The Benefits of Playing with Hand Puppets with Children
Role-playing is crucial for the development of a child's future social skills. In Gowen's nine stages of symbolic play, we can observe the progressive development of a child's role-playing abilities.Children need to understand the characters they portray, the objects they use, and the actions they perform. They also need to recognize and relate to the relationships between different characters.By using hand puppets and small felt motifs from themed teaching aids, characters are made more tangible. Children can see them directly and interact with them, which enriches their imagination of various scenarios.
Types of Hand Puppets
Kelvin 1 offers a wide range of hand puppets, including themes such as ethnic groups, professions, animals, and fairy tales. Besides using the puppets based on their specific themes, it can be quite enjoyable to combine different puppets to create new stories.
For example, combining Little Red Riding Hand Puppets (#12461-1) with wild animals from the Wild Animal Hand Puppets (#12494) could lead to a story where she receives help from other wild animals or encounters even more exciting adventures!
Teaching Aids that compatible with Hand Puppets
We can combine with #12904 the Large Backcloth (green + yellow), #12402 the Hanging Puppet Theatre – Star Design, and themed teaching aids such as the Weather Set, Transportation Set, and Farm Animal Set to create an engaging scenario. For example, use #12722-2 the Sky and Weather to illustrate the current setting of the story.
#12703-2 Land Transport Set to represent the mode of transportation for the hand puppet as it goes out to visit someone.
