In every early learning setting, stories are already everywhere on children's lips, in their drawings, in the way they build towers or dig trenches in the sandpit.

The use of puppets makes Life of Pi a true theatrical spectacle. Now playing at the Ahmanson Theatre through June 1, 2025 ...

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When Carl, the cardboard ducky, landed in Ritz Park on South Grand Avenue in March 2018, the whimsical 6-foot smiling duck ...

And Sheryl Tubbs, an Idaho-based creator behind DenimFelt, which converts secondhand denim into stuffed animals and puppets, opened her Etsy shop in late 2019 as a way to supplement her husband ...

A King Vulture chick at the Bronx Zoo is being fed by zoo workers wearing hand puppets. The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans.

The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans. An adult of the species also resides in an adjacent enclosure, so the little one has a good example of how to ...

The Peoria Zoo brought three animals to the hospital: two white tree frogs and a box turtle. This allowed the young patients to experience up-close animal encounters and educational activities. OSF ...

After opening votes up to the public, the Philadelphia Zoo’s newest residents finally have names. 6 ABC proudly reports that those four Galapagos tortoise hatchlings — the first in the zoo’s ...

Where does she live at the Zoo? In the South American wild, turtles like Onassis live in "marginal streams," Miller said. "You won't typically find these animals in the main river," but in slower ...

NEW YORK -- A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers ...

The Bronx Zoo is celebrating a major milestone — the hatching of a rare king vulture chick, the first in over five decades.