HOW to manipulate a puppet: "Slip your hand into a puppet like you would a glove, and wiggle your fingers until you get used to it!" Puppets are hands on!
Cottage industry-Puppet Making at HollyhockJunction.
Fake fur and fleece, air born and falling into the oatmeal on many chilly mornings as I sewed puppets that would be used by counselors as teaching tools to help children express emotions -happy, sad, lonely, afraid, ill-illy and silly.
Moles, lambs, pigs, cats, people, opossums, squirrels, frogs, and even a conductor mouse.
Micetro, a scrap of pinstripe wool, was one of the first puppets on the drawing table. Micetro was an illustration, then a story submitted -a page published in Christian Reader before he became a mouse puppet in a tuxedo waving a baton.
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Gwendolin and the Violin
Micetro Mouse took residence in Gwendolin's violin case.
It suited him, an orchestra conductor in musical surroundings. And Gwendolin, a little girl who was learning to play the violin, loved having an orchestra conductor mouse living in her house. She played the scales quickly with great enthusiasm and one note at a time. Micetro did the conducting.
She played, "Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, tee, squeak! " She stamped her foot and said, "I I sqeaked! I quit!"
Micetro replied rather meekly , "Squeak, squeak. I squeak too, you know."
"Yes but," exclaimed Gwendolin, "Squeaks aren't written into the tune."
"That true," said Micetro, "It just takes a little practice. I've been an orchestra conductor for a very long time. I've had lots of practice. Just try playing each note slowly, very slowly, and one note at a time, and soon you'll be be able to play, Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, tee, do.
"Okay," said Gwendolin "I'll try." She lifted her bow and played each note slowly. "Do, re, me, fa, so, la, tee.... easy!"
Philipians 3:16 "Only let us hold true to what
we have already attained and order our lives
by that."
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