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    You are here: Home / Art and Crafts / Puppet Play {Homemade Stick Puppets}

     

    Puppet Play {Homemade Stick Puppets}

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    As you know, we like to keep our arts and crafts activities super simple around here. These are the easiest DIY puppets ever and perfect to use with that cardboard puppet theater we made!

    DIY homemade puppets from magazines and craft sticks

    There's no need to go into elaborate instructions! Kiddo and I both cut out some animals from magazines (you can probably tell from the photo which photos I cut out and which ones Kiddo cut!) and taped them to craft sticks. Easy Peasy.

    Kiddo immediately started using them and pretended each animal was telling the others about their environments and what kinds of food they ate. So bonus! Puppet play meets science lesson.

    See more -->  prompts for pretend play.
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    1. Sherry says

      June 17, 2009 at 1:17 pm

      These little puppets are quite the obsession at our house. 😉 Thanks for the link up.

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    2. Jenny says

      June 17, 2009 at 7:32 pm

      I love this idea- nice and simple, and a bonus that you sneaked some learning in too. Although I'd be happy if CJ happily played on her own with them too!

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    3. sunnymama says

      June 20, 2009 at 2:06 am

      They look great! Thanks for the link 🙂

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    4. SkylarKD says

      June 28, 2009 at 1:16 am

      Great little activity!

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