Princess Finger Puppets

A couple months ago I ran into just about the cutest little finger puppets I ever did see.  Jill over at Made it on Monday came up with these pretty little princess puppets and I just haven't been able to get over at how darling they are.  I couldn't resist making some for my niece for Christmas this last year.

Perfect for a pretty little princess puppet show.

Jill glued hers together but I chose to sew some of the pieces and then use fusible webbing to put the rest of it together.  I just can't resist using fusible webbing when doing felt projects.

 . . . And a perfect little castle purse to store all those little princesses in.

I used stiff felt for my castle bag and extend Jill's pattern to make the castle a little bit longer.

The best part is that Jill was nice enough to share her patterns with all of us.  I just LOVE it when bloggers do that.  Thanks Jill!  Stop by Made it on Monday to get your own.

I just love these little dolls . . .

Gifts Kids Can Make: Simple Puppet Tutorial

Alright . . . sorry it's taken me so long to get a tutorial up here! Here is a really basic tutorial for a simple glove puppet. First you'll take two pieces of felt and cut your puppet shape. I use this template.

Next, you'll sew those two pieces together making sure to leave the bottom open.

Now you'll need your creativity! You'll need to cut out pieces to embellish these little guys! For this one I made a really simple ninja (since that's what my boys love these days). Glue them on with some tacky glue and voila! You're done!

My two oldest are designing and making a few of these for A for Christmas. Here are a few of the puppets that we have finished thus far. Hopefully we can fit in a few more before the end of the week!

***For my first set of puppets I used wonder under but then Mr. A pulled a bunch of them off (it's his thing). I decided this time to just use glue even though it will make it a little more stiff.

Gifts Kids Can Make: Memory Game & Stick Puppets

My kids love Star Wars.  I'm not even sure how they learned about it in the first place, and they haven't even seen the movies until recently but have loved them just the same. 

I really like how Jeanine has her kids make each other gifts for Christmas (see last years here, here, and here) and decided that we would start that tradition in our family this year.  When I saw this adorable Star Wars preschool pack I knew it would be the perfect thing for my daughter to use to make my son a gift for Christmas.  When I shared the idea with her she was super excited.  We decided that we'd use some of the images to make a memory matching game and also some stick puppets.

We fist picked out some card stock and then printed the images on the reverse side.

After cutting out the pieces . . .

we laminated and cut them out again.

Perfect little matching game for any Star Wars lover.

A little jewelry box is just right to store the cards in.

And we've already had fun with the stick puppets (shhhh, don't tell).  My daughter insisted on putting on a show for me before we wrapped them up.

My daughter is so excited to give her handmade gift and I can't wait to see the excitement on my son's face Christmas morning.

And for all you Star Wars lovers out there here are some other homemade Star Wars crafts I've seen around:

 Finger Puppets

 Cookie Cutters

 Peggies

 Pool Noodle Light sabers

Otter Pop Light saber

Super Hero Puppets

My boys are obsessed with super heroes.  Are yours?

Way back in March for J's 4th birthday I threw together some super hero puppets and a puppet theater.  They were fairly simple (although a bit time consuming) to make and my boys love them!

If you can't tell, I made Superman (who actually has a red cape, not pictured), Batman, Spiderman, and the Joker.

I was informed that they needed some more "bad guys" to fight.  So I'm thinking that more puppets are on the list of gifts to make for Christmas.  I have a great idea for some Star Wars puppets.  We'll see!  I can't wait to see what puppet shows they come up with for me to watch!

Most of my details are free-handed but when I get around to making more I will try to make a simple tutorial if anyone is interested.