Shadow Puppets

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There is an odd occurrence in our house when we get something for Little Man that he isn’t as excited for as we expected. When this happens, either he is right or a more special moment occurs and that is Dad saves the day.   In doing so, Dad gets him super excited about said item within moments.  One of those moments recently was with the Magicforest Dinosaur shadow puppet set.

Upon first examination Little Man thought they were interesting but didn’t really see these were puppets or how these were more fun then his giant furry puppets.  That is, until Daddy came along with some dinosaur hand puppets and the shadow puppet set and his imagination.  The tale weaved was simple and straight forward about friendship and sharing between a T Rex and a stegosaurus, but the fact that he showed the little guy how to use the shadow puppets led to Little Man crafting his own tale of wonder, espionage and tooting.  Yep.

Any story imaginable can be brought to life with this simple set and with a flashlight and dark room every room is a stage.  For our performance, Dad hid behind the computer chair and the stage was the top of the chair.  Little Man had a great time and had a genuine spark of ingenuity when it was his turn to create.

The puppets themselves are made of a durable plastic and wood.  The bigger puppets have sticks on both ends of the puppet for finer control while some like trees only have the one handle.  This is appropriate and definitely makes things easier while playing.  The puppets included with the dinosaur set includes ten puppets some of which are: a stegosaurus, brachiosaurus and more prehistoric shapes.   This set retails for $18.50.  Also available are the Castle Shadows, 9 pieces for $18.50 and the Paris set which retails for $21 and includes the Eiffel Tower.