Sessions

Feb 17 (Mon) - Feb 21 (Fri) 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Brookline Village, details to be announced
Registration deadline: January 17

Apr 21 (Mon) - Apr 25 (Fri) 2025
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Brookline Village, details to be announced
Registration deadline: March 21

Please note that the program often fills up before the registration deadline!

Cost

$700 Regular / $650 Members
$400 Junior Puppet Counselor / $350 Members
$20 materials fee (required)

See below for information about Financial Aid and Aftercare.

About the Program

Puppetry is exercise for your imagination! Join the Teaching Artists of Puppet Showplace Theater for one week of fun puppet-building and performance activities. We'll also explore how puppeteers use movement, sound, and other performance skills to bring characters to life. Students will learn how to design, construct, and perform different styles of puppetry, culminating in a short performance for families on Friday afternoon!

This full-day program includes mini-performances by the instructor, group games, outdoor play, courtyard lunch and snack breaks, and daily creative challenges. Each week will take a deep dive into one style of puppetry — past programs have explored marionettes, to hand puppets, to shadow puppets, and more — while offering a taste of other puppetry styles. Kids will learn techniques for for sewing, cutting, and gluing while making their own puppets. Kids will chart their discoveries throughout the week, keep a creative journal/sketchbook, and parents and children alike always look forward to the end-of-week sharing!

This program is a great way to spend vacation week in a fun, friendly, creative, and supportive environment.

Junior Puppet Counselors  

Do you enjoy making things out of everyday objects? Cheering on your friends when they face a challenge? Designing the latest yarn hair style? Junior Puppet Counselors serve as role models for younger puppeteers, assist our teaching artist with the art of puppet making, and learn and practice leadership skills in helping manage the flow of a creative space!

Open to young people in 7th to 9th grades. Junior Puppet Counselors are by application only; please complete the application form to be considered.

Aftercare

New this year, we hope to add aftercare. If this is of interest to you, please let us know when registering, or by emailing artistic@puppetshowplace.org.

Financial Aid

We are pleased to be able to support a limited number of scholarships. To apply for a scholarship seat, please complete our scholarship request form as early as possible.

Cancelation Policy

If you are registered but must cancel your child’s enrollment, we offer two options for partial refunds:

• If your child’s space is filled by someone from the waitlist, PST will refund 85% of tuition as long as you cancel by the registration deadline.

• If your child’s space is not filled by someone from the waitlist:

  • 0% refund if canceled 30 days or more prior to program start date

  • 25% refund if canceled 60 days or more prior to program start date

  • 50% refund if canceled 90 days or more prior to program start date

  • 75% refund if canceled 120 days or more prior to program start date

Health and Safety

Your child’s health and safety are our highest priority. We will follow health and safety procedures as recommended by the CDC.