Summer Professional Development 2025 - A Therapeutic Puppetry Tool Box - Nursery Rhyme Story Puppetry - Begins July 12.

   Juniper Tree Puppets has developed an Online course, a practical and meaningful program to deepen your skills and understanding of therapeutic ways of bringing puppetry to today's children. In this offering, we will immerse ourselves in the exploration of  the development of Nursery Rhyme Story for Puppetry and as a huge support for Language Development in Early Childhood. We  will make Jack-be-Nimble, and Old Mother Hubbard with her dog, and learn how to enliven them in artistic presentation, highlighting the support they give language development. This ONLINE COURSE explores the artistic and therapeutic development of puppetry for young children using Nursery Rhymes, and Creating Story around them to expand them for puppet presentation.  The puppetry will enchant and delight as well as hold deeper meaningful gifts for the children through our work with conscious Storytelling as well as puppetry.  Nursery Rhyme speech is one of the best supports for  Language Development in early c