We are making puppets!!

These are so much fun to play with.
Here is what you need:

• 1/2 yard of fleece
• 1 black sheet of felt
• 1 small piece of red foam
• poly-fil stuffing
• 1/2 inch foam, poster board (to make a pattern)
• school glue
• hot glue gun with glue sticks
• a small cup of cold water
• sewing machine
• scissors
• cardboard (back of notepad or cereal box)
• a mix of craft materials to decorate your puppet with.

We followed part of this puppet pattern (Hand Puppet Pattern) of the head and arm and then just adjusted it a bit for how we wanted it and added in the body.

We printed it out on paper in sections, taped it together and traced it onto poster board to make our pattern you see below.

We folded the fabric in half one way and then in half the other way.

Here is how we put the mouth together.

We adjusted the following pattern (Hand Puppet Patterns) to fit our puppet.

We then cut it out of the poster board for a pattern.

Next we traced it onto cardboard and then cut it out.

Then glue it onto a sheet of felt.

Once the mouth is dry we cut it out and then cut a small heart shape out of red foam

and hot glue it onto the mouth.

Here is where we forgot to take the pictures of how we sewed it together.  (It is in the below video.)

The two body pieces were sewn together around all the edges except the bottom

and turned inside out.

The arms were sewn all around the edges except for an opening at the bottom to stuff them.

Then we placed the arms inside the shoulder area, turned the body inside out

and then sewed the arms in place.

Then we cut a slit for the mouth.

Next we placed the mouth inside the slit and hot glued it in place.  We learned a great trick about using cold water while pressing the mouth and fleece together so that we wouldn’t burn our fingers.   We still let mom handle most of the hot glue and sewing as we are still learning.

After the mouth is in place and dry we are then able to stuff the head.