How Puppets Can Help Kids Express Emotions
Using simple strategies acted out by puppets, students learn social and emotional skills that help them calm themselves, identify their feelings, and connect with others.
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Go to My Saved Content.Puppets are wonderful teaching tools鈥攖hey are appealing and accessible, and they can be proxies on sensitive topics, expressing feelings and acting out scenarios the humans around them sometimes can鈥檛. At the University of Connecticut, educators, researchers, and puppeteers made a video series called Feel Your Best Self to teach simple evidence-backed strategies that help elementary school students with self-regulation and emotional intelligence鈥攖hrough puppets.
鈥淵ou could go into a classroom and easily tell someone how to belly-breathe. But isn鈥檛 it a little more fun to allow these puppet friends to show their daily struggles and how they teach each other these different strategies?鈥� says Emily Wicks, the program鈥檚 cofounder and manager of operations and collections at the at the University of Connecticut.
To learn more about the Feel Your Best Self curriculum, and to access free resources, videos, and puppet-making kits, check out the .
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罢丑别听聽featured in the video is provided under a license from the University of Connecticut.