Hello Guild,
We are looking for your help in locating a source for puppets.

Valerie and I are going to be doing a puppet project with elementary aged
children for the month of January. We are looking to beg, borrow, rent, or
buy a collection of hand or glove puppets to use with small hands (k-5
children). We are hoping to get together around 30-50 puppets of various
characters that can be used in creative drama. Hopefully we can find puppet
characters that have a style (simple yet appealing) that allow them to
appear in the same play. We wish to avoid mouth puppets (puppets
principally operated by moving the mouths) in favor of simpler hand or glove
puppets. These can be animals or human. Generic human characters that can
be simply costumed or have hats or wigs made to create specific characters
would be very useful. We have a very modest budget for this project, so
must consider low cost puppets if we are purchasing.
Should you have puppets for sale or loan or rent, or know of sources of
inexpensive puppets please let us know. We are going to be somewhat
selective in order to try to achieve a certain design sensibility for the
productions, so might have to reject puppet designs that don't fit in with
the other puppets, but we would like to know what our options are so would
be interested in various possibilties.
Thanks for any help you can give,
Yours,
--
Michael & Valerie Nelson