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Puppet play will be more meaningful and imaginative if children make their own creations, says Denise Bailey Children always enjoy playing with puppets and they are invaluable in enhancing and extending activities, inspiring imaginative ideas, exploring roles and feelings and developing language and communication skills.

Children always enjoy playing with puppets and they are invaluable in enhancing and extending activities, inspiring imaginative ideas, exploring roles and feelings and developing language and communication skills.

There are all kinds of commercially produced puppets which are useful in an early years setting, but these can be supplemented by puppets the children make themselves. Puppets made by the children are more meaningful and relevant to their immediate interests and can be as simple or elaborate as they wish.

Finger puppets

* Make very quick simple puppets by using felt-tip pens to draw facial features on their finger tips.

* Draw facial features on small pieces of card and attach the card to the children's fingers with Sellotape.

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