Create your own ocean creature that can move, swim, act and even dance… if you wanted it to. This page will show you how to make a puppet for all your underwater plays.
Watch our Young Zoologists Puppet show for ideas:
You will need:
- Card or thick paper: an empty cereal box is great for this
- Pencil
- Colourful pencils or crayons
- Collage materials and glue: colourful scraps of paper, tissue or card (optional)
- Scissors
- Split-pins
- Paper straws or wooden sticks
- Sticky-tape
If you have a printer, print and use our activity sheet to make your crafting easier:
- Decide on the ocean creature you would like to create.
- Ask yourself: does the creature have any moving arms, legs, fins, tentacles, tails or other parts?
- Draw an outline of your creature on a piece of card, but not the moving parts! Here we have drawn the fish’s body and head but not fins.
- Now on a separate piece of card, draw the moving parts.
- Decorate the body parts using your crayons, pencils and collage materials if you have them.
- Cut all of your creature’s body parts out.
- Attach the body parts to the main body using split-pins.
Top tip: use a sharp pencil to create a hole for your split-pins by placing Tac or Plasticine underneath and pushing the pencil through.
- Now use sticky-tape to attach your straws or sticks to the main body, and to the moving parts of your creature. This is so that you can move and control it.
- Create a puppet show!
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