The ritual begins with actors operating large staffs topped with carved heads, like stick puppets, representing the grandchildren (the temes nevinbur).

He spotted at least three more on the other side of the highway, stiff and awkward as stick puppets.

Poison is a puppet who wants Juliet, who is given to him by her father, and a band of intervening angels, also gigantic stick puppets, rescue her.

On the North Trek, children will make polar-bear stick puppets and play ice-floe hop, which is like an Arctic version of hopscotch.

They're both like stick puppets.

They will create a stick puppet of a dragon, representing strength and power, and a cutout of the rabbit, which symbolizes creativity, peace and harmony.

He capered like a stick puppet, then leaped forward to fold Caudell and Mollie into a bony, rank embrace.

Let the stick puppet disappear into his big paper puppet costume.

Men who pushed and pranced, appearing to us as dark stick puppets before the wall of fire.

Tomorrow Valerie Hammond is to lead the younger children in "Sea Creatures and Mermaids," a workshop to create stick puppets based on Balinese shadow puppets.