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June 18, 2016

Fabulous finger puppet ideas

I love using finger puppets in my teaching programs. They are adorable, fun and very useful for teaching autistic children new skills. I am always looking for new finger puppet ideas! This post will show you how to use finger puppets to teach kids on the spectrum.

Finger Puppet Ideas

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Level of difficulty

I try to have the kids help me make finger puppets whenever I can so I tend to prefer simpler finger puppet ideas. The ideas below are pretty simply.

Minion finger puppets from 30 Minute Crafts

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Polar bear finger puppet from I Heart Crafty Things

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Dragon finger puppet tutorial from Makezine

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How to use finger puppets

Finger puppets can be a wonderful teaching tool in many different types of Learning programs with special needs kids. These tips will help you autistic child or students learn with finger puppets.

I love to use them to work on the following skills

Learning New Vocabulary

You can teach your child to label each item (“bear”, “dragon”, “minion”).

Answering Questions

Pretend the finger puppet is asking your child some questions. Your child needs to answer the finger puppet’s questions!

Asking Questions

Have your child work on his or her question list by asking the finger puppet the questions. (You can answer for the finger puppet.) 🙂

Labelling Actions

Teach your child to label what the finger puppet is doing. Action words could be “jumping”, “sitting”, “wiggling”, “dancing”, “hiding” or “spinning”, to name a few!

Fine Motor Skills

If your child helps you create the finger puppets, he or she will also be building better and more precise fine motor skills in the process. (*win-win*)

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I hope you love these fun and educational finger puppet ideas!

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