IMPORTANCE OF PUPPETS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

MRS. GURJITKAUR ANIL BHATIA - PSTTI

PUPPETS ARE POWERFUL AND MAGICAL TO YOUNG CHILDREN

Using Puppets to Teach

•So what makes puppets such useful educational tools?

CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE OF PUPPETS

Puppets As Creative Art

Music

Performance and Leadership

BENEFITS OF USING PUPPETS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

SOCIAL SKILLS

EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CONFIDENCE IN READING AND SPEAKING

MUSIC APPRECIATION

MOTOR SKILLS

ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY

CAPTURING ATTENTION

PROMOTING DRAMATIC PLAY

Puppets Help Kids Relate

Ways to Use Puppets In Class

Puppets As Role Models in Education

Puppet Show in School

Puppets As Classroom Buddies

Puppets And Multi-sensory Learning

Hand and Head

Circle Time for younger preschoolers

PUTTING UP PUPPET THEATRE

How to stage your own puppet show

What you need

• Ironing board• Large tablecloth• Portable music player• Some CD’s of favourite songs• A simple storybook or nursery rhyme to read from• Puppets

 

Activity

• Make your puppet stage:

• An ironing board makes an ideal puppet stage as you can adjust it to any height plus it's long and shallow.

• Put the table cloth over the ironing board to conceal what is going on backstage.

Activity

• Organise your backstage area:

• A well-organised backstage makes for a better show, • so organise the puppets and props in the order that

they will be needed• Put props in one box and puppets in another so things

don't get too confusing.

Activity

• Keep it simple:

• Reading a story aloud while your child acts out the narrative with the puppets is the simplest format to use.

Activity

• Choose a favourite picture book or nursery rhyme and use that as your narrative

• A simple story like Goldilocks and the Three Bears works well as there are only four characters and most of the action takes place in the bears' home.

TIPS TO MAKE OUR SHOW EFFECTIVE

• To make your show really professional, have some music ready to play while scene and puppet changeovers are taking place

• A song to finish and start your show could also be good idea.  

Activities for Puppets

Act out a storybook and create a new ending

RECITE A POEM

CHARACTER BUILDING

EXTEMPO

Types of Puppets for preschoolers

FUN FINGER PUPPETS

Ghost spoon puppet

Elephant sock puppet

Pop-up puppet

Finger puppets

Sock puppet 

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

•to develop creative expression 

•to stimulate and enhance imagination 

•to develop spontaneous oral expression 

•to Improve speech, enunciation, and voice projection 

•to practice writing skills, become more fluent in oral reading 

• to gain appreciation of literature 

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

•to develop coordination and a sense of timing 

•to enhance a child’s feelings of self-worth •to gain self-confidence and personal satisfaction 

•to release fears, aggressions and frustrations in acceptable ways 

• to develop social interaction skills 

•to create and use manipulative in an integrated, purposeful way 

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

•to gain skills in problem solving 

•to improve fine motor skills  •to sharpen listening skills  •to come to consensus, give and take of ideas 

•to observe the world through the senses,

EDUCATIONAL GOALS

•to remember what was observed,

•to process what was observed and remembered and

• to recreate it with puppets

•to evaluate

•to polish, improve on what was done 

CONCLUSION

There is a true value to using puppets and other forms of dramatics to help develop the language

skills

Students become more comfortable expressing themselves when using a medium to help share their

ideas

Students work together to explore stories and new information which helped develop the collaborative

atmosphere of the teacher’s classroom

The use of puppetry in the classroom has shown that dramatics should be incorporated into the

learning experiences to enhance their language and vocabulary skills