Just in time for Thanksgiving, a delightful turkey stick puppet, that doubles as a fan. It's quick, easy, and you probably have all the materials right at home.
Crafting Time: approximately 30 minutes
By Marie from West Dundee, IL
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Children can have great fun both making and playing with these easy puppets. You don't have to use exactly the same materials as I do. For instance, thread, string, or yarn can be used for the hair and beads or jewels can be used for the eyes or you can even just draw them.
Round-headed peg clothespins have been a quick crafts staple for decades - so much so that many crafting supply companies package them as 'crafting pins' or some similar name.
A fun little project to make and to play with. Draw and cut a mitten shape from construction paper. Glue on large wiggle eyes, or you can make eyes from white paper and black marker to glue on.
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How do you make Popsicle stick puppets?
By Emma from Seattle, WA
These are fun to make and you can use scraps of paper and fabrics to keep it an inexpensive project!
Here is one nice link with instructions
Pinterest has so many ideas ... Found by the phase in your search engine
popsicle puppet making Pinterest
If you like video learning YouTube has lots of choices!
Boy do I wish I had these sources when I was a camp counselor back in the day!!
Have fun with it!
The easiest way is to make figures out of construction paper and glue or tape them to the stick.
