Puppetry and story-telling
Which kid doesn’t love creating a puppet with paper? Readily available online hobby classes featuring puppet making for kids are immensely popular amongst little ones and their guardians alike. And why not? The opportunity to skillfully make your own puppet is a prelude towards discovering a wonderful new world of putting it to good use, i.e. for storytelling, communicating, and more visual forms of expression! DIY puppet making and story-telling are the core aspects of various fun activities for kids that you can help them pursue this season.
Whenever we talk of making a puppet or children putting up puppetry shows, there’s always that delightful association and link back to childhood nostalgia. Why not help your children experience the same wonders and marvels that this simple yet rich art form brings to their lives? The origin of puppetry as an ancient art is a fascinating tale by itself. Puppetry is one of the earliest ancient Indian forms of storytelling and communication. Mythology has some legends which highlight the sheer importance of this fine art. One speaks of how Brahma, the Creator, gave life to the first nat puppeteer, Adi, and built the first puppet for entertaining Saraswati. Unsatisfied with the work, he banished the puppeteer to planet Earth, starting a long line of nat bhatt puppeteers.
Another legend speaks of how an artisan-made two wooden dolls that captivated Goddess Parvati, consort of Lord Shiva. They entered the dolls and started dancing exquisitely. They ultimately left the dolls and the artisan felt sad at them turning lifeless again. With the blessing of the Gods, the artisan then came up with a system of using strings to move these dolls, and puppetry was thus born. In fact, you will be pleasantly surprised to know that puppetry has found mention in the Mahabharata, Patanjali’s texts, Panini’s grammar, and Tamil treatises dating to the 2nd century BCE. Noted German scholar Richard Pischel has also stated that India is the source for the puppet traditions of the West.
Puppetry and story-telling connection
What is puppetry’s connection to storytelling? It is basically narrative theatrical art and shows often encompass narrations, gestures, live music, and more. Puppetry is used to date for conveying diverse religious, social, moral, and philosophical concepts while also depicting tales from the epics or our rich mythological past and even for building greater awareness amongst the masses. Various types of puppets have thrived in India over the years, including string puppets, glove puppets, rod puppets, and shadow puppets among others.
Biggest Benefits of Puppetry for Kids
- Stimulates creativity, imagination, and communication.
- Encourages participation in story-telling and performance.
- Builds confidence and emotional development; many children often use puppets to communicate emotions/feelings that they would not have mentioned otherwise.
- Builds motor skills since puppets have to be moved and engaged in various ways.
- Teaches etiquette since parents may use puppets for communicating valuable philosophies/messages to kids. Communication can be made more fun without going into the usual mode which is often strict and preachy.
- Enhances reading and speaking skills while building group/social skills through participation.
One of the fun kid’s activities at home is puppet making offered by Yellow Class in the form of an engaging course for little ones. Treat your little one to online puppet-making classes and watch him/her enter a whole new world with literally unlimited possibilities and benefits!
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Puppetry and story-telling is a lost art, this seems to be fun session for kiddo .. I am checking yellow class for my kiddo now
Storytelling is something that every kid enjoys and I am happy to know it’s so many advantages. I will check online classes for my chatterbox.
Puppetry is a unique idea to bring kids closer to story telling..my daughter loves to do puppet shows.
Puppetry by yellow class is indeed new revolution in the educational platforms. More need to be explored in this.. thanks for sharing this.
Such a refreshing read it is! Puppetry is something that we’ve enjoyed in our childhood and I would so want mt child to enjoy it with storytelling.
Story telling is an art that makes child engrossed init completely and children learn many facets of life through it. I too enjoy story telling and often attend with my kids.
Puppetry and sorry telling goes hand in hand. It makes story more interesting and help in being more focused. I personally love puppet shows, especially string puppets.
Puppetry I believe is one of the most primitive audio-video forms of story telling. Surely making kids indulge in learning about it will not just add one more skill to their personality but also sharpen their story telling ability.
This is really amazing. My friend just told me about this, will try it for my son. Anyway I’m homeschooling him. Will check what’s there for him to do there.
Story telling and puppetry go hand in hand as through puppetry, kids understand and enjoy the story even more. I am hearing lot of great reviews about Yellow class and will check it out for my kids .
Wow, I didn’t know the fact that puppets as a form of entertainment was introduced to the west by india. I loved the detailed benefits of puppet shows. They are so much fun.
WOW! How absolutely wonderful! Story-telling and puppetry are an ART and it is amazing that it can now be learnt so easily and that too online! What a great find R – thanks for sharing 🙂
I love how storytelling becomes all the more ineteresting when done with puppetry. THis is definitely an evolution which is here to stay. Thanks for sharing such a beautiful read.
Such a beautiful & refreshing read ❤️👏🏻I my self used puppetry so many time while story narration to kids & I can bet it’s super effective & fun 🤩. Many thanks
Puppetry and story-telling are great and fun activities to do. It increases productivity in kids. I will check online classes for my nephew. Thank you so much for suggesting!
Puppetry is one of the ancient art form which is now fading now and todays many kids will vere know what beauty this art offers with so important lessons of life.
Completely agree with you. Puppetry has many benefits and looking at all the points you’ve highlighted, I believe that it is useful for overall development of a child. Great way to learn something. Keep it up.
My kiddo is a huge fan of pupperty and I would love my daughter to learn and explore the art.. I have already enrolled her for yellow class
With gadgets easily accessible to young ones nowadays, making story time more fun with the help of puppetry is a great idea! Not only is it entertaining for your young listeners, you too as the story teller becomes more engaged and not feel sleepy/bored. Every parent would know that reading the same book over and over every night ain’t fun too.haha. great read!
Have heard a lot about this class by my friend. I am going to enrol my son for this classes. Thanks for sharing
WOWwwww! How absolutely wonderful! I will share it. This is so nice information. Thank you so much for sharing this 😊😊😊
Puppetry and fine art have always been very knowledgeable and entertaining for kids. This makes me want to share some puppet videos with my kids.
You remind me my childhood… puppetry was very famous in village earlier…in morden era, this is no where in the village..I used to enjoy the story telling through this process…so happy to your refreshing content and strongly agree with your points.
Puppetry is also an ancient Indian artform. You have mentioned so many details about puppetry here. Its indeed a fun activities to do with kids as well