The use of puppetry activities to project children into many different learning situations and environments is the topic of this guide which offers suggestions for making, costuming, and manipulating puppets; creating puppet plays with appropriate settings and dialogue; and producing these dramatizations in finished performances. For grades 2-6, guidelines are provided on (1) materials and equipment necessary, (2) organization and placement of these materials, (3) the teacher's techniques for motivation and guidance, (4) the children's activities, and (5) evaluations by the teacher and the children. (JM)