What can I use to make a puppet?

What can I use to make a puppet?

From the humble finger puppet to the ingenious toilet roll marionette, you can stage your next show with these DIY puppets you can make at home.

1. Popsicle Stick Puppets.
2. Egg Carton Finger Puppets.
3. Paper Bag Puppets.
4. Two- and Four-Finger Puppets.
5. Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets.
6. Sock Puppets.
7. Felt Hand Puppets.

How do you make stick puppets at home?

STEPS

1. 1Paint the box. Find a small flat box to make into a mini house.
2. 2Cut out various shapes. The box house and the stick puppet characters will be made up of basic shapes.
3. 3Draw faces.
4. 4Glue the hair.
5. 5Glue each body onto a craft stick.
6. 6Glue the heads.
7. 7Decorate the puppets.
8. 8Glue shapes onto the box house.

How do you make a stick puppet?

Position the skewer with the point up near the center of the puppet. Cut one or two 1″ (2 cm) lengths of tape. Tape the skewer to the puppet. Two-sided puppets: Attach the stick to the back of the right-facing puppet, then glue the left and right puppets back-to-back, covering the tape and stick.

How to make simple puppets?

Creating felt puppets

Making your pattern: Take four pieces of printer paper and scotch tape them together,two on top,two underneath. Lay the big piece on a table horizontally.

Making your Puppet. Pin two pieces of felt together that are big enough to meet your dimensions for making the body.

Decorating your puppets.

How do you make puppets?

Put the sock over your hand and arm. When you’re wearing the puppet, poke some fabric down into the hollow between your thumb and index finger. This will make a mouth. Also hold your wrist perpendicular to your arm, so that the audience can tell where the head ends and the body begins.