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20 Easy Puppet Craft Ideas For Kids

Puppet Craft A popular and enjoyable show for children is a puppet show which is why kids love imitating hand puppets, finger-puppets string puppets, and stick puppets. So, if you’re youngsters with great imagination in telling stories and enjoy the puppets for children then just encourage them to create your own shows of puppets at home or at school.

It is a good opportunity to increase the skill of your children and playing with puppets is something that can keep them engaged for many hours. It’s time to delight all your beloved puppet children by making some hand-made puppets, and are you willing to make some beautiful homemade puppets? If so, you can make incredible-looking puppets yourself by using recycled materials such as cardstock, craft sticks pipes, clothespins, pipe cleaners, and other things like this.

In order to spark your imagination, We have 20 Easy Puppet Craft Ideas For Kids, and easy-to-make puppets for kids which will provide fantastic ideas for making puppets and you’ll be able to learn amazing puppet-making techniques that you’ve not thought of before. These ideas are clever to get you thinking outside the box and you’ll become a master of the art of making puppets after you have explored this assortment of craft projects for puppets.

1. Cute DIY Minion Stick Puppets

Cute DIY Minion Stick Puppets

Puppet Craft – These easy-to-create crafts are a great activity for rainy days. They make fun bookmarks and are great to play with! You can make your own minion using glue, googly eyes markers, cardstock, and glue. Check out the detail here! Tutorial

2. Cereal Box Turkeys Puppets

Cereal Box Turkeys Puppets

This easy-to-create craft makes a great rainy-day activity for kids. They’re also great bookmarks that make. A cereal box turkey is a great way to help kids express their gratitude for the holiday. The cereal box is not the only thing you need. Don’t forget your googly eyes and turkey pattern pieces. Tutorial

3. Muppet-inspired Envelope Puppet

Muppet inspired Envelope Puppet

You are looking for something simple and fun? Puppet Craft for the children? What about one? Inspire By the new Muppets What is the Most Wanted Movie? It’s worth a look! Check out Tutorial

4. Butterfly Paper Hand Puppet

Butterfly Paper Hand Puppet

Puppet Craft – This beautiful butterfly paper hand puppet continues our hand bug puppets series. This papercraft is great fun to make and play with. You even have a template that your children can use to create one. They can either color it or use it as a template. Tutorial

5. Monster Finger Puppets for Kids

Monster Finger Puppets for Kids

Monster Crafts – It took me some time to understand that my son wanted to make a puppet with his fingers and legs. After you’re done drawing, you will need to create two holes in the bottom of your character. This will allow you to insert your fingers to make legs. Tutorial

6. DIY Kid-Made Puppets

DIY Kid Made Puppets

This simple activity combines two of my favorite things, my daughters’ drawings, and cardboard. She draws normally in miniature and has oodles of detail. But this weekend, she created full-page characters for kid-made puppets. Tutorial

7. Amazing DIY Hop-up Bunny Puppet

Amazing DIY Hop up Bunny Puppet

Craft projects for rabbits will always be fun to make and will provide you with some fresh ideas for Easter or even for a rainy day. Hopping Peter Rabbit Puppet Craft every time your child moves your rabbit up and down, the legs and hands will move while the Peter rabbit will sway. Tutorial

8. Easy DIY Finger Leg Puppet

Easy DIY Finger Leg Puppet

These finger leg puppets are easy to make and full of fun to make. To create your finger-leg puppet, all you need to draw is an image of a person or animal, a monster, or an extraterrestrial… however you want, but be sure to leave room in the middle for the legs! After you’ve finished drawing you must cut two circular holes at the base of your character, so you can insert your fingers inside to create legs. Tutorial

9. DIY Muppet Puppet – Puppet Craft

DIY Muppet Puppet

It was a good craft challenge, and also a great method to develop my sewing abilities. Muppet the Muppet was a big hit at events and in the city and I’m eager to tackle other puppetry projects in the near future. I hope that you find this Instructable helpful. If you do end up creating your own Muppet upload photos to the comments! Tutorial

10. DIY Googly Monster Finger Puppets

DIY Googly Monster Finger Puppets

Make these simple Googly Monster Finger Puppets (or Toe Puppets!) and invite your kids to play with them. playful playing. Five minutes of creating time! Check out the detail here! Tutorial

11. DIY Puppet Theater

DIY Puppet Theater

It’s simple to create Puppet Theatre. Build it out of a big cardboard box, or even an inexpensive Foam display board bought from an office supply retailer. It’s easily foldable and is guaranteed to give hours of entertainment to children. Create a group of small actors into socks using different colored socks. They will be the star on stage. Simply add eyes, ears glitter, and other accessories to personalize your puppets. Tutorial

12. Raurinde The Puppet Princess

Raurinde The Puppet Princess

The power of imagination is amazing so what better opportunity to encourage youngsters to engage their imaginations than to put in a puppet show. We love creating new puppets by using socks with no mates and then adding a little scrap of fabric and items from our craft bin. We are always amazed by the kids by their inventiveness and imagination. Tutorial

13. No-sew 5 Little Ghosts Finger Puppets

No sew 5 Little Ghosts Finger Puppets

This craft is simple enough for play with fingers I’ve included some of my favorite rhymes! For both preschoolers (who are bound to enjoy having fun with them) and children younger than them (who might prefer playing with the adult) to think about, these toys fit small fingers and adults. It takes only some basic supplies and just a little assistance from your local artist to make these fantastic finger puppets! Tutorial

14. Wooden Spoon Ladybug Puppets

Wooden Spoon Ladybug Puppets

New day new spoon puppet, and this time, it’s time to make these super simple wooden ladybug puppets using a wooden spoon. We used wooden spoons from the garbage to create these (got an entire pack at the store) however, you could simply make them from wooden spoons too. We’ve been having a blast in the last few days with our ladybug crafts (and there are some more to come out in the coming days) so keep an eye out! Tutorial

15. Itsy Bitsy Spider-Finger Puppet

Itsy Bitsy Spider Finger Puppet

It’s fun to take Little Big Man’s favorite tune, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, and expand it using a fantastic craft for fine motors! The Itsy Bitsy Spider Finger Puppet, SURE to get your kid’s hands moving! A quick note: affiliate hyperlinks are utilized in this article to help you make the most of your time. Tutorial

16. Paper Bag Monster Puppets

Paper Bag Monster Puppets

It is a blast to grab the crafting supplies and gather around the table as a family and let everyone creates their individual monster. If you’re looking for a great Halloween project that everyone will enjoy, gather the craft materials as well as some snacks to enjoy making these fun paper bags Monster puppets. Tutorial

17. DIY Finger Puppets

DIY Finger Puppets

Finger puppets aren’t just enjoyable to create however, they are guaranteed to bring joy to the faces of children! Here’s how to create DIY finger puppets that will make your reading experience more enjoyable and keep your children focussed on their book: Tutorial

18. DIY Shark Mittens

DIY Shark Mittens

Enjoy Shark Week with your children by making these shark-themed crafts that are easy to make They’ll give you endless hours of enjoyment and play! They’re great for kids of all ages. Have you heard about Shark Week? It’s a unique week of programming on Discovery Channel where all of the shows are factual and centered around (you guessed you’re right) sharks. If you’re not familiar with the details about these sea killers or animals, the shows are simply amazing. Check out these adorable Shark Mittens. Tutorial

19. Paper Bag Puppets Inspired by Fandango

Paper Bag Puppets Inspired by Fandango

Have you been aware of the Fandango Puppets? These are fantastic paper bag puppets by the film company Fandango that feature bizarre items like straws, pasta, candy as well as licorice, fruit, and much more. ….!!! Take a look Tutorial

20 Ribbon Lion Puppet Craft – Lion Crafts for Kids

Ribbon Lion Puppet Craft Lion Crafts for Kids

A ribbon-lion-puppet must be among the most adorable things we’ve done in a long time. Aren’t these lions adorable? We love making puppets of all sorts children can get imaginative when they make them and become even more imaginative when playing together with the puppets (win you). Are you ready to create a fierce-looking Lion? Let’s get this done Tutorial

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