Puppet Power
Believe me, once you know the answer, you’ll be eager to start using that piece of fabric because a puppet…
Puppets as Fantastic Bridge-Builders Puppets are excellent bridge-builders for children who struggle to express themselves and/or have little trust in…
When I first began working with a puppet, I thought it was a technical skill I needed to master. I was eager to learn it, hoping it would allow me to enter the world of a particular child I had in mind.
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One of the best things about living on Bonaire, is the sea. That beautiful azure blue sea that shines towards you in the travel guide, where more lives than you initially suspect. In the Netherlands, I wasn’t much of a sea-goer.
The Puppet Power Movement: An Accessible Way to Boost Your Child’s Learning Working with a puppet is not only fun…
Ten years ago, I wrote a book about my findings and my way of working with a hand puppet: “The Hand Puppet as an Educational Tool.” This week, the English translation of the book came out. Good things should be shared, and working with a hand puppet in the classroom is such a good thing.
“How can I give emotions to a small animal puppet ?” That question came up during one of my Dutch online programs, in the assignment about giving emotions to your hand puppet.
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Finding the best puppet for you, how do you do that? I…
I’m fond of the armrod puppets from Melissa and Doug and own…
Hand puppets are a versatile tool in education, theater, and counseling, such…
Puppets in Action
After the introduction of a theme, does your puppet mainly sit on the cabinet because his job is mainly to introduce the theme? Involving a puppet in your group’s activities is fun and effective because everything your puppet offers is viewed by children with great interest.
The holidays are a magical time, but they can also be overwhelming for children. Big changes, lots of people, and…
The Method-Based Puppet—Is It Really Effective? The method-based puppet—honestly, it’s not my favorite. Both the execution and the idea often…
The Puppet: Your Secret Weapon to Access the Wonderful World of Children In my 30+ years of working with puppets,…
In every group, you encounter children who stand out due to their behavior, their language, or because they are quiet…
We’re on our way! Yes, we’ve set off and today we visited Muiderslot Castle, a place Jip really wanted to…
Do you know that movie? Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the road movie where two drag queens and a transgender…
How do you get from A to B? This question is fundamentally what much of education revolves around. Some tasks…
When what was always there is no longer there, when you are away from an environment where people expect things from you and/or you survive by adapting, you come to ask yourself, “What do I want?”
Of all the critters I encounter in Bonaire, the scorpion is the one that, in the negative sense, elicits the most reaction from me. I cannot look at the beast without making a sound or jumping up. A scorpion immediately puts me on edge and always produces the same thought: it has to go. NOW!
The past 5 years have been quite a roller coaster. Since I decided I was going to sell my web shop, there has been a lot of movement and a lot to overcome. I knew that with my new business, I would have to start all over again from scratch and put a lot of energy into figuring out how to get my message out there.