Paper Bag Puppets

Paper Bag Puppets

 Very simple puppets made from small paper lunch bags. You can make a raccoon, dog, cat, rabbit, bunny, mouse, pig, panda, or frog.


Supplies needed:

• Paper bags
• Scraps of construction paper
• Glue
• Scissors
• Markers or crayons
• Optional - googly eyes, pipe cleaners for whiskers 

Would you like to start with a frog? 

Here's how:

Make bulging frog eyes by cutting two strips of green paper that are rounded on one end. Fold the straight end under (at the dotted line), and glue on an eye (made of paper or a googly eye).

Glue or tape the folded base of the eyes onto the paper bag.

Cut a long tongue out of paper. Glue in in the frog's mouth.

Glue on two short arms and two long legs, and decorate the frog with green paper patches.

 

NOW YOU HAVE A FROG!

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Paper Bag Bird Puppet This is a fun and easy cut and paste paper craft that uses a paper bag as a base to make a puppet. Materials Needed: a paper lunch bag (brown or white will work)  green paint or green paper    a printer,  some crayons,  scissors  glue,  paper for the printer Optional: big wiggly eyes

PRINT THE TEMPLATE:

• Print out the template of choice (color or b&w)
• Colour (as required) and cut out the template pieces. 

GET FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PAPER BAG:

• I'm going to walk through this slowly.  Look at your paper bag. 
• It should be closed and flat like a piece of paper.  Just like when they are brand new.
• On one side, it's all smooth.  This will be the BACK of your puppet
  • It's important that all the kids get the back and front straight at the beginning!
• On the other side there's a flippy tab (which is typically the bottom of the bag when you're carrying your lunch around...)
  • This flippy tab will be the HEAD
• Lift the flippy tab up a bit.  Underneath of the tab will be the mouth,
  • When the child puts her hand in the bag, she'll be able to make the puppet talk.
• Look at the rest of the front of the bag.  (The 3/4 or so of the bag below the part with the flippy tab)  This will be the BODY.
• Look at the sides of the bag.  There should be a FLAP of paper. 
  • We'll be slipping the wings into this flap.
  • If the kids goof and glue the wings onto the front or back of the bag, it isn't a big deal.
• OK, now that we're comfy with our bags, let's craft!
   
    

Assemble your puppet:

• Cover the FLAP and the BODY of the paper bag with green paper (just glue it on and trim) or paint it green and let dry.
    
• glue the chest from Template 1 onto the BODY 
   
• Glue the feather tuft to the top of the HEAD
    
• Glue the eyes onto the HEAD just under the feathers.  If you like, you can use wiggly eyes instead of the paper template pieces.
    
• Glue the beak under the eyes.  It will likely hang down over a little bit of the BODY.  Make sure you just put glue on top of the beak (where it touches the HEAD) so you don't end up gluing the mouth shut.
    
• Glue the wings into the FLAP.
• Glue the feet onto the bottom of the BODY
  
• Glue the tail onto the BACK. 
• Paper Bag Bird Puppet