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made a stick puppet and a sock puppet,” stated Janie Wines. “I made my stick person look like Ariele.”
Vernon Jenkins liked the sock puppet best because “I can stick my hand in it and make it move.”
Brianna Calendrella said, “I had fun today because we made puppets. I made an alligator with my sock. I glued yellow pom-poms on the back and made eyes and a mouth.”
Tracy Cox recreated her entire family. “I made my sock puppet look like my daddy. I put whiskers on it and a bow tie and gave him a shirt. I’m making the pencil puppet look like my mother and the straw puppet look like my brother.”
Dr. Ramsey concluded, “This type of activity is an outlet for their artistic and creative skills for producing something. We need to foster that kind of creativity. I encourage the students to take their puppets
home and perhaps be interested in developing puppet plays and using their puppets in a creative way since it is difficult in this type of situation to do a follow-up activity.
“Creating the puppet itself is just the first step. It’s what they do with it later that’s really important.”
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