It’s Springtime and time for Passover and Easter! Puppets are a festive way to celebrate the spring holidays and the change of season. Easter puppets are a great addition to any Easter Basket and give your kids something to do over the spring break.
12 pieces Vinyl Easter Bunny rabbit chicks Finger Puppets party favorsThere are rabbit puppets and little chick puppets and lamb puppets which signify spring and rebirth. They can be hand puppets or finger puppets. A plush rabbit puppet makes an excellent Easter gift and the smaller Easter finger puppets are fun to put in Easter baskets or even hide inside plastic eggs for an added surprise.
Folkmanis White Rabbit, Bunny PuppetThese faith-based Easter puppets feature the characters who were with Jesus and his disciples at the time of the crucifixion and resurrection and can help teach the true Easter story to young children. These are a nice addition to a Sunday School lesson or youth ministry.
He Lives! Easter Finger PuppetsThese Passover puppets are also a great way to teach the bible story of Exodus and Moses. These Passover finger puppets represent the ten plagues on the Egyptians and teach this bible lesson to children in a humorous way.
Passover "Ten Plagues" Finger Puppets JudaicaWhether you go traditional or contemporary, puppets are a fun way to engage babies, preschoolers and older children during the spring holidays.
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Make a Dragon Puppet | Chinese New Year Crafts -- Festive Kids' Crafts for Chinese New Yea | FamilyFun
Make a Dragon Puppet
- Total Time Needed:
- 1-2 Hours
Dragons represent good fortune, so they often make appearances at celebrations of Chinese New Year (this year, it's February 3). Create your own luck with this puppet-size dragon.
- Materials
- Cardboard egg carton
- 15- by 28-inch piece of red fabric (we used fleece)
- Acrylic paint (Note: use only gold paint labeled "nontoxic")
- Paintbrush
- Stapler
- Rubber band
- Tacky glue
- 18-inch-long dowel with a 1/4-inch diameter
- Card stock
- Puppet template
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- Instructions
Cut the top from the egg carton, then cut the top in half. Cut the bottom into sections of two, four, and six cups, as shown. Discard half of the top and the four-cup section.
Paint the red fabric with a dragon-scale pattern. Paint the egg carton sections as shown.
To form the head, staple the eye piece to the egg carton top, then staple the top and egg carton bottom together at the back, so that the dragon's jaw is hinged. Fold the fabric in half lengthwise, gather the fabric at one corner, and secure it with a rubber band as shown.
Center the other end of the fabric so that the fold is between the dragon's eyes. Flip the fabric over the head, as shown, and staple the fabric to the outer edge of the eye cups and head. Add a bit of glue between the staples for extra hold. Insert the dowel into the rubber band.
For the beard, whiskers, and eyebrows, cut jagged shapes out of colorful card stock and glue them in place. For the tail, cut and glue two matching shapes together at the edges, leaving the bottom open. Let this tail pocket dry, then slide it over the fabric bundle and secure it with glue.
- Tips:
- This year, Chinese New Year ushers in the Year of the Rabbit. Each year is assigned one of 12 animal signs. If you can, hang onto your puppet until 2012, the Year of the Dragon!
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