Hand Puppet - Caterpillar

This hand puppet is a cute, friendly, helpful, grumpy, or maybe permanently peckish caterpillar, ready to take part in all kinds of stories and tall tales about life in nature.

These sweet hand puppets from the Belgian brand Beleduc are made from high-quality fabric, and they wrap snugly around the wrist for a secure fit.

Use hand puppets when it’s time to talk about fun (or tricky) topics, or when story time calls for a little extra magic to bring the fairy tale to life.

When an animal or a fantasy creature is doing the storytelling, it’s even easier for kids to use their imaginations and immerse themselves in the story.

Along with finger puppets, hand puppets are also perfect for puppet theatre. You can use hand puppets to stimulate and develop your child's language through playful learning - maybe there's a little rabbit who also struggles to say “FFFF” without saliva spraying everywhere.

Machine washable on a delicate cycle

This activity develops essential skills which are wonderful for your child's well-being and ability to learn new things:

• Unleash your imagination and see where the play takes you.
• In role play, your child imitates us adults and experiments with everyday situations or their own universe.
• Benefits your child's understanding of language.

Suitable for ages 0 mos. to 5 yrs.

Playing with hand puppets allows your child to practise understanding and telling a story with a beginning and an end. This is a useful skill which can be developed by talking about a story while you're telling it, and telling it over and over.

Hand puppets can bring storytelling to life. The reader telling the story is not hidden behind a book but gets to be active and in contact with the little listeners, who get to be actively participating children instead of passive children.

Hand puppets are great to use at home with your child and in daycare – or for people with special needs, such as dementia.

Do you know Beleduc?

Kids don’t play to learn. They learn because they play. That is the mindset at German Beleduc. Their primary target group is preschool children. For that reason, Beleduc consults early childhood educators when designing their very sturdy toys intended for play and learning in childcare facilities worldwide.

See all our products from Beleduc here.