Telling a Bible story with puppets

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 15 minutes

Read together

A puppet can tell a story. Hello, I am Little Lamb!

Today I will tell you about the lost sheep.

Do it

1. Make two puppets from socks or paper bags. Draw a face on each.
2. Pick a short story your child knows, such as the lost sheep (Luke 15).
3. Let one puppet be the shepherd and one the sheep. Act it with simple words.
4. Hand a puppet to your child and let them tell it their way.

Talk about it

• Who found the sheep?
• How did the sheep feel when it was found?

For the grown-up

Retelling a story with puppets builds speech and memory. The story is paraphrased and should be checked against the text. Let your child change the words. That is how they make it theirs.

Mark as done

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Where this comes from

This is a play and practice activity with no factual claims to source.

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.