BENEFITS OF PUPPET PLAY

Communication and Social Skills 

  • Hand Puppets are an ideal springboard for developing speaking and listening skills.
  • Children often communicate more easily with puppets, giving them confidence to express their ideas and feelings
  • Shy children can become acquainted with others through the roles they take on
  • Children are free to try on new personalities and take them off again, with a puppet on their hand, broadening their own in the process.
  • Scary animal hand puppets like lions and sharks or shy ones such as a tortoise can help children master uncomfortable feelings
  • Puppet play provides an opportunity to gain some control over their world by working out fears and frustrations.

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