Cardboard Cut-Out Puppets

Make [TEXT] a cardboard puppet show. Cut each chunky block letter roughly out of corrugated cardboard: kraft-brown faces with faint ridges and stains, and thick cut edges that show the wavy flute layer between two liners. Stick masking tape and black marker doodles (stars, arrows, scribbles) on a few letters. Mount every letter on a wooden stick behind a ragged cardboard stage front, in front of a flattened cardboard box printed with shipping arrows, its middle brushed with blue poster-paint sky and chunky white clouds. Letters pop up from behind the stage one by one with a springy overshoot, then bob and tilt independently, animated on twos (12 fps) with a little jitter as if puppeteered by hand. After a hold they duck back down one by one and the loop restarts.