Its time for some Christmas puppet fun!
We have Santa, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, an elf and a snowman.
Which character is your favorite?
Make just your favorite Christmas character or make them all.
Santa Stick Puppet Craft
1.
Cut off top of cupcake liner
Begin by cutting one-third off the top of a white cupcake liner.
Set it aside to dry completely.
Add thin layer of cotton ball
Add a line of glue at the top of the cupcake liner.
Then add a thin layer of cotton ball on the glue.
Then glue a white sparkly pom at the top of the triangle hat.
We used Glue Dots for the pieces so we didnt have to wait for drying time.
They also work well to glue down the pom-poms.
Elf Stick Puppet Craft
1.
Glue face and ears onto triangle body
Glue the ears on the sides of the elf face.
Then glue the face onto the green triangle.
Then add a line of glue and thin strip of cotton ball at the top of the elf hair.
Add eyes, nose and hat pom-pom
Glue googly eyes and a small red pom on your elf face.
Then glue a sparkly white pom at the top of the elf hat.
Draw a smile
Use a black marker to draw a smile on your elf stick puppet.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Stick Puppet Craft
1.
Turn the triangle so the tip is at the bottom.
Cut out ears from more of your brown cardstock paper and glue them onto your reindeer.
Glue googly eyes and nose
Glue googly eyes on your reindeer.
Then glue a red pom at the bottom tip of the triangle.
Create reindeer antlers
Now create the reindeer antlers.
To do this, fold and cut a brown chenille stem in half.
Youll use one-half of a chenille stem for each of the antlers.
Fold and cut your chenille stem in half again.
Then cut one more of the sections in half.
Fold each of the smaller sections around the larger section to make antlers.
Do this with the other half of chenille stem as well.
We glued it on a bit of an angle.
Snowman Stick Puppet Craft
1.
Glue the head onto the body of the snowman.
Cut out nose, glue eyes and nose on the snowman
Cut out a carrot nose from orange cardstock.
Glue googly eyes and the carrot nose on the snowman.
Create snowman smile
Use a hole punch to punch out several black circles.
Glue a few buttons
Glue a few buttons on the snowman body.
Create scarf
Tie a ribbon around the snowman where the face and body meet.
Secure it with a knot to create a scarf.
Then trim off any excess pieces of ribbon.
Your Christmas Stick Puppets are complete!
Now its time for play.
Simply hold the end of the craft sticks and use them as puppets.
you’re able to make a DIY stage out of cardboard to put on a puppet show.
Or hold them as props while singing some of your favorite Christmas songs.
