From socks and scarves, mouths and hands, rods and string, homemade and store-bought, Dayton Edmonds has developed a working and living relationship with puppets of all shapes and sizes; bringing them into classrooms, libraries, churches, festivals and fairs, museums, nursing homes, camps and community gatherings to share their many insights and stories. Puppets provide a performance medium to enrich understanding and stretch imagination by leading us into the right hemisphere of our brain, which accepts the probability of the impossible. Dayton and his puppet friends travel throughout the countryside, sharing the magic of laughter and story, which is educational as well as entertaining and aesthetic.
Dayton shares his knowledge and skills as a puppeteer in workshops, seminars and classroom presentations; for students, school teachers, librarians, parents, pastors, church school teachers, and others interested in developing a rapport with the unique friends to be found at the end of our arms.