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**Puppets Open Up a New World of Learning and Imagining.......** Puppets are a wonderful way to connect children with books and with their imagination. Puppets can be used to [|teach], tell stories, instruct, explain directions, change behavior, express emotions and inspire imagination. Studies have been done to prove that puppets help stimulate conversations in the classrooms. It is easy to use puppets, you just need to remember that the children are looking at the puppet not you, and it is not necessary to be trained in doing different voices and operating more then one puppet at a time. All children learn differently and teachers need a tool that will assist them in reaching all of the students in their classes. The information included in this wiki will start you on your way to using puppets, listed below are some ways puppets can be used to make a difference. There are many more ways to use puppets and to encourage learning and interaction. • To develop fine motor skills • Help show emotions • Describe and tell stories • Increase thinking skills • [|Work with children with challenges] • Engage distracted learners • T[|alk about history, plays, poetry,] • Reach the students who are visual learners • To help the children become less self-conscious
 * Some of the ways teachers can use puppets:**

Jeffery Peyton from "Puppetools" shares the importance of using puppets in learning, with "Media in a Mind of it's Own". media type="youtube" key="kn8ekASFy44" height="340" width="560"