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Preschool Puppets

Preschool puppets can help encourage imaginative play for preschoolers. There are many educational puppets for kids. There are animal puppets that teach children about different farm animals, pets and animals in the wild. Kids love to make animal sounds and touch the different textures of fur, feathers, or scales that different animal puppets have.

There are people puppets that come in all different types of occupations like a doctor puppet, a policeman puppet or a construction worker puppet. People puppets let children pretend and get to know about different jobs and people in their community. There are other characters that children love that can be puppets too like a princess puppet or a fairy godmother puppet.

Some fun preschool puppets are the Gund puppets series of Sesame Street character puppets. There are educational puppets like the Baby Einstein puppets which are featured in the Baby Einstein series of DVDs and videos. Preschoolers can watch along with the DVD or video and play with their puppets too.

As you can see there are many puppets for kids to choose from. Playing puppets with your baby or preschooler is a great way to interact with your child and help them learn. The different colors, shapes, sizes and textures of preschool puppets are exciting for children. The movements and voices that you make with the puppets can teach children language development, social interaction and understanding emotions.

There are many wonderful stories that you can tell with puppets that teach morals and values to children.

You can also use preschool puppets to teach the alphabet or numbers. You can also use puppets to teach helpful behaviors like eating healthy foods, brushing your teeth and potty training.

Puppets can also help children with difficult issues like fear of the dark or separation anxiety or adjusting to having a new sibling. A puppet can be a child’s favorite toy to carry around or at bedtime or naptime too.

There are many ways to enjoy puppets that you and your child will discover as you fill their childhood with educational fun.


It’s Springtime and time for Passover and Easter!  Puppets are a festive way to celebrate the spring holidays and the change of season.  Easter puppets are a great addition to any Easter Basket and give your kids something to do over the spring break.

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There are rabbit puppets and little chick puppets and lamb puppets which signify spring and rebirth.  They can be hand puppets or finger puppets.  A plush rabbit puppet makes an excellent Easter gift and the smaller Easter finger puppets are fun to put in Easter baskets or even hide inside plastic eggs for an added surprise.

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Folkmanis White Rabbit, Bunny Puppet

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Folkmanis Chick Finger Puppet

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Folkmanis Lamb Puppet

These faith-based Easter puppets feature the characters who were with Jesus and his disciples at the time of the crucifixion and resurrection and can help teach the true Easter story to young children.  These are a nice addition to a Sunday School lesson or youth ministry.

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These Passover puppets are also a great way to teach the bible story of Exodus and Moses.  These Passover finger puppets represent the ten plagues on the Egyptians and teach this bible lesson to children in a humorous way.

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Whether you go traditional or contemporary, puppets are a fun way to engage babies, preschoolers and older children during the spring holidays.

A Turkey for ThanksgivingThanksgiving is a time for families to gather together to give thanks for all their blessings.  It’s also a wonderful time for preschool and school age children to learn about our nation’s history. 

A fun way to teach children about the Pilgrims and their trip to the new world in the Mayflower and that first Thanksgiving is to use puppets. 

Here is a set of Thanksgiving puppets that includes Pilgrims and their ship, Indians (Native Americans) and a turkey puppet. 

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This is a wonderful plush puppet set. 

You can also make your own paper Thanksgiving puppets of the Pilgrims and Indians and tell the story of the first settlers to America and how thankful they were after their long journey and that first harsh winter to finally discover the promise and plenty that this new land held.

Here is another wonderful plush Thanksgiving turkey puppet that makes a great gift for Thanksgiving and can also be used to tell a fun Thanksgiving puppet story like A Turkey for Thanksgiving that tells the story of some animal friends who want to have a turkey for Thanksgiving but not to eat, instead he becomes the honored guest at the harvest feast.

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You could also act out a Thanksgiving scene with these cute Thanksgiving turkey pilgrim finger puppets.

folkmanis witch puppet Halloween Puppets   Halloween Puppet Ideas for PreschoolersHalloween is a fun time of year. The kids get all excited about dressing up and trick-or-treating and eating all that Halloween candy. It’s also a great time to have fun with puppets.

There are lots of spooky Halloween characters that you can make or buy to perform a Halloween puppet show. Kids love spooky stories. You can get some monster puppets like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy or a Werewolf and act out some silly spooky shows.

Scary graveyard ghost stories or ghosts and goblins in a haunted house with witches and bats are some fun ideas you can put into a Halloween puppet show. You may want to tell some of the classic Halloween stories like Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven or the Tell-Tale Heart or the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

You could even do a retro Michael Jackson Thriller puppet show. Zombie puppets would be fun and the possibilities are practically endless. You could make a zombie bride puppet and some zombie bikers.

If you want to go a little less scary you can do a story like the Charlie Brown Great Pumpkin story or a Scooby Doo type mystery. Or just a fall pumpkin patch story with pumpkins, bats and black cats or other furry animals and how they would celebrate Halloween and maybe about them going trick-or-treating.

You could even use puppets to go along with your child’s Halloween costume. Maybe they could go as an alien with three heads and have one of the heads be a puppet head attached to the costume and have a fake arm so that they can use their hand to work the puppet. They could even go as a puppet theatre like a Punch and Judy show.

Of course, kids love the Sesame Street muppet characters and can dress up as them for Halloween. Elmo and Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby and Grover are fun ideas for Halloween costumes of their favorite puppets pals.

You could have a children’s Halloween party and put on a puppet show with all the creepy monsters or pumpkin pals you want. You can give out little Halloween finger puppets as party favors or to trick-or-treaters in addition to or instead of candy.

Puppets are a wonderful addition to your child’s life whether it be at school, home, place of worship, or theatre. Special occasions and holidays can also be a great time to use puppets to entertain children of all ages. Halloween can be one of those times too.

Here is an easy craft idea for some spooky Halloween shadow puppets that you can make with your preschoolers.




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Here are some puppets I made for a senior project in college. I got them out again for my kids and we put on a puppet show. I’m glad I get the chance to play with them again with my preschoolers.

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Here is a picture of the princess with her ball by the well.

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This is a picture of the frog sitting on top of the well.

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This is a close up of the frog puppet. Here is really a prince. Can you see the lace on his neck?

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Here is a picture of the well prop. I made it from a plastic tub for margarine or something like that. It is painted to look like a well in a garden. There is a hole in the middle for the frog to peek out of and the ball to fall down into the well.

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This is the king puppet. He is dressed in gold and mauve.

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This is the princess puppet. She has a pink and gold dress and a little bit of mauve on her headpiece.

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This is the maid puppet. She works in the palace.

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Here is the handsome prince, who was once the frog.

Here is a video of the puppet show we did with these fairy tale character puppets. It’s the story of the princess and the frog and how the princess makes a promise to the frog and what happens next. You can make or buy these fairy tales character puppets and put on a puppet show of your own with your preschoolers.



Melissa and Doug make some great puppets. Here’s one that is a make your own princess puppet.

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Have fun!

MRTREE 3T Change of Seasons – A Puppet Show for the First Day of Autumn

Here is a fun puppet project idea for preschoolers to do in the classroom or at home to celebrate the first day of autumn and learn more about the seasons.

You can put on a simple puppet show about how trees grow and change over the four seasons.  You can show children how the tree grows in the spring and the buds and flowers appear.  Then in summer the sun, rain and soil bring nourishment to the tree and the leaves get full and green.  When autumn comes the leaves change color and fall to the ground as the tree prepares to store energy for the winter ahead.

You can have each child make their own tree stick puppet with the different color leaves or put on a show for them with a tree puppet that is a plush hand puppet. 

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Tree Puppet – Four Seasons

Some other ideas to add to your puppet show are to have a sun puppet, a rain cloud puppet, a bird puppet that can sing in the tree or a winter wind and snow cloud puppet.

Adding some music to your presentation can give the children an appreciation for classical music.  A good choice for this show is Vivaldi’s Four Seasons the Autumn movement.

Have fun!

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Many children are fascinated by dinosaurs.  They are big and scary and interesting animals.  It’s fun to discover what things used to be like millions of years ago and how different creatures roamed the earth back then.  A good way to teach children more about dinosaurs is with dinosaur puppets.

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There are lots of different dinosaur puppets you can find and play with.  There’s the ferocious T-Rex puppet with his big scary teeth or the more mild-mannered plant eater like a Triceratops puppet.  A flying dinosaur puppet like a Pterodactyl Puppet or a cute baby dinosaur puppet just hatching out of its’ egg are good ideas for puppets that children will enjoy.

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Children can put on a puppet show or just pretend to be archeologists or that they live back in caveman times and live among the different dinosaurs.  Anyway they decide to play with them, dinosaur puppets are fun, exciting and creative puppets for kids.

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2 Kids song   Puppet Pals  share playing ball to a new song Silly ball in this puppet showA puppet show and a fun and original kids song about a silly ball that goes out of control. In the beginning of the skit the puppets share playing ball nicely together but once the ball becomes silly and goes out of control they have a hard time catching it. This is new music by Puppet Rescue that helps teach toddlers social skills through puppetry while being entertained.

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paper bag puppet How to Make Paper Bag Puppets for PreschoolersHere’s a video tutorial that shows how you can make paper bag puppets for preschoolers. Some things you’ll need are paper lunch bags, crayons and markers, craft scissors and a glue stick and some colored construction paper. You and your kids can make these preschool puppets in no time and with very little mess. Have fun!