Juniper Tree Puppets Blog and Story Resources

Online Summer 2024 ECE Professional Development Programs From Juniper Tree Puppets - Highlighting the NEW!!!! Puppet Boot Camp 2024 - The Art of Silk Marionette Theater!! 5 summer Courses Offered!

February 08, 2024

Every summer we offer unique, practical, artistic and in-depth online trainings in the puppetry artsThis summer we are highlighting a NEW Puppet ...

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A Winter Tale - Brownie Finds a Winter Home

December 21, 2023

When I lived in Bavaria, it was common for the farmers to put out a bowl of milk every night for the elemental who looked after their farms. Some h...

Brownie Finds His Winter Home puppetry and storytelling winter story for children

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Masha The Christmas Cat

November 29, 2023

Masha The Christmas Cat. Long ...

christmas story for ECE Masha the Christmas Cat

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Late November Story The Sleepy Bear, by Suzanne Down

November 13, 2023

A Call for ‘Sheltering’ Stories Our world today seems very fragile in so many ways. We feel this as adults – leading to our own worries and vulne...

Hibernating bear story for ECE late autumn tale for ECE story and puppetry autumn

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A Stone Soup Tale adapted for solo puppeteer presentation

November 12, 2023

Here we are at mid-November…a difficult month for some locations…gray sky, rain, bare trees…All the more important to bring that light in other w...

Early Childhood Puppetry November story about Sharing Stone Soup story for Puppetry thanksgiving story for children

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Mama Luisa's Thanksgiving!

October 28, 2023

Generosity can be contagious, as it is in this story of giving. May Mama Luisa inspire many communities and families of the world this Thanksgiving...

thanksgiving story ECE

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Video of Mouse finding his Pumpkin House

October 11, 2023

The mornings are getting colder this mid October, snow is predicted for the end of the week.... Mouse is looking for his Winter House! Here is a v...

autumn tale for young children basket puppetry pumpkin and mouse story

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Introduction to Shelter Stories

October 06, 2023

For a young child, the story image of a little house where a character can find refuge in a cozy, warm, sturdy, place, makes the child feel sa...

healing tales protection stories Shelter Stories for Puppetry

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The Doll Cafe - A Good Tale to Tell When Wet Felting with Young Children! by Suzanne Down

September 11, 2023

In this little tale, the innocence of a girl's play is threatened by a force in nature. Raven is hungry, and thinking he spots something good to...

dolls cafe story for young children early childhood story with felting wet felting story for children

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Sweet Autumn Tale - The Acorn Shop

August 31, 2023

I lived in the Arizona desert for a time and became friends with the Javalina, Jack Rabbit, Desert Bunny and the Woodpeckers. It took me a long ti...

autumn poem for young children autumn tale seasonal puppetry seasonal story for ECE story story for young children storytelling

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The End of Summer Picnic - A Story

August 03, 2023

Summers as a child, and for my children as well, were spent outside in nature. There was time to linger with things that captured our interest, ...

back to school story end of summer story storytelling

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A Summer Tale - Frog and Rose by Suzanne Down

June 07, 2023

When I was young my dad would take me by the hand in the early evening of a summer night. We walked down the path to the rose garden, which was ...

early childhood summer story to tell puppet story for summer summer tale

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