photo courtesy of Giggles and Crayons
These Family Puppets made by Giggles and Crayons are adorable! What a neat way for your baby to identify family members and for toddlers to use them in pretend play. Staple or tape pictures to toilet paper rolls. If you are worried about your little one ripping off the pictures, use packaging tape and cover the roll (bending the picture around the tube).
Other Ideas:
Ask your child, “Where is ____?”.
Sort the tubes into two piles, boys and girls.
Count the tubes.
Hide the tubes and identify the person on it when you find it.
Make it a listening activity. Can you put Dad first? Mom second? Grandma third?
Put a piece of paper in between each tube and stack them to make a tower.
medina family
Friday 13th of May 2011
This is a great idea so family that live overseas are not forgotten.
Angela
Monday 9th of May 2011
I love these puppets.
Michelle Willow
Sunday 8th of May 2011
Nicole, your blog is really adorable and now you've got an award to prove it: http://best-toys-for-toddler.blogspot.com/2011/05/really-adorable.html And I love those puppets! :)
JDaniel4's Mom
Saturday 7th of May 2011
So cute!
SaraMG
Saturday 7th of May 2011
What a cute idea! My 18 mo son will love it (he's starting to talk and recognise people in photos), and I'm sure my 3.5 yo daughter will steal them for her pretend play....
Thank you for sharing :)