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DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Paper Bag Scarecrow Puppet
This is a fun and easy cut and paste paper craft that uses a
paper bag as a base to make a scarecrow puppet suitable for farm
or autumn themes. I've provided a template for you to make
the puppet or you can get creative and cut your own pieces out
of construction paper.
Materials Needed:
- a paper lunch bag (white or brown
will work)
- OPTIONAL: beige paint or
beige paper to make the face a different colour than the
body.
- a printer,
- something to colour with if using
the B&W template,
- a black marker or pencil crayon
- scissors
- glue,
- paper for the printer
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Optional:
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 arms (template
2) into this flap.
- If the kids goof and glue the arms
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!
ASSEMBLING YOUR PUPPET
- Cover the
HEAD
of the paper bag with beige paper
(just glue it on and trim) or paint the
HEAD
beige and let
dry.
- Glue the mouth underneath the flippy tab
so you can see a tiny part of it sticking out when the flap is
closed.
- Glue the nose and eyes onto the
HEAD.
If you like, you can use wiggly eyes instead of the paper template
pieces.
- Glue the hair at the top of the
HEAD.
- Glue the hat onto the
HEAD
just over the hair and then glue the hat brim over the hat.
- Glue the sunflower onto the hat brim.
- Use a black marker or pencil crayon to
draw a mouth onto the
HEAD.
Template 2: If working with preschoolers, you may want
to just do template 1.
The scarecrow will still have a cute face which is the important
part!
Template 2 includes the pieces to decorate the body (bow and
buttons), the feet and the arms.
If you do use
Template 2, assemble as follows:
- Glue the bow onto the
BODY
just below the
HEAD
- Glue the buttons onto the
BODY
- Glue the feet onto the bottom of the
BODY
- Glue the arms into the
FLAP.
- Glue the crow onto one of the arms or onto
the top of the hat
Printing the Template:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this
screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the
template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in
most browsers).
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