The Value of Puppets

• Language development
• Role playing
• Aids memory retention
• Encourages group participation
• Stimulates imagination
• An Introduction to gain attention
• Affords an opportunity to enter a childs world
• Permits child participation
• Helps develop powers of concentration
• Transmits ideas easily
• Aids story or song by seeing and doing
• Is an outlet for feeling
• Allows a child to feel what it is like to be somebody else or something else, eg. an animal, toy, sun etc.
• Stimulates expression
• Helps interpret story or thought

Puppets

• NZ Bird Puppets with sound
• NZ Birds with Sound