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Using Puppets outdoors - 10 tips and more
Using Puppets outdoors - 10 tips and more

Juliet Robertson, director of Creative Star training, got in touch with the Creative Producer from the Handmade Theatre Company, Suzy Gunn after being inspired by their puppets for further use in early years outdoors settings, and asked a few questions...

Circle Time Puppets - Teaching Social Skills
Circle Time Puppets - Teaching Social Skills

Some great resources on using Persona Puppets to explore personal, social and cultural identity, from Julia Luckenbill at NAEYC.

Creating indoor environments for young children
Creating indoor environments for young children

This booklet, written with input from Ann Langston for Community Playthings, focuses on room layout and equipment choice for planning child-centred indoor areas, but outdoor space is indispensable. Most of the principles apply outside as well, and often equipment can be moved outdoors.

Helicopter Technique of Story Telling
Helicopter Technique of Story Telling

Make Believe Arts provide a particular approach for SEN children called the Helicopter Approach, which helps develop spoken narrative and language skills for pupils with SEN or EAL. Also, watch a video on Helicopter Stories: Letting Imagination Fly - Based on the Storytelling and Story Acting curriculum of Vivian Gussin Paley.

Join in with the Bookstart Rhyme Challenge!
Join in with the Bookstart Rhyme Challenge!

Get children and their families learning rhymes together and develop their language, reading and speaking skills by doing The Rhyme Challenge.

Norwich Puppet Theatre Teaching Resources: Diwali
Norwich Puppet Theatre Teaching Resources: Diwali

This fab teaching resource, prepared by the Norwich Puppet Theatre, gives you a fully worked out session to help you and your children tell the story of Diwali with puppets.

No Toilets for Tigers – An Approach to Drama in the Early Years
No Toilets for Tigers – An Approach to Drama in the Early Years

This article was written and published by early years theatre practitioner, Peter Wynne-Wilson, in 2009

Puppetry as a Language for Teachers
Puppetry as a Language for Teachers

Farryl Hadari explores how the language of puppetry can be used by teachers and students to enable safe communications, community team work, experiential learnign and self-appreciation.

Puppetry in Early Childhood Education
Puppetry in Early Childhood Education

OK, its not free, but this wonderful book by Tamara Hunt and Nancy Renfro, is only a few pence 2nd hand and has hundreds of cleverly illustrated, easy-to-follow instructions describe puppets that children as well as adults can make and manipulate.

Shadow Puppetry Tips from a Puppeteer
Shadow Puppetry Tips from a Puppeteer

Some tips for shadow puppetry from puppeteer, Zannie Fraser plus some video clips of making shadow puppetry come to life at Norwich Puppet Theatre.

Storytelling in the First Three Years
Storytelling in the First Three Years

Susan Engel from Bennington College explains how storytelling helps children make and communicate the meaning of who they are.

Teaching and Playing with Shadow Puppetry
Teaching and Playing with Shadow Puppetry

Shadow puppetry is a great tool for teaching stories, myths and legends from cultures and religions all over the world. Its great as a storytelling tool for stories that children create by themselves or as a group. Heleen Van Rossum shares some of her best ideas for early years educators.

The Genius of Children in Role-Play
The Genius of Children in Role-Play

Michael Jones, author of 'Let's get talking' and 'Supporting quiet children' discusses the genius of children in Role-Play.

The storytelling wisdom of Vivian Paley and Trish Lee
The storytelling wisdom of Vivian Paley and Trish Lee

Videos made and published by Boston Public Schools Early Education Site on Vivian Paley's remarkable approach to storytelling.

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