Turn your family snapshots into puppets!

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What you'll need:

How to make it:

1. Invite your child to choose several family photographs (use the photo or make a color copy).
2. Cut out the face or figure.
3. Tape this photo figure to a craft stick.
4. Encourage your youngster to create a scene with a few toys and have these family puppets interact.
5. Use a puppet yourself to ask your child's puppet questions and to suggest different themes, such as going shopping or taking a family trip. While you are having fun together, this activity helps your child develop language and social skills.

Tips:

• The simplest way to use your puppets is by sitting on the floor, facing each other. Talk to each other, sing, make your puppets dance, and so on. 
• Another way is by using a tabletop, sitting on either side of the table. 
• If you want to do a presentation for family and friends, tip the table over onto one side with the tabletop facing the audience. You now have a table stage (you are behind it and you can manipulate your puppets to show above).