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How to Make a Peek-a-Boo Puppet

Peek-a-boo puppets can provide a lot of enjoyment to babies. These classic toys have entertained children for generations, and you can make one for your own kids out of a sock and a plastic drinking cup. Because these puppets are fairly simple to make, you may find yourself making several of them with different features. This is also a project that you can share with older children, so long as you handle the drill and hot glue gun.

Things You'll Need

Plastic drinking cup
Drill
3/8-inch bit
1/4-inch wooden dowel
Saw
2-inch Styrofoam ball
Sock
Scissors
Needle and thread
Hot glue gun
Miscellaneous art supplies

Instructions

- 1
  Drill a 3/8-inch hole in the bottom of a plastic drinking cup.
- 2
  Cut a 15-inch piece of 1/4-inch wooden dowel with a saw.
- 3
  Shove one end of the dowel into a 2-inch Styrofoam ball.
- 4
  Cut 7 inches off the toe end of a sock.
- 5
  Insert the Styrofoam ball into the sock and gather the material underneath it. Sew the gathered material closed, forming a head and neck.
- 6
  Cut arms out of the remaining portions of the sock and sew them to the puppet's sides.
- 7
  Insert the dowel through the cup's hole from the inside.
- 8
  Hot glue the cut edge of the sock to the interior lip of the cup.
- 9
  Further decorate the puppet with googly eyes, puffy paint or any other art materials.

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