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Interactive Storytelling through puppet shows & story times
Workshops
Workshops
Workshops for creative movement, crafting, puppetry, & summer camp programs.
products
products
Puppets & related items, crafting kits, sensory & imaginative play items, as well as educational resources.
Currently Offering
Currently Offering
You can book the following services for your organization.
Puppet Show ProductionS
Puppet Show ProductionS
Wander Forest is a sensory puppet performance, that is perfect for the youngest of audience members.
Join us on a playful adventure, filled with visuals, sounds, objects, and smells of the forest.
Check out more information here.
Suitcase Puppet Show
Suitcase Puppet Show
Little Red
Little Red
Available Now!
This quaint tabletop puppet story is told with the use of rod puppet marionettes and a suitcase full of pop-up book scenery. Little Red is delivering cake for her Granny’s birthday. She learns about the consequences of sharing personal information.
Camps & Enrichment Programming
Camps & Enrichment Programming
Puppet Theater Camp
Puppet Theater Camp
Monday - Friday
August 4, 2025 - August 8, 2025
(Ages 5-7) 9:00 - 12:00
(Ages 8-11) 1:00 – 4:00pm
Join our adventure into puppetry as we explore light, sound, structure, and movement. Each day will include hands-on crafting and interactive puppet play. Explore various forms of puppetry: Rod, Sock, Tabletop, Shadow, and more! Campers will utilize basic theater knowledge and various art mediums. Campers will also learn how to manipulate puppets to make them come to life and practice puppet mouth control, puppet turn-taking, and synchronized movement. Campers will get crafty constructing their own take-home puppets, and create simple set design elements. Pre-registration is required.
Clifton Community Recreation Center
1232 Main Ave, Clifton, NJ 07011, USA
Puppet Theater & Crafty Artisan Programs
Puppet Theater & Crafty Artisan Programs
Both are available for school enrichment programs and community camps.
Puppet camp is perfect for crafty and imaginative individuals.
Each day will include hands-on crafting and interactive puppet play.
Explore various forms of puppetry
Construct easy-to-build puppets
Have fun making puppets “come to life”
Crafty Artisan Programs
(these can be customized to fit your programming or interest)
Explore a new art form
Expand your crafting skills
Enjoy expressing the artisan within
If you are interested, please contact us. We’d love to work with your group.
NOW SPECIAL SERVICES PROVIDER
NOW SPECIAL SERVICES PROVIDER
through a partnership at THE ECLECTIC CHIC BOUTIQUE
One of our newest developments includes offering services through a collaboration as an approved service provider by Public Partnerships LLC (PPL). PPL is dedicated to providing support and assistance of all kinds to people with disabilities, as well as their caretakers.
As such, we now offer multi-week art classes to individuals who receive funding from DDD (Division of Developmental Disabilities). Classes will provide fun and stimulating activities to assist them in living their best lives.
Programming is scheduled through our connection with Kristen of The Eclectic Chic Boutique.
Kristen: 862-221-0644
Kristen@TheEclecticChicBoutique.com
Additional offerings
Additional offerings
Storytelling
Storytelling
Crafting
Crafting
Creative Movement
Creative Movement
Mission:
Mission:
Play • Imagination • Artistry
Play • Imagination • Artistry
Dabbling Brook merges visual and performing arts through products and experiences that encourage Play, Imagination, and Artistry.
PLAY: Puppets and Interactive Events.
IMAGINATION: Content and products that fuel creative thinking.
ARTISTRY: Events, products, and content that nurtures the inner artist.
“Dip your toes in the creative flow.”
“Dip your toes in the creative flow.”
Dabble in the new and explore your own creative abilities without self-judgment.
Join us in developing a community of creativity, positivity, and inclusion.
Brook Buddies
Brook Buddies
Brook Buddies are Dabbling Brook’s puppet friends.
Share in some of their adventures and favorite activities on YouTube. Our buddies like to make educational content that can be used in classrooms too. You can join in the fun by tuning in to the Dabbling Brook YouTube channel.
Brook Sprite
Puppet Society
Brook Sprite
Puppet Society
The Brook Sprite Puppet Society is a Facebook group and the hub for connecting with fellow Brook Sprite caretakers. This group is meant to offer inspiration, ideas, connectivity, and community. Share pictures, make friends, and get the latest Brook Sprite scoop.
This group will host some exclusive events for members. For educators, you can connect with fellow educators to facilitate a pen pal network between yourselves. The options are abundant.
Behind the Curtain
Behind the Curtain
MANDI BEVANDO
Founder
A crafter’s brain, a performer’s enthusiasm, and a heart wedged in the wonderment of childhood provide the framework of Dabbling Brook. One could say that a background in performing arts and hands-on experience in elementary school classrooms led to the formation of this platform.
I resist the notion that I am alone in the desire to create. The title of daydreamer shall now be coupled with also being a maker and a doer. A space was needed, where individuals, can come together to put a crafty twist on storytelling and summon our imaginations.
Projects are brewed with the desire to create an inclusive community of accessible theater and creative experiences for audiences of a broad spectrum of viewers.
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