Creative dramatics is an integrating experience because it focuses many learnings on a single purpose. The multiple learning values of creative play-making are inherent in the demands of dramatic construction. Ideas come first; then conflict must be created and sustained. Actors must react to one another, and dialogue must communicate dramatic action. The child manipulating the puppet must think about his character and define his role in the drama. Finally, and perhaps most important, puppetry offers both individual expression and group interaction; two essential elements of language development are integrated in creative pupperty.
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