Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:29:00 -0500
Subject: Re: PUPT: Toilet Paper Cores


At 03:46 PM 1/31/2002 +0000, owpt-AT-att.net wrote:
>Dear Folks,
>Today we are going to ask one of the great questions of 
>the ages. To wit: What are puppeteers supposed to do 
>with the cardboard cores found in rolls of toilet paper?
>People around us save them for us (without being asked, 
>believe me!) and give them to us as if they are one of 
>the presents of the Maji. 
>They certainly think that these rolls are an important 
>resource for us. 
>Am I missing something?
>Please let me know before I throw another one of them 
>away.
>Marty
>Olde World Puppet Theatre
I don't know about you.  I may be the cause of your problem because when I
was teaching I used to actively solicit them from my department (and other
faculty).  Because my puppetry class was made up mostly of incipient
elementary teachers, I taught the students how to  make hand puppets from
commercial stuffed toys and I found that stuffing a part of a toilet paper
roll into the arms of a semi-destuffed toy made the arms more controllable
as a hand puppet-- In fact I freqently use parts of toilet paper rolls in
the neck and arms of my performance hand puppets (sometimes making them a
little smaller by cutting them lengthwise, glueing etc.)because I like the
solidith around my finger(s).
I also had a pattern for making marionnettes out of rolls, used them (or
made them available ) in my excercise on "found" material puppets.  I
always went through a hundred or so a year.  (Now that I am retired, the
left-overs from my own home are more than an adequate supply.)
Richard B. Johnson
Husband, Father, Grandfather, Puppeteer, Playwright, Writer,
Director, Actor, Thingmaker, Mormon, Person, Fool
I sometimes think that the last persona is the most important
http://www2.gasou.edu/commarts/puppet/
Georgia Southern University Puppet Theatre


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