Character Crafts

Choose a craft from the list below and watch your kids have a blast creating a character of their own to play with.

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Funny Alien	Sock Puppets

Latex Glove Funny Bunny	Doily Noodle Lion
Stick Puppets

**Let's be Creature Creators!**

This craft is fun to make and fun to play with when it's done!

Funny Bugs/ Aliens

Materials Needed:

small terra cotta pot w/
a hole in the bottom

1 pipe cleaner (any color)

paint

paintbrush

glue

2 small wooden balls
(or small pom-poms would work,
but we used wooden balls)

optional materials:

2 googly eyes - you could
just paint the eyes on

a nose- we used a wooden letter
"O" but you could paint it on, or
use a pom pom or another
wooden ball...or whatever you
can think of! ;o)

a mouth- we used yarn, but you
could paint it on, or again, use
whatever you can think of :o)

Instructions for our funny creature

1. paint your terra cotta pot however you'd like to and let dry

2. paint your wooden balls (or whatever you chose for eyes) whatever color
you'd like and let dry

3. When dry, glue your wooden balls together

4. If you are using googly eyes, glue them on the wooden balls
and let dry

5. Get your pipe cleaner and tie a knot in the center

6. Insert the two ends into the hole in the pot from the bottom and pull until the
knot stops it from coming out any further

7. tie another knot in the pie cleaners, on the outside, very close to the hole
(this is so the antenna won't slide out from either side of the hole)

(a safety note- bend the sharp ends of the pipe cleaners down, so no one gets
poked with them)

8. When eyes are dry, glue them to the bottom of the pot, right in front of the
pipe cleaner antenna, and let dry

9. If you are adding a nose, go ahead and glue that on

10. If you are adding a mouth, go ahead and glue that on as well, and let dry

11. Have fun playing with your funny creature!

**Sock Puppets**

Good ole' sock puppets
This craft is fun to make, stimulates imaginations, and it's full of fun!

Sock Puppets

Materials Needed:

an old sock(preferably
not *too* old ;o) )

hot glue
(for parents only!)

scisssors (if you're
using felt or scrap fabric)

any craft materials that can
serve as facial features, and
be glued onto a sock!
examples:
scrap fabric, googly eyes,
buttons, felt, yarn
for hair/beard,
or you can just draw
the face on with markers.

Instructions for our sock puppets

1. Flatten your sock out and figure out where
you want to glue or draw everything.

2. Cut out your puppets ears, mouth, bowties, scarfs,
or whatever you want to make.

3. An adult should handle this step, which is hot glueing
all of the parts on.(tip- slide a big metal spoon into the sock
while hot glueing the pieces on, so you don't glue the front to the back,
and you don't have to use your hand!)

4. Let cool and put on a puppet show!

** Doily Noodle Lion **

This craft is fun to make and it's also very cute!

Let's make a lovely lion!

Materials Needed:

1 paper doily

6 elbow noodles

glue

brown/black/yellow/white/red paint

paintbrush

Instructions for our Doily Noodle Lion

1. Paint your doily yellow, with round brown cheeks, and let dry.

2. Paint two of your noodles brown, two of them white, one black
and one red. Let dry.

3. When your doily and your noodles are dry, glue on your
two brown eyes, however you think they look best.

4. Next glue on your black nose.

5. Then glue on your two white noodles as lips in the shape of an "M".

6. Right under your white noodles, glue your red noodle as a bottom
lip facing up into the arches of your white noodles.

7. Let dry and hang on the wall or fridge as art!

** Funny Bunny Balloon **

This craft is fun to make and fun to play with!

Glove Bunny

Materials Needed:

1 latex glove

googly eyes (or buttons would
work)

pink or red button

glue

white and black
construction paper

rubberband

Instructions for our Glove Bunny

1. Rinse your glove out (to make sure all the powder is rinsed off) and
let dry

2. When it's dry, tie a knot at the base of the thumb finger, the middle
finger and the pinky finger.

3. Turn your glove right side out.

4. Blow your glove up, just until the fingers "stand up".

5. Twist the end and tie it tight with your rubberband.

6. Glue on your eyes and let dry.

7. From the white construction paper cut two round cheeks and
two front bunny teeth.

8. Glue the teeth to the back of the bottom of the cheeks.

9. Cut 4 skinny 1 inch long strips from the black construction paper
to make whiskers.

10. Glue your whiskers to the front of the top of the cheeks.

11. Glue the button on over them as a nose, and let dry.

12. Let your bunny hop around!

** New Craft **

Stick Puppets
This craft is fun to make and turns into hours of imaginative fun!

Materials Needed:

one sheet white posterboard

markers/crayons

scissors

tape

1 stick per puppet
(we used straws, but you could use popsicle sticks)

Instructions for our Stick Puppets

1. Draw your character shapes on the poster board.

2. Cut your shapes out.

3. Tape your stick to the back of the character.

4. Have a puppet show!

If you have any crafty, rainy day or holiday ideas that you'd like to share,
send 'em to me, and I'll post them here, giving you credit of course!

Character Crafts

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Funny Alien

Sock Puppets

Latex Glove Funny Bunny

Doily Noodle Lion

Stick Puppets