Santa Paper Bag Puppet

Instructions

1. Select black, white, pink, yellow, and red colored papers for the Santa puppet. The template includes the following patterns- head, hat, hat border, beard, mustache, eyebrows, hat pompom, gloves, shoes, legs, sleeve border, belt, and buckle.

2. Trace the template patterns on the selected colored papers and cut out the traced pattern

3. Glue the beard onto the bottom of the head.

4. Glue the mustache and eyebrows to the head.

5. Glue the shoes onto the legs and the white glove embellishments to the base of each glove.

6. Glue the white hat border to the bottom of the hat and the white pom pom to the tip of the hat. Cut slits into the yellow buckle and slide the belt through the slits.

7. Glue the hat onto the head. Use a sharpie to draw the facial features on.

8. Select a paper bag or make your own using brown paper. Prepare a large red piece of paper to cover one side of the bag. This is Santa’s body.

9. Glue a white border to the bottom of the body piece and attach the legs.

10. Glue the body to the paper bag under the flap

11. Glue the arms to the sides of the body and the belt across the middle.

12. Attach the head to the flattened bottom of the bag

13. Optional – cut a toy bag out of construction paper and attach it over one of Santa’s shoulders