Hand operated characters will work well in their own little stage. You will need room to operate your tiny entertainers, without being seen. A stand may work. Many people use a curtain. We build our stages from PVC pipe and curtains. We have found that using snap-on buttons for the curtain allows for easier setting up and breaking down of the stage. A simple snap and a pair of pliers will work wonders also. The snaps can be bought at any local hobby store. Using hand operated puppets do give more life to your characters and using arm rods you can point, clap and act out with your character… it does take a little practice. The more animated you are with your puppet the more the kids love it. I once in just playing around put a puppet up in the window of the daycare office door and within minutes I had attracted over 35 kids to the door of the gym. They had stopped playing and begin migrating to the floor in front of where I was. I did nothing more than act up and move around with the puppet. Playing a simple game of hide and peek they loved it!!!! For the next 15 minutes I entertained the kids and the daycare providers with one puppet in a doorway!!! Amazing!!!
You have to love the simplicity of it all!!!
Seymour's new friend (6508 downloads ) Puppet audio file that allows you to simply hit play and do a puppet skit. This puppet skit consists of 1 male puppet and 1 female puppet. It is about peer pressure and what can happen if you listen to the wrong friends.
Peer pressure – we all deal with it even if we are not kids, but kids sometimes do not know how to handle it. This puppet skit will help them do that, they will realize what listening to the wrong kids can get them… no where but trouble. I like this skit because I used to be that “new friend” and would lead kids in the wrong direction, nothing bad I was just being a kid… Got a lot of spankings 🙂
Great is God and greatly to be praised!!!
Bro. James
Sock it to the devil (5867 downloads )
Puppet audio file that allows you to simply hit play and do a puppet skit. This puppet skit consists of 2 puppets – one can be a puppet which we call Bibleman – he is simply a Bible. 
The other is the devil. They argue back and forth for a while. This goes well with the song of the same name – sock it to the devil. The kids love the song because they get to beat the devil up!
I like to take the puppet around after the song plays and we have done the skit and then play the song again. This allows the kids to “sock it to the devil” while this is fun you must be careful, because there is always that kids who is freakishly strong and will literally try to break your fingers within the puppet…
believe me it will happen. Also there is the kid who has the thick glasses and will swing for the outfield and will end up hitting the kid next to him while missing socking it to the devil all together… funny stuff but hard to explain to the parents why their kid got hit during the song “sock it to the devil”….
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Even when you feel no one appreciates you, God is preparing a place for you!!!
Bro James
Check out the audio download section for a free puppet audio file that you simply hit play and do a skit right along with it. There are sound effects and voices already done.