Childrens Theater

Hand-puppets are great fun for children at home, especially on rainy or snowy days. In the classroom this project is a wonderful way to encourage the imagination and students' social skills....

The theatre can be a wonderful place for children to make friends and develop their imaginations. Children, like adults, need to be educated in the basics of acting and have a sense of how to...

If you're young at heart, enjoy making up stories for kids and have a long memory when it comes to backyard games of "let's pretend," the next step in your hobby or career as an author may be to...

Whether you're doing it for a church, a park district, a day care center or another facility catering to youngsters, building a puppet stage that's as much fun to use as it is easy to transport...

It's exciting to get involved with community theatre, but there are some basic terms you should know. This is a partial listing of the new terms you may hear when you first take the leap to get...

Teaching kids how to act properly while on stage isn’t always the easiest task. There are a few things that you can do to help keep kids focused while on stage, and improve your changes of a good...

Adapting a book into a stage play has several advantages. A well known book has an established fan base. A book in the public domain means no royalty payments to the author. There is a challenge,...

A talent show is a great way to end a school year, to jazz up a weekend retreat, to spend a rainy afternoon, to cap a family reunion or...you name it! Here are some tips that will help you...

Its fun to put on a shadow puppet theater show for your friends and it's equally as fun to make the stage, props and puppets. This is a family project that you can do with your kids. The following...

If your son or daughter is just dying to be in show business, you can be a cautious stage parent. Just know in advance that your child will experience both extreme highs and extreme lows as he or...

Staging a theater production with elementary school students is an innovative way to help them learn and have fun at the same time. It breaks the monotony of traditional ways in which children are...

A rewarding theater experience gives a child a lifelong skill - the ability to speak and perform comfortably before groups of people.