It seems to them as though they are speaking through someone else, and that makes the act more fun and less embarrassing for them. In this same fashion children can use puppets to express feelings about their own personal lives and experiences. Using puppets to learn about the oral language is the first application of puppets to learning language arts. A second application is using these oral concepts to learn about written language. When a teacher uses puppets in the classroom they can spark the creative processes which lead to creative writing.
Many children have trouble understanding and being able to describe their feelings on paper.
But when children are encouraged to first talk about their thoughts and feelings with a puppet, it then helps them to use their imaginations to write stories, plays, poems and essays. She gives examples of how she used puppets in her work with special education students. These were children that had difficulties learning and had never written before, but they were able to express themselves and come up with some very interesting poems about the puppets. The third application of the language arts that students can learn through the use of puppetry is reading skills. While many children have difficulty learning to read, puppets can be a fun and easy way to make reading more exciting for a child.