Chicken Puppet Handprint Craft

This is a cute chicken puppet craft, great for a lesson on farm animals.

Materials:

• large white circle on hard paper (the middle of a paper plate works well)
• red construction paper
• pencil
• two small triangles for the beak
• google eye or eye sticker
• craft stick
• scissors
• glue
• tape

Directions:

1. Trace the children hands o the red construction paper and cut out.
2. Glue on eye and beak on the front of the circle.
3. Glue the hand prints on the back of the circle to make the crest as shown.
4. Tape the craft stick to the back to make your puppet.

This puppet could be used to practice the sound of a rooster or chicken like in the song "Old MacDonald" or it could be used in a play like "The Little Red Hen".