DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Paper Bag Pilgrim Puppet
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This is a fun and easy cut and paste paper craft that uses a paper bag as a base to make a pilgrim puppet.
Materials:
You can make a brown pilgrim with a brown paper bag or use different colors of paint if you feel like getting creative.
- a paper lunch bag,
- 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 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:
- If using TEMPLATE 2, glue the collar onto the BODY just below the HEAD.
- Glue the mouth underneath the flippy tab so you can see a tiny part of it sticking out when the flap is closed -- it will overlap the collar a little bit.
- Glue the hair at the top of the HEAD.
- Glue the eyes onto the HEAD below the hair. If you like, you can use wiggly eyes instead of the paper template pieces.
- Glue the hat over the hair.
- Glue the nose under the eyes.
- Glue the eyebrows over the eyes.
- Glue the mustache onto the HEAD, below the nose, so it overlaps the flippy tab a little bit.
NOTE: the arms, belt, shoes and collar are on template 2. If you feel the project is too big for your child, you can skip the second template and have a simpler armless puppet.
- Glue the arms into the FLAP.
- Glue the round button onto the chest -- I like to put it right over the collar.
- Glue the belt onto the BODY
- Glue the shoes onto the very bottom of the BODY
- Glue the corn into one of the hands.
Craft Templates:
- Close template window when done 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).
Template 1 (color) or (B&W)
Template 2 (color) or (B&W)
Printable version of these instructions
