Teacher-made origami puppets are efficacious as compared to readymade puppets

As an action researcher and classroom practitioner, I have tried both the ready made puppets as well well as teacher-made puppets and have found that the simple puppets made by teachers had the profound effect on cognitive and non-cognitive gains for children in pre-primary and primary grades. Also, such puppets being low-cost can be easily designed and customized for teaching the academic content for relevance,” says Jaipur based educator and researcher who has trained teachers of both mainstream and alternative education teachers.

One of the origami puppet models has been described in the inset clipping. The pictures in clipping are of the alternative education teachers working in small schools for tribal children in Rajasthan state of India.