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 ...