The show consists of interactions between humans and puppets. Each episode presents the young viewers with familiar situations from everyday life, and offers creative ways of solving various problems, as each situation is dealt with through songs and games. Aside from the basic plotline, most episodes also include a story told by one or more of the human actors, and sometimes short cartoon sketches. In the sketches about Pete and Pitagoras (different actors) professor Pitagoras tried to teach the kids but his assistant Pete always ruined everything.
From the makers of Super Simple Songs, Paper Puppet Playhouse is all of your favorite nursery rhymes, fairy tales, bedtime stories, and fables, told with an engaging paper cutout style of animation.
Those 89 ancient poems, involving seven major themes: "magnificent landscape, affectionate farewell, expressing ambition and heart, singing all things, and feeling homesick". By watching animations, it breaks the traditional boring mode of reciting ancient poems, and guides children to master ancient poems easily.