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Use these printable finger puppets to enhance pretend play time, ignite creative imaginations, strengthen fine motor skills with finger dexterity, and to have a lot of fun. Printable puppets are a huge hit with young children. They spark imaginative play and are easy to prepare, just print and play.

Playing with finger puppets builds language skills, strengthens vocabulary, and reinforces story elements. It benefits hand-eye coordination too.

 

Directions to Make Your Own Puppets:

  1. First, download the pdf file.
  2. Then, print onto regular printer paper. 
  3. Cut along the dotted lines on the finger puppet templates.
  4. Make the finger holes by wrapping paper around each finger to find the size of the fingers (your child’s finger or yours).

Different Ways to Play:

  • Sing along together or retell a story as you have the finger puppets on your hand.
  • Have a puppet show with the paper puppets.
  • Retell a story or make up your own stories with the familiar characters. 
  • Glue them to a fourth of a toilet paper tube or wrap them around a wine cork to make them moveable paper toys. 
  • Laminate the characters and attach them to the fingers of old gloves with velcro.
  • Finger puppets can also be used to role play different social situations with children to help them learn, process feelings, and communicate their thoughts. 

 

 

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Finger Puppets

These free printables include your favorite characters from this timeless story of Goldilocks (Goldilocks, Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Baby Bear, and the house). Recreate different versions of the story by changing the ending. One person can be multiple characters by putting more than one puppet on their fingers or each person can be one character. 

 

Three Little Pigs Finger Puppets

The wolf will huff and puff and blow the houses down. Which version of the Three Little Pigs will you tell?

What did the pigs make their houses from? Did the wolf get the pigs or did the pigs trick the wolf? 

 

 

Little Red Riding Hood Finger Puppets

When Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her grandmother, she notices something is strange about her. Before she can figure it out, she is gobbled by the wolf. Luckily, a man is nearby to save Little Red. 

 

 

Jack and the Beanstalk Finger Puppets

Use the free printable template to make the finger puppets and use them to retell this fairy tale. Needing money, Jack trades their family’s cow for magic beans. His mother is furious, but the next morning a giant beanstalk has grown in the yard. Jack climbs it and has a few close encounters with a giant. 

 

Fairy Finger Puppets

Printable templates of each fairy finger puppet can be used to play and create! Name the fairies and take them on an adventure.

 

 

 

Dinosaur Finger Puppets 

Dinosaur puppets are a fun way to have a finger puppet play for your dinosaur lover! What do these dinosaurs eat? Are they friends? The adventures await. 

 

 

Jonah and the Whale Finger Puppets

A full-color version of the puppets to share the story of Jonah. Jonah doesn’t listen to God and learns a hard lesson after being swallowed by a whale. 

 

Other Finger Puppet Characters:

Farm Animal Puppets from  Kindergarten Worksheets and Games – Use these farm animal finger puppets to sing Old Macdonald or to practice animal sounds of the farm animals. 

nursery rhymes with printable finger puppets from Free Homeschool Deals

Frog Puppets from Picklebums

Elephant Puppets from The Measured Mom to go with the song “One Elephant Went Out to Play”.

Finger Puppets of Circus Characters and Wild Animals from First Palette 

 

We hope you enjoy these printable finger puppets as much as we do! In our homes they have inspired endless pretend play and storytelling.  

 

 

 

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Coloring Pages • Crafts for Kids • Farm • Free Worksheets

October 26, 2020

by Nadia

“Old MacDonald had a farm, ee-i-ee-i-o…” A nursery rhyme/song all young children love to sing! Pair it with these adorable, free printable Farm Animal Finger Puppets and your young kids will love to play and sing along! This free farm printable is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. Print the Old MacDonald printable in color or black and white.

Animal finger puppets printable

Nursery rhymes and songs are not just for fun, although it is so fun saying and singing rhymes about all kinds of things, it is educational too! Through rhymes, children develop language skills such as vocabulary expansion, speech fluency, speech intonation etc. Children develop auditory discrimination skills such as rhyming, alliteration etc. and these skills are essential for future learning. These super cute, free Farm Animal Finger Puppets  are a fun way to work on literacy with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love this hand free nursery rhyme printable.

Farm animal finger puppets printable

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____<<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Print the the full-color set puppets, cut and assemble. A small sticky tape strip at the back does the trick. These steps might require an adults help. (These finger puppets are designed for small fingers, hence it looks a bit small on my adult hand in the image above.)

Farm animal finger puppets

OR, your kiddos will enjoy coloring the DIY version themselves, adding creativity to their learning too. (Color the puppets before cutting and assembling are done by an adult.) This makes a great activity to add to your farm unit when farm animals are discussed- the color of the animals, their diet, habitat, use and so on.

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  • Sing or say the Old MacDonald rhyme together, or any other farm animal rhyme you know. Show each animal when it comes to that part of the rhyme.
  • Have a puppet show with the finger puppets.
  • Simply play out a scene on the farm. Perhaps you have a farm-themed sensory bin you could use. Insert a cork in place of the fingers, to make the puppets movable inside the sensory bin.

Finger puppets printable

Have fun adding this project to your Farm unit and sing along to nursery rhymes using our farm animal finger puppets! “Old MacDonald…”

Farm Activities

Looking for more FREE farm printables to help kids learn a variety of skills? You will love these resources:

  • Sequencing Cards – farm to table jam, milk, bread, chocolate, eggs, and orange juice (matching sequencing worksheets)
  • Farm Kindergarten Sight Words Games
  • Printable Farm CVC Words Activity
  • Money Farm Worksheets
  • Tractor Worksheets for practicing making alphabet letters
  • Farm cutting practice worksheets
  • Fun-to-Read Farm Books for Preschool
  • Lots of CLEVER Farm Activities for Kids
  • Farm Alphabet Mats
  • Counting Farm Animals Readers
  • Super cute free printable Farm Worksheets for Kindergarten
  • C is for Cow letter of the week unit with crafts, activities, and printables for kids
  • Farm Writing Prompts or these On the Farm Writing Prompts

 

Farm Worksheets

  • Printable Puzzle Farm animals and their babies
  • Farm Free printable books for beginning readers
  • Life on the Farm Hidden pictures printable worksheets
  • Farm Building Sentences Cut and Paste Reader
  • Seasons worksheet about life on the farm
  • Super cute Farm Coloring Pages
  • Farm ABC Order Worksheets
  • Free Farm Color by Number Worksheets for workign on number recognition
  • Do-a-Dot NUMBERS Farm Worksheets
  • Kindergarten Farm Unit – over 220+ pages for Preschool, Kindergarten, & 1st Grade
  • Educational Farm Activities
  • CUTE Preschool Farm Activities Free Worksheets to work on a variety of skills
  • Huge set of Free Farm Worksheets for Kindergarten
  • Farm Animals and their Homes Flip Book
  • Counting farm animals worksheet pages for numbers 1-10

Farm Printables

  • Printable Farm Scavenger Hunt for Kids
  • HUGE Farm Animals Worksheet Pack with lots of math and literacy for early learners
  • Farm themed free printable cutting activities for preschoolers
  • Number Sense Puzzles – Farm Activities for Preschoolers
  • Farm Animal Tracing Worksheets
  • FREE Farm Animal Puppet Printables
  • Farm Writing Numbers in Words Worksheets
  • Simple Sentences for Kindergarten Worksheet – Farm theme
  • I Spy Farm Animals Printables
  • LOTs of ideas in this Farm Theme Preschool

   

Kindergarten Crafts

Looking for more fun craft projects? Whether you want to make popsicle stick, paper plate, or handprint art projects – we’ve got so many fun ideas. We even have monthly crafts for kindergarten ready for you to quickly pick a project. Sneak in some fun math with our kindergarten math crafts. And of course, don’t miss our hugely popular printable alphabet crafts!

  • Lots of Toilet Paper Roll Crafts
  • Super cute, free printable farm animal puppets
  • Hundreds Paper Plate Crafts for Kids from A to Z
  • Make one of these flower crafts
  • These precious keepsake handprint alphabet craftshelp your child to learn the alphabet at the same time!
  • Grab your craft sticks, you are going to want to make all of these cool popsicle stick crafts
  • Make practicing math fun by making one of these FUN and FREE Math Crafts
  • Brr! It may be cold outside, but stay warm in a winter wonderland with these snowflake crafts
  • Get ready for the first day of school with these Back to School Crafts
  • WE have tons of monthy kindergarten crafts
  • Plus don’t miss these super cute and FREE abc crafts for lowercase letters

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90,000 finger theater - print templates

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  1. Finger Theater with your own hands
  2. Finger Theater "School"
  4. Finger Theater "Beasts"
  5. Zoo
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  6. Paper Finger Theater "Summer"
  7. Pigs
  8. Farm
  9. Funny Snakes
  10. Paper Finger Theater - three-dimensional puppets
  11. Paper dolls with fingers and fingers
  12. Animals
  13. Dinosaurs
  14. Circus
  15. Finger Theater for two fingers
  16. Paper Finger Theater: Benefit for children's development
  17. Speech development
  18. Development of fine motor skills

Do-it-yourself paper finger theater: print out beautiful paper templates of people and other characters for fingers.

Finger puppets are great for capturing and holding a child's attention. And when combined with a book, song, exercise, or poem, they can stimulate a child's development and even bring about all sorts of magical results 😜

Do-it-yourself paper finger theater

To make a paper finger theater, you will need: a printed template, scissors, felt-tip pens or pencils for coloring, adhesive tape.

Print the paper dolls and cut them out a few millimeters from the outlines, except for a small strip around the finger which you can cut exactly to the template.

Wrap the strip around your finger to get the correct finger puppet ring diameter, secure the strip with tape.

If you want to color your little characters, do this before cutting or at least before folding the strip, it will be much easier!

School finger theater

Among these finger characters you will find a teacher and students.

Family

Finger theater "Zveryushki"

Zoo

Spring

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The Turnip Finger Theater is presented in two versions - choose what you like best!

Red cap

Finger Theater of Paper "Summer"

piglets

Farm

Funny snakes

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Print a color or black-white template. For children's fingers, you may want to reduce the size of the snakes - use the "Scale" print setting.

Cut out the body of the snake along the outline and glue as shown in the photo.

Here are the stamps of the Paper Finger Theater:

Paper Finger Theater-Volumetric Dolls

Paper Dolls with fingers and fingers

Animals

Dinosaurs

Finger Theater

9005 Papers: Benefits for Child Development

Speech Development

As children interact with and play with the puppets, they organize their thoughts and improve their speech.

Children develop sentence structure naturally and use active vocabulary to express their point of view. Their interactions often reflect their experience and knowledge of the real world, giving children the opportunity to better understand this information in play.

Imagination development

Dolls are the main toys for role-playing games and allow children to develop their creative imagination.

When a child plays, stories and characters with personalities appear. They may feel happy, sad, or sassy and stupid.

With animal dolls, children can simply waste time meowing like a cat and mooing like a cow. This, of course, is also good!

The process of playing with finger theater offers a leap for their creativity, and as role play develops, children will develop their language and storytelling skills without even realizing it.

Fine motor development

When children manipulate finger puppets to move, change their position from finger to finger, children's fine motor skills are involved.

Playing with dolls is also good for hand-eye coordination.

All these useful skills are developed by playing with finger puppets. And if a child helps you make a finger theater out of paper with his own hands, he improves:

  • cutting and gluing skills,
  • motor skills,
  • graphic motor skills,
  • creativity,
  • perseverance.

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for the correct development of children, for the correct development of children, for the correct development of children can be made by hand from paper. Such toys are easy to make and most importantly quickly. When a child takes a direct part in this exciting process of playing, he sees how 9 appear from a simple sheet in front of his eyes. 0202 animals , birds, people. To make finger toys for children, you need to select the template of the bird you like and print it out. Each blank includes holes for the fingers: Cut out. We fold the strip with a loop and glue it: Chickens - coloring pages : Emu ostrich: Hen: Crow and peacock: You can decorate paper dolls, for example, draw feathers, a scallop or stick sequins on them: It is imperative to think carefully: “What the birds will do and about what to talk? Where will the action take place? How will they move? It is very good if not only children play, but also one of the adults. And such animals are simply put on fingers: Cat and mouse: Horse and pig: Mouse: In this option, you can use ready-made silhouettes: Or make new ones with your own hands using coloring: Making paper puppets can be complicated using coloring pages with tasks that are very all kids like it. It is necessary to trace around the contour, color it with your own hands, cut it out, and then you can play: These are such unusual and interesting finger toys we got it, and what paper crafts do you make for children?

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Do-it-yourself paper finger theater: print beautiful paper templates of little men and other characters for fingers.

Finger puppets are great for capturing and holding a child's attention. And when combined with a book, song, exercise, or poem, they can stimulate a child's development and even bring about all sorts of magical results 😜

DIY paper finger theater

To make a paper finger theater you will need: printed template, scissors, felt-tip pens or coloring crayons, tape.

Print the paper dolls and cut them out a few millimeters from the outlines, except for a small strip around the finger which you can cut exactly to the template.

Wrap the strip around your finger to get the correct finger puppet ring diameter, secure the strip with tape.

If you want to color your little characters, do this before cutting or at least before folding the strip, it will be much easier!

Finger theater "School"

Among these finger characters you will find a teacher and students.

Family
Finger theater "Animal"

Zoo
Spring
Turnip

Finger theater "Repka" is presented in two versions - choose what you like best!

Summer Paper Finger Theater
Pigs
Farm
Fun Snakes

Print out a color or black and white template. For children's fingers, you may want to reduce the size of the snakes - use the "Scale" print setting.

Cut out the snake's body along the outline and glue as shown in the photo.

Here are the paper snake finger theater templates:

Paper finger theater - 3D puppets

Paper toe puppets

Dinosaurs
Circus

Paper Finger Theatre: Benefits for Child Development

Speech Development

As children interact and play with the puppets, they organize their thoughts and improve their speech.

Children develop sentence structure naturally and use active vocabulary to express their point of view. Their interactions often reflect their experience and knowledge of the real world, giving children the opportunity to better understand this information in play.

Imagination development

Dolls are the main toys for role-playing games and allow children to develop their creative imagination.

When a child plays, stories and characters with personalities appear. They may feel happy, sad, or sassy and stupid.

With animal dolls, kids can simply waste time meowing like a cat and mooing like a cow. This, of course, is also good!

The process of playing with finger theater offers a leap for their creativity, and as role play develops, children will develop their language and storytelling skills without even realizing it.

Fine motor skills development

When children manipulate finger puppets to move, change their position from finger to finger, children's fine motor skills are involved.

Playing with dolls is also good for hand-eye coordination.

All these useful skills are developed by playing with finger puppets. And if a child helps you make a paper finger theater with his own hands, he improves:

  • cutting and gluing skills,
  • motor skills,
  • graphic motor skills,
  • creativity,
  • perseverance.

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    How to make a toy (doll) for fingers:
    A toy for children from 5 years old and their parents. In this video tutorial, you will learn how to make a finger toy for a puppet theater from colored paper (a rabbit, a kitten, a frog, a bear cub, a chicken) with your own hands easily and quickly. Using crafts for theatrical scenes develops speech, replenishes the child's vocabulary ..
    Difficulty level: easy..
    You will need:
    thick colored paper;.
    pencil or Japanese sticks;.
    glue;.
    scissors..
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    -Hello friends!!!! In this origami lesson we will show and tell you how to make finger toys: Masha, the Bear, their friends Bunny, Wolves, Hedgehog and other characters of the favorite cartoon "Masha and the Bear". .
    Toys are easy to make, they are very interesting to play with, show or tell a fairy tale. .
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    Finger puppets are excellent speech trainers for children. With their help, you can play small scenes or whole performances. Finger puppets are usually sewn from fabric - they are also called glove puppets . But you can start introducing your baby to finger puppets by making paper characters for performances.

    Here, for example, is a scheme for folding animal muzzles out of paper on a finger using the origami technique.

    Kitten, puppy, fox, hare or pig can be folded according to this scheme.

    1. Take a square piece of paper. Fold it diagonally. At the bottom paper triangle, we bend the part inward. The top of the folded part should touch the middle of the main fold.
    2. Bend the right and left edges down to the center.
    3. We bend the paper both left and right up.

    4. Bend the edges again. Not close!
    5. A narrow triangle of paper pointing down, bend up.
    6. We fill a small triangle at the top back.
    Depending on the muzzle of which little animal we want to make, we bend the ears. We take felt-tip pens or pencils and paint the muzzle.

    For those who found this description difficult, we recommend watching the following video:

    For the smallest, you can show simple performances about the acquaintance and communication of characters, teaching the baby the rules of communication with people.

    Older children will be able to put the doll on their finger and participate in the dialogue. Hiding behind puppets, children often say things that they would not say in ordinary life, playing the situations that excite them, telling the puppet characters about their fears and experiences. The staging of performances helps the development of the child's communicative abilities, develops the expressiveness of speech and the ability to formulate one's thoughts.

    Do-it-yourself finger puppets

    Finger puppets are a very useful play tool for children that helps develop speech, imagination, creativity, and learn communication skills. Making your own finger puppet is not difficult in principle, but there is one important point that needs to be mentioned.

    The doll should have a pretty face, but it is quite difficult to create it. In our master class, the faces of the dolls are made in the style of a children's drawing, which is usually liked by the guys. But if you need to make a more realistic face, you can use thermal stickers sold in specialty stores, or paint it with oil paints.

    For work we will need: a piece of pink or flesh-colored matter, preferably elastic; sewing threads and needles; yarn for creating hairstyles; colored shreds for clothes; for embroidery of the face of dolls, you can use beads, fishing line and a needle for beads.

    First sew the doll's head. To avoid wrinkles on it, you need to use either an elastic fabric, or make the parts of the head of an unequal size; then the smaller detail will be the “back of the head” of the doll, and the larger one will be the “face”, and wrinkles, if any, will hide under the hair. We sew the details of the head, slightly picking up a large part evenly along the entire contour.

    Turn the crown right side out. Now you need to sew on the body of the pupa, which will be worn on the finger. It can be done immediately from a colored patch, then there will be no need to sew clothes. We sew a rectangular patch, as in the photo, so that the seam connecting its edges turns out to be on the back of the doll.

    The next step is to make the hair. It is more convenient to thread yarn with a long gypsy needle, but you can also use an ordinary sewing needle. If thin yarn is used, you can make hair on the entire head of the doll, and if the yarn is quite thick, it is better to limit yourself to the contour of the face or, as in our case, parting. Otherwise, the hairstyle will be unnaturally lush. We perform a row of loops on both sides of the parting, so that we get two rows of loops on each side.

    We embroider a face. There is nothing complicated in the embroidery itself, but it is very important to fix the fishing line at the beginning and at the end of the work. To do this, you can melt its tip on the fire, and, until it has cooled down, glue it to the head in an inconspicuous place under the hair. So the beads from which the doll's face is embroidered will definitely not come off.

    The braids can now be braided and then neatly trimmed.

    And finally, you need to sew a dress. We do not need a complex silhouette, a regular T-shaped cut is enough. Handles can be sewn to the sleeves of the dress, and a frill can be made along the hem. After finishing the dress, you need to put it on the doll, and sew the neckline to the upper body, just under the head.

    Similarly, we make the figure of a boy. The difference is only in the length of the hair and the details of the clothes.

    Our finger puppets are ready. Now we can start rehearsing the first performance.

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    DIY finger puppets for children. How to do it

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    Finger theater is one of the varieties of finger games. And finger games are simply necessary for the child as part of the educational process and are indispensable for home schooling. This type of creativity helps to develop fine motor skills, imagination, and communication skills in a child. In the process of choosing characters for a fairy tale, you can invent your own fairy tale and your characters: for example, you can come up with a completely new creature and give it a name .... After all, the world of fantasy is limitless!

    Today we will learn that making a finger puppet with your own hands is not only an interesting and exciting activity, but also very easy. Puppets can be made together with children - and soon the children themselves will be able to make their favorite characters from fairy tales and show adults their first theatrical performances.

    To make finger puppets with your own hands, it is necessary, first of all, to turn on your imagination and decide for which production, for which fairy tale we need characters. Will it be a Russian folk tale about Kolobok or the chicken Ryaba? Or maybe it will be a fairy tale about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or about Cinderella?

    It is convenient that in many fairy tales characters are repeated: in foreign fairy tales, as a rule, kings, queens, princes and princesses are most often present; in domestic fairy tales - animals are often found: a fox, a wolf, a bear, a hare, etc.

    e. Thus, if we make puppets for a fairy tale about a kolobok, we will no longer have a question - how to make finger puppets for "Turnip" or "Ryaba's Hen".

    DIY finger puppets

    And so, when we have decided on a fairy tale, we will start making dolls. For example, to make a “Russian Folk” kit, which includes a wolf, a fox, a bunny and a bear, we will need:

    • A set of colored felt
    • Threads with needles
    • Glue stick
    • A set of large and small beads
    • Waterproof marker
    • Scissors

    I am evil and scary…

    We will look at how to make a do-it-yourself finger puppet from felt using the example of a wolf from the “Russian folk set”. According to the same sample, it will be possible to make any other character later.

    1. And so, first you need to draw the desired template - a sample on paper. In this case, we draw a wolf - the back and front parts.
    2. Then you need to cut it out along the contour, and, having attached it with pins to the felt, now cut out the felt figure of our wolf. We take the felt of the corresponding color - gray.
    3. Now we can sew both parts of our character, leaving a hole for the finger at the bottom - the size should be calculated not only for the child's finger, but also for yours, because both you and the baby will play.
    4. When all the parts of our wolf are sewn, we take black threads and sew the nose. To do this, several times we wrap the place for the wolf's nose with black threads so that it turns out to be voluminous, one might say "in 3D".
    5. The same black threads can be used to mark the places of the wolf's claws and outline the eyes. The eyes themselves can be made from large black beads by sewing them to the felt. Before to how to make teeth for a finger puppet - take white felt and cut them out along the contour, along with fangs. Now, using a glue stick, glue the teeth to the gray muzzle on both sides.
    6. To complete the look, you can add a few finishing touches with a waterproof marker: for example, spots on the chest or belly of a wolf, or a red tongue hanging from its mouth.

    You can also cut out and sew on an additional accessory - a hat or a bow tie, so that our wolf turns out to be a real gentleman: it depends on the plot of the fairy tale and on your imagination.

    You can also make a wolf from plain paper, for this we save and print the following template, and then it remains only to cut and glue.

    The easiest way to make finger puppets

    Take any glove, cut off the fingers and make certain characters out of them using thread colors and in general everything that comes to mind, as well as what is at hand.

    Finger Puppet Pattern Ideas:

    See also:

    Paper Finger Theater

    How to make developing toys with your own hands

    Puppet theater for children

    DIY puppet theater

    Do not list all the merits of the home cure theater in the development of the child. Children not only watch performances with pleasure, but also take an active part in creating a theater, making puppets and writing fairy-tale scenarios. And when the baby puts the doll on his hand, he completely transforms into his hero.

    Here we have collected material that will help you create your theater. How to make a stage screen, how to sew puppets, gloves, making finger puppets and puppets from improvised materials. Some puppet characters are very easy to make and master in a couple of seconds - such work is within the power of even a three-year-old child. If you have additional materials or you are ready to share your work, send it to our address, we will definitely post your idea.

    Table screen for puppet theater

    Nice table screen for home performances. With such a screen, you can play scenes with both puppets and finger puppets. The cover is removable, the design is lightweight and can be folded.
    How to make a screen. Master class, diagrams >>>

    Paper dolls

    This origami frog is perfect for theatrical performances. she puts on her fingers and can open and close her mouth by showing her tongue. A three-year-old child can make such a doll.
    Origami frog >>>

    Dolls from improvised materials

    Interesting dolls from disposable spoons. To make such characters, you need spoons, pompoms and pieces of multi-colored fabrics. Simple and original toys for your home performances.
    How to make dolls from disposable spoons >>>

    Finger puppets

    Cute little finger puppets On one arm can fit as many as five characters.

    Pompom theater puppets

    Two pompoms, wire, a little fantasy, and now you have an unusual mouse, or a big-eyed frog on your hand.

    Hand puppets. (Glove)

    Such dolls are called mitten dolls, mittens, gloves or parsley, because the Russian Petrushka is arranged according to this principle.

    Links:
    On Wikipedia: Puppet show


    How to make a paper mouse finger puppet - or R for a rat! — Red Ted Art

    Super simple and easy to make Paper Mouse Finger Puppet . Perfect for reading If You give a Mouse a Cookie or Hickory Dickory Dock version or just for anyone who really loves simple mouse crafts for kids!

    These paper mouse dolls are good for rat crafts (maybe for Year of the Rat 2020 ?) as the mice have beautiful long faces... they are also great for those who study shapes - as they are made from paper cones and colors (we chose to color the ears differently, but you can make each mouse a different color!). One easy paper craft for kids... lots of learning opportunities!

    Mouse paper dolls-Materials

    • On a sheet of white paper will turn out 4 mice
    • Blade for drawing (cut a circle with a diameter of about 17cm)
    • Besers
    • Karandash
    • Pens for decoration

    You can get a copy for print instructions in my shop teachers pay teachers too!

    How to Make a Paper Mouse Puppet - Quick and Easy

    Watch our Paper Mouse Hand Puppet video below. . In the meantime, follow our step-by-step instructions here.

    Making a paper mouse cone

    Step-by-step photo instructions are available in our Teacher's Pay Teacher's store!

    Trace and cut out a circle about 17 cm in diameter. Having said that, with smaller hands you can make them a little smaller too. Experiment!

    Fold the circle in half and in half again so that there are folds to represent the quarters.

    Cut out quarters to make one mouse each. Stay away from paper mouse pieces!

    Apply glue to one long edge of a quarter, roll and secure. Your basic paper cone and paper mouse are ready.

    Adding mouse puppet functionality

    Cute two teardrops for the ears, one long paper for the tail (curl with scissors) and two short thin strips of paper for the mustache.

    Glue the tail to the bottom of the cone on the inside.

    Paint the mouse teardrop ears, apply glue to the bottom and stick to the middle of the cone.

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