Using puppets, my goal was to find out their impact on social relations between kindergarten kids, ages three to six. Puppets help children to enter, acknowledge and relive situations from their everyday life, when they are met up with a problem or have, perhaps, gotten in a conflict with a friend. Puppets enable them to deal with such problems from a safe distance, employing all kinds of various approaches in different environments in order to solve them. Project performance took place in kindergarten Urša in Domžale. Children who participated in it were of age four to six. The puppets made an impact on them quite fast, since the changes between their actions and communication were soon noticeable. Even the way they played has changed- it suddenly included more word communitation, socializing and help offers. Their motivation to participate in project activities was high the entire time, which is why they aided in guiding and creating the activity in their own way, by giving ideas, suggestions, and improvements. My role was to listen to them and let them guide the activity. They had a chance to participate in group activities and, if they wished, make their own puppet show for their friends. Therefore, puppets connected them even more. Soon, there was more symbolic play between boys and girls, who didn't interact much before the project, and there was less conflict overall. Atmosphere during the project was calm, relaxed, filled with playfulness, and child curiosity.
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