How to Make Puppets with Children (Ages 6-12)

How to Make Puppets with Children contains all the necessary pattern pieces for making 37 delightful hand puppets and 26 finger puppets that lend themselves to a variety of curriculum areas.

Use the puppets to provide a variety of opportunities for practicing oral language skills:

• retell a story
• create original puppet shows
• use the puppets to accompany oral reports about the animal
• beginning readers may use the finger puppets as they learn their initial sounds

Hand puppet subjects include:

• hippo
• dragon
• giraffe
• bear
• walrus
• tortoise
• cat

Other subjects include:

• girl
• boy
• astronaut
• alien
• knight
• princess
• robot