The raw materials are simple: cardboard, newspaper, a little glue, paint. The result: brilliant festival puppets up to 24 feet tall. “It’s a papier-mache circus when the puppet show comes to town,” ...

At the “Pineapple Building” on 1st Street, the smell of papier mache lingers late into the evening as conversation fills the air. “How does my smelt head look? Am I forming it OK?” “I think you have ...

Your papier-maché art projects in second grade probably never looked like this. The materials are the same -- cornstarch, paste, strips of newspaper, etc. -- but the scale is of a much grander nature.

To make a pair of simply crafted cloth and wooden puppets fight requires six people. Twelve hands grasp pillowed puppet limbs, steer tiny feet capped with papier-mâché shoes, and manipulate cartoonish ...