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MATERIALS:

•Wiggly Eyes •Cotton Socks •Single Socks •3/8-inch Dowels •Styrofoam Balls •Batting •Fabric Glue •Felt •Scrap Yarn •Cotton Swabs •Plastic Drinking Cups •Scissors •Construction Paper •Permanent Markers •Pipe Cleaners


INSTRUCTIONS: HAND PUPPET

Step 1: Save a single clean sock. The sock needs to be large enough to fit loosely over a child's hand.

Step 2: Gather craft supplies such as construction paper, permanent marker, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, cotton balls or batting.

Step 3: Place hand in sock with thumb and fingers working like a mouth.

Step 4: Mark lightly with a marker - areas for mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.

Step 5: Cut ears and mouth from felt and glue in marked areas with fabric glue or craft glue.

Step 6: Glue wiggly eyes in place. However, make eyes with a black permanent marker if puppet is going to be using by small children.

Step 7: Use yarn cut into small strings and glued to sock for hair or horse's mane.

Step 8: Make antlers, horns, or antennas from pipe cleaners.


INSTRUCTIONS: STICK PUPPET

Step 1: Use an adult-sized clean sock.

Step 2: Gather craft supplies: Styrofoam balls, 3/8-inch dowel rod, plastic cups, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, craft pompoms, and cotton balls.

Step 3: Push the dowel rod at an angle into the Styrofoam ball.

Step 4: Cut four ear shapes for your puppet from felt.

Step 5: Lay a pipe cleaner bent in half on one felt ear shape and glue the other felt ear shape on top - leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner sticking out of the bottom of the ear. This is what you will stick into the foam ball.

Step 6: Place foam ball with dowel rod inside sock.

Step 7: Glue on wiggle eyes, or draw eyes with a permanent marker.

Step 8: Glue or draw on nose. Pompoms found in a store's craft department make cute noses.

Step 9: Cut a small slit in the sock on the side of the head for the ears. Poke the pipe cleaner through the slit into the foam ball. Make pipe-cleaner antennas the same way.

Step 10: Stuff the neck with batting. You will need to use enough batting to make the head stand up.

Step 11: Cut a hole into the bottom of the plastic cup. Turn cup upside down and slide over dowel rod up inside the sock neck.

Step 12: Move puppet by holding the cup and moving the dowel rod.


Source: http://www.ehow.com

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