How to Make a Pig Mouth Puppet

Creative plays such as pig puppets help enhance a child's development.

Children love to play house and make-believe to express themselves. Often, they use puppets as characters depending on the scenarios they create. For example, children can make up a farm yard scene with a whimsical pig as the main character. You can support this kind of creative play by showing children how to make the hand puppets. A pig mouth puppet only requires common craft materials such paper sandwich bag and acrylic paint -- and some creativity.

Things You'll Need

• Paper sandwich bag
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Acrylic paint
• Paintbrush
• Markers
• 2 googly eyes
• Glue stick

Instructions

1. Cut out two 2-inch equilateral triangles from pink construction paper. In an equilateral triangle, all sides are equally long.

2. Paint the outside of a paper sandwich bag with light pink acrylic paint. Allow the paint to dry completely.

3. Using markers, color the inside flap of the paper bag to look like the inside of a pig's mouth. Include teeth and a tongue.

4. Glue the two triangles onto the top edge of the flap. These will be the ears of the pig puppet.

5. Glue two googly eyes onto the flap.

6. Cut out a 2-inch oval from pink construction paper and glue it underneath the eyes. This will be the pig's snout.

7. Draw two nostrils onto the snout using a dark pink marker. This will complete the pig mouth puppet. When you put the paper bag onto your hand, you can open and close the big mouth of the pig.

References

• Enchanted Learning: Paper Bag Puppets