Could any one give me some Puppet Exercises?  I've done many lip-syncing with my puppets with songs and counting to 100.  The counting I saw on youtube-Jim Henson Workshop - Muppets Counting. I've done walking, running, and dancing with puppets.  I've done puppet face emotions exercises too.  Anything else?  Thank you.           

How about exercising your puppet brain with improv.  I remember a tape of sound effects where the puppeteers had to react to the changing sounds on the fly, pratice thinking fast on your feet. How about puppet mime where you have to use actions rather than words to tell a common story.  I saw two puppeteers who did skateboarding puppets, they were awesome.

This site has some exercises/games:
http://puppetrylab.com/

Hi; These aren't exercises but here are some tools I found useful for training. http://bit.ly/NnOnf0

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?mDId0PgmrTk" target="youtube">YouTube Video</a>

Here is video 1 in a series of puppetry basics, you can access the rest of them from there.

I've used these with my team and they were very helpful.

Thank you all for the new help.  Take care.

I try to walk every morning and do a few simple yoga exercises.  Staying in shape really does help your performance. 

Puppet Aerobics and  , Armed Forces Puppet Training, (www.creativemin.com)
 are both great.  If you can find the training excercises from the old Puppet Productions, it was good too (Puppets, Inc. does not have it listed).

Just want to correct that website MsPuppet it's www.creativemin.com

When you type in OWS it is supposed to redirect to Creative Ministry Solutions. However, the link leaves the "i" out of creative.  I emailed them a couple weeks ago about this, and they thought it was my computer (I've tried it on several).

I tried it and it did the same!  No "i" and so it went to nowhere.

I have finally gotten used to typing "creativemin" instead of onewaystreet. 
As an aside we are headed to Summerfest Saturday.  They aren't having the usual festival in my area this year!  I think they have trouble with getting a host.  I so wish I could offer my church and it is large enough except for the classrooms.  They are not large enough for the workshops and we aren't near enough to the metroplex. Another thing, they always schedule them during football season on Friday nights.  Don't they know that Texas is all about football? It makes it hard for us to go because I have kids in band and drill team, flag core etc. So the one day Summerfest may turn out better for us. 

Sorry to go off topic!

They must have a forwarder where they mis-typed the url set up for anyone who tries onewaystreet. It's not your computer, sometimes people really ought to listen to what someone tells them. They are going to lose business this way.

One exercise for lip-synching would be to turn on the radio or tv to non-music, and try to synch to something that's non-rhythmic. You might even put on the news, and see if you can get your puppet to quickly echo not just the words the news-reader is saying, but to try to imitate any head, hand and body movements.

Angel - have you emailed them about football season?  Since the objective is to have a full house for these things, they may listen.
I know they like big cities and huge churches, but honestly... some of the ones I've been to could have been hosted in smaller areas (a lot of smaller churches could fill the place with smaller teams, vs large churches with large teams). The Houston one for the past 2 years has been in a church with a huge sanctuary (less than 1/4 full), and pitiful classroom space. Amazingly - the host church does not have an active puppet team (I have family who are members of that church).