The paper bag puppet making activity inspired me to used puppets in another lesson. I used the following lesson with a small group of Kindergarten students today to help the students feel more comfortable as members of the group, improve social interaction skills and encourage group discussion. Each student had his or her own puppet. I found that asking the puppets questions greatly helped to take the pressure of responding off the students.
“The first step in getting to know each other is to learn everyone’s name. When you call people their names, it shows you are interested in them. Let’s go around the circle and says our puppets’ names and how they are feeling today.” (Repeat the names the students give their puppet to the group and say, “That’s ___ and she’s feeling ________”) “Look at the puppet friend sitting next to you, do you remember their name? Do you remember the name of the person sitting behind the puppet?”
Let’s go around the circle and have our puppets finish these sentences:
- In school I do best when…
- If I were a teacher I would…
- If children were the parents, I would…
- If there were no school at all…
- I get angry when…
- I don’t like it when…
- I like to play…
“Let’s make up a story together. We will go around the circle and each add on a sentence. One day there was a baby kitten who was very shy….”
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