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	<title>Puppet Training and Ministry Tips</title>
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	<description>Tips and suggestions on how to work puppets, develop a puppet team,and maintain a puppet ministry</description>
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		<title>3 Things To Avoid In Your Puppet Presentations – Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post talked about the first of three things to avoid during your puppet presentation. This one covers the second and third. Ventriloquist PuppetsA ventriloquist is someone who speaks without moving his lips to give the illusion that the voice is coming from somewhere else. A ventriloquist puppet is one that doesn’t move his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Things To Avoid In Your Puppet Presentations – Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To have a quality puppet presentation, there are many things you should do; proper entrances and exits, good lip synchronization, maintain good eye contact, and others. There are also some things you should try to avoid. This post presents the first of three of them. The Dreaded Quicksand PatchesWe recently began training some new puppeteers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinforce Your Play With An Object Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 21:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppet Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puppet Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Puppet plays are effective because they allow the children to see and hear the truths you want to impart and it’s all done is story fashion. A play by itself will convey important truths, but the impact is even stronger when those truths are reinforced with an object lesson. This post will show how you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Make Use Of The Entire Stage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 21:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Puppet Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Puppet stages come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but it seems that most puppeteers tend to gravitate to the front and don’t move around much. I’ve also seen times when puppets bunched together on one side of the theater and left the other side wide open. While some plays may call for puppets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working 2 Arm Rods at a Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 20:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of posts ago, I mentioned the importance of developing the skill of using 2 rods at a time. With this post, I’ll cover how to do it. Using two rods at once is not a difficult skill to learn, but does take time and practice to accomplish properly. In this article, I’ll walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Things to Work On When Developing Puppet Skills &#8211; Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last 2 posts have been about my Top Ten List of things to work on to develop your puppet skills. Today we look at numbers 9 and 10. Number 9: Moving Around the StageMost plays don’t require a lot of movement once the puppets are up; they can just stand in one place. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Things To Work On When Developing Puppet Skills -Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last 2 posts have been about my Top Ten List of things to work on to develop your puppet skills. Today we look at numbers 7 and 8. Number 7: Develop Motions with One ArmPuppet arms are designed to hang naturally, so if you don’t use them they still look ok. That allows beginning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Things To Work On When Developing Puppet Skills-Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last 2 posts have been about my Top Ten List of things to work on to develop your puppet skills. Today we look at numbers 5 and 6. Number 5: Proper Puppet Positioning and Eye ContactWhen puppets are talking together, they should face each other, not the audience. I’ve seen entire plays where two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Things To Work When Developing Puppet Skills &#8211; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advanced Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last post started my Top Ten List of things to work on to develop your puppet skills and covered the first two. This post continues the list. Number 3: Proper Lip SynchronizationIf the mouth movement is off from the words, it’s distracting and makes it difficult to concentrate on the message. The basic rule [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Things To Work When Developing Puppet Skills-Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic Puppetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puppet Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of Top 10 lists being created, so I thought I’d chime in with my own. In this and the next couple of posts, I’ll cover my Top Ten List of things to work on to develop your puppet skills. The list is written in the order the things occur, not in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Your Puppet Plays, Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppet Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puppet Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post concludes the steps to giving a specific application to your puppet programs. We’ve talked about the first two application times, now we’ll focus on the third and final one.  The third time you present the application should be as close to the end of the program as possible so it will be fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Your Puppet Plays, Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppet Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puppet Programming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The last post talked about the first time to introduce your application teaching. This one emphasizes the second time. The second time you present the application will be in a similar manner, but this time, answer two different questions from your study. Give the audience a brief summary statement of the play or program item [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Your Puppet Plays, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppet Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Puppet Team]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve looked at what an application is and how to develop one, now on to part 3. How Do I Teach the Application in the Program?Once you have a specific application set, plan to teach it at least three times during the entire program. Each time, you’ll give the specific application, but approach it from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Your Puppet Plays, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post focused on what is an application and this one moves on to developing one. How Do I Develop an Application?Think about the basic questions: who, what, how, why, where, and when. When developing your application, ask these questions about the main theme. Who should the application be toward? (Believers? Those who don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applying Your Puppet Plays, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Puppet Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an Application?The application is where you take the truth presented in the play and give the audience a specific way to use that truth in their own lives. In the introduction and during the play, you helped them learn the truth. In other words, you imparted knowledge. Knowledge is good and important, but [...]]]></description>
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