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Fairy tale Shadow Puppets Take Shape

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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Here’s the progress so far on the new “Fairytales of Wit, Wisdom and Witchcraft” show.

I have been making all these shadow puppets out of repurposed cereal and pizza boxes. Firstly to show what is possible to achieve with free materials accessible to most people (including kids) and secondly to be more environmentally friendly.

I also intend to produce templates for simple versions of these puppets that people will be able to buy (further down the line). Please let me know if you would be interested in these.  You can subscribe to the newsletter to get all of my updates from the blog via email and be sure not to miss anything.

Frog Prince story puppets: Princess able to catch and play with a ball…
Upset/disgusted princess face variation…
Frog with princess
Both princess puppets (princess 2 has an inverted hand to pick up frog)
The princess’s father the king…
Young handsome prince (de-frogged)…
Goldilocks puppets:
Prototypes for a front facing puppet with changing expressions.
Creating a third puppet with articulated legs

Goldilocks: Mouth transformation test

If you would like to book the show for your school, library or studio theatre space or find out more, please check out the show page on our website (including trailer) by clicking HERE.

We are pencilling in tour dates from June 2025 onwards and don’t forget, we also do shadow puppet making workshops.

Also, if you would like to ask any questions or leave any comments, please do and I’ll be happy to answer.

New Year, New Shows!

Posted on by Collette Knowles
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I am currently working on a brand new shadow puppet show featuring a number of favourite fairy tales which we are calling “Fairytales of Wit, Wisdom and Witchcraft“. It has it’s own webpage with all the details so do CLICK HERE to take a look. It is particularly suited for schools, libraries, studio theatre and other small spaces.

We are taking bookings now for summer 2025 so do get in touch if you are interested!

Here is the promo video below:

Also coming soon are 3 new episodes of “Al and Kai’s Faboo News”. If you’re not already subscribed to the channel you can find it @faboonews on YouTube or at https://www.faboonews.com/

The first new episode will be airing at 9am on Saturday 15th of February and the next 2 on the following 2 Saturdays, plus keep your eyes peeled for Faboo News extras on Wednesdays.

The new episodes will be on the themes of The Great Outdoors, Medicine and Family,(feeling different).

If you want to get involved with the show you can click the “Faboo Yous” tab on the website or if you’re in the Lancaster area on Saturday Feb 1st Faboo News will be at the Fun Palace event at Lancaster library. The event is 12-4pm and I’ll have more specific times for Faboo News activities soon.

In the meantime if you’d like Faboo News to visit your school or community group you can find out more about Faboo Workshops by clicking HERE.

On another note, I recently found a video from a rehearsal of Theatre Mill’s “Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band” for which I was commissioned to make the shadow puppets:

If you would like to commission some shadow puppets please get in touch and you can find out more about commissions I have made on our commissions page HERE.