Elephant Soft Plush Hand Puppet - Grey

• 9 Benefits of Puppet Play
• Language Development : Children love to have 'conversations' with a puppet. Each verbal interaction with their puppet will encourage language development. Children who are generally shy really benefit from the opportunity to let the puppet be their voice. It is also possible to have a conversation between two puppets. Wearing a puppet on each hand enables the puppeteer to have a dialogue going on between two puppet characters.
• Social Development : The shy child, or the young child still learning social skills, has an opportunity to be more sociable through the medium of a puppet. The puppet becomes the spokesperson for the group. A puppet can be the voice used to correct table manners or other social skills. The puppet becomes the instructor and children often enjoy listening to the puppet teaching them to be sociable. It is not mom or dad's voice setting the rules again, but a funny puppet character.
• Emotional Development : Puppets can teach children about their emotions. Children can interact with the puppets as they share their ability to be happy, sad, angry, funny or jealous. Children can express these emotions too without upsetting anyone. Their puppet character is the one to feel these emotions. Playing with the emotions of the puppets helps to develop the characteristics of sympathy and empathy too. Children also experience this kind of expression when engaging in symbolic play.
• Listening Skills.: Puppets are great tutors. The puppet on your hand can encourage your child to listen to it as it gives instructions or tells a story. Puppets can help children to learn rhymes and songs as they imitate the puppet too
• Motor Skills : There are a number of motor skills that children can improve through playing with puppets. The fine movement required to wear a puppet helps with dexterity and using fingers to manipulate the puppet improves fine motor coordination. Marionettes or string puppets help with eye-hand coordination as the puppet is made to walk and move in different directions.
• Building Self Confidence : Putting on a puppet show often happens quite spontaneously when children have access to puppets. It is really encouraging to see how children develop their self-confidence through the act of handling a puppet. As their confidence grows they will be happy to entertain family or friends.
• Creativity : Puppets encourage creativity on several different levels. Making your own puppets from recycled socks or paper bags is just the starting point. There are many interesting ways to create your own puppet characters. Creativity continues by creating a puppet show. The show will need a simple puppet theatre and decorating an old cardboard box for this purpose adds to the creativity factor.
• Story Telling and Sequencing : Storytelling comes alive with puppets. Retelling favorite fairy tales is a great way to put on a puppet show. Learning how to repeat the rhyming part of the story, like in the Gingerbread Man, helps with memory skills. Puppets lend themselves to being the characters in your stories and allow your child to join in with the action.
• Travel Companions : Packing a puppet in your travel bag or even popping one in your handbag is a wonderful way to provide entertainment when you need it. A hand or glove puppet and a storybook are all you need for some holiday travel fun.

Specifications:
Type - Soft Toys
Age - 3 Years+

Items Included in the Package: 1 Hand Puppet