Bunny Finger Puppets

Make some easy bunny finger puppets with kids and use them for all kinds of early literacy fun. Check out the bottom of the page for bunny poems, stories, and songs that preschoolers can use to make their bunny puppets come alive and practice important literacy skills at the same time.

Little White Owl Paper Bag Puppets: Book Activity

Usually we do book activities as an extension of the book, so we do the project after we've read it. This time we did the craft first so we could use them to dramatize the story. We went old school with some paper bag puppets, but I love how they turned out because to make them fit with our book, The Little White Owl, we had to make them as sparkly and glittery and flowery and as beautiful as possible.

Paper Plate Duck Puppet: Virtual Book Club for Kids

The featured author for this month's edition of the Virtual Book Club for Kids is Jez Alborough. Link up your Jez Alborough book projects and find more ideas below.

Many of Jez Alborough's books feature the hapless and zany Duck as the main character. We chose two of the books in his Duck series to read this month. We also made a simple puppet from a paper plate to retell the stories.

Interrupting Chicken Finger Puppet

We have a couple of little chickens around here who like to interrupt, especially during bedtime stories when all the stops are pulled out to prolong the moment before lights out. I do have to admit that as a reading teacher, I encourage interruptions during stories.  There's nothing better than realizing that there's some thinking and questioning going on while we're reading.  It drives my husband nuts though (he's more of a just-get-through-the-story kind of guy), so Interrupting Chicken was a cute story for us.

It's about a little red chicken who interrupts every bedtime story her papa tries to read her.  It's comical because she will burst into the middle of a story like Chicken Little and yell, "It's just an acorn!  Don't worry about it!"  Eventually the little red chicken tells her papa a story and puts him to sleep.  As a parent, I suspect his falling asleep had more to do with sheer exhaustion than the actual bedtime story.

 I wanted to make a cute prop to go with this.  I started with one of these party things:

I took off the cardboard decoration and taped on eyes and a beak.

The idea was for the kids to use them as finger puppets.

And also to blow them during the story when the little red chicken interrupts.

Of course, what ended up happening is that they blew these things all during the story and barely paid attention to anything else.  Ah well.

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