-8-Children, I noticed that the educational process lacked this exciting and stimulating element for the child's soul. If it was used, it was often for amusement and entertainment, and in an unplanned manner.

Since the use of puppet theater in activity rooms or classrooms was presented only by the teacher to the children, who thus became mere passive recipients most of the time, and since it is accepted that positive participation by the child in the activity increases their developmental capacity in various areas of growth, this led to thinking about the possibility of benefiting from the child's positive participation in the creative process of a puppet play at all its stages, starting from the idea and reaching the puppet play performance. This is in order to develop their innovative thinking. The problem of the study is determined by the following questions: 1- What is the effect of kindergarten children's participation in producing a puppet play on the development of their innovative thinking? 2- Are there significant differences in the effect of the study program on the child's gender (males/females)? 3- Does the effect of this program in developing innovative thinking, if any, extend beyond the end of the program's application period (follow-up period)? 4- Are there significant differences resulting from the second interaction between participation in the program and the child's gender (males/females)?

Study Objectives: The current study aims to: 1- Demonstrate the effect of participation in producing a puppet play on the development of innovative thinking ability among kindergarten children - the sample of the current study - through a puppet theater program in which kindergarten children participate in its various stages from its beginning until reaching the innovation of its final form, which becomes in the form of a theatrical performance of a puppet play. 2- Demonstrate the extent to which the study program's effect differs based on the child's gender (males/females). 3- Demonstrate the extent of the second interaction's effect between the child's participation in the study program and the child's gender.