Explore Jim Henson's puppets and Muppets in the Smithsonian's collections along with related collection items. Learn their backstories, their missions, and the inspiration for each of them. National ...

Playing with a homemade sock puppet is lots of fun and can also develop your little one's speaking and social skills. Making up fun characters can help you to be expressive as you tell stories and ...

The Sugar Hole puppets are an odd bunch. Since May they have appeared every Saturday and Sunday and offered passersby cones of ice cream. When the weather turned, they began serving soup ...

Famous toy factory Pelham Puppets is being remembered by fans to mark 75 years since it first opened. Founded by Bob Pelham in 1947, it became one of Marlborough's biggest employers. The company ...

As depopulation deepens around the world, a small village in Japan turns to puppets to stitch their community back together. Ichinono is only one of several “doll villages” in Japan where life ...

Don’t mess with Cardi. Cardi B slammed Elon Musk for calling her a “puppet” after she appeared “flustered” following a teleprompter glitch at the Kamala Harris rally in Milwaukee on Friday.

In various interviews and even the film’s DVD commentary, the duo vowed never to work with puppets again – Parker even once joked that he would rather watch his own mother die than make a Team ...

Nika Gvaramia is the leader of the Coalition for Change, Georgia’s largest opposition party. He spent over 400 days in jail as a political prisoner. On Oct. 26, more than 2 million Georgians cast ...

A village in Japan has become so quiet that the people there make puppets to give the facade of a lively and youthful community. Ichinono, in southern Japan, has a population of just 60 people ...

The life of the titular character of Ronnie Burkett’s new puppet extravaganza, Wonderful Joe, seems to be anything but wonderful. An elderly gay man who spent much of his early life on the ...

A prominent supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a chilling threat to the West as tensions continue to soar between the two sides. Earlier this year, during a recent episode of ...

I call them “puppets” because they were pawns on the chessboard of the United Kingdom and Sokoto Caliphate establishment, which have run and ruined Nigeria after 64 years of paper independence.