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The Puppet Power Movement: An Accessible Way to Boost Your Child’s Learning Working with a puppet is not only fun…
The Puppet: Your Secret Weapon to Access the Wonderful World of Children In my 30+ years of working with puppets,…
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…
I can say with certainty that there is no such thing as a pedagogical hand puppet. Whether you take that from me is up to you, but I consider myself an expert.
7 sectors where a hand puppet is used
Hand puppets are used in various sectors where one deals with 0 – 9 year olds. Let’s see which sectors then include:
Using a hand puppet for child development has invaluable value. It goes beyond language development; it also has positive effects on social-emotional development and increases children’s independence.
How can I help children who struggle to trust me and do not open up? This was a question I…
Today, I am excited to share with you a groundbreaking toolkit that has the potential to revolutionize the way we…
The Puppet Power Movement: An Accessible Way to Boost Your Child’s Learning Working with a puppet is not only fun but also creates a special bond between you and your…
Setting their own boundaries is quite difficult for many children, but not setting boundaries often leads to unnecessary quarrels and frustrations.
I enjoy incorporating my puppet into everyday topics and activities. This approach allows the puppet to become a familiar presence,…
Hand puppets are a versatile tool in education, theater, and counseling, such as with children. They come in various shapes…
I’m fond of the armrod puppets from Melissa and Doug and own as many as four. I got to know…
Finding the best puppet for you, how do you do that? I was the founder and owner of the largest…
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!
We’re at a campsite. Did you know we used to live in a park in the Netherlands? In a park…
Today we’re in Sweden, yes. Do you know why? Back when we lived in the Netherlands, we lived near an…
We visited Amsterdam today. Yes, that is the capital of the Netherlands, look, it’s right there. Amsterdam has many canals;…