The invention provides shadow puppet playing equipment. The shadow puppet playing equipment comprises an automatic shadow puppet, a control unit, a somatosensory detector and an accessory device. A control rod of the automatic shadow puppet is connected to a supporting rod through a ball hinge to achieve the locating assisting effect, and a nylon thread on a round disc is driven by a steering engine to operate the control rod; the automatic shadow puppet is arranged on a bottom disc as a whole, a servo motor drives the bottom disc to move through a caterpillar, and the activity range of the shadow puppet is expanded; the control unit is connected with the somatosensory detector, an executing mechanism and the accessory device to receive and process information of the somatosensory detectorto control the executing mechanism and the accessory device. The shadow puppet playing equipment plays according to a program arranged in the control unit in advance and can also play according to human body real-time motions detected by the somatosensory detector, the control unit conducts operation to simplify a motion model and then regulates the servo motor, the steering engine, a loudspeakerand a projection lamp to work according to detected human body motion conditions, and finally automated playing is achieved.