Halloween Puppet Show

Today's Puppet Show was great. My Mother and I had planned days ahead to work out each section of the Halloween Show. It felt to be the most organized and focused show yet.

We had the Witch introduce different Halloween acts and with a slight delay on my mother's voice, she was the perfect Witch.

The Set of Songs and Characters are as follows:

1) Oriental Japanese Puppet ("Haunted Mansion Japan")

2) The Ghost Puppet ("Grim Grinning Ghosts")

3) Three Different Skeleton Songs

4) "The Five Pumpkins" (Raffi)

5) Dance to 1930's Scary Orchestral Music

6) "The Monster Mash" ("Suspended Snake")

7) "Ghostbusters" Ending

Afterwards we let kids try other monster puppets and we had gotten a kick out of seeing them Improv to "This Is Halloween" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993).

Live "Improv" Halloween Puppet Show (10-28-2011)

First time with "LIVE Accordion" and "Puppet Show" today! I get there just before 5 and we went through the Disney Set. Having forgotten the radio, I was forced to play live.

The first 15 minutes were a little rough as everyone was staring and I was playing "Once Upon A Dream". One kid helped with the skeleton and snake. Later I told everyone they could come get an instrument if they wanted to play along.

I few kids did not understand they were suppose to hide with the puppets and heads and arms were coming through. That spoiled it a bit, but not as much as the woman who took her 2o minute phone call during my performance.

A singer came by and sang a few children's songs which made it special. She knew all words and hand motions to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Open and Close your Fingers".