Fairy Tale Puppet
Book Report
Your assignment is to create a puppet based on your
favorite character in a fairy tale.
1. Choose and read a fairy tale of your choice.
2. Take and pass the AR test with a 60% or higher.
3. Decide which character in the story is your favorite.
4. Write a summary of the fairy tale from the point of
view of your favorite character. For example, you
might tell the story of Little Red Riding Hood from
the wolf’s point of view if he is your favorite
character.
5. Choose what kind of puppet you would like to
make. Directions for different kinds of puppets are
attached.
6. Create a puppet of the character you chose from
your fairy tale. (1 puppet is to be created.)
7. Due dates: November 25 & 26. Both days will be
set aside for presentations.
People Puppets
Make one to look like you and one to look like all your friends.
You need:
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Empty Paper Towel Tube
Jumbo Craft Stick
Tacky Glue
Paint and Brush
Markers
Two Wiggle Eyes -- 20mm
Ribbon Bows
Scissors
Instructions:
Glue a jumbo craft stick inside the empty tube for a handle. To make hair, cut strips
down one side 4". Bend or curl the pieces around a fat marker. Trim. Paint the face and
hair. Glue on wiggle eyes. Draw on details with marker. Glue on hair bows if desired.
Balloon Head Puppets
This puppet will walk and wave when you wiggle the stick back and forth. These
puppets are nearly 3 feet tall.
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3 sheets construction paper for clothes
2 sheets skin colored paper
1 sheet dark paper for shoes
1 party balloon
1 long cardboard tube
Tissue paper, yarn, or strips of paper for hair
Scraps of paper for eyes, mouth, and nose
Pencil
Scissors
Tape or glue
Markers
Instructions:
Arms and Hands:
1. Cut one of the sheets of construction paper for clothes in half lengthwise.
2. Overlap the short end of paper with the short end of the other piece, then glue or
tape them together.
3. Place your hand on a piece of skin colored paper, with your fingers spread out.
4. Trace around your hand using a pencil, then trace your hand a second time on
the same sheet of paper.
5. Cut out the hands.
6. Place the wrist end of each hand to the short ends of the arms.
7. Glue the hands to the arms.
Legs and Feet:
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Cut one of the sheets of construction paper in half lengthwise for the legs.
To make the shoes place the short end of a leg on a piece of construction paper.
Trace along the short end of the leg using a pencil.
Draw a half circle that goes from one end of the line to the other.
Draw a second circle the same way. These will be the shoes.
Cut out the shoes and then tape or glue the straight end of the shoes to the ends
of the puppet’s legs.
Body:
1. To make a regular body cut off the top third of a piece of construction paper.
2. Tape or glue the top ends of the legs to the bottom edge of the body.
3. Tape or glue the top edge of the body to the center of the bottom edge of the
arms.
Head:
1. Inflate a balloon and tie off the end.
2. Cut eyes, nose, and mouth from construction paper. Tape them to the front of
the balloon.
3. Tape or glue your choice of hair to the top of the balloon.
4. To attach the balloon head, stick the knot of the balloon inside of the end of the
cardboard tube, then tape the balloon to the tube.
5. Lay the tube face down on top of the puppet’s body so that the bottom of the
balloon lines up with the top of the body.
6. Tape the top third of the tube to the body.
Another Balloon Puppet
Materials
balloon
stickers or markers
paper
tape
coin
yarn or strips of paper for hair
construction paper cut out in the shape of ears for
animals
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blow up the balloon
use stickers or markers to create face
use yarn or strips of paper for hair for people puppets
cut out the shape of ears for animal puppets and tape to head
color the feet and make a hole in the center
push the tied end of the balloon through the hole in the feet
if it has trouble standing up, tape a coin on the bottom of the feet to balance it.
Paper Bag Animal Puppet
Make animal paper bag puppets. See the
Frog example on the right.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
a paper lunch bag
onstruction paper the color of your animal
paint the color of your animal
scissors
glue and/or tape
white, black, and red construction paper.
PUTTING THE PUPPET TOGETHER
Paint the front of your paper bag to match the color of your animal.
Draw 2 circles and paint the same color as your bag. Put one of the painted circles in front of
you. Draw 2 more circles a little smaller than your painted circles on white paper and glue
them to the center of the painted circles. Draw 2 more circles on black paper a little smaller
than the white circles and glue them to the center of the white circles. Now you have two
eyes!
Cut out a strip of red construction paper to make a tongue. Take the red long rectangle and
wrap it around a pencil to give it a curl. This will be the tongue.
By this time, your bag should be dry.
Glue the eyes onto the top of the HEAD. You can see from the photo above that the eyes
stick up over the top of the head.
OPTIONAL: draw two tiny black lines (nostrils) onto the head.
Lift the FLAP and glue the tongue underneath.
Face Puppets
Materials
Plastic Lids
Construction Paper
Markers
Craft Glue
Yarn
Popsicle Sticks
Tape
Safety Scissors
Instructions
1. Everybody loves puppets! You can make your own by tracing circles onto the
construction paper, using the lid.
2. Have a grown-up help you cut out the circles.
3. Put on your thinking cap to create the face of your puppet.
4. Glue the circles to the lids.
5. Have a grown-up help you glue yarn to the faces to look like hair.
6. Tape a Popsicle stick to the back of each face so you can hold them up like
puppets.
7. Time to put on a puppet show for all your friends!
How to Make a Wooden Spoon Puppet
All you need is a wooden spoon, some crafty bits and pieces and the ability to draw a face and you'll be
making a puppet in no time. Try to make several so that you can hold your own puppet show with friends.
Make the puppet's face. Draw a face on the inside of the wooden spoon using felt tip pens. Draw
whatever expression suits the puppet you're making - happy, sad, angry, poking a tongue out etc.
You might like to make either a person or an animal. Consider other possible ideas, including an
alien, a fairytale character or a mythical beast.
Decorate the puppet. Use masking tape to stick pieces of tissue paper and scrap material to your
wooden spoon for clothing (or scales, armour etc.). This is a lot less messy than glue and you can
change the features any time you feel like it. Stick the craft items to the handle to create a costume
for your puppet.
Create the puppet's arms and legs. Add pipe cleaners for arms and legs by twisting them around
the handle. Add other features. Add feathers to the head of your wooden spoon puppet. You might
also like to try some of the other items suggested in "Tips".
Make more puppets. Then you can put on a puppet show!
Easy Puppets From Stuffed Animals
We all have a house full of stuffed animals! Turn them into fun, new toys for your little
ones.
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Small to medium sized stuffed animals
Scissors
Fabric Glue
Instructions:
This is very easy to do with the right stuffed animals. To make sure you have the right
size, spread your fingers and line your hand up with the stuffed animal to see if your
fingers will reach into the arms and the head.
Open up 5" of the back seam of the stuffed animal from the neck down. Remove the
stuffing from the body, head and arms. Leave the stuffing in the legs. Use fabric glue
inside the upper leg to seal in the stuffing.
If the head is large, you will want to add some support. Depending upon the shape and
size of the head, use a piece of Styrofoam, foam, or layers of batting glued inside.
Turn inside the side the two seams in the back, gluing into place.
Felt Hand Puppets
Entertain family and friends with home-made puppets!
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8" x 10" felt squares in different colors (two of each color)
Scissors
Any glue that comes in a plastic bottle with a narrow tip
Straight pins
Buttons, lace, pipe cleaners, yarn, pom-poms, scraps of
material
1. Draw a pattern for your puppet character on a piece of
paper and cut out the puppet pattern.
2. Choose two pieces of felt that are the same color for the
main body of the puppet.
3. Place the felt pieces one on top of the other, and then pin
the puppet pattern securely to the felt. Make sure that the
pins go through both layers. (Adults should do this step for
young children.)
4. Cut out the pattern, being careful to cut both layers at the
same time. Remove the pattern and pins from the felt.
These pieces of felt are the front and back of your puppet's
body.
5. Think about what you want your puppet to look like, and
select the items that will help you do this. For example, you
might choose buttons for the eyes, yarn for the hair and
mouth, and a tiny pom-pom for the nose. Arrange these
items on one piece of felt, but don't glue anything yet. You
just want to see how everything looks. When you're
satisfied with how your puppet looks, glue the items to the
felt. This will be the front of your puppet.
6. Use the other piece of felt for the back of your puppet.
Trace a thin line of glue around the entire edge of this
piece, except for the bottom. Carefully place the front piece
of your puppet on the glued back. Let it dry overnight.
7. Make lots of puppets and use them to have a puppet show
for family and friends.
Pizza-Box Puppet
Materials:
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Damp cloth
Pizza box
Gift wrap
Construction paper
Glue
Pen or pencil
Scissors
String
Buttons
Dowels or sticks
How to Make:
1. Clean a (not too greasy!) pizza box with a damp cloth. Cover the top and the
sides with gift wrap.
2. Make eyes, a nose, a mouth, a beard, and legs from construction paper. Glue
them on.
3. With a pen or pencil, poke four holes in the bottom of the box, one in each
corner. Poke one hole in the top of the box, behind the creature’s nose.
4. Cut five 2-foot-long pieces of string. Tie a button on one end of each.
5. Slip four of the strings through the holes in the bottom so that the buttons are
inside the box. Bring the string ends around to the top of the box, and tie them to
a 12-inch long dowel or stick so that the puppet hangs evenly.
6. Slip the fifth string through the hole in the top so that the button is inside the box.
Tie the string end to another dowel or stick.
7. To make your puppet pal “talk,” hold one dowel in one hand and move the other
dowel with your other hand.
Juice Can Puppets
Kids love making these puppets for two reasons: one, the juice cans fit so well on their
hands; and two, there are no rules for how the puppets are supposed to look.
CRAFT MATERIALS:
Clean frozen juice cans
Construction paper
Glue
Felt
Goggley eyes
Assorted decorations (buttons, feathers, sequins, etc.)
Time needed: Under 1 Hour
1. Cover the juice can by gluing on construction paper or fabric, then place
the can upright on a table (with the opening at the bottom).
2. Glue felt arm strips midway down both sides of the can and leg strips to
the front of the lower edge.
3. Set out the rest of your decorations and watch as your children create
some interesting characters.