How to Make a Goat Hand Puppet

A hand puppet can be entertaining, and is actually quite easy to make at home with your family. Not very materials are needed, and kids love to play with an assortment of colored felts and craft supplies.

Things You'll Need

• Pair of white men's dress socks
• Four white pipe cleaners
• Two hands full of white cotton balls
• One sheet of tan construction paper
• Non-toxic craft glue
• Child-safe scissors
• Four google eyes
• Black crayon
• Large disposable table cloth
• Assorted colors of felt ( several 2 inch long, strips)

Instructions

1. Spread the table cloth over your working surface to prevent staining and other messes, and lay your materials out before you. Double-check to make sure that you have everything you need for this project.

2. Using the black crayon, draw a series of lines up and down the sheet of construction paper. The lines should be separated by no more than a quarter of an inch, and must be about 10 inches long.

3. Use the scissors and cut several thin strips of construction paper, using the black lines as your guides, and then place the strips in front of you neatly, and flat.

4. Place four or five small dots of glue on one strip of paper, and then wind it upward, in a spiral pattern, around one of the pipe cleaners. You will need to repeat this step three or four times with each pipe cleaner, until they are completely covered with the tan paper.

5. Glue the google eyes, to the top of the sock, about 1 1/2 inches above the toe seam. Try not to space the eyes too far apart.

6. Slightly bend an end on two of the pipe cleaners, and glue the bent ends to the top of the sock, about 1 1/2 inches above the eyes of the puppet. Follow up by gluing several of the white cotton balls to the face of the sock puppet, starting about 1/2 inch below the pipe cleaners.

Tips & Warnings

• After the glue has dried, you can twist the pipe cleaners to look like goat horns.

• Never leave children unsupervised while working with glue and other chemicals.