Using Puppets can be both fun and educational. How? Here are several examples of how puppets can be used to promote literacy:
- Your beginning reader can read books to a puppet.
- Your children can retell books by writing a script and using puppets
- You can make a read aloud more engaging with a puppet.
- Your children can teach the puppet.
- You can research another culture with puppets.
(To read more about each of the above, click here)
There are a lot on great online resources for making your very own puppets. In this article I am just going to focus on creating bag puppets. Bag puppets are some of the easiest to create. I've put together several resources from which to choose from, depending on what type of puppet you want to create: (Click on each of the below to be taken to a website with directions and/or printables)
- Owl and Turtle Puppets
- Cow Puppet
- Bear Puppet
- Polar Bear Puppet
- Frog Puppet
- Spider Puppet
- Lion Puppet
- Bird Puppet
- Butterfly Puppet
- Boy Puppet
- Girl Puppet
- Little Red Hen Puppets
- Beaver Puppet
- Bunny Puppet
- Lion, Dog and Pig Puppets
- Monkey Puppet
- Elephant Puppet
- Various Animal Puppets
If you would like to buy or check out books from your local libraries on puppets, here are some examples of what you may find. If you want to know more about each of the below, click on it:
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If you live in the Denver area, consider taking your children to see Fisherman and His Wife - The Three Wishes at the Denver Puppet Theater! Shows are appropriate for children aged 3 and older. Doors open 30 minutes before show time.
Location: 3156 West 38th Avenue in Denver (Map it!)
Tickets are $7.00
Group Discount for 10 or more: $6.00 per person
Or buy a 10 ticket pack for $60.00 and use them for the season.
Show Times:
Thursdays and Fridays- 10:00 am and 1:00 pm
Saturdays and Sundays- 1:00 pm
The Denver Puppet Theater even has special Birthday Party packages!
For further info on the Denver Puppet Theater: Call (303) 458-6446
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Comments
Our church used to have an entire Puppet Ministry.. was really fun for the kids.
This is a lot of fun!
that looks like fun!
What a fun way to make books come alive.
I think my kid would think I'm crazy if I asked him to read to the puppet...
My son wouldn't go for the reading to the puppet...but my DOG would go wild for one of these puppets! But then again...she might become resentful that she has lived all her life playing with *sniff* ordinary PLAIN socks!! :)
I loved making puppet theaters as a child. Then used Mexican marionettes...fun times.
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