OSKALOOSA — As kids trickled into the staging area to join him for the upcoming puppet parade, Brant Bollman would shout out the time left until the parade's start time of 2 p.m. Saturday. "Five ...

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 ...

Longtime volunteer artist Ewart Martens tinkered with a piece of rubber, trying to wrap it around a white plastic tube and a metal wire. This combination of previously used materials eventually became ...

Jesse Kingsley was in full geek-out mode. Despite being a puppet builder and enthusiast for more than two decades, he had never peered inside the head of a Chinese lion costume — those vibrant, furry ...

Anna Karina Delage visited New Orleans many times after Hurricane Katrina before moving here and working for various nonprofit and advocacy groups. She worked for the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and ...

The Sugar Hole puppets are an odd bunch. Since May they have appeared every Saturday and Sunday and offered passersby cones of ice cream. When the weather turned, they began serving soup, hand pies, ...

We’re all familiar with puppets with strings attached to their arms and legs. When someone pulls the strings, the puppets move in different directions. The puppets do the bidding of the one pulling ...

Teachers from the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School will perform the first of three free puppet plays for children at 11:15 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, at Mason Library, 231 Main St. Steiner's early ...