Bring Teaching
& Learning
to Life with
Puppets

Discover the joy of simple, puppet-powered strategies that help children ages 3-8
eagerly engage in school lessons and activities while also practicing essential social-
emotional learning skills
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Why Puppets Belong in Every Early Learning Classroom

Capture Attention

Puppets work like magic to capture and hold children’s attention. No more begging for “good listeners!”

Support Big Feelings

Puppets provide children with a safe, playful bridge to foster confidence, positive communication, friendships, and self-regulation skills.

Make Teaching Fun

When children are easily and consistently engaged, your teaching efforts become lighter, brighter, and more effective.

Teaching with Puppets Made Easy

How to Use Puppets to Support Social-Emotional Learning & Early School Success!
Puppets bring play-based learning, creativity, and imaginative exploration to life in fun, meaningful, and memorable ways. In this practical, easy-to-use guide, Mary Beth shares simple strategies for using puppets across the curriculum to spark participation, support big feelings, and help children connect with learning.
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Invite Mary Beth to Your School, Library, Conference or Workshop

Mary Beth offers engaging programs and workshops for educators, families, librarians, and young children, showing how puppets can transform teaching, storytelling, classroom participation, and social-emotional learning.

School Workshops

Hands on training for teachers and early childhood educators.

Library & Family Programs

Interactive puppet-powered storytelling & learning.

Professional Development

Practical training for using puppets across the curriculum.

Mary Beth Spann Mank

Mary Beth Spann Mank is a New York State-Certified Teacher (Nursery-Grade 6), author, speaker, workshop leader, and puppeteer. She has spoken both locally and nationally to teachers, librarians, parents, and caregivers on the power of puppetry and storytelling to transform teaching and learning.

Mary Beth Spann Mank

Bringing Learning to Life Through Puppets

* Puppets appearing with permission from Folkmanis ® Puppets, Inc. *

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