VERNA PUPPET by Axtell Expressions

Need a voice for Verna? AxTrax Wide Open CDs have a girl voice that works well with Verna. Check them out here!

Note - it's different than the voice in this video clip which is goofier.  The AxTrax is cuter.

See more bird puppet ideas here.

Other ideas from Tony Borders:

Verna gets lost easily on her annual vacation down south. One time she wound up at the north pole and met Santa. Or she wound up in Hollywood...Disneyland... wherever you like. Then she can tell of her adventures.

Repeat after me: You are trying to teach Verna some new words. But she keeps getting them wrong or saying them at the wrong time. Perhaps you are trying to teach her a poem and she keeps getting the last rhyming word wrong. (Just use the words to a song that goes with your theme.)

Verna could be an American Idol candidate! Who sings better than a bird. She talks about all of the practise that she's had, and all of the training. You're excited to hear her sing for the first time. However, when she does it comes out very bad! You want to tell her nicely that it wasn't your type of music.

Verna keeps sneezing. It turns out that the babysitter thought she was a feather duster and used her to dust the entire house! She makes comments about how dirty you keep your house and about how you should be more careful who you hire to take care of your kids, etc. Turns out that the babysitter was Amelia Bedelia.

Look up a Dr. Seuss poem or story that stars a bird and use Verna to help you tell it. (You can't use it for pay, however, without permission.)

Verna could be the one who introduces each of the other puppets. But she is so forgetful that you have to keep telling her what to say.

Here is an easy routine to remember for Verna. Y is for you and V is for Verna.

Y: Boys and girls, today I want you to meet a very special bird.

V: I'm special! I'm special!

Y: There is no other bird in the world like her.

V: I'm special! I'm special!

Y: If anything happened to this bird, then her kind would be extinct!

V: Wha-a-a-t? I don't stink!

Y: I didn't say that you stink. I said that you're EXtinct!

V: My eggs don't stink!

Y: You are a dodo.

V: And you are a ding dong!

Y: I'm telling them what kind of bird you are!

V: I'm special! I'm special!

Y: (to audience) She is endangered.

V: Wha-a-a-t? Why am I in danger? Are these kids mean?

Y: No. These kids are very nice!

V: They're special. They're special.

Y: When an animal is endangered that means that there are very few of them left and we need to protect them.

V: Good!

Y: In your case, you are the last one. And we don't want you to be extinct!

V: I don't stink! And you're ugly!

Y: Whoa! That wasn't nice. Now you and I are good friends.

V: Yes, we are.

Y: I think you should say that you're sorry!

V: Okay. I'm sorry that we're good friends!

Y: I think you should say you're sorry for the ugly thing!

V: Oh. I'm sorry you're an ugly thing!

Y: Boys and girls, sometimes we misunderstand our friends and we get our feelings hurt. Verna is my friend. When I said that she's extinct I really mean that she's very special.

V: I'm special! I'm special!

Y: There's no one else like her. She's one of a kind!

V: In that case, I think you're special, too!

Y: Thank you.

V: There's no one else like you!

Y: Thank you.

V: You stink too!

Y: I think I had better go and have a talk with her.

(adapted from an OLD, OLD routine by Bergen or somebody)

Chickadee

Dedra Dodo

H.R. Fluff-n-Stuff

Marilyn Ron Moult

Aunt _______ (Why do they call you aunt?) Because I like ants. They're delicious.

Madeleine (accent on the mad)

Kristina Kookaburra

Co-co the Cookoo.

Flaming Flamingo

Pretty Bird