Puppetry Handbook for Christian Leaders

By TERRY PRICE

This illustrated 48 page book is designed for those who want to start a puppet ministry or for those who want to enhance their existing ministry. It is full of ideas that have been tested for many years and is designed for the trainer or puppeteer to use.

It contains ideas on how to build your own puppet stage, how to start a ministry, history of puppetry, how to train and evaluate potential puppeteers, how to brush up on their skills. Included are three professionally written skits about repentance and two different song sheets that compliment perfectly with the plays. One song sheet is from the popular hymnal song "Leave It There" and the other song is written by the author titled "Backslider Blues."

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jul 26, 2006
• ISBN: 9781467801157

TERRY PRICE

  At the age of six, Terry received his first puppet and puppet stage.  As he was growing up, he enjoyed watching television shows, such as: Winchel Mahoney; Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Howdy Doody; Captain Kangaroo; and watching Edgar Bergan perform.  He noticed the different types of puppets they used and studied how they used facial expressions and body languages.    Terry received Christ as his Savior when he was 13, living in Upland, California.  The church he was in, gave him literature that he read and he committed his life to serving Him.   Years later, (over twenty years ago,) when Terry was attending Tennessee Temple University, he met some people who worked with puppets as a ministry.  They showed him how to make puppets and how to perform with them.  They went around to different churches in the Chattanooga area and had an enjoyable time.  Later, he also learned what it’s like to perform on television, as his puppet group did a guest appearance on a show called Stuff.   Terry plans on publishing several more skits that he has written with a few songs that he has done on pricelesspearlpuppetry.com.  Your comments and/or suggestions concerning this book are always welcome and you can contact him at [e-mail].  

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© 2007 Terry Price. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A special thanks to Ron and Lori Pettit, for getting me started in the puppet ministry at Tennessee Temple University in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1978. I thank the many people that I’ve worked with over the years that helped to make this ministry possible.

I thank Mrs. Holly Ly for her help in writing the music that I use.

I thank my wife, Cindy, for putting up with me for 24 years and allowing me to spend time in writing this book.

I thank my sons, Donny and Jon, for their computer skills in putting this book together.

I thank Tom Rutledge and his wife for contributing and helping me in organizing this book.

Last and most of all, I dedicate this book to the Lord Jesus Christ and may it bless His name.

Terry Price has put together a considerable amount of information about the use of puppets in communicating the message of Christianity … It is a very effective means of transmitting these beliefs to other … These messages are very difficult to get across to young persons in their pure theoretical form. Children can best understand these concepts if examples and scenarios are presented in such a way as to carry the desirable message in simple language and concept that a puppet show can portray … As Terry says, … a little well placed humor can enhance the learning process and the resulting retention … Imagination and creativity are absolutely essential in developing a skit for a puppet show.

Dr. Carroll S. Price has a Post-Doctorate in Counseling Psychology and currently is Family Counselor for Christ’s Harbor Church, Laguna Vista, Texas.

Contents

HISTORY OF PUPPETRY

HOW TO START A PUPPET MINISTRY

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

MATERIALS FOR PUPPETS AND STAGE

BUILDING THE PUPPET STAGE

TRAINING THE PUPPETEERS

HOW TO USE THE PUPPETRY EVALUATION SHEET

PUPPETRY EVALUATION SHEET

HOW TO USE THE PUPPET SKITS IN THIS BOOK

MEET THE