Yesterday I featured three simple puppet ideas to make using items commonly found around the home. Today, we have two more ideas, still relatively simple but this time using felt and stockings as a starting point. Idea #1: Felt Finger Puppet Step 1. Cut out two identical shapes from felt, large enough to fit your […]
Making Puppets: Some simple starters
So, you’ve made your children a puppet theatre and now you need some puppets! There are many simple ways to make your own puppets, here are three to get you started. 1. Popstick PuppetsThese have to be the simplest of all puppets to make. Get the children busy drawing their puppet characters. Cut them out […]
Chatterbox!
I don’t know if you have ever come across Margaret Wild’s book, Chatterbox, but it is a lovely story about Daisy the baby who will not say a word. The family try everything to coax her into talking but she won’t. Then one day, Daisy opens her mouth …and out comes a stream of sentences […]
Baby Sign Language: More Milk, Please!
Immy at the breakfast table, signing ‘more.’ When Immy was 13 months old I was fortunate to receive from the authors a copy of Toddler Interpreter: A Parent’s Guide to Baby SIgn Language for Hearing Babies and Toddlers for a magazine article I was researching. From the authors: A “how to” guide for teaching your […]
DIY Kids: Tabletop Puppet Theatre for under $5
For our third DIY Kids project, I decided to make a gift for a very special 4 year old. I also thought that it would be helpful for readers of Childhood 101 who have older children to share a project suitable for pre-schoolers or kindergarten aged children. So without further ado, here is the… DIY […]
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