How exciting! Our very first free felt hand puppet pattern is the llama. This little guy was designed for a Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? puppet play. Very simple to make – just cut felt and glue together. You could hand sew it too, if you wanted.
15 Free Finger Puppet Pattern Links
Here is a collection of links to other sites and blogs that offer free finger puppet patterns. Check out our Pinterest board to see all the free finger puppet links.
Horse Puppet Color Suggestions
Zebra Hand Puppet Included with Horse Hand Puppet Pattern
Want to make a zebra hand puppet? Use your sewing machine to create a lightweight hand puppet out of fleece, felt and foam. The zebra hand puppet features a felt mane that stand ups like a real zebra, cute felt hooves and large ears. Super adorable for playtime or story time.
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My Puppets Help Celebrate June as Aphasia Awareness Month
Aphasia is a language disorder that affects the ability to communicate. It’s most often caused by injury to parts of the brain that control speech and language resulting from a stroke.
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How to Make Unicorn Hand Puppet Using Our Horse Pattern
The unicorn hand puppet is basically our horse puppet pattern with a horn. Picking fancy fleece and felt makes the unicorn really come to life.
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How to Make Gerald from “Elephant and Piggie” Books
The Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems is an adorable children’s book series that I love to read to the preschool set. Gerald the Elephant is a very distinctive character with big ears and glasses.
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How to Make Piggie from “Elephant and Piggie” Books
The Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems is an adorable children’s book series that I love to read to the preschool set.
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How to Make Yarn Wrapped Glasses
If you want to create glasses for your puppets, then here’s an excellent video tutorial created by Sharon Ojala. I just followed her instructions to make my step by step photo tutorial below.
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? Finger Puppet Activity
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont and Eugene Yelchin is a children’s picture book about missing cookie dough. Kanga the kangaroo is making cookies, but discovers the cookie dough is all gone. She’ll ask the zebra, hippo, lion, cheetah, llama and monkey if they ate the cookie dough. Find out who did it when you read the book.
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