Make Your Own Puppet Theater and Puppets
Our kids usually put on puppet shows from behind the couch- and this has worked well in a pinch- but this theater suggested on Make and Takes that you make from a doorway is really beautiful and looks pretty easy to make. If you don’t sew, they recommend an alternative that involves a glue gun.
Now- you can do what we do and use stuffed animals. Or, you can make some puppets. Puppetonia has some instructions for making an adorable bee dancing on a flower.
We found other puppet ideas at Danielle’s Place of Crafts and Activities including several made from socks (Caterpillar, Love Bug, Easy Camel, Goose, and Duck).
However, sometimes the best puppets are those thought up by your children. Give then some construction paper and tape, a ruler or popsicle stick, and see what happens.