1. Use puppets to talk about what makes people feel certain ways. A person or animal can be used to portray the role of someone who is very shy. Other puppets can try to figure out ways to give confidence to the individual.

2. Mirror puppets. Attach a small hand mirror to a puppet. Watch the images in the mirror as the puppet performs various actions. Talk about how the actions of others often mirror what they see in us.

3. Use a puppet to share humor. Find appropriate ways to share enjoyable events and stories.

4. Guilt and blame - Let puppets personify concepts such as guilt, blame, and forgiveness. Act out the roles of each concept puppet in various situations.

5. Feeling Success - Use puppets to express feelings individuals have when something has been successful. Talk about appropriate ways to share those feelings.

6. Imagination and Creativity - Give each person a puppet and brainstorm ideas related to a topic under study. Children sometimes feel safer expressing creative or unusual ideas through a puppet than they would if asked to share directly.

7. Abstract Shapes and Colors to Express Feelings -Make stick puppets with various shapes and colors. Express feelings about what it is like to be "blue." Children may not associate blue with the depressed feelings adults identify. To them blue may be a happy color. Allow for freedom and creativity. Likewise, square may not mean rigidity or refusal to join with a crowd. Listen to what children have to say.

8. Attitudes about Wise Use of Resources - Use puppets to encourage children to clean up garbage and use classroom resources wisely. "Nobody" puppets can be used to deal with accepting or not accepting responsibility for tasks.

9. Good Habits - Puppets can be used to illustrate or personify good study habits or other personal habits.