An Arts and Crafts Activity
Looking for a way to simultaneously create a toy for your toddler and keep your older child decked out for Halloween?
Materials Required:
- Old gloves or peanut shells, Band-Aids or Thimbles
- Decorating supplies
Optional Materials:
- Cardboard box
Looking for a way to simultaneously create a toy for your toddler and keep your older child decked out for Halloween?
Instructions:
Snip the fingers off a sacrificial glove and use them to make finger puppets.
Then give the remainders of the gloves to your older kids – they can use them for a classic hobo routine or whatever else the style of the moment dictates.
Even if you don’t have spare gloves (or any teenagers, for that matter), you can make finger puppets out of peanut shells, pieces of felt, thimbles, and, yes, Band-Aids.
Use markers to draw faces, and affix yarn or cotton with glue to create hair, beards, and other features.
Try making a theater by cutting a window (6″ square or so) towards one end of a cardboard box.
Remove all of the box flaps from the top except the one at the same end as your window.
Now set the box on end with the window uppermost and facing out.
Slip your hand under the flap and have your puppets perform a show through the window.
This Childrens Activity is sponsored by Zane Education – the home of online Visual Learning.
