How to Go Make Juice Can Puppets

The humble juice can is just the right size for a child’s hand. Making sure there are no sharp edges, gather up some clean juice cans and make puppets with your kids. Here is how.

What You’ll Need:

-Juice cans
-Glue
-Colorful construction paper, craft foam, or cloth
-Pipe cleaners or felt strips
-“Googly” eyes
-Markers or paints
-Optional decorations like feathers, sequins, buttons, yarn, tissue paper, and so forth

Directions

1. Wrap the juice can with the construction paper, foam, or cloth. Glue into place.

2. With the open end of the can down, glue on felt or foam strips for arms.

3. Cut out hand shapes from construction paper or craft foam. Glue these to the ends of the felt arms.

4. Using pipe cleaners or strips cut from felt or foam, glue legs to the bottom edge of the juice can.

5. Make hair using yarn, feathers, pipe cleaners, or whatever your child likes.

6. Glue on googly eyes, or your child may prefer to paint or draw eyes. You can also make eyes from paper or craft foam and glue them on.

7. Make the face by painting or drawing the nose and mouth, or glue on nose and mouth shapes cut from craft foam or paper.

Some optional ideas might be to attach paper, tissue, or foam wings or a cape to the back of the puppet. Make a king or queen by attaching a cut-out crown. Make a wand from a straw or pipe cleaner to make a fairy puppet. The possibilities are extensive!

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