My diploma thesis is based on puppets and its use in the past and today, how the theatre was created and what you can do with puppets in the kindergarten, how puppets impact child development and how children create a puppet show.
In the theoretical part I touched on the short history of puppets, its origins and important events that changed puppet theatre and transformed it into a form that it is today. I am writing about the role of puppets in kindergarten, how it can be used and how it affects children’s play and development.
In the empirical part I am presenting my work with puppets in the kindergarten and how children responded to my invitation to prepare a puppet show. I gradually prepared activities for children to help them make puppets and last but not least a puppet show, which they staged for other children from the kindergarten.
I found out that if we offer children some useful material and if we motivate them suitably, they are able to produce their own puppet show, which is the product of children's creativity and imagination.
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