Need a Better Way to Engage Children?
Learn How a Simple Puppet Can Revolutionize Communication and Learning!
Do you find it challenging to engage children in your conversations and activities? Is it difficult to motivate them, and do you often wonder what’s going on in their minds? Would you like to connect with them more easily, involve them in tasks effortlessly, help them practice new skills smoothly, and enable them to speak freely? Imagine communicating with them as naturally as they would with a friend—spontaneously, equally, and supportively.
If so, I’d be thrilled to teach you how to achieve this by using a hand puppet.
Why a hand puppet?
Children often find it easier to talk to a hand puppet than to an adult. They intuitively sense that adults have expectations, even when unspoken, and that their actions can have consequences. This can make children feel constrained, holding back and putting up walls around themselves.
A puppet, viewed as a peer, acts as a non-judgmental friend who listens and understands. This dynamic creates a unique and safe space, encouraging children to express themselves more freely and honestly.
However, the puppet can also lose this sense of safety if it starts to mimic adult behaviors too closely, acting like a mini-adult and echoing your words and actions. The challenge is to keep the puppet as ‘pure’ as possible and closely aligned with the child’s perspective.
I will show you how to do this in “Play and Connect,” an online course where you will learn step by step to transform a simple hand puppet into a fantastic assistant.
You—the puppeteer—will learn to operate the puppet and establish contact in an entirely new way. In “Play and Connect,” the psychology of the hand puppet merges with play techniques, communication strategies, and playful engagement, working together to enrich children’s activities, conversations, games, and tasks.
The goal is to create a puppet that builds relationships with children and encourages them to participate actively. A puppet that not only helps you achieve your educational and developmental goals but also provides deeper insights into the child’s thoughts and feelings. A successful puppet balances what you aim to achieve with what the child expects from the puppet, ensuring it remains an effective tool for engagement.
What Will You Learn?
Bringing Your Puppet to Life:
You learn how to animate your puppet, how to give it a personality and voice that resonates with children and encourages them to engage.
Building A Relationship With The Child:
You develop the skills to create meaningful interactions through your puppet, allowing it to become a trusted figure that children look forward to spending time with.
Playful and Effective Communication:
You discover how to use your puppet to challenge children, increase involvement, stimulate language, and make learning easier.
Your Results Are:
1. Confidence with Puppets:
You feel at ease with a puppet on your hand, knowing exactly how to use it to engage children.
2. Stronger Bonds:
You strengthen your relationship with children by presenting a puppet who sees the world from their perspective, fostering deeper and more meaningful interactions.
3. Enhanced Professional Skills:
You improve your educational toolkit with innovative and effective puppeteering and communication techniques, creating a vibrant and inviting environment.
Ideal for parents and various professionals
Whether you’re a (homeschooling) parent, preschool teacher, childcare professional, speech therapist, special education teacher or counselor, “Play & Connect” provides tools and techniques to enhance your interactions with children.
If you work with groups, you can apply this approach to children aged 3 – 6 years. If you primarily deal with individual children, you can also use this approach with older children and even teenagers. You will quickly notice whether a child is receptive to a puppet. As soon as you see a spark in a child’s eyes while they look at the puppet, you’ll know enough… this child might respond well to a puppet.
Client Testimonials
This is what fellow course participants say about my courses:
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About Your Instructor: I’m Helen Meurs, a former teacher, author of “The Hand Puppet As An Educational Tool” and renowned puppet expert based in the Caribbean Bonaire. With over 30 years of experience with a puppet as a tool and two decades training professionals, I’ve designed “Play and Connect” to bridge the gap between traditional teaching methods and interactive, puppet-assisted learning.
My approach is straightforward and effective, tailored to anyone passionate about enriching children’s educational experiences. I am here to help you master your hand puppet in a way that suits you, is doable for you, and make you happy.
Embark on This Playful Journey: So, I am ready to work with you if you are. Let’s start today!
Play & Connect: An online course for parents and professionals who want to enhance their interaction with children through playful and effective puppet techniques.
Discover how to use a simple puppet to foster communication, engagement, and learning, and transform your approach to working and communicating with children.