Fairytales, Folktales and fables are some of the best stories to turn into puppet shows. Most of them have the three main ingredients you need for a good puppet show script:
- Good clear plot or storyline
- Good guy/ Bad guy
- Fighting/ Kissing
The following are titles of fairytales, folktales or fables that have easily been made into puppet shows and have found them to work very well. Many can be twisted to accommodate your puppets or players.
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- The shoemaker and the elves
- Ant and grasshopper
- Fisherman and his wife
- Gingerbread boy
- Goldilocks and the three bears
- Henny Penny
- Lion and mouse
- Little Red Hen
- Stone Soup
- Princess and the Pea
- Rumplestiltskin
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
- Tortoise and the Hare
- Rapunzel
- Three Perfect Peaches
- Frog Prince