Select language, opens an overlay
  • Topic Guide
  • Staff-Created List

Puppet Projects from Old Socks to Paper to Clay

Upcycle items from your craft bin or trash can, add your creative storytelling, and put on a puppet play! #IndyPLKids Updated: July 2024

The Indianapolis Public Library

21 items

  • Ashley Bryan's Puppets

    Making Something From Everything

    Bryan, Ashley,
    Ashley Bryan has illustrated numerous beloved children's books. In this one, he pairs poems with puppet illustrations - puppets he has made from found objects. He is wonderful creative inspiration for turning the everyday into something…
    BookNew York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014] — J 811.54 BRY
  • Shut up in a trunk by an old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose…
    BookSomerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2023. — J FIC DIC
  • Lotte's Magical Paper Puppets

    the Woman Behind the First Animated Feature Film

    Hartman, Brooke,
    Before Walt Disney made history with Snow White, and the world fell in love with animated feature films, Lotte Reiniger created what is considered one of the first feature-length animated movies called The Adventures of Prince Achmed. She…
    BookSalem, MA : Page Street Kids, 2020. — J B Reiniger, Lotte HAR
  • A great one to pair with the Ashley Bryan book above - this one shows you how just about anything can be turned into a puppet.
    Book[Chennai, India] : Tara Books Pvt. Ltd., [2019] — J 745.59224 PUP
  • Nick and his robot friend Nack decide to put on a puppet show.
    BookHonesdale, Pennsylvania : Highlights Press, [2020] — J Z BUD
  • Puppet Play

    20 Puppet Projects Made With Recycled Mittens, Towels, Socks, and More!

    Schoenbrun, Diana
    Presents step-by-step instructions on crafting twenty puppets, including monsters, animals, and people.
    eBookKansas City, MO : Andrews McMeel, [2011] — EBOOK LIBBY
  • Paper Puppet Palooza

    Techniques for Making Moveable Art Figures and Paper Dolls

    Toraya, Norma V.
    This book shows you how to make several different kinds of puppets that move. Simple materials, like paper, are turned into something amazing!
    eBookBeverly, Mass. : Quarry Books, 2009. — EBOOK LIBBY
  • Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes…
    eBookNew York : Amulet Books, [2010] — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
    eBookNew York : Amulet Books, 2011. — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new menace: the FunTime Educational Program, which is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores; instead, it's driving everyone crazy, and the students turn to Origami Yoda for help.
    eBookNew York : Amulet Books, 2013. — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • Here is a good one to help you get started on planning the words your puppets will say during the show. Even if you want to make them all up yourself, this one will help you figure out how long a show should last and how to pace the…
    eBookEnglewood, Colo. : Teacher Ideas Press, 1990. — EBOOK EBSCO
  • This is a streaming video class to help you learn how to make a stop motion movie using figures made out of clay.
    Streaming Video[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015. — EVIDEO KANOPY
  • Trying to defeat their rivals in the school talent show, twins Ben and Jenny have to use marionettes, something they both fear, but their fear might be justified.
    eBookNew York, N.Y. : Scholastic, Inc., [2015] — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • The young detective and her friends investigate the mysterious movements of life-size puppets on the Van Pelt estate. She looks in the attic. There is a strange pone call. When Nancy actually sees one of the mysterious puppets moving does…
    eBookNew York : Grosset & Dunlap, [1962] — EBOOK AXIS 360
  • Step-by-step instructions explain how to create twelve puppets and perform with them, with professional staging techniques and tips for making puppets come alive for audiences.
    BookCincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, [2006] — 745.59224 KEN
  • Sock Puppet Madness

    35 Colorful Characters to Make in Minutes

    Allen, Marty, 1922-2018
    Many ideas for how to make puppets out of the simplest of materials - your old socks!
    BookLondon : Cico Books, [2013] — 745.59224 ALL
  • Presents step-by-step instructions for creating thirty puppets, including finger puppets, sock puppets, and shadow puppets, and includes guides on how to build a puppet theater and put on a show.
    BookNew York : Workman Pub., 2010. — J 745.59224 MAC
  • Instructions for three puppet sets for putting on a show: Christmas at the North Pole, Under the Big Top, and the Enchanted Forest. For beginning knitters.
    UnknownWoodinville, WA : Martingale & Company, 2008. — 745.59224 LEA
  • These 30 crocheted finger puppet characters will encourage creative play. Patterns include outer space, wild animals and ocean creatures. For beginning crocheters.
    UnknownLewes : Guild of Master Craftsman, 2009. — 746.434 ALT
  • Fantastic Finger Puppets to Make Yourself

    25 Fun Ideas for Your Fingers, Thumbs and Even Feet!

    Smith, Thomasina,
    Make perfect puppets from old socks, rubber gloves, cardboard, kitchen foil and ping pong balls. All the projects are simple and fun to do and can be made using everyday items found around the home.
    BookLondon : Armadillo, an imprint of Anness Publishing, 2014. — J 745.59224 SMI