When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

For children facing serious medical conditions, the hospital can be a confusing and scary place. Unfamiliar people, weird machines, and strange sounds can be startling and uncomfortable. Which is why ...

The young mothers laughed as Quackers, the puppet duck, helped Kurth Memorial Library director Sue Randleman sing a children's song as the women temporarily forgot the adult stress of tests, papers, ...

Inside one second-grade class, students are about to bring some new characters to life through a crash course in puppet-making. But this puppet workshop isn't just about kids showing off their ...

Kevin’s purple hoodie flaps around his lime green headphones as he bobs his head to the beat. According to his bio, his first hip-hop single just went platinum. And on this sizzling Monday in July, he ...

Bullicio Puppets, a death metal puppet act from Chile, encourages children to mosh and rock out with a lovable, headbanging puppet character named Jack Distortion that mimes classic heavy tracks from ...

Samin Nosrat offers a bite to Waffles (not pictured: Waffles’s internal “esophagus” mechanism that’s connected to a doggy bag). Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix The result is something inviting for kids and ...