How to make sock puppet?
It’s vacation time for kids and you are pondering over ways to make your kid engaged. Teaching them some simple but wonderful crafts will be a great idea, as it not only keep them busy and entertained, but also improves their creativity and artistic expressions.
Arts and crafts are wonderful pass time as well as educational tools for kids. Teaching crafts have multiple benefits like developing color, shape and numbering concepts and better hand-eye coordination. Not just kids, even moms would enjoy the craft sessions at home with recycled materials or some old unused things.
Here are a few tips for creating simple and lovely sock puppet crafts at home with old/unused things. This is a great way for turning unused old socks or those socks whose pair missing, to useful things. Sock puppets can be also used to decorate kid’s rooms.
Tips to make sock puppet
Required Things: All you need is some unused or old socks, paper, sketch pens, glue, buttons if any, ribbons, beads, scissors and yarn. You can make a variety of characters with just these.
How to make:
Slip your hand into the sock to give it a shape and take a moment to brush up your imagination to create fun faces!
Ask your child to draw 2 eyes on a paper and help him/her to carefully cut it out. He/she can colour white paper and cut or use buttons instead.
Stick the eyes to the sock as if it looks like a face. You can also draw two eyes with a marker.
Add some funky hair on its head by sticking some yarns and decorate it with ribbons or button.
Cut out a tongue shape with paper and color it red.If you have red colored paper, that’s enough. Glue it over the puppets mouth.
The sock puppet is ready! And now, you can tell your kid to name it and call it as his/her friend. Talk to him and have fun by making your sock talk by the movement of your hands.
While doing crafts with your children, never force him to complete a project. Let the interest come from him. Instead of it, encourage them and offer small rewards when they finish something. A sock puppet is an ideal one to start your child’s craft sessions, as it is very simple. As it is easy to make, the child will get a confidence that he can do it and will be interested in trying his hand in something more challenging.
While trying out crafts by following art and craft classes in TV, remember, we tend to overestimate our own ability due to their way of presentation. But when you are doing it, the inability to complete it can be very discouraging for you as well as your child. So give your child some easy craft works like a sock puppet.
