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I love puppets! But I’ve never had the time to become very gifted at using them. So, it’s a good thing preschoolers are very forgiving. They don’t care if your lips move. They just want to have fun. Measuring spoon puppets are perfective original time puppets. Go to your local “dollar” store and get sufficient measuring spoons for each child in your group. Most measuring spoons come in groups of 5, so you won’t have to spend too much cash for this activity. Next, make them look like Bible characters. Add eyes, nose, mouth, yarn or felt for hair with the cute little headband throughout the forehead for the boy spoons and a little hair scarf for the girl spoons. Finally cut out a lot of clothes, paper doll style, to glue on their fronts. Try to make them as lasting as possible so you may reuse them various times. Another idea for creating your spoons into persons is to go online and find pictures of Bible characters that you may print off onto cardstock and then laminate before gluing them onto the spoon. By the way, this same idea works in truth well with wooden spoons also. You may normally find these at your local “dollar” store as well. Now it’s Bible story time. Assign “parts” to each of the spoons. If your story only has 3 main characters and you have 8 kids, let the other 5 be part of the townspeople. As you read the story, give hope or courage to the children to raise their puppets up high when their Bible reputation shows up on the scene. Another fun idea for your puppets is to construct a family fellow member out of each spoon. The tablespoon may be Daddy, the teaspoon is Mommy, the 1/2 teaspoon is brother, the 1/4 teaspoon may be sister and the 1/8 teaspoon may be baby. Once you have your family created, sing this sweet “piggy back” song to the tune of “Buffalo Gals”. It goes like this: When Jesus lives in Mommy’s heart, Mommy’s heart, Mommy’s heart When Jesus lives in Mommy’s heart – Happy is the home! Sing the song again replacing each family member’s name into the song. And you thought measuring spoons were just for cooking! |
