How Do You Make A Hand Puppet?
This simple hand puppet can be made from any type of fabric you like. Try using felt or cloth for people puppets and an appropriately colored fake fur for animal puppets. Step 1 Use a pencil to draw the puppet pattern onto a piece of stiff paper or light- to medium-weight cardboard. Draw and redraw as often as needed to get the desired shape. Step 2 Draw the head and the neck, then make arm shapes that stretch outward. The arms can be angled upward, downward or drawn at a 90-degree angle to the body. Step 3 Make sure that the distance between the underarm points of the pattern is narrow enough to allow the wearer to insert a thumb into one arm and the little finger into the other. Position the head so that the wearer’s other fingers will be able to extend into the head portion of the puppet. Step 4 Draw a straight line on each side of the shape that extends from the underarm to the desired length. The total length of the puppet should be no longer than the distance from the wearer’s fi
Here are the few basic steps to make simple hand puppet. • Fold a piece of construction paper in half. • Unfold the paper, and with school glue or a glue stick, glue along the edge of the sides of the paper but not the bottom. Refold. Make sure to only glue the sides and not the bottom because that is where you’ll put your hand! • With markers, draw a face on the paper. You can also add arms and legs! • Wait 10 minutes or so for it to dry. 10 minutes will do • Place your hand in the construction paper. Voilà! You have a hand puppet Bring it around town!!
Children and adults alike love hand puppets. With the economy in such a fiasco, make a hand puppet as a gift that will be treasured for years. Hand puppets can be made for free with scraps found around the home. You will need paper, fabric or felt, scissors, glue, pen, thread and needle to sew by hand or a sewing machine. Optional items that can be used are plastic eyes, yarn, buttons and junk drawer and jewelry box findings. • Create a pattern using a simple sheet of 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper. This can be copy paper, loose leaf paper or newspaper. Put your hand down on the paper and trace the size of your hand from your fingertips down to your wrist. • Cut out the pattern you just created, but cut it about 2″ larger all around. • Lay the paper pattern onto two layers of your fabric or felt. • Cut along the lines you drew. You should end up with something that looks like a mitten with no thumb. You will have two of those. Lay both down with the wrong sides facing and sew along three sides, le
