Puppetry tends to be a favorite Bible teaching method, particularly with younger students.
Questions About Using Puppets as a Bible Teaching Method
Kids seem to love puppets so isn’t it good to always use them as the teaching method?
While children, and even adults, do tend to enjoy puppets, any teaching method, including puppets, can become less effective as a teaching tool if used excessively or exclusively. Teachers must be careful not to use them as a crutch, primarily communicating through the puppets instead of personally interacting with students. Puppets are not the teacher. And, we must guard against using puppets as a substitute for a more strategic or purposeful methodology. Learning is the goal, not entertainment.
Check out the three page document on Using Puppets in the Classroom as a starting point for thinking through how to effectively use puppets.
The Bible Teacher’s Handbook of Frequently Asked Questions responds to three more questions about puppetry:
- How should puppets be used in the Bible classroom?
- Is it possible for puppets to become a distraction?
- What kind of puppets should be used?
The handbook also looks at 48 other topics related to Bible teaching answering a total of 153 questions.
Dear Sir,Mam,
I am a full time worker of Child Evangelism Fellowship in the Philippines for about 20 years already, and I am always involved in training Sunday school teachers and other different programs in teaching kids like Vacation Bible School and it is Summer Outreach Training in CEF. We have a schedule of this training on March 15,2025 and I’ll be teaching how to include puppets in teaching inside the class room that is why this gives me more ideas and I can be able to share it to lots of Bible teachers that will attend in our Summer Outreach Training. Thank you very much.
You are welcome, Lorenzo Agui III. I’ve always appreciated the ministry of Child Evangelism Fellowship. How good that you have opportunity to train others to reach and teach children. May God use the upcoming training session.