Finger Puppets: Big Bad Wolf

Video Transcript

"Here are the materials we'll be using for our felt wolf puppet for our Little Red Riding Hood set. You'll need some brown, gray or tan felt. You'll need some googly eyes. A little bit of paper that we can cut for the fangs of our wolf. You'll need some permanent markers to draw some details and a nice, thick, tacky glue. You don't want to use a regular white glue because it will soak into the felt and be difficult to work with. So get a nice, thick, tacky glue that dries clear and when you use it, it sits on top of the felt fabric and doesn't soak in hard. So you want to start by cutting two shapes like this. This is the body and it is three inches by two inches and then round off the top. We'll put a bead of glue all the way around the edge. Go just on the edge and don't get any glue in the center area because that's the place where we'll place our finger. Place the top piece over the bottom piece like that. Now you want to cut the head. The head shape, if you cut a triangle, first cut a triangle, and then cut the ears. Cut the angle here and down, make two pointy ears like this, that's the shape for the head. And we'll glue that down so that the ears stick up above the top of the body shape. Now, you want to cut a piece like this, it's just a piece of paper that I've cut two fangs and I'm going to place that underneath. I'll need a little bit more glue. Now you don't want, you want to use a nice, thick glue that isn't going to soak into the felt because while you're gluing all these things on, you don't want it to soak through and adhere your two pieces together so you won't be able to get your finger in. So that's the shape, you put your fangs in there to give him a scary look; he's a scary little wolf. And then we'll put some googly eyes on here and finish up with some detail. I've taken a permanent marker and I drew a, colored in the ears so it gave him some detail to the ears. Use a angular eyebrow to give him sort of a mean, wolfy look. And then down here, I just drew some simple paws and by putting a little bit of a black dot of marker, it looks like claws. And then a little bit of black for the nose. And there's our wolf and he's ready to be the wolf in our Little Red Riding Hood puppet set."