It's time to put on a puppet show this Christmas with all your favorite holiday characters! Ella and Annie have created five adorable Christmas Finger Puppets, suitable for kids of all ages. The best part, you don't need many supplies to make your puppet show come to life! Make Santa, a reindeer, snowman, a gorgeous Christmas angel and Santa's favorite helper an elf! Grab some glue, paper and a few simple craft supplies to get started.
To make the project super easy, use circle punches. If you do not have various sized circle punches, you can grab a circle object from around your home to trace. Punch a 3" circle from red scrapbook paper for Santa's body. Create the belt with black and glitter gold construction paper, glue to the body. Punch out a smaller circle from white paper for the head. Color the head with a skin tone crayon color. Draw red cheeks, glue on a red button nose and two googly eyes. Punch the same sized circle as the head for the white beard, then cut the circle in half and glue on for Santa's beard. Cut a small red triangle for the hat and glue on white tissue paper squares for his hair.
Punch the Elf's body from some fun holiday scrapbook paper. Punch the same sized circle from the glitter green paper and cut that circle in half. Cut small triangles across the flat side of the half circle and glue on the body. Put three red self-adhesive jewels on for the buttons. Punch a smaller circle from white paper and use a skin tone colored crayon to color the face. Color rosey cheeks and glue on a red button nose and googly eyes. Draw a smile with a black marker. Cut a small half circle from brown construction paper for the Elf's hair. Cut a small green triangle for hat and glue a glitter pom pom to the top of the Elf's hat!
The Reindeer Finger Puppet is the easiest to make! Punch a 3" circle for the reindeer's body. Punch a slightly smaller circle for the reindeer's head out of brown construction paper. Glue the head to the body. Attach a giant red glitter pom for the reindeer's nose. Glue on two googly eyes above the nose. Trace two antlers on brown construction paper and cut out. Glue antlers on to the back of the reindeer's head. Punch two 1/2" circle in the bottom of the puppet for your child's fingers.
Cut a small glitter gold triangle for the angel's body. Use a 2 1/2" circle punch for the angel's head. Color her face with a skin tone crayon, add rosey cheeks, and use a black marker to draw on eyes and mouth. We used a scalloped circle punch for the angel's wings; cut in half and glue to the back of the body. Cut a two red rectangles for the hair and glue to the back of her head. Stick on some Christmas jewels for the angel's halo. Use a 1/2" circle punch to cut two holes for your child's fingers.
Use the glitter silver paper for the Snowman Finger Puppet. Cut three various sized circles and layer them to make a snowman. Draw three black buttons on the snowman's body with a black marker. Cut a Y shape from red glitter paper to make the scarf. Use orange construction paper to cut a small triangle for the snowman's nose. Glue on two googly eyes. For the hat cut two black rectangles and glue to the head. Use a 1/2" circle punch to make two holes the child's fingers.
