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August 3, 2009

Kids Love Making Puppets

Filed under: Kids Painting and Crafts — Tags: Fun, paper, pens, Puppet, scissors, stick — @ 3:26 am

Paper Plate Puppet

What You Need:- Paper plates, felt-tipped pens, collage bits and pieces, glue, scissors, tape, sticks.

What To Do:- Decorate plates with pens and glued on bits and pieces to make puppets head. Tape a stick to the plate for a handle and your ready to play.

Paper Bag Puppet

What You Need:- Paper bags, felt tipped pens or crayons, bits and pieces for decoration, glue, stapler, scissors, cardboard cylinder or stick, tape or elastic band.

What To Do:- Draw a face on the paper bag, fill bag with scrunched up paper, attach bag to stick or cylinder with elastic band or tape. You can also put the bag on childs hand. A sock will work as well as a paper bag, just sew decorations on.

Rubber Glove Puppet

What You Need:- Felt tipped pens, rubber glove, scissors, wool and glue.

What To Do:- Cut finger tips off rubber glove and draw faces on them with coloured pens. Glue wool for hair on the finger tips of the glove and your ready to play.

Finger People

What You Need:- Felt tipped pens, fabric and paper scraps, scissors, elastic bands.

What To Do:- Draw a face on one finger. Wrap piece of fabric or paper around finger for clothes and fix in place with rubber band. Tear or cut out a circle of paper for a hat. Tear a small hole in the centre. Push finger into the hole to make a hat. Your ready to play.

Have Fun

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August 2, 2009

Kids Making Puppets

Filed under: Kids Painting and Crafts — Tags: cardboard, drawing, fabric, paste, Puppet, scissors — @ 6:13 am

As much as kids enjoy playing with puppets they can also have a whole lot of fun making them. Puppets can be a wonderful form for expressing ideas and imagination through their creation and subsequent play. Puppets can be as simple or creative as the child desires and as skill and materials allow.

What You Need:-

Scrap Materials – Old socks, gloves, tubes, boxes, sticks, pine cones, paper bags, paper plates, balloons, wool, cotton wool, paper and cardboard, ice block sticks, felt, paste, tape or staples, scissors, crayons, felt pens or paint.

Finger Puppets

What You Need:- Paper, felt or material, cotton wool, ribbons, material, lace and glue, scissors, felt tipped pens.

What to Do:- Cut a shape of paper, felt or fabric about 9 cm x 6 cm. Glue down or sew around the edges leaving bottom end open for finger. Glue or paint on a face add clothes and hair.

Walking Puppets

What You Need:- Cardboard, felt-tipped pens, scissors, glue, fabric, wool, cotton wool.

What to Do:-Draw a figure and paste onto cardboard or draw on cardboard directly. Cut around figure and then cut out a hole for each leg large enough t0 poke fingers through. Draw face and add decorations for hair and clothes. Put fingers through the holes and the puppet is able to be walked around and play with the other puppets.

Have Lots of Fun

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July 31, 2009

More Fun with Paper

Filed under: Kids Painting and Crafts — Tags: craft, paper, scissors, tape, weave — @ 5:27 am

Making Snowflakes

What You Need:- Squares of paper, different colours or previous drawings or paintings, scissors.

What to Do: – Fold paper in half and then in half again. Fold diaginally to make a triangle. Cut out small pieces around the edges. Ensure the paper is not too thick for small hands. Unfold paper to see snowflake.

Fold, Dip and Dye

What You Need: – Paper towelling or napkins, food colouring or vegetable dye, shallow containers for each colour.

What to Do:- Mix food colouring or dye with water in containers. Fold paper in half and in half again, Dip each corner, one at a time, into a colour, unfold the paper to see the design. Try dipping snowflakes into colours.

Weaving

What You Need:- Strips of paper, crepe or cellophane works well, string or wool, a frame is needed for this.

What to Do:- Make a frame out of the side of a cardboard box with slits cut into the edges of the top and bottom. Run string from top to bottom secured at the edges. Weave paper in and out of string.

Paper Weaving

What You Need:- Strong paper, strips of paper, scissors, paste, tape, glue.

What to Do:- Fold sheet of paper in half, start at fold cut slits across paper, stop about 2cm from edge. Don’t worry if its not straight or even. Weave paper strips in and out of slits. Glue, tape or staple each strip at both ends. Use different colours, textures or contrasting strips of paper for weaving.

Have Fun

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