Tomorrow and Sunday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., followed by a puppet-making workshop.

Zenzele Browne will also offer a puppet-making workshop.

New Haven "Hansel and Gretel," puppet theater presented by Théâtre Sans Fil; followed by puppet-making workshop.

ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM Eve Therrien performs puppet plays, followed by a puppet-making workshop.

Several events are geared for children, including a carnival tomorrow and Sunday on East 10th Street, complete with face painting, puppet-making workshops and rides.

A puppet-making workshop, also free, will follow the performance.

We also have a shadow puppet play lined up and puppet-making workshops as well as the usual musical delights and morris dancers.

There is a puppet-making workshop from 1 to 4 p.m.; fee, $3.

Also tomorrow at 2 p.m., "The Creatures - Tales from the Bush," a family presentation of Yoruba parables by Orisha Tales Production; a puppet-making workshop at 1 p.m. will precede the show.

My family's weekends have begun to sag under the load of extracurricularism-the ski class, the puppet-making workshop, the enriching visit to the museum, and probably, sometime in the near future, homework overflow.