The amount of creativity in the room was gigantic, even though the class was small, both in size and numbers. The first night of the Puppet Making for Kids class offered by the Freedom Area Recreation ...

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 ...

Art teacher Cheryl Capezzuti led out a dozen or so towering, colorfully costumed characters. “It’s puppet time!” she cried.

“I did a lot of making on my own,” she said of how she started experimenting with puppet-making techniques. Lately she’s learning to work with latex. But she’s made puppets from all kinds of materials ...