How To Make a Dog Marionette Puppet

How To Make a Dog Marionette Puppet

When it comes to crafts for kids, recycled crafts are best – if you make usable recycled crafts, even better. This tutorial will show you how to make a dog puppet, a cute upcycled project that kids will love.
Once your children learn how to make this puppet, they can also create many other animals.
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The joy on your children’s faces when they create their own puppet is indescribable. It goes beyond a regular job. It’s a toy. It is a friend.
Puppets might look complicated, but they’re basically pretty easy to make, and chances are you’ll have everything you need at home – otherwise, there’s plenty of room for improvisation.

Sounds cool doesn’t it? We only wish to make the tongue red because it would look even cooler.

Your kids will be taking this boy for a walk in no time.

Ready to create one yourself? Let’s do it!

How to make a dog puppet

What do you need:
3 rolls of toilet paper
paintings of your choice
the scissors
2 googly eyes or marker to draw the eyes with
1 colored paper or a magazine page (optional) and a ruler with circle shapes
glue (glue gun if an adult is supervising)
pencil
2 wooden sticks
5 pipe cleaners (optional)
thread
1 bottle cap
craft knife (adults only!!!)
we used a small piece of white glitter self-adhesive foam sheet for the nose, but anything, even a simple paint will do

Step by step instructions
Paint the 3 rolls of paper with paint. We make our dog brown, any color is fine.
The body
Optional for the dots: Using the circular shapes ruler and a pencil, draw 10 small circles and 2 larger ones on the colored paper.

Then cut them out.

Using scissors, make 4 holes in the paper roll for the legs (adult supervision).
You can also use a hole punch.

Leave an equal space between them.

Apply a little glue to the 10 circles and glue them to the roll of paper.

Cut two long pieces of yarn and thread them through the holes.

Now make two more holes in the middle of the body, opposite the legs.

Thread a long piece of yarn through them.

Take another roll of toilet paper and cut 1/3 of it.

The larger piece will serve as the head. We will use the smaller piece later.
The head
Make two holes in the middle of the toilet paper roll.

Now measure the space you want to leave between the body and the head and tie a knot.

Put on the head (thread the thread through the holes).
Remote
Wrap 2 pipe cleaners around the wooden one and cut off the excess wood.
Repeat this step one more time, so you have 2 equal pieces of wooden sticks wrapped in chenille sticks.
Form an X and use the 5th caterpillar stick to fix them in the middle.

Straighten your dog and make sure the wire on both sides is of equal length.

Then put some glue on the ends of only one side of the X-shape and stick the yarn on it.
The eyes
Glue the two larger circles to the head and add the googly eyes above the circles.
ears and nose
Cut the 3rd roll of paper and make a dish out of it. Draw two dog ears and then glue them on the head as shown in the picture.
After that, draw and cut a little nose out of the glitter white self-adhesive foam sheet.
Place the nose on it.
Language
With 1/3 of the previous roll of paper remaining, roll a tongue…

…and stick it in your mouth.
The paws
Take the cork and divide it into 4 equal parts, then cut them using a cutter.
After that, color the parts with acrylic color and let them dry aside.
The cork circles will serve as legs.

Thread the 4 circles of cork (thread them on the wire), then make the legs of equal length…

… and tie four firm knots. Cut the excess yarn.

Tail
From the excess of the roll of paper we used for the ears, cut out a small tail and glued it to the body of the dog.
Yippee, we’re done here!

Now start moving the sticks up and down and left and right and watch Moggy Mog be silly.

it’s too much fun!!

Go show your friends how to make a puppet dog like yours so you can play together!

I hope you will like this project!

See you soon with more fun crafts!

Happy DIY!

Project contributed by Ema.
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How To Make a Dog Marionette Puppet

When it comes to crafts for kids, recycled crafts are best – if you make usable recycled crafts, even better. This tutorial will show you how to make a dog puppet, a cute upcycled project that kids will love.
Once your children learn how to make this puppet, they can also create many other animals.
*this post contains affiliate links*
The joy on your children’s faces when they create their own puppet is indescribable. It goes beyond a regular job. It’s a toy. It is a friend.
Puppets might look complicated, but they’re basically pretty easy to make, and chances are you’ll have everything you need at home – otherwise, there’s plenty of room for improvisation.

Sounds cool doesn’t it? We only wish to make the tongue red because it would look even cooler.

Your kids will be taking this boy for a walk in no time.

Ready to create one yourself? Let’s do it!

How to make a dog puppet

What do you need:
3 rolls of toilet paper
paintings of your choice
the scissors
2 googly eyes or marker to draw the eyes with
1 colored paper or a magazine page (optional) and a ruler with circle shapes
glue (glue gun if an adult is supervising)
pencil
2 wooden sticks
5 pipe cleaners (optional)
thread
1 bottle cap
craft knife (adults only!!!)
we used a small piece of white glitter self-adhesive foam sheet for the nose, but anything, even a simple paint will do

Step by step instructions
Paint the 3 rolls of paper with paint. We make our dog brown, any color is fine.
The body
Optional for the dots: Using the circular shapes ruler and a pencil, draw 10 small circles and 2 larger ones on the colored paper.

Then cut them out.

Using scissors, make 4 holes in the paper roll for the legs (adult supervision).
You can also use a hole punch.

Leave an equal space between them.

Apply a little glue to the 10 circles and glue them to the roll of paper.

Cut two long pieces of yarn and thread them through the holes.

Now make two more holes in the middle of the body, opposite the legs.

Thread a long piece of yarn through them.

Take another roll of toilet paper and cut 1/3 of it.

The larger piece will serve as the head. We will use the smaller piece later.
The head
Make two holes in the middle of the toilet paper roll.

Now measure the space you want to leave between the body and the head and tie a knot.

Put on the head (thread the thread through the holes).
Remote
Wrap 2 pipe cleaners around the wooden one and cut off the excess wood.
Repeat this step one more time, so you have 2 equal pieces of wooden sticks wrapped in chenille sticks.
Form an X and use the 5th caterpillar stick to fix them in the middle.

Straighten your dog and make sure the wire on both sides is of equal length.

Then put some glue on the ends of only one side of the X-shape and stick the yarn on it.
The eyes
Glue the two larger circles to the head and add the googly eyes above the circles.
ears and nose
Cut the 3rd roll of paper and make a dish out of it. Draw two dog ears and then glue them on the head as shown in the picture.
After that, draw and cut a little nose out of the glitter white self-adhesive foam sheet.
Place the nose on it.
Language
With 1/3 of the previous roll of paper remaining, roll a tongue…

…and stick it in your mouth.
The paws
Take the cork and divide it into 4 equal parts, then cut them using a cutter.
After that, color the parts with acrylic color and let them dry aside.
The cork circles will serve as legs.

Thread the 4 circles of cork (thread them on the wire), then make the legs of equal length…

… and tie four firm knots. Cut the excess yarn.

Tail
From the excess of the roll of paper we used for the ears, cut out a small tail and glued it to the body of the dog.
Yippee, we’re done here!

Now start moving the sticks up and down and left and right and watch Moggy Mog be silly.

it’s too much fun!!

Go show your friends how to make a puppet dog like yours so you can play together!

I hope you will like this project!

See you soon with more fun crafts!

Happy DIY!

Project contributed by Ema.
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#Dog #Marionette #Puppet