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Hungry Puppet

Hungry Puppet (for toddlers)

Age Groups: Toddlers
Skills: Expression, Flexible Thinking

Materials

  • Puppet or sock, toys

Instructions

  • I just put a sock on my hand — it’s a puppet now!
  • My puppet is hungry! Can you feed the puppet a toy?
  • This puppet only likes to eat certain things. If you don’t feed it something that it likes, it says, “No thanks, I don’t like that!” Can you find something that the puppet likes to eat?
  • Keep trying to find things that the puppet likes to eat. When you find something that the puppet likes, it will say, “Yum, I DO like that! Thank you!"
  • Now it’s your turn to use the puppet. I’ll try to feed your puppet and you can help the puppet say, “I don’t like that” and “I DO like that!"

Vocabulary

Like - to enjoy or prefer
Problem - a difficult situation
Help - to aid or assist to help someone else