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St. Patrick's Day Puppets

Michelle Ordever
These St. Patrick's Day Puppets are simple and fun to make using paper and popsicle sticks!
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Active Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour

Materials

  • Construction paper in the following colors:
  • Dark Green
  • Light Green
  • Yellow
  • Orange
  • Black
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Purple
  • Popsicle Sticks
  • Free Printable Template - link in blog post

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Instructions
 

  • Print the template and cut all the pieces out. Trace around each piece onto colored paper - you can choose whichever colors you like! The leprechaun has four different hat designs so you could make different styled leprechauns if you would like. Then cut all the pieces out.


    Cut Paper Leprechaun Puppet Pieces
  • Using a glue stick, attach the hatband and buckle to the hat; the beard to the small round piece, and the boots on each of the long strips.


    Leprechaun Puppet Assembly
  • Stick the head to the top of the big round piece and attach the legs to the bottom.


    Leprechaun Puppet Assembly
  • Use marker pens to draw eyes, nose, and mouth onto the leprechaun's face, and add some stripes to the socks too if you like.


    Drawing features onto puppet
  • Use a blob of white school glue to stick the finished paper leprechaun to the end of a popsicle stick and leave it to dry.


    Completed Leprechaun Puppet
  • To make the rainbow, stick each layer directly to the popsicle stick and attach the clouds at either end.
  • To make the pot of gold, cut the coins in half and place them towards the top of the pot, and attach the pot to a popsicle stick as in step 5.
  • To make the shamrock and horseshoe simply attach them to a popsicle stick as in step 5. Add detail with a marker if you wish.
  • There is also a lucky coin that isn't demonstrated in the photographs. Cut the round piece and the shamrock piece from different shades of yellow paper, stick them together and attach them to a popsicle stick as in step 5.

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