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How to Make a Squirrel Finger Puppet

Design a squirrel finger puppet that only uses one finger for operation, which is ideal for younger children to play with. Use the finger puppet along with a menagerie of other finger puppets for a performance. Or, encourage your child to act out a squirrel-themed story with the puppet as you read aloud. While the typical squirrel has gray fur, you can create the squirrel in any color of the rainbow as a way to develop your child̵7;s imaginative processes.

Things You'll Need

6-inch square gray felt
Scissors
Hot glue gun
3-inch square gray craft fur
Gray pipe cleaner
2 small googly eyes
1-inch square white felt

Instructions

- 1
  Cut a 3-inch square of gray felt. Roll the felt around your finger and form a snug fit for the base of the puppet. Use hot glue to secure the overlapping edge.
- 2
  Cut a 3-inch-long S that is 1-inch thick on a piece of gray felt; make it in a bubble letter shape with curved edges. Trace the S on a piece of gray craft fur. Flip the S over and trace a second S shape on the craft fur that is a mirror image. Cut the two S shapes out of the fur. Hot-glue the fur S̵7;s to each side of the felt S so the furry sides are facing out.
- 3
  Place the felt roll upright. Attach the S backwards at the back and bottom of the felt roll, so that the bottom end of the S is connected to the roll to make the tail of the squirrel. Use hot glue to attach the tail.
- 4
  Put the finger puppet on your finger by sticking the finger through the bottom. Twist a gray pipe cleaner around the top of the finger puppet in a tight spiral. Use hot glue to secure the ends of the pipe cleaner to the felt base.
- 5
  Attach two small googly eyes to the pipe cleaner face using hot glue. Cut two 1/4-inch-long equilateral triangles out of white felt. Hot-glue these triangles to the mouth area of the face for the squirrel̵7;s teeth with flat sides running across the top side so the teeth are pointed to complete the puppet.

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