Our 9 and 7 year old boys have written a wonderful little puppet show for two sea otter sock puppets that we made back in our first year of home school. I'd like to share it with you. You may use it and the sock puppet idea if you like. Feel free to print and perform the play for friends and family as much as you like.
Here are the materials we used for the sock puppets:
- tall brown socks
- buttons for eyes
- tan or cream colored felt for mouth (sewed on)
- tan or cream colored felt for ears (also sewed on)
- black felt for nose (sewed on top of mouth piece)
- cotton balls for stuffing nose and mouth area to give it shape
- fishing line for whiskers
- black felt tipped marker for shading felt in ears and around mouth (optional)
- needle and thread to sew on felt pieces (use a whip stitch as shown in video below)
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I have attached patterns for the mouth, nose, and ear pieces here. Forgive my lack of artistry on the drawings. They are rough, but they work.
Here is the play!
From our house to yours, enjoy!
*Please do not copy this to any other sites without permission. You may link directly to my site or directly to this post if you wish.
1 comment:
that was a very cute play, very adventurous David and Ethan-it would be what life would be like if you two boys were otters! ;)
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