Being Silly Reflection ! (Playbox)

Playbox :BEING SILLY

My short story: Why I chose this specific projects of puppets for being silly. I chose puppets because I find that they are very essential to child care. Not only for play but for when you want to talk to children. They help when children have something tough to talk about, the puppet can help lead the conversation or it can be someone relatable for the child. Puppets can also be multicultural, by children being able to express where they come from and what holidays and traditions they celebrate at home. For me, I always feel like puppets are overlooked when their use and need in youth setting are very vital.

My experience Planning: To be honest, this activity took me five minutes to plan. I saw a way I could manipulate the puppet activity to fit two year olds (paper plates and popsicle sticks and crayons) to making it appropriate for college level (the paper bags). It was fun for me to plan because it was a creative activity and it reminded me how important it is to have puppets accessible in my toddler classroom. There was no challenges for me as I lesson plan on a daily based on other topics, the only thing that I could sometimes struggle with is manipulating the ages of the project to make it age appropriate. The only thing to change if leading this activity again is I would have a set playlist of music lined up on the background so we are not flipping though music to find what the class wanted to hear. Although I do believe it is important to get their input. Overall, I am very satisfied with how this project came out and it was very satisfying to see all the different puppets everyone created, which is expression in itself.