The folks at Iowa Public Television unearthed this wonderful 15-minute video from 1969 in which a young Jim Henson teaches you how to make puppets from ordinary household objects. If you can get past the slightly jarring image of Henson talking to Rowlf, a Muppet that was of course one ...

You may not have heard of her, but you’ve probably seen her work. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer. She has been working in the puppetry arts since 1989, but since then has also voiced audiobooks for the likes of John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow, served as secretary and now ...