Child Development 7 Puppets and Play! Chapter 7

Recipe Lesson Plan Wrap-Up At your tables please fully complete your lesson plans from last week. This should include the back portion! Edit anything you’d like using a pen or pencil This will be returned to you with feedback

Puppets and Play “Puppetry can be a way that children can pretend and make believe. Whether you offer a puppet center or puppets in every center, make it possible for children to interact with any puppet they want to make or play with.” Pg. 191

Sock puppets: Socks, yarn, fur, felt Paper Bag Puppets: Bags, construction paper, markers

Finger Puppets #1: Card stock, colored pencils Finger Puppets #2: Pipe Cleaners, googly eyes

Finger Puppets #3: Felt, glue, markers Fork Puppets: Forks, yarn, felt, ribbon, eyes, marker

Popsicle Stick/Tongue Depressor Puppets: Sticks, paper, markers, crayons Puppet Theatre: Fabric, ribbon, cardboard box, glue *Not always needed, but fun!

Shadow Box Puppet Theatre: Made from empty cardboard box with the bottom cut out, and replaced with two sheets of white tissue paper held in place with packaging tape. They used fairy tale foam stickers taped to toothpicks for their puppets. There is foam at the bottom of box to hold puppets

Conversation on: - Persona Dolls

Group Brainstorming: - Group Webbing of ideas and puppet types - Group creation of puppets and puppet story - Create group lesson plan regarding the making of the puppets

Curriculum Project Groups! Identify locations and Group Leaders Separate into groups Leader share about the children in this group, type of school, process of entering the school (ex. Fingerprints or TB test needed?) Begin discussing possible themes of interest. If unknown, needs to be further researched by next week. This will be the “Story behind the interest” Begin brainstorming connected activities for this project. I will circulate and sit with you to help you narrow it down. Activity areas need to include one of each: Dramatic Play Block Play Math/Manipulative Science Artistic Expression Language and Literacy Outdoor/Active Play

Creativity and Dramatic Activities

Dramatic Play “Dramatic play is the most highly developed form of symbolic play, in which the child begins the incredible process of using objects as symbols for objects and events in the real world.” “Dramatic play is one of the greatest joys of childhood, helping children to develop interpersonal skills of conflict resolution and cooperation and improve their problem-solving and language abilities.”

Activity #1: Symbolic (Dramatic) Play Each person please go around the room and find one object from the classroom environment. Each table give your object to a person from another table. Group creates a visual story using these objects. Be sure to write your story down to be read when we share.

Strategies to help incorporate dramatic play: Provide children with opportunities to create and explore in dramatic play centers. Use drama in both large and small group situations in all curriculum areas. Provide children with opportunities to act out stories they heard. Use drama to help to resolve conflicts, express emotions, and teach/extend social skills. Dramatic Play

Free Dramatic Play: Teachers support dramatic play by recognizing its importance in developing language and literacy skills, and planning opportunities for its inclusion in the everyday early childhood classroom. During the early childhood years. Children naturally engage in much dramatic play, acting out various play themes and character portrayals. Free dramatic play, or more informally known as “Let’s pretend” are set up during individual play for children who choose to participate. The children need not be told what to do, because the materials suggest possibilities to them. Dramatic Play

Activity: Open-ended Dramatic Play : In your groups, select a few pieces of fabric and use the fabrics to help tell your story. Get creative with your storylines! D RAMATIC P LAY

Suggested Props for Dramatic Play Areas: D RAMATIC P LAY 1.Housekeeping: Brooms, mops, stove, table, refrigerator, dress up clothes, hats, purses, shoes, gloves, ties, eyeglass frames. Towels, washtub, dolls. Dishes, cooking utensils, equipment, and pretend tools. 2.Barber Shop/Beauty Shop: Actual materials and cosmetics, such as rollers, combs, brushes, hair dryer, mirror, nail files, cotton balls, empty makeup containers, lotions, perfumes, soap and water. 3.Camping: Sleeping bags, small tents, backpacks, canteens, mess kits, compass, hiking boots, rope, flashlights, food, rocks, and campfire logs.

Suggested Props for Dramatic Play Areas: D RAMATIC P LAY 4. Restaurant: Small tables with table cloths, old menus, placemats, napkins, place settings, food (real and pretend), order pads, registers, credit cards and play money, receipt books, to-go containers. 5. Grocery Store: Foods, empty cartons, empty labeled cans with labels, aisles and shelves set up with food, carts or baskets, fruits, scales, real change, priced food items. 6. Hospital: Stethoscopes, bandages, cotton balls, cots, sheets, scales, tongue depressors, flashlight, masks, rubber gloves, crutches, clip boards used for charts.

Suggested Props for Dramatic Play Areas: D RAMATIC P LAY 7. School: Desks, chalk, chalkboards, erasers, paper, pencils, crayons, books, flannel boards, and flannel pieces, etc.. 8. Post Office: Envelopes, rubber stamps and ink pads, scales, used stamps or stickers, mail bag, mailboxes, mail sorting boxes, etc. 9. Bakery: Bowls, rolling pins, Playdough, clay, or actual dough, cookie cutters, muffin tins, cookie sheets, cooking utensils, oven mits, baker’s hats and aprons.

Creative Dramatics: Creative dramatics is more sophisticated than free dramatic play. Creative dramatics is an improvisational, process form of drama in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on nursery rhymes, folktales and other stories. It is planned by the teacher, but acted and played out by the children and has more structure than free dramatics. Creative dramatics is creativity, whole language, cooperative learning and problem solving combined. Children’s social play, role playing, and dramatizing are the avenues through which they learn about themselves, others and their world. Dramatic Play

Don’t forget!! You need to be writing Lesson Plans for each of the curriculum areas we cover: 1.Language and Literacy 2.Cooking with recipes 3.Puppets 4.Dramatic Play 5.Math 6.Science 7.Social Studies You need to select 5 of the 7 to submit in your Lesson Plan folder. TYPED!