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Our subscribers' grade-level estimate for this page: Kindergarten - 1st

Enchanted Learning Software's
Paper Finger Puppets
More Kinder Crafts

Your fingers are the legs (or trunk) of these simple paper puppets. You can make the entire cast of a nursery rhyme or fairy tale in just a few minutes, and then put on your own show.

Supplies needed:
  • Stiff paper, like thick construction paper or even thicker paper
  • Scissors
  • Markers or crayons
  • Optional - printer, googly eyes, glue, cotton balls
ELEPHANT


To go to an elephant
finger puppet template,
click here.

Instructions for all the finger puppets:
  • Using stiff paper, either print out a puppet template or draw your own.
  • Cut out the finger puppet and the finger hole(s).
  • Decorate the puppet with crayons or markers.
  • Optional: glue on googly eyes and cotton-ball or yarn hair.

Nursery Rhyme Finger Puppets:
Humpty Dumpty

To go the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, click here.

Jack and Jill

To go to a black and white template, click here.

To go the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill, click here.

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater

To go to a black and white template, click here.

To go the nursery rhyme Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, click here.


ZOOM DINOSAURS™  Dinosaur Finger Puppets (and a dinosaur fingerplay):

Stegosaurus

To go to a black and white template, click here.

For more information on the dinosaur Stegosaurus, click here.

Tyrannosaurus rex
(or Allosaurus)


To go to a black and white template, click here.

For more information on the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex, click here.

Brachiosaurus

To go to a black and white template, click here.

For more information on the dinosaur Brachiosaurus, click here.

A Dinosaur Fingerplay:
Five enormous Stegosaurs are playing in the swamp,
eating yummy plants - STOMP STOMP STOMP! (the children can stomp here)
Along came an Allosaur as hungry as can be,
CHOMP, CHOMP, CHOMP - GULP! YUMMY!

Four enormous Stegosaurs are playing in the swamp,
and so on...

More puppets to make

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