Jump into the art af making puppets with these interesting books. Find out how you can create everything from shadow puppets to fancy marionettes.
1. Making Shadow Puppets
A creative alternative to shadow puppets using only your hands! This book contains instructions to make fun puppets, portable screens, easy scenery, and more.2. Crafty Puppets
This book features ideas for making two dozen puppets You can make finger puppets, glove puppets, puppets painted on your hands, puppet theaters, a foot puppet, and many more. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by clear illustrations make creating the puppets easy for kids of all ages!
3. Finger Puppets
25 brilliant finger puppets to make on your own or with friends, including a Peacock, a Mermaid, a Waltzing Couple and a Goofy Horse. Create all of these from easy-to-find items around the house.4. Simple Puppets from Everyday Materials
Follow along with colorful illustrations and step-by-step instructions to produce attractive and fun finished products. The fact that the materials needed to construct each puppet are readily available makes it even better! Find a dragon puppet made from construction paper and popsicle sticks, a frog fashioned from an empty cereal box, a Humpty Dumpty made from a paper, and many others.5. 101 Hand Puppets
Provides instructions for making and using instant puppets, rainy day puppets, professional puppets, special puppets, and novelty puppets.6. Paper Bag Puppets
This collection of more that one hundred puppet patterns covers categories such as famous American writers, famous women, folk heroes, and storybook and Halloween characters. Easy directions guide puppet makers through the creative process and riddle sections provide additional material to tie the puppets into special programs centered on national holidays, stories, or historical figures.7. I Can Make Puppets
Children's imaginations will soar as they learn to make inexpensive puppets from a variety of household items--such as socks, bottle caps, and recycled clothing--and then show them off with a simple puppet stage for their original creations.8. Let's Start! Making Finger Puppets
This all-inclusive kit contains a 32-page easy-to-follow instruction book, felts, assorted fluffs, google eyes, and a slew of other articles that Tami tells us are essential to the puppet creating process.9. Hand Puppets: How to Make and Use Them
Simple instructions, clear diagrams, full-size traceable patterns for creating delightful paper-bag puppets, rod puppets for shadow plays and papier-mache puppets with cloth costumes. Special instructions for dressing and handling puppets, setting up a stage and writing and producing an original show.10. How to Make Puppets with Children
This book contains directions and pattern pieces for making 37 hand puppets and 26 finger puppets. The puppet patterns may be colored, cut out, and glued to the basic puppet form, or they may be used as templates with colored construction paper.