After our recent visit to the Columbia Marionette Theater the boys have become excited about puppets. As we were walking our dogs around the neighborhood the other day, Calder jumped up onto a hilly area and proclaimed that he was on the puppet stage. Later on in the walk both boys were asking about the mechanics of puppet shows and Calder was calling himself the "Music Man"--I'm guessing the guy in charge of the music at the show.
I offered to make the boys a puppet theater and two days later, cardboard-a-flyin', contact paper-a-stickin', fabric here and there, and the boys have a theater. They are thrilled and have been performing often and noisily. Mostly Max (from the Maurice Sendak book "Where the Wild Things Are") has been beating on a parrot puppet. It's Milo's version of the Punch and Judy show, with a lot of musical interlude (mostly furious drumming by Calder) and various other puppets thrown in by Calder. Milo has also played his guitar on the "stage." The air here is thick with creativity and joy. Yay!
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