How to Make a Groundhog Paper Bag Puppet
This Groundhog Day craft is SO CUTE and really easy to make with our printable template and simple craft supplies. It's a fun and interactive way to celebrate the groundhog at home or in the classroom.
Yield: 1 groundhog puppet
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- FREE Groundhog Paper Bag Puppet Template
- Paper sandwich bag(s)
- Brown construction paper
- Cardstock (light pink, white, black, dark brown, green)
- Glue tape
- Fine tipped black marker
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut the template pieces
- Print our free groundhog puppet template and cut out the pieces.
- Trace the head, outer ears, and arms onto brown construction paper and cut them out.Cut the eyes and teeth from white cardstock, the pupils from black cardstock, and the inner ears from light pink cardstock.You'll also need a green piece of cardstock 5-1/8 inches across and 3 inches tall.
- To make your puppet you'll need a brown paper bag. Our templates are made for a sandwich bag 5 inches across and 10 inches tall.
- We'll be putting our puppet together with glue tape, but glue stick will also work.
Step 3: Build the groundhog
- Add glue tape to the back of the head piece (but not at the top, where it will stick out from the bag).Line up the bottom and edges, placing it on the bottom of the paper bag.
- Glue the eyes together and then glue them on the bag.
- Attach the nose in the middle of the bag, below the eyes.
- Add glue tape to just the top of the teeth (the curved part).Attach them to the bag so they stick out below the face and so the center of the teeth lines up with the center of the nose.
- Then glue the ears together, lining up the bottom edges. Add glue tape to a small section on the front of the ears and add them to the bag of the head.
- Use a fine point black marker to draw a straight line down from the nose onto the center of the teeth.Then draw a smiling mouth that lines up with the curve of the teeth. (It's best to draw from the center outward.)
- Bend the flat part of the arms down about 1/4 inch or so. Add glue tape to these folds.
- Then attach the arms to the bag so they point down and in.
Step 3: Decorate the bag
- Cut long points from a long side of the green cardstock. Vary the size and how far down they go.These will be the grass blades that the groundhog is popping up from.
- Attach the grass to the bottom of the bag, lining up the bottom and side edges nicely.
- Your groundhog paper bag puppet is complete!
Notes
Looking for more DIY puppets? Here's a few of our favourites:
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