We're making sock puppets! Puppets are a great way to communicate with little ones - they often can get a message across to kids much more effectively than us grown ups. And they are super cute! We made a bunch of fun sock puppets to play with and we'll take you through the steps of how to make our dragon puppet and then you can make your own puppet too!
The following steps are to make our friendly dragon puppet, but you can use what you learn here to make a fun puppet design of your very own!
- Let's make the mouth of our puppet! Cut out a piece of cardboard that fits just inside the width of your sock, then fold it in half like your closing it's mouth.
- Draw what kind of mouth shape you'd like! It can be short or long, round or pointy, you can even make your puppet have an overbite or underbite! Once you've decided on your mouth shape, cut it out from your piece of cardboard.
- Using a hot glue gun, glue your cardboard mouth piece to a piece of felt. We used red felt for the inside of the dragon's mouth.
- Cut around the cardboard mouth piece leaving about a one-fourth inch border. Snip little lines into the felt along the edge to avoid buckling and glue the border onto the underside of the cardboard mouth.
- To make the dragon's teeth cut a length of white felt long enough to wrap around the top part of the mouth piece and wide enough for the teeth. Remember to keep an edge that you can use to glue it onto the mouth! Next, cut away a row of small triangle teeth.
- Glue your teeth to the underside of the cardboard mouth piece.
- Now the mouth is ready to be glued onto the sock!
- Cut out and glue in other details for your puppet's mouth, like a tongue!
- For our dragon's eyes, we hot glued googly eyes onto big pom poms, then glued them onto the puppet's head.
- We also used pom poms for nostrils! We stuffed some tissue into the tip of the sock to make an extra thick snout for our dragon as well.
- To finish off our dragon, we cut out a pointy spine from purple felt and hot glued it onto the back of our sock.
When you aren't using your sock puppet a paper cup makes a great place to store it until you're ready to play!
Super Simple, A Place To Learn & Play, "Super Simple Sock Puppet," https://supersimple.com/article/super-simple-sock-puppet/