OZ Home Puppets
With....Jim Vickers-Willis

Ready For Immediate FREE Download To Your PC ..................7 Easy To Create & Perform Puppet Plays That Will Keep Young Children Busy & Happy For Many Many Hours..........Great fun, especially on those rainy days ...........

'OZ Home Puppets' enables young puppeteers (recommended ages: 5 to 12) to create and perform their own puppet plays, using pre-recorded stories and stick puppet figures and props. This will provide many hours of inexpensive, safe and creative fun and activity for young children in their own homes, with parents, grandparents, and friends. A great 'rainy day' activity, and also good for learning basic skills in organisation & planning.

Each of the seven plays available (at right) is full of happy music and humour, and gives a uniquely Australian (often humourous) spin on traditional stories, including the great children's tales of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Noddy, and Hanzel & Gretal. Enjoy the tangles of Red Robin, the Bunyips and The Old Croc with old foes - The Big Bad Wolf and The Wicked Witch. The characters and plays, and most of the music, are original compositions by Jim Vickers-Willis. You can find out more about Jim's inspiring life story in other sections of this website.

The 'OZ Home Puppets' community is just waiting for budding young puppeteers to bring them to life. Kids love creating the puppets, and then performing their plays for parents, grandparents and friends, as demonstrated in these videos:

View 2 minute demo which shows how easy it is to set up the puppet show: Click here for WMV Format (slower - will take a minute or so to load) or Brightcove Player Format (faster - but requires faster PC)

View 4 minute Oz Home Puppet's pantomime play:
Click here for WMV Format (slower - will take a few minutes to load) or Brightcove Player Format (faster - but requires faster PC)

Each puppet play can be individually downloaded from the links provided at right. Simply place your cursor over the underlined item you want to download, then right click your mouse and "Save As....". Each play includes:

• the plays audio track (mp3),
• printable puppet and prop figures (Pdf),
• Puppeteers Play Directions (Pdf),

Also provided are the following downloads which apply to all plays:

• 'Seven steps' set up instructions (Pdf),
• Illustration for Stage Front (jpg), and
• Some 'Advanced Puppeteer Ideas' (Pdf)

The puppet and prop figures are already coloured. However, they can be printed in black and white outline, giving kids hours of fun activity colouring-in each of the puppet characters in their own designs.

The story of how OZ Home Puppets came to be created is available for reading at Puppet Pantomime Heritage.

We support Rotary Internationals efforts to immunise kids in third world countries from polio, where this virus remains a problem and potential global threat. Should you and your family enjoy the puppet resources from this site, we'd request that you make a donation to this cause, which can be done online by clicking the following link that will take you to Rotary's website:

Use this link to donate on line to the Rotary International Polio Fund

The OZ Home Puppet Pantomime plays were created by Jim Vickers-Willis with Dan Bartley, Bob Vinnard and Bob Patey. Puppet images created by Melbourne Artist Paul Margocsy

Immediate FREE Downloads If for personal use only 7 Puppet Plays* FREE FREE FREE (*Copyright©Vickers-Willis Corporation, 2008. and cannot be distributed without consent) Right click on your mouse, then "Save Target As..." Includes recorded play, puppet figures, play directions and set-up instructions No Waiting - Let The Show Begin!

1. Red Robin's Baby Kangaroo Pantomime Time - 5 minutes 30 secs Downloads: (Right click on mouse then "Save As...":

Play #1 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate (Pdf) Flipside Plate (Pdf)

2. The Old Croc Pantomime Time - 5 minutes 40 secs Downloads:

Play #2 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate (Pdf) Flipside Plate (Pdf)

3. The Trick Vacuum Cleaner Pantomime Time - 8 minutes 24 secs Downloads:

Play #3 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate A (Pdf) Flipside Plate A (Pdf) Front Plate B (Pdf) Flipside Plate B (Pdf)

4. Willi Saves Little Red Robin Hood Pantomime Time - 6 minutes 40 secs Downloads:

Play #4 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate A (Pdf) Flipside Plate A (Pdf) Front Plate B (Pdf) Flipside Plate B (Pdf)

5. Naughty Mr. Punch Pantomime Time - 5 minutes 30 secs Downloads:

Play #5 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate (Pdf) Flipside Plate (Pdf)

6. Old Croc Saves Little Red Robin Hood Pantomime Time - 5 minutes 40 secs Downloads:

Play #6 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate A (Pdf) Flipside Plate A (Pdf) Front Plate B (Pdf) Flipside Plate B (Pdf)

7. The Bunyip's Cave Pantomime Time - 7 minutes 30 secs Downloads:

Play #7 Directions Audio (mp3) Front Plate (Pdf) Flipside Plate (Pdf)

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