There are many ways to create your stage or theater. You can build your own or buy them. They can be simple made with a PVC pipe frame covered in material or more complex with a wooden frame and painted. The most used puppets for performance is the hand puppet. Their stage should be a closed for the puppeteers to be hidden. It should not be too high if the ones controlling the puppets will be sitting down or too short if they will be standing. The stage should be designed for the number of puppeteers you will using so that they never have to cross over one another trying to get the puppet where it needs to be that would cause falls or a complete disaster to your skit.

One way for children to make a puppet theater is to put up a string in a narrow doorway and throw a lightweight curtain or sheet over the string. Simple and easy.

You can have the puppeteers behind a hidden platform or even have them in the open much like a ventriloquist who sits his puppet in his lap or on a stool beside him.

Darker colors seem to work best as a covering for the platform and it can be decorated with banners or signs if you are promoting educational subjects or with religious items for a church group.

The possibilities for making your own stage is endless. It all depends on who you are performing to, how many puppeteers you will be using and the type of puppets you will be using.

Once you have decided on your stage by either purchasing it or making your own it is now time to perform your puppet show.

Here is a good stage found at Amazon.