Puppet activities for kids

Handprint People Puppets is a fun and easy craft and a great way to talk about diversity at home or school! Great for all ages!

Looking for easy spoon puppets to make with mixing spoons? Print these fun stickers, decorate, and get hours of play and creativity!

I completely underestimated how much the girls would enjoy playing with shadow puppets. Whenever something so simple makes them so happy, I can’t help but smile!! And this was SUPER simple. Added bonus — the perfect entertainment for whenever a power outage occurs. Our little shadow puppet theater was made from an empty cardboard box […]

These pom pom wiggly worm puppets are so adorable and they're really easy to make! You can make each one in less than 10 minutes and there's zero mess. It's such a fun and simple craft to try with the kids!

These adorable spring animal popsicle stick puppets are the perfect craft for spring! Your toddler will love having a lamb, bunny, and chick to play with throughout the day. Simply download the templates for each animal, cut them out, and piece them together to make cute animals for your kids to add to their imaginative play. All you need is white embossed and colored paper, the template, popsicle sticks, a sharpie, a pencil, craft glue, and scissors to make this fun craft with your kids.

Create a fun paper plate frog puppet!.This is a fun and easy frog craft kids can make from a paper plate with egg carton eyes... ribbit!

Last weekend, my kids came up with a delightful idea to put on a puppet show. The only catch? We didn't have any puppets. Seeing their excitement, I thought, why not make them ourselves? With a little bit of research and lots of imagination, we set out to create our puppet cast. We gathered old socks, yarn, buttons, and fabric scraps. It turned into a fun crafting afternoon, filled with laughter and creativity. Each puppet began to take on its own character, sparking stories from my kids…

Make a Puppet Theatre Imagination is a wonderful thing and what better way for kids to use their imaginations than putting on puppet shows. We love to create new puppets using socks without mates and adding a bit of fabric scraps and bits of things from our craft basket. The kids always amaze us with […] Read more...