This blog is all about fun donkey craft ideas. We’ve got a free download of a donkey paper bag puppet for the kids to make. Another quick craft is to download the donkey coloring page from our last donkey blog. After coloring the donkey, cut it out and paste it to a craft stick to make a stick puppet!
Fun Crafts Featuring Donkeys
Here are just a few of our favorite donkey craft activities that we found on the web that are simple and fun to do. We also have a paper bag puppet template to download, color, cut out and paste to a paper bag. It was specifically designed to use only one sheet of paper so that it is cost effective for groups of kids.
One of my favorite places to look for crafts is DLTK’s Crafts for Kids. This cute and easy free download is ready to used immediately in different colors or it comes in uncolored version. There also are other fun crafts on the same site.
This has got to be the cutest donkey paper plate craft! Instructions and a template are available at The Craft Balloon.
To make this donkey pinata requires a lot of adult help (if not all adult) but it is just too cute! Once it’s made it might be too cute to smash. The blog post has great instructions with lots of pictures. We found this at HGTV How to Make a Pinata.
A Simple Donkey Paper Bag Puppet Can Help in Your Child’s Development
Adults may think kids are just messing around while playing with a paper bag puppet but they are actually developing important child development skills.
Paper bag puppets help kids to:
• pay attention and encourage imaginative play
• develop large and small motor skills by making and then using the puppet
• develop new skills and concepts
Puppets don’t have to be expensive to be fun and help support a child’s development. A simple paper bag puppet like our downloadable template can give kids many opportunities to use a puppet in every day activities and routines to help them learn and to have fun!
Free Download of Template to Make a Donkey Paper Bag Puppet
Have some spare paper lunch bags laying around? Then get ready to turn them into some unicorn puppets. Use our free Donkey Paper Bag Puppet Pattern designed by The Tucson Puppet Lady herself! It’s a great activity for the kids to color, cut out, glue and then play with. The template was specifically designed to use only one sheet of paper so that it is cost effective for groups of kids.
Need a puppet with a moving mouth and makes expressions? We’ve got the pattern!
And if you are really bitten by the craft bug, you can use our Donkey Puppet Sewing Pattern to make your own puppet. It is available as a digital download so you can start sewing immediately. We recommend using fleece and felt fabrics because they are inexpensive and readily available from craft stores. Customers tell us how easy our step by step patterns (with lots of pictures) are to follow especially after watching the video tutorials. In fact you can watch our free video tutorial on how to sew the donkey puppet right now!
What our customers are saying:
“I love her patterns. Pattern well written and easy to follow.”
“I love how the puppet turned out. Please keep the patterns coming!”
NEXT BLOG FEATURES BOOKS AND FREE PUPPET PATTERN
In our next donkey blog, we’ll be sharing a few books which feature donkeys that preschoolers (and older kids) enjoy. The books range from fact to fiction. We’ll also have a free pattern download to make a donkey hand puppet out of felt. You don’t even have to know how to sew, the whole puppet can be made using a hot glue gun. Stay tuned to our blog to get your free download.