For those who like to pretend, in particular, preschoolers, making puppets can be fun. Putting on puppet shows and playing interactively with your child is rewarding creativity and encouraging skills.
If you are like me though, I have neither the patience (plus I cannot draw very well) nor the time to make elaborate puppets.
Instead, we find our brown paper lunch sacks, coloring books, scissors and glue. Then we construct our own puppets from there. And it does not have to be hard, one easy way to pretend is to take a favorite book and make the characters of the book to act out the story.
So we find large color sheets of people and animals from coloring books or an online source. I find the coloring pages with large plain pictures work the best. Judah then can color the animal or person as desired. He can practice cutting out the object. We glue the head onto the bottom flap of the bag and line up the body on the side. Other decorations can be added like yarn for hair, objects for props, and eyes for 3-D facial features.
Between making your own puppet and acting out your own story, imagination is endless. And all the while you are having lots of fun making memories with your child! And you will have less stress with this simple play thing and activity.
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