We can bring hands-on learning to your school, library, or community center. Here are details about several workshops we offer. We also offer the following:
Eulenspiegel Puppets has performances, workshops, and educational sessions for all audiences.
Bring us into your classroom, community, or festival. To learn more or to book a show, visit our shows page, call 319-627-2487, or write to owlglass@avalon.net
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Each participant makes a shadow puppet of an underwater creature. The puppeteers show participants how to make a simple tabletop shadow stage out of corrugated cardboard. The session ends with an impromptu performance. ... [read more]
Puppeteer Monica Leo demonstrates several styles of puppets with short, entertaining vignettes and gives the students ideas for puppet shows of their own. Some students are selected to try working some of the... [read more]
Make a classic hand puppet in the Czech tradition. These puppets have round, folk art style heads with charming faces and and no-sew bodies. Learn how lifelike their movements are, too! Time required: 1... [read more]
The Eulenspiegel Puppeteers will take you through the process of making a traditional hand puppet with a hard head and fabric body. You will make a head of newspaper and plaster bandages, using... [read more]
Make a humorous, silly or serious rod puppet character. Rod puppets have heads mounted on dowel rods and arms manipulated with rods. You'll make the head with a process similar to papier mache,... [read more]
Participate in the ancient, magical art of shadow puppetry! You'll learn how to make beautiful, mobile, well-articulated puppets out of cardboard, colored acetate, and other things that cast interesting shadows, such as lace... [read more]
Puppetry in the Classroom or Library Drawing on 35-plus years of experience working in schools, Eulenspiegel Puppeteer Monica Leo will teach tried and proven classroom projects, using hand puppets and shadow puppets. She'll demonstrate... [read more]