Directions for making finger puppets from old stray gloves, socks, and mittens with no matches.
Fashion some puppets for a show with all those extra gloves, mittens and socks that have no mates.
Cut off the fingers of the glove as close as you can to the hand of the glove. Fit these on your fingers and imagine cute faces--people faces or animal faces, birds, dinosaurs, rabbits,cats, dogs, people, parrots, fish. Use your imagination.
You'll need thread, rickrack, buttons or macaroni, feathers, yarn , rubber bands or whatever you have to make faces, hats, hair, teeth, eyes and noses. Add whiskers, felt spots for noses, or eyes, yarn for hair.
Make a whole batch of characters and use a book cover or a box for a stage to perform your play. Old socks and mittens make bigger hand puppets. Felt, yarn, embroidery thread, buttons and rickrack make each hand puppet unique. Sew buttons on the sock for eyes. Your hand should fit inside the sock so fingers fit in the toe and thumb in the heel. Longer stockings hide your arm. A cuff can be flared out like a skirt or neck ruffle.
