Bring the Power of Puppetry to Your Location
Far more than an art form, puppetry is a powerful tool for communication, education, innovation, and well-being. Creating and experiencing puppetry develops creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, empathy, and communication skills: the very capacities that educators, employers, and researchers increasingly identify as essential for success in the twenty-first century.
The Center for Puppetry Arts brings this unique art form directly to schools, community organizations, and other outreach locations through engaging, artist-led educational programs for learners of all ages.
Find the Right Experience for You.
One-Time Workshops
A single session can spark a big idea.
The education team's selection of outreach workshops offer engaging, hands-on introductions to puppetry that can complement a classroom unit, enrich a special event, support a community program, or simply give students the chance to make and explore.
Workshop experiences range from puppet-making and puppetry performance to cultural exploration, storytelling, science, and team building. Programs can be tailored to different ages, interests, and group settings.
In Person Workshops for Schools
In Person Workshops
Make A Puppet
In Person Workshops
International Puppetry Presentation
In Person Workshops
Preschool Puppetry Playshop
In Person Workshops
Foam Puppet Construction
Multi-Session Residencies
Give students more time to explore, create, and connect.
A workshop can open the door to creative learning. A residency gives students the opportunity to walk through it.
Our multi-session programs build learning over time, allowing students to return to an idea, develop new skills, experiment, collaborate, and see their thinking take shape. Each session builds on the last, creating a deeper and more meaningful experience than a single touchpoint can provide.
Residencies connect puppetry with areas of learning such as literacy, science, art, storytelling, and performance and give students an opportunity to become creators, not just observers.
Multi-Session Residencies for Schools
Residencies
Story Sprouts Puppet Program (Grades K-2)
Residencies
Shadow Explorers Puppet Program (Grades 3-8)
Residencies
Puppet Pathways Program (All Grades)
Workshops & Multi-Session Residencies for Adults
Discover the power of puppetry as a tool for creativity, communication, connection, and lifelong learning. Through interactive, arts-based experiences, participants build connections, strengthen communication skills, and discover new ways to tell their stories through the art of puppetry.
Perfect for:
Corporate team-building and professional development
Senior centers and active adult communities
Community organizations and civic groups
Lifelong learning programs
Conferences, retreats, and special events
Team Building through Puppetry
For Your Company Retreat
Coordination, collaboration, cohesion, creativity all strengthen when teams work together on something joyful and unexpected. Make puppetry the team-building experience they won't forget!
Puppet Passport Program
For Senior Citizens (55+)
Cultural enrichment, social connectivity, cognitive stimulation and fun! A 6-8 week program for senior citizen communities.
