STORY TELLING
Literacy – oral language, emotions terminology, story telling/story structure… Use your puppets to create stories or as reading buddies. Ask students to read aloud with their puppets using funny voices!
Social and Emotional Understanding – situational and behavioral role playing/practice, emotions terminology…
Motor Skills – manipulating objects.
Materials
– Puppets (finger puppets, or large)
-List of words and emotions/feelings they have to portray with the puppets in story telling/interacting
-Descriptions if different situations that begin or lead up to in the story they create with the puppets
Differentiation – include images of the emotions or objects they must include (card depicting different emotions)
Taking Care Of Monkey Business by Alli (Photographer). (2015, July 22). DIY Sock Puppets [digital image]. Retrieved from http://takingcareofmonkeybusiness.com/blog/2015/07/22/diy-sock-puppets/
Creating your own puppets
Culturally responsive and relevant pedagogy (crrp) – Ask students to create themselves and facilitate conversations discussing identity and diversity!
Personal Development – Puppets can also be tied into mental health, self-image, bullying, self-acceptance and the acceptance of others…
Everyone look around at your classmates puppets! Does any puppet look the exact same?
Literary – Anatomy terminology, material terminology.
STEM project – Ask students to plan their puppets create their own materials list (specifically with recycled materials). Include quantity of materials, what tools will be needed, and possible alternative material…
Motor skills – Manipulating objects and their hands, crafting, cutting, drawing…
Materials
-Paper bags/socks
-Yarn/pipe cleaners
-Markers
-Construction paper
-Recyclable materials
-Scrap fabric/felt
-Buttons/googly eyes
Shadow puppet’s can also be used! Plus, it teaches students about light sources and shadows! Make shadow puppets out of materials, or just use your hands!
-Light source
-Popsicle sticks/straws…
-Paper
-Glue/tape
-Found objects to project
-Wall or sheet to project on or behind
POP goes the PAGE (Photographer). (2014, August 29). Shadow Play [digital image]. Retrieved from https://popgoesthepage.princeton.edu/shadow-play-2/
MORE IDEAS
Puppets can be used throughout the class in many other ways
- Pick up your puppet in the morning to do attendance (the puppets left are the students absent)
- Use the puppets to change sitting arrangements or to delegate tasks (Make a routine where students know to locate their puppet to find out where they will be sitting for the day or for the next activity, or pin the puppets to the board under daily jobs)
- For classroom bonding and teaching kindness (have students write a compliment to each one of their classmates, then have them fill each others puppets with the corresponding compliments)
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