Puppets are great for fostering pretend play! My three year quondam peculiarly enjoyed having her puppet dolls walk and hold hands, accept elaborate conversations… my son, equally much every bit he enjoyed decorating his "homo" all he wanted to do when he was finished was sword fight with his "puppet".   Boys.     Want to know how to make your own stick puppets? Hither is what we did!

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Puppet Making Supplies:

  • Body Cutting-out to trace.
  • Fun Cardstock Newspaper – we used some of the shaving cream painted sheets from last week's activity.
  • Scissors
  • Bamboo Skewers
  • Hot Glue Gun (we tried tacky gum, just it was not effective)
  • Sequins, glitter, feathers, etc. for embellishing

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How nosotros made the stick puppets:

We traced out the torso outlines onto our decorated papers, cut them out two at a fourth dimension then we had matching halves.   Then glued a skewer, sandwiched between two "people", add together googly eyes, glitter for a rima oris, sequins and feathers for hair and viola!   Nosotros have out stick puppets!

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Rachel is the founder of the blog, One Crazy Firm.  She is the co-author of 101 Kids Activities that are the Bestest, Funnest Ever! and The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and half dozen children.