The Puppet Company - Finger Puppets - Nursery Rhymes Set of 6 PC002040 Brown

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Use these printable finger puppets to enhance pretend play time, ignite creative imaginations, strengthen fine motor skills with finger dexterity, and to have a lot of fun. Printable puppets are a huge hit with young children. They spark imaginative play and are easy to prepare, just print and play. Playing with puppets can help with children’s self-expression. It simulates the imagination whilst making room for individuality, since there are little rules to follow. What else can I use for my nursery rhyme puppets? Use a nursery rhyme song to inspire a physical movement routine. You could work on one together. Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes works well for this, but you could create movement patterns to go with anything on our nursery rhymes list. The actions within these favourite nursery rhymes help children to develop both their fine and gross motor skills. Children’s movements, coordination, and body control will start to improve. Communication and Language Development- Nursery rhymes help children to build their vocabulary and understanding. This nursery rhymes- Incy Wincy resource can help children to understand the sequencing of the song by selecting the correct image. This resource would be particularly useful when supporting children which find structured activities challenging, by adding a physical aid to songs/rhymes children are more likely to be excited and engaged.

Personal, Social and Emotional Development- Building relationships with their peers and taking part of an activity within a group. Choose a simple rhyme and use it to accompany one of your daily routines such as a walk to the playpark or a craft activity.Printable templates of each fairy finger puppet can be used to play and create! Name the fairies and take them on an adventure.

Make the finger holes by wrapping paper around each finger to find the size of the fingers (your child’s finger or yours). For more on Incy Wincy Spider, read our Teaching Wiki, it has lots of resource ideas along with information about who is Incy Wincy. What other Incy Wincy resources can I use? Nursery rhymes may not be my first choice for getting children to love reading in this day and age, but:These lovely Nursery Rhyme Puppets are perfect for turning nursery rhyme time into an engaging, hands-on activity that everyone can enjoy. Using visual aids is a great of engaging all children within learning, children which find structured tasks difficult can particularly benefit from using tactile objects that allow them to be physical within their play, this nursery rhymes- Incy Wincy resource will help children remain engaged and stay on-task.

Add a simple cardboard puppet theatreor invest some time into building a sturdy vintage-inspired theatre from wood,and you can run spectacular performances at home for friends and family behind a screen of parchment paper. Little Miss Muffet Shadow Puppets Glue them to a fourth of a toilet paper tube or wrap them around a wine cork to make them moveable paper toys. If you are looking to develop children's confidence in expressive arts, then nursery rhymes are a great way to also do this. Having them up on their feet singing with their friends can instil a lot of confidence in children, and take them away from reality for a few minutes. Our favourite Humpty Dumpty nursery song resources Role-play for children can be based around things they’ve experienced. Sometimes children’s role-play can be influenced by things they’ve read in a book or seen on television, which has become of interest to them. If your children enjoyed this activity, why not try some more of our nursery rhyme puppets. There are plenty to choose from!Shadow puppets encourage an interest in literature and storytelling skills. When staging a shadow play, children can twist the story the way they want! For instance, in our version of the story Mary didn’t just take her little lamb to school – she rode him to school. Literacy- The rhyme and rythm within this nursery rhyme is a great introduction to literacy development, using this prop will help children remain engaged. Shadow puppets also inspire interest in STEM, letting children experiment with light and shadows. Look at how big the little lamb got after just a few nibbles of grass – or maybe it was holding the puppet closer to the lightsource that did it! How to Cut Printable Shadow Puppets These Humpty Dumpty Colour By Number sheets are a fun way to not only pass the time, but refine those fine motor and early maths skills, too. Unleash a little creativity and imagination by filling in the illustration according to the colour wheel. But why are nursery rhymes so important in early childhood and what can Early Years educators do to ensure that traditional nursery rhymes are never forgotten?