Karin Neuschütz provides precise instructions for making puppets and detailed advice and tips for staging a puppet show. Additionally, the reader learns interesting facts about the history of puppetry and its educational value. Karin Neuschütz offers numerous suggestions for puppet and marionette play to anyone who works with children and enjoys puppets. Various types of puppets can be featured: standing puppets, finger puppets, throwing puppets, hand puppets, and of course, marionettes - from princesses to wizards. The author highlights the educational value of puppetry for children's creative play and imagination. The second part describes the techniques of puppetry: how to manipulate a puppet, how to set up a scene, how to arrange a stage, and so on. The third part contains instructions for making different fabric puppets.