Playful bonding time using finger puppets
Materials:
- Kitchen glove or construction paper and tape
- Markers
Use simple, homemade finger puppets to capture your baby’s attention, stimulate their vision, and provide an early lesson in emotions.
- Pull on a colorful kitchen glove and use a permanent marker to draw faces on the tip of each finger.
- Draw faces that express different emotions, such as happy, sad, mad, scared, and surprised.
- Keeping your hand within your baby’s 12-inch field of vision, narrate a puppet show that explores the range of feelings.
- If you don’t have a kitchen glove, you can cut out construction-paper rectangles and tape them to make tubes that fit around your fingers.
Posted in: 0 - 3 Months, 0 - 12 Months, Playtime, Vision, Learning & Cognitive Skills, Play & Activities
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