Sock+Puppets

Cynthia and Mayra =] ] Things you need: Wiggly Eyes Cotton Socks Single Socks 3/8-inch Dowels Styrofoam Balls Batting Craft Pompoms Fabric Glue Felt Scrap Yarn Cotton Swabs Plastic Drinking Cups Scissors Construction Paper Permanent Markers Pipe Cleaners Hand Puppet Step 1: Save a single clean sock. The sock needs to be large enough to fit loosely over a child's hand. Step 2: Gather craft supplies such as construction paper, permanent marker, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, cotton balls or batting. Step 3: Place hand in sock with thumb and fingers working like a mouth. Step 4: Mark lightly with a marker - areas for mouth, eyes, nose, and ears. Step 5: Cut ears and mouth from felt and glue in marked areas with fabric glue or craft glue.

View All Steps Stick Puppet Step 1: Use an adult-sized clean sock. Step 2: Gather craft supplies: Styrofoam balls, 3/8-inch dowel rod, plastic cups, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, craft pompoms, and cotton balls. Step 3: Push the dowel rod at an angle into the Styrofoam ball. Step 4: Cut four ear shapes for your puppet from felt. Step 5: Lay a pipe cleaner bent in half on one felt ear shape and glue the other felt ear shape on top - leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner sticking out of the bottom of the ear. This is what you will stick into the foam ball. Step 6: Place foam ball with dowel rod inside sock. Step 7: Glue on wiggle eyes, or draw eyes with a permanent marker. Step 8: Glue or draw on nose. Pompoms found in a store's craft department make cute noses. Step 9: Cut a small slit in the sock on the side of the head for the ears. Poke the pipe cleaner through the slit into the foam ball. Make pipe-cleaner antennas the same way. Step 10: Stuff the neck with batting. You will need to use enough batting to make the head stand up. Step 11: Cut a hole into the bottom of the plastic cup. Turn cup upside down and slide over dowel rod up inside the sock neck. Step 12: Move puppet by holding the cup and moving the dowel rod.