Puppet making ideas

These adorable spring animal popsicle stick puppets are the perfect craft for spring! Your toddler will love having a lamb, bunny, and chick to play with throughout the day. Simply download the templates for each animal, cut them out, and piece them together to make cute animals for your kids to add to their imaginative play. All you need is white embossed and colored paper, the template, popsicle sticks, a sharpie, a pencil, craft glue, and scissors to make this fun craft with your kids.

Last weekend, my kids came up with a delightful idea to put on a puppet show. The only catch? We didn't have any puppets. Seeing their excitement, I thought, why not make them ourselves? With a little bit of research and lots of imagination, we set out to create our puppet cast. We gathered old socks, yarn, buttons, and fabric scraps. It turned into a fun crafting afternoon, filled with laughter and creativity. Each puppet began to take on its own character, sparking stories from my kids…

This puppet was a custom portrait commission for a client's husband. The mouth palette was based on techniques learned in the B.J. Guyer puppet building course.

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Let’s make puppets! In this art lesson we’ll learn how puppets are made and how they have been used around the world throughout history. Then we’ll create our own easy rod puppets using mixed media. How to make a puppet art lesson for children In this art lesson you will: :: learn about […]

Visiting the zoo is one of my preschooler’s most favorite outings. She loves to sit and observe all of the animals and ask lots of questions.

In creating my puppets, I had planned to refer to several books on my shelf; I own a small library of books on the topic of building puppets and also a couple of books on making Waldorf dolls, but none of my books offered much help when it came to creating a glove-puppet with a Waldorf style doll-head. When making a glove-puppet, it is usual to have space inside the head for the fingers of the puppeteer; however, on a traditional Waldorf doll-head, it would be very difficult to create a…

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These Hand Puppet Knitting Patterns are perfect for children and will help them create their own custom hand puppets to play with.

Welcome To Puppet Building World. Free patterns, instructional videos, how to articles. Dennis Regling is a professional educator and author. Dennis has been building puppets for going on 10 years. This blog is here to share Dennis' ideas and tips on puppet building.

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These adorable ballerina puppets are not only budget friendly they're also super easy to make and are tonnes of fun as a handmade toy for the kids to play with! # cardboardrollcrafts

We've been making rod puppets for years... Simple ones like these... And shadow puppets, too... But lately we've been more ambitious (this lovely lady was made at our kitchen table by a darling neighbor...) We've been adding moving parts (heads & tails and arms) and 3-D wings, too... Yesterday we made the Tomten and the Fox (based on characters from the book by Astrid Lindgren.) Below are instructions if you want to make one (or two or three) moving-part-puppets in your home. FOR EACH PUPPET…

Make a dancing elf puppet using pasta noodles - perfect for a holiday puppet show!