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DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Paper Bag Puppet - Clown Craft
Sometimes when I go to put together a new craft
my brain goes into overdrive and I can think of a million different combinations for doing
it. This was one of those times. I've tried to give just a few of the
alternatives I thought of.
Materials:
- a paper lunch bag (if you use a white bag, you'd
get a white clown face)
- a printer,
- some crayons,
- scissors
- glue.
- paper - I always prefer to use a heavy paper
(like construction paper)
- OPTIONAL: (the options make the craft a bit
harder, so keep that in mind)
- big wiggly eyes
- red wool
- large red pom pom
- 3 large coloured pom poms (whatever colour you
like) or 3 big buttons
- big circle stickers or bingo dauber.
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You can make the clown with all 3
templates (above)
or just the first template (below).
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Print the Template:
- You can either print just template #1, template
#1 & #2 or all three templates.
- The more children you have per adult and the
younger the children are, the simpler (less templates) you want the craft to be.
- If you aren't sure how many templates you should
use, print all 3, but hide #2 and #3. If the kids make it through #1 and are eager
for more, bring out the others. If they are tired of crafting, save them for another
day.
- If you are using the black and white templates:
- Print template #1 on red construction paper
- Print template #2 on another colour (green,
orange or yellow)
- Print template #3 on yet another colour
- Colour (as required) and cut out the template
pieces.
Get Familiar With Your Paper Bag:
- I'm going to walk through this slowly, so bear
with me. Look at your paper bag.
- It should be closed and flat like a piece of
paper. Just like when they are brand new.
- On one side, it's all smooth. This will be
the BACK of your puppet
- It's important that all the kids get the back and
front straight at the beginning!
- On the other side there's a flippy tab (which is
typically the bottom of the bag when you're carrying your lunch around...)
- This flippy tab will be the clown's HEAD
- Lift the flippy tab up a bit. Underneath of
the tab will be the clown's mouth,
- When the child put's his hand in the bag, he'll
be able to make the clown talk.
- Look at the rest of the front of the bag.
(The 3/4 or so of the bag below the part with the flippy tab) This will be the BODY.
- Look at the sides of the bag. There should
be a FLAP of paper.
- We'll be slipping the clown's arms (template 3)
into this flap.
- If the kids goof and glue the arms onto the front
or back of the bag, it isn't a big deal.
- OK, now that we're comfy with our bags, let's
craft!
Template #1
- Glue the cheeks onto the HEAD. The cheeks should end up looking like a continuation of the
mouth. (Don't be too worried about the exact location for really young
children. Just let them have fun).
- Glue the nose onto the HEAD above the mouth. If you like, you can use a large red pom pom
for the nose instead of the paper template piece.
- Glue the eyes onto the HEAD above the nose. If you like, you can use wiggly
eyes instead of the paper template pieces.
- Glue the hair onto the HEAD above the eyes (try not to cover up the eyes too
much). If you like, you can glue pieces of red wool onto the hair template piece to
give it a different effect.
- You can put big circle stickers
or bingo dauber splats all over the BODY
and BACK of the clown to decorate his
costume. Or just decorate with crayons.
- If you are doing Template #2, decide now! Do Template #2 before you do the
mouth or buttons.
- Glue the mouth underneath the flippy tab, so that
most of it shows when the tab is closed (on the template, I drew an arrow to give you an
idea of how much should show).
- Glue the buttons onto the BODY of the clown.
- You can use the template pieces
or three coloured pom poms or three big buttons.
- If you use real buttons, you may
need to put a bit of tape over top to hold them on better.
Template #2
- Glue the ruffle onto the BODY, just below the HEAD (where the neck would be).
- Now you can do the Mouth and
Buttons from Template #1
- Glue the hat onto the clown's
hair. You can glue a real pom pom onto the top of the hat if you like.
Template #3
- Glue the arms into the FLAP
- Close the template window after printing to
return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble
fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER
SETUP in most browsers).
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