Making puppets or at least seeing puppets is one experience every preschooler should go through! Besides the activity’s connection to our current lesson on feet, it was also a good way to help those kids who feared puppets.
Puppets can be anything you want them to be… animals, community helpers, family members or the students themselves! It’s really easy to connect with whatever lesson you have. Since we are still learning a lot about our selves and our bodies, we decided to let the children make puppets of themselves. Of course, you can always add more detail like a collar or tie for the boys or maybe a necklace for the girls, but always bear in mind the age of your students. As much as I wanted to make it look prettier, I didn’t want the kids to have a hard time decorating it. Just let them enjoy it!
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What you will need
- Socks
- Yarn
- Googly Eyes
- Glue
- Scissors
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*The hair (made using the yarn) needs to be prepared prior to the activity. Teachers and adults can help turning the hair into pigtails or ponytails which the children can easily glue unto their socks
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Just glue all the pieces together while wearing the sock on the other hand. We added more details like the mouth and nose using a permanent marker upon request of the kids.
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THE RESULTS:
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Author KAREN NEMETH of “Many Languages, One Classroom“ commented on the activity earlier. Let me quote her on it.
