Professional Development

When an educator or  school incorporates puppets into their curriculum, children experience high levels of engagement and learning opportunities become more inclusive. Guided by puppet educator Daniel Gill, your staff will learn practical strategies for implementing puppet-facilitated learning opportunities in your school. There’s never been a better time to do this work.

Creative Puppet Collage for Young Children

In this fun, interactive workshop, we introduce simple collage techniques for children, using everyday materials, to create  expressive collage puppet faces. Includes options for using visual supports, audio cues, and music to make this activity accessible for all learners.

Participants will:

Acquire practical strategies for improving inclusion for children with disabilities

Understand the teacher's role in facilitating open-ended art making

Learn strategies for encouraging self-expression, problem solving, creativity, and innovation

Explore how collage making supports  shape recognition, composition, and symbolic thinking

Engage in related activities that SEL (Social-emotional learning, identifying emotions, expressing emotions, perspective taking, empathy)

Increasing Circle Time Engagement with Puppets 

In this engaging, hands-on workshop, participants create their own puppet house, design an opening ritual, and explore puppet-led activities that incorporate music, movement, picture books, and social-emotional learning.

Participants will:

Create their own puppet house and design an opening ritual

Gain knowledge in puppet-led activities that create deeper attention, engagement and interaction among children

Learn strategies for integrating puppets with music and picture book activities, enriching children's literary and auditory experiences, while supporting language and cognitive development

Explore how puppet-led circle time activities may increase accessibility for diverse needs of learners, including those with disabilities, using inclusive strategies that support various communication, sensory, and learning styles