Make a Wooden Spoon Puppet
All you need is a wooden spoon, some crafty bits and pieces and the ability to draw a face and you'll be making a puppet in no time. Try to make several so that you can hold your own puppet show with friends.
Suitable for preschoolers and early elementary under supervision of teacher or parent.
Steps
- Make the puppet's face. Draw a face on the inside of the wooden spoon using felt tip pens. Draw whatever expression suits the puppet you're making - happy, sad, angry, poking a tongue out etc. You might like to make either a person or an animal. Consider other possible ideas, including an alien, a fairytale character or a mythical beast.
- Decorate the puppet. Use masking tape to stick pieces of tissue paper and scrap material to your wooden spoon for clothing (or scales, armour etc.). This is a lot less messy than glue and you can change the features any time you feel like it. Stick the craft items to the handle to create a costume for your puppet.
- Create the puppet's arms and legs. Add pipe cleaners for arms and legs by twisting them around the handle.
- Add other features. Add feathers to the head of your wooden spoon puppet. You might also like to try some of the other items suggested in "Tips".
- Make more puppets. Then you can put on a puppet show!
Tips
- Other crafty bits that you might like to add to the wooden spoon puppet include:
- glitter
- sequins
- ribbon (and bows)
- rubber bands
- a cardboard collar for a pet puppet
- little beads
- broken pieces of unwanted jewellery
- cotton wool
- stickers
- If you have a story that you really like and want to turn it into a puppet show, let this guide the puppet characters that you make.
Things You'll Need
- a wooden spoon (or more if you'd like)
- some felt tip pens
- some masking tape
- some pipe cleaners
- some feathers
- some scrap material
- some colourful tissue paper
