Kaydee Puppets offers a variety of workshops for schools, group parties/picnics as well as for adults. Kaydee will teach you how to have fun with puppets, be a puppeteer, and how puppets can be a great teaching (learning) tool in the classroom or library story time.
Learn more about our workshops:

Puppet Manipulation
Shadow Puppets
Puppets Add Punch
Start Your Own Puppet Business
Puppet Manipulation
This is a 45-minute, fast-paced demonstration of the tricks and techniques of making puppets come alive. Lots of audience participation. Everyone gets the opportunity to go behind stage and act! Students learn how to work the puppets, improvise, and use humor to entertain their fellow students.
Cost is $150 per hour for up to 12 students. Additional students are $15 each. Puppets, props and stage are provided for the workshop. Book now or get more information via kdpuppets@aol.com.
Shadow Puppets
This is a 60-minute program on how to make and use shadow puppets. The program is designed so that the students learn to tell a story using shadow puppets. Following a brief demonstration, the students design their own puppets and then perform.
Cost is $225 for up to 15 students. Additional students are $12 each. Maximum of 30 students. Requires teacher helpers and supplies (i.e. scissors and pencils). Book now or get more information via kdpuppets@aol.com.
Puppets Add Punch
This is a delightful two-hour workshop designed for teachers and librarians. Explore the many facets of puppetry. Puppets can enrich any type of learning experience (children retain over 50 percent). Provides practical ideas, immediate application, live demos with lots of hands-on practice with oodles of simple puppets students can make.
Cost is $450 for up to 25 participants. Additional participants are $15 per person. Materials supplied as needed. Book now or get more information via kdpuppets@aol.com.
Start Your Own Puppet Business
Kaydee Puppets has Puppet People Kits available for purchase. Each kit offers complete how-to instructions, plus all the necessary equipment to get you on the road doing your own puppet shows!
Each kit contains:
- Portable 8 foot stage
- All poles, backdrop, scrim, curtains, etc.
- A week of training in the Kaydee area (you provide room/board and transportation)
- Comment sheets (supplemental information for customers)
Please contact us for kit price and other information.
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