Community Helpers Stick Puppets – 16 Character Set

Twelve community-helper stick-puppet characters, in both black-and-white and colour versions, pair with a bonus community-map worksheet for a social-studies unit on neighbourhood jobs.
Grades
Preschool–Junior Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Updated Nov 13, 2021

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This resource will allow your students to make stick puppets with these community helpers. There are 16 community helpers included. They can be printed in black and white or colour. The tools and signs they use are also included.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify common community-helper jobs and the tools or settings associated with each
  • Retell or role-play a community helper's job using the finished puppet
  • Read and use a simple map key to build a community layout

Teaching tips

  • Have students colour and cut out the black-and-white set themselves as a fine-motor and following-directions activity, and keep the colour set as a teacher-made backup or fast-finisher option
  • Glue each puppet to a popsicle stick and use them for retelling during a read-aloud about community helpers, as the cover suggests
  • Pair the map worksheet with a walk around the school neighbourhood so students can place real signs (stop sign, crosswalk) onto their own map

Skills covered

  • Social studies
  • Dramatic play
  • Fine motor skills

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