Puppets are powerful educational tools for preschoolers. They help with social skills, emotional development, confidence, and creativity. Puppets capture children's attention and promote dramatic play and language development. The document provides tips for creating a simple puppet show with props and music. Puppets can be used to act out stories, recite poems, build characters, and develop fine motor skills while achieving various educational goals for preschoolers.

1. IMPORTANCE OF PUPPETS FOR PRESCHOOLERS
MRS. GURJITKAUR ANIL BHATIA - PSTTI

2. PUPPETS ARE POWERFUL AND MAGICAL
TO YOUNG CHILDREN

3. Using Puppets to Teach
• So what makes puppets such useful educational tools?

4. CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE OF PUPPETS

5. Puppets As Creative Art

6. Music

7. Performance and Leadership

8. BENEFITS OF USING PUPPETS FOR
PRESCHOOLERS

9. SOCIAL SKILLS

10. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

11. CONFIDENCE IN READING AND SPEAKING

12. MUSIC APPRECIATION

13. MOTOR SKILLS

14. ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY

15. CAPTURING ATTENTION

16. PROMOTING DRAMATIC PLAY

17. Puppets Help Kids Relate

18. Ways to Use Puppets In Class

19. Puppets As Role Models in Education

20. Puppet Show in School

21. Puppets As Classroom Buddies

22. Puppets And Multi-sensory Learning

23. Hand and Head

24. Circle Time for younger preschoolers

25. PUTTING UP PUPPET THEATRE

26. How to stage your own puppet show

27. 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

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Activity
• Keep it simple:
• Reading a story aloud while your child acts out the narrative
with the puppets is the simplest format to use.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. Activities for Puppets

34. Act out a storybook and create a new ending

35. RECITE A POEM

36. CHARACTER BUILDING

37. EXTEMPO

38. Types of Puppets for preschoolers

39. FUN FINGER PUPPETS

40. Ghost spoon puppet

41. Elephant sock puppet

42. Pop-up puppet

43. Finger puppets

44. Sock puppet

45. 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

46. 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

47. 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,

48. 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

49. 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