stick puppet
Hand-controlled character toy
A stick puppet is a simple puppet attached to a stick or rod, controlled by moving the stick from below or behind.
Unlike hand puppets or marionettes, stick puppets require no finger manipulation or strings—just point and move: The children made stick puppets from paper plates and wooden dowels.
Common in children's crafts and basic puppet theater.
- rodThin rigid stick
- feltCompressed fiber textile
- googly eyesLoose-pupil craft decorations
- craftSkilled manual art
- stageRaised performance platform
theater · performance · construction paper · paper bag · wiggle · voice · character · storytelling · story time · yarn · fabric · glue · cardboard · mouth · strings · children · play · imagination
- puppetrymarionette, marionettes, puppeteering, marionette strings, Bunraku
- Puppetsmarionette, ventriloquist dummy, bunraku, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy
- shadow puppetshand shadows, wayang kulit, silhouettes, shadow play, shadow figures
stick puppetmarionette
String-controlled theatrical figure
string puppet · hand puppet · glove puppet · finger puppet · ventriloquist dummy
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