Thanksgiving Turkey Glove Craft

Turn an ordinary glove into a cute turkey puppet for Thanksgiving. Follow the link below for the full tutorial.

Swanky Baby

Free Printable Thanksgiving Pilgrims Finger Puppets Craft

Follow the link below for the free printable template or these easy Thanksgiving Pilgrims finger puppets. There's a little boy and girl. Just cut out, color, and glue the strip to make a loop.

Easy Child Crafts

Halloween Pumpkins Finger Puppet Craft

Inspired by the great book, "Five Little Pumpkins", create cute little pumpkin finger puppets like these for your kids. Use the book as a template and felt to make them. Follow the link below for the complete tutorial.

Two Daloo

Printable Halloween Shadow Puppets Craft

Here's a cool and simple Halloween activity idea. Visit the great site below for these Halloween shadow puppet templates with directions. Put them on sticks and use them to tell spooky Halloween stories. So easy and fun. There are 5 puppet templates, a black cat, spider, bat, witch, and cauldron.

One Perfect Day Blog

Cute Easter Bunny Envelope Craft

Turn an ordinary envelope into a cute Easter Bunny. Just a few things are all you need. You could make it as a simple craft, puppet, or use it as a real envelope to send your Easter wishes to your friends. Here's an idea. Make many of them and hang them on a string as Easter garland. Visit the site below for more details.

Twiggle Magazine

Fun Easter Bunny Bag Puppet Craft

Here's a classic Easter craft for kids. Just a few decorations turn an ordinary brown paper lunch bag into a cute Easter Bunny puppet. This easy Easter craft takes only minutes to make, but creates hours of fun. Follow the link to this great site for the complete details.

Little Family Fun

Easter Egg Puppets Preschool Craft

Here's a really simple Easter craft idea, perfect for preschoolers. Follow the link below for the full tutorial on this fun craft and loads of other great ideas.

Little Family Fun

Easter Bunny Paper Bag Puppet Craft

Turn an ordinary paper lunch bag into a cut Easter Bunny with this classic animal puppet craft. Simple and fun to make. Follow the link for the tutorial.

Suite 101

Printable St. Patrick's Day Leprechaun Paper Bag Puppet Craft

Use a paper lunch bag to make this funny St. Patrick's Day bag puppet craft from DLTK. All the pieces are printable. Just print out, color and glue on. Your kids will have loads of fun with this puppet on St. Patty's Day. Follow the link for the free printable template and complete tutorial.

DLTK

Valentine' s Day Heart Dog Puppet Craft

It's amazing what you can create with a few hearts. Transform an ordinary lunch bag into a cute dog puppet for Valentine's Day. Your kids will have loads of fun with these. Let their imaginations go and create other animal puppets. Go to this great site, Classified: Mom for the directions for this and lots of other great Valentine's Day kids crafts.

Classified: Mom

Valetine's Day Heart Finger Puppet Craft

Spoonful is my new favorite craft site. These cute Valentine's Day heart finger puppets are just one good example. Kids of every age will have loads of fun with these. You could also give them as party favors.

Spoonful

Easy Reindeer Sock Puppet Chritmas Craft

Visit this cool blog, Kidzui for a step by step photo tutorial on how to make a cute reindeer puppet craft from an old sock.  It'll make story time, so much more fun. Such a cute Christmas craft idea.

Kidzui Blog

Paper Bag Reindeer Puppet Christmas Craft

It only takes some hand print cutouts, a paper bag and a few other decorations to make this cute bag puppet for Christmas. Your class will have loads of fun making them. Happy Holidays. Follow the link for the full tutorial.

Daily Delights

Thanksgiving Cereal Box Turkey Puppet Craft

 

 

These Thanksgiving cereal box turkey puppets are so colorful! I love them. Use different sized circles glued on a craft stick to make these bright turkey puppets. Follow the link below for the full tutorial on this fun craft idea. Gobble, gobble.

 



Plum Pudding

Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Indians Bag Puppet Craft

Here are some cute Thanksgiving Pilgrims and Indians puppets made from paper lunch bags. Not only a craft, these can be used to do a role play and act out the Thanksgiving story. Follow the link below for the full tutorial on this puppet craft.

Origami Owls

Halloween Spider Handprint Puppet Craft

I found this great video tutorial on how to make these cute Halloween spider handprint puppets. Great idea. Easy to make.

Teddy Bear Puppet Craft

This is a simple Teddy bear puppet craft you can do with any class. This is a fun activity to teach about animals or body parts.

Materials:

• bear template
• colorful construction paper
• craft sticks
• tape
• scissors
• brass fasteners/butterfly clips(optional)

Directions:

1. Find a cute and simple teddy bear puppet template or other coloring page.
2. Print out teddy bear on colorful paper.
3. Cut out the bears body parts or let students do that.
4. Glue the pieces together.
5. Tape a craft stick to the back for your puppet.

Variation:
Punch holes and use brass fasteners/butterfly clips to put the body parts together and your bear can move.

Five Little Piggies Glove Puppet Craft

This is another great Japanese craft idea. Make a glove to teach the 5 Little Piggies rhyme. Take a knit glove. Stuff the fingertips with cotton and tie off with thread into little fingertip balls. Then cut little pieces of felt and decorate each finger as one of the 5 little pigs. I like the one with roast beef. Use the glove to teach the rhyme. Use the consept to make other gloves for rhymes, eg. 5 Little Monkeys or the Finger Family song.

Banchan

Peanut People Drum Puppet Craft

Here's a cute Japanese craft idea. Make these peanut drum puppets from a paper bag on a chopstick or skewer.

Materials:

• chopsticks or bamboo skewers
• small paper lunch bag
• old newspaper or cotton
• tape
• brown marker
• string
• plastic bottle caps

Directions:

1. Stuff old newspaper or cotton into a small paper lunch bag. Pinch and tape the top of the head so it stands up. Pinch the bag in the middle into a peanut shape.
2. Stick onto a chopstick or skewer and tape the bottom.Decorate with a marker to look like a peanut with eyes and a mouth. You could also cut and paste on the face.
3. Tie 2 short lengths of string to the peanut. Tape bottle caps to the other ends for hands.
4. When you twist the peanut puppet, the bottle cap hands hit the body like the drum from the Karate Kid 2.

Banchan

Paper Cup Chinese Dragon Craft

Here are a couple of versions of a paper cup Chinese Dragon craft.

Materials:

• paper cups
• string
• sharp pencil
• scissors
• toilet paper rolls
• decorating materials(pipe cleaners, Styrofoam balls, colorful paper, etc.)
• glue

Directions:

1. Poke a hole in the bottom of all the cups with a sharp pencil.
2. Cut the toilet rolls into short rings.
3. Tie a big knot in a string and thread onto a paper cup so the knot is on the inside.
4. Thread on a toilet roll ring, then another cup. The toilet roll rings allow a little space between the cups so they can move.
5. Continue this process until your dragon is long enough.
6. For the head, you can just decorate the last cup or cut 2 "V" shapes on either side of a cup and thread on the opposite way to make a mouth.
7. Decorate your dragon; add colorful paper, pipe cleaner horns, eyes etc.

Go here for a PDF tutorial

Jellyfish jelly

Variations:

Adding the toilet roll rings adds weight to the dragon. Another alternative is punch holes on either sides and attach the cups with brass fasteners/butterfly clips.