Crayonsmarkers or colored pencils (brown, purple, green, black)
2brown paper lunch bags
Scissors
Glue stick
Supplies you need for cut/paste puppets:
Half face patterns
Construction paperwhite, brown, purple, black
Greenbrown and black markers (or Crayons, colored pencils, etc)
2brown paper lunch bags
Scissors
Glue stick
Instructions
Coloring the puppets:
The coloring method is easier for younger children. So if your kids have a younger sibling that wants to play along, simply print the patterns above, have your little ones color them and cut them out, then glue them to the paper bag. Even the littles can make their own paper bag squirrel puppets!
Cut/paste puppets:
Print out the half face patterns for your kids. For Surly, take a sheet of purple and a sheet of white construction paper. Stack them together and fold them in half like a greeting card.
Place the straight edge of the Surly half-face pattern along the FOLDED edge of the construction paper.
CUT along the lines of the OUTSIDE of the pattern only, cutting through both sheets of construction paper.
Next, remove the purple shaped face piece, leaving only the white face.
Place the pattern onto the white face and cut out the muzzle and around the entire eye and eyebrow.
Glue the white pieces to the purple face.
Now use the existing pattern and the additional "right side" pattern to cut out the eyes. Color the pupils brown and the center black and color the eyebrows black. Color the nose black (not pictured).
Cut out the actual eyes and eyebrows.
Glue the pieces to the face and draw on a smile.
Glue the completed face to the bottom flap of the paper bag.
Repeat the above process for Andie's pattern, only this time use brown and white construction paper, and green and black markers for the eyes.
To finish off the paper bag squirrel puppets, cover the front of the bags with brown paper (Andie) and purple paper (Surly) and a strip of white paper for the belly fur.