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Hang It Up Caring for Your Marionette When you arrive home with your lovely new marionette, it is important to find it a suitable space for your marionette to spend its leisure time. Please hang it on a hook, bookshelf corner, closet door, or other similar place when not in use. If you can reach the hook easily, then it is a good place. Other common suggestions:

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Caring for Your Marionette

When you arrive home with your lovely new marionette, it is important to find it a suitable space for your marionette to spend its leisure time. Please hang it on a hook, bookshelf corner, closet door, or other similar place when not in use. If you can reach the hook easily, then it is a good place.

Other common suggestions:

Nail or Hook on a Wall:

Nail: Place two pieces of tape in an ‘x’ to mark the spot and prevent wall paint from cracking. Hammer in your nail. Hang up your marionette. Generally the head string is hooked on the nail.

Hook: Drill a hole or hammer a nail that is thinner than the hook into the wall and then remove carefully. Screw in the hook.

Hook and Eye from the ceiling:
Tie a long string onto an eye hook. Screw a hook into the ceiling. Find an S-hook large enough for the marionette's control bar to pass through. Tie the S-hook onto the string so it can be easily reached. Slip the string over the opening and the control bar through the hole.

Puppet bar:
For those with a marionette family, a bar may be the best way to go.
Choose the length 2"x2" of board needed. Each marionette needs at least 4" between it and the next.Clamp down your board. Drill holes for the control bar of the marionette to slide through.

Suggested sizes are:
3/8" for pom-pom animals,
3/8" to 1/2" for plush animals, and
5/8" to 3/4" for wooden people.

Use a jig saw or circular saw to cut slits through to the holes for the marionette's string to pass through.
Use brackets to fasten the bar to your wall.


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