Joann, in your comment to my answer about computers in the classroom you asked how I became interested in puppets. In 1932 I was teaching summer school in Edmond OK when I saw a man from New York City demonstating marionettes. I knew my students would enjoy them and started making marionettes with the help of my family. I continued to study puppetry during the summers I spent in New York working on my masters degree at Columbia University. Here are 2 of the pigs from my first play. Later I used wood and paper mache', but these first marionettes are made out of cloth and stuffed.
You may be able to see that I put little metal taps on the feet and washers under the ears to give them better movement.
Joann, in your comment to my answer about computers in the classroom you asked how I became interested in puppets. In 1932 I was teaching summer school in Edmond OK when I saw a man from New York City demonstating marionettes. I knew my students would enjoy them and started making marionettes with the help of my family. I continued to study puppetry during the summers I spent in New York working on my masters degree at Columbia University. Here are 2 of the pigs from my first play. Later I used wood and paper mache', but these first marionettes are made out of cloth and stuffed. 
You may be able to see that I put little metal taps on the feet and washers under the ears to give them better movement.
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