Feelings Puppets:

Making puppets is a great way to communicate with your child and help them get in touch with themselves and others. Many different cultures use art forms to communicate and express emotion.

What you will need

• construction paper, paper plates. or a paper bag
• glue or tape
• crayons
• popsicle stick

What to do:

• Talk about different emotions and feelings with your child. Make a face and pass around a hand mirror so children can see how a certain feelings make them look.
• Discuss how feelings are always good although the behavior that accompanies them may not be acceptable. (For example it’s OK to feel angry-but it’s not OK to hit some as a result of experiencing this emotion.)
• Introduce and compare feelings. (Such as happy and sad.)
• Draw a face on one side of the puppet reflecting one emotion( angry, happy, laughing, etc...).
• Draw a face on the other side that represents another.
• Attach a craft stick for a handle.
• Children can turn their puppet to either side to express different feelings.