Puppets are children's toys that have been
used for generations to make up stories and create situations. Children usually like these kind of toys as
they can become the writer of their own stories. In addition, puppets are not
just something fun to spend a good time with, but also an educational resource.
Playing with this toy has many benefits:
- It develops creativity and imagination: children can use
them to create their own stories and situations. They are the ones who decide
what puppets do or tell, making their imagination fly away.
- It promotes empathy: children have to get into the
characters and help them throughout the story. This helps children to be in
someone else’s shoe and value the feelings that certain actions can produce.
- It increases the capacity of attention: puppets foster children's
concentration as they have to focus on the creation of their characters and stories.
Also, if they are watching a puppet play, they have to concentrate in the story
in order to understand what’s happening.
- It develops motor coordination skills: children have to
coordinate the movement of their arms with the dialogue in order to give life
to the character.
- It provides education in values: traditional tales that
are represented by puppets talk about values such as tolerance, generosity or
kindness. They usually send a positive message to children.
- It helps learn through play: without taking notice
children expand their vocabulary and work their logic and memory skills. Furthermore,
puppets or puppets plays stimulate the child's understanding as they have to
interact with the characters.
- It provides verbal communication: children establish a
relationship between themselves and the character they are representing through
the dialogue.
- It fosters learn to share materials and wait for their
turn: in puppets plays, each character has a moment to stage their dialogue;
therefore children must learn to wait their turn in order to dramatize.
Marta "Chapó". I have nothing to say against. I completely agree that using puppets in the classroom is very beneficial. I also think that the smaller they are, the capacity to imagine and create stories are much better. Furthermore not only develop ability create stories but this activity can also be used transversely with other subjects. Plastic is the most obvious because it can make the puppets but also can be used in other subjects, history, science ... On the other hand it is true that also helps to the development of empathy when they put into the place of the character in the story represented, facilitates sharing equipment and the care it as well as icrease the teamwork because you need each other to develop story.
ResponderEliminarHi Marta!! Congratulations for your post!! I wrote about puppets too on my blog so Im totally agree with you. Puppets must be used with our students to capture their interest, stimulate their thinking, challenge their ideas and model learning conversations, overall in the 1st cycle, because on the before cycles they can be bored with puppets.
ResponderEliminarPuppets work especially well when they are involved in a story where they have a problem to solve because children like to help the puppets by solving the problem.
Using puppets in the classroom its a great idea!!
Thank u Marta!!