Finger Puppet: Frog

Video Transcript

"Here are the materials we'll be using for the frog felt finger puppet. You'll need some green felt, a little bit of red felt, a red pipe cleaner, some googly eyes, a permanent marker and some thick glue. We'll start our frog puppet by cutting out this dome shape. Our felt is two inches wide and about three inches long, and we're going to put a bead of glue along the edge like this, and then place the one over the other, a little sandwich, making sure that no glue gets on the middle because you won't be able to get your finger on the inside. Make sure you're using a thick, quick drying glue. You don't want to use a regular white glue because it's too liquidy and it will just soak into the felt. You want to use something thick that will stay on the top of the fabric. OK, next we'll cut some little domes like this, it's about a half inch of green felt. And we'll put that up here. See how the glue just sits on top of the felt, and that will adhere nicely. These are for our eyes. And then on top of that, another dot of glue, and we'll add some googly eyes. Don't worry if the glue kind of comes down and you can see it. It will dry clear. You want to make sure that you're using a clear drying glue for this reason. Next we're going to put a little red here for a mouth, a big smiling froggy mouth, and if you cut two pieces of green felt like this, we'll put some legs for our frog. And then as a final touch, you can make a little tongue with the red pipe cleaner. Just cut a small piece of it. And if you twist it around, make kind of a funny tongue and then we'll glue that in and put a good amount of glue on it and then we'll slip it under the mouth like that and let that dry. And there's our frog felt finger puppet."