Puppets: An Important Teaching Tool

Puppets can be one of the most effective teaching tools available to a Sunday school teacher. Puppets in the classroom serve a variety of purposes other than just the presentation of drama or entertainment. As an assistant to the teacher, puppets can be used to introduce a new song, announce a visitor, identify a birthday, hold a missionary bank, or recite a Bible memory verse.

Teachers can allow puppets to be the "referees" for Sword Drills and quizzes, to sing special music or deliver an object for an object lesson.

Students can be encouraged to use puppets to act out a story or to re-tell a lesson as a review in Sunday school. Often older teens will volunteer to come into the classroom and serve as your puppeteers – but actually most classroom puppets don’t even need to talk. They can be "shy" and whisper into the ear of the teacher.

(This article appeared in the "Winter, 1998-99" issue of "The Herald.")