Sponge Bob Square Pants - easy to make hand puppet

Draw Mr. Sponge Bob Square Pants on a reused carton box

Cut and attach it to a small tablet box like the one here, that fits my LO's palm just right

Hand Puppet is ready for story telling :)

Peppa Pig - sock puppet

And old pink sock is now Peppa Pig, in 3 simple steps and in less than 10 minutes :)

Stitch the sides to form those tiny ears

That is the top of a juice tetra-pack, remember to keep the seal ring intact as well. This yellow portion goes inside the sock and seal ring on top to make the piggy nose.

Outline the eyes and Peppa Pig is ready to roll :)

Reindeer - Hand Puppet

I made this for a little girl - an ardent fan of the movie Frozen. I hope this reindeer reminds her of Sven from the movie.

All you need is some cloth, preferably hosiery that will hold paint well, or if you have similar colored cloth the better. And a plastic bottle to cut the horns from. Needle and Thread to sew it up together

This is a T-shirt sleeve from an out-of-use kids T-shirt, fold the top and cut the edges to seal this end.

 

Add another piece like the one here for the reindeer's face and one for its beard. 

 Now the piece that forms the forehead and ears, I have used socks to get the soft feel.

There you go with the horns, eyes and nose

Some improvement for the eyes, a small portion added as mouth, stitch them all up and I tried giving it bunny teeth, but later decided to remove those :)

Painted the face and horns gray, some finishing touches on the nose, and an added layer of beard. Sven the reindeer is ready for CAMERA, LIGHTS, ACTION

Tortoise - Hand Puppet

We all know how important story telling is for little children. It opens a whole new world for them. Especially if you could top the story telling experience with hand puppets, the hare and the tortoise come alive. The sparkle in your tots eyes to see this is worth a million dollars :)
Here is a step by step detail on how to make this one right at home, that too by recycling.This is a T-shirt sleeve from an out of use kids T-shirt:

Mark out small section to be stitched for holding fingers.

Cut out section for the head

The base is ready

Cut out the shape for the tortoise's shell

Stuff the shell with some cloth and stitch around the sides. My daughter could barely wait for the tortoise to be painted.
I quickly managed to scribble the shell with marker pens and mark the eyes. You can choose to add goggly eyes/buttons/laces as required.