Puppetry Basics

How can you get better at puppetry?

• Practice, Practice, Practice

• Be good at using puppets

• Take a puppetry class

• Stare at puppets

True or False: You must always decide where your puppet is going to look.

• True

• False

When performing with a puppet you must focus on ____

• Comedy

• Your puppet's voice

• Focus

• Acting

One way to be a better puppeteer is to try using different ____

• Puppets

• Voices

• Stages

• Problems

How can you figure out which voice to use with your puppet?

• Use your own voice

• Copy someone else's voice

• Google it

• Try out different voices.

Puppetry is ____ and ____

• Accents and voices

• Comedy and jokes

• Acting and being serious

• Action and movement

If you don't have movement with your puppet people will be ____

• Bored

• Excited

• Entertained

• Annoyed

True or False: Good puppetry is just having your puppet talk without moving around

• True

• False

True or False: You cannot move your lips when using a puppet.

• True

• False

True or False: Children should believe that your puppet is alive and a real person.

• True

• False