HOW TO: Make a Puppet Theater from a Recycled Box

Puppets give children the opportunity to become an active participate in their own entertainment, and you can help kids make their own puppet theater from a recycled box. A DIY puppet theater will give kids creative control of the theme, design, colors and concept. It’s a fun way for your child to play director, actor, set designer and screenwriter all in one day. Your children will spend countless hours putting on plays for their friends and family, all of them inevitably ending with everyone reduced to giggles of course. It’s a splendid way to spend a rainy spring afternoon and this puppet theater is sturdy enough to play with over and over again. Eben really can’t get enough of his — we had all kinds of fun with it over our spring break. Jump over to Inhabitots for my step-by-step photo instructions for a recycled box puppet theater.