01. Your Puppets - Here are one hundred and one puppets for you. The list begins with a handkerchief puppet that you can make with a twist of the wrist, and ends with a modern version of the giant and elaborate puppets of Osaka, Japan. Some of the ideas are brand-new; some are as old as history. If you were to construct and operate them all, you could consider yourself a master puppeteer.

02. Instant Puppets - These puppets can be made—well, nearly—in an instant. They call for materials that you are sure to have handy, such as handkerchiefs, lipstick, matchboxes, salad spoons and right and left hands. Have a minute? Try one.

You need a large handkerchief . Make a loose fist and drape the handkerchief  over it, as shown in diagram A. With your other hand, pull one of the front corners of the handkerchief  up between your first two fingers.

03. Rainy Day - Here is a way to fill a rainy day with fun: make a puppet and give a little show. Most of the materials you will need are around the house. Glue, poster paint, colored paper , rags, yarn , old socks—do you have them? Then, let's go!

You need yarn , a bit of lace or rickrack, construction paper , a bathroom tissue tube or paper  towel tube and an old glove . Cut a 3-inch section of the tube (31/2 inches if you are using paper  towel tube).

04. Professional Puppets These are the puppets for entertaining at school, church I and community gatherings. They are durable, but not too difficult to make. They offer you plenty of room to use your imagination, but they are not too complicated for use on a portable stage and under the varied conditions you are liable to run into doing neighborhood shows. -

05. Special Puppets - Briefly described here are three unusual types of hand puppet: finger  puppet s, rod  puppets and shadow  puppets. The little finger  puppets can do little else but walk and dance, but they do that very well. Rod puppets  can be used most effectively for serious narrative presentations such as Biblical Tableau s. Shadow  puppets are also best suited to formal, tableau-like presentations.

06. Novelty Puppets - These last two dozen designs include highly specialized comic and exotic puppets and some two-handed puppets. The puppeteer who has come this far is ready to exercise his own ingenuity, and so in most cases complete construction details are not given.

It looks like a potted plant, as shown above, but should some curious puppet put his head close to sniff its perfume, he will find himself quickly locked in a vise of quivering leaves.

07. Marionettes - Puppet is the family name and includes both hand puppets and marionettes. Marionettes are worked by threads or wires from above. They are agile and complete creatures and can dance and leap and even fly, but they have their drawbacks. They are more complicated and expensive to make than most hand puppets, and when they walk they either seem to be sitting on air or they trip across the stage on tip-toes.

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