How to Make Puppets with Children contains all the necessary pattern pieces for making 37 delightful hand puppets and 26 finger puppets that lend themselves to a variety of curriculum areas.Use the puppets to provide a variety of opportunities for practicing oral language skills: retell a story create original puppet shows use the puppets to accompany oral reports about the animal beginning readers may use the finger puppets as they learn their initial sounds Hand puppet subjects include: hippo dragon giraffe bear walrus tortoise cat Other subjects include: girl boy astronaut alien knight princess robot