INSIDE: DIY Diversity Felt Hand Puppet Craft is a fun and easy people craft for kids. It is a great way to talk about race and bring more diversity to your playroom through art and play!
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How to Create Felt Diverse Hand Puppet Craft
- Click above to download your copy of the hand puppet outline. Cut it out.
- Grab your felt sheets in various skin tones and trace the hand puppet outline on it. Cut out the 2 felt sheet in the shape of the hand puppet. If you don’t have enough skin tone colour to cut out two sides, use a different colour for the back of the puppet.
- Use a glue gun or tack glue to glue to glue to two sides of the hand puppet together. Glue all around leaving the bottom unglued.
- Use scissor to cut out white circles for eyes, out of the white felt and cut out different coloured eyes for your puppets.
- Cut out noses and mouths.
- Cut out clothes – shirts, pants and dresses. Use the outline of the hand puppet as reference.
- Use a glue gun or tack glue to glue the face and clothes to your hand puppet.
- Play with your puppets!
DIY Diversity Felt Hand Puppet Craft
Supplies
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- Felt sheets in various skin tones and other colours
- Quick Dry Tacky Glue or glue gun
- Scissors
Age Suitability
This activity is good for kids 4 years and up. My kids are 3, 3, and 6 year old.
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