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EnchantedLearning.com Styrofoam and Drinking Straw Puppet Craft More Crafts These simple puppets are made from styrofoam trays and drinking straws. You can make animals, fruit, teeth, characters from stories, shapes, vehicles, and just about anything else.

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Go to a dog template

Go to a rabbit template

Go to a star template

Go to a butterfly template

Go to a fish template

Go to a snowman template

Go to a tooth template

Go to an apple template

Supplies needed:

Clean styrofoam trays - if you can find colored trays, they make great puppets. Scissors Drinking straws Pens, gel pens, or markers Tape Optional - googly eyes and a glue stick Optional - construction paper to make details, like a mouth, hat, etc. Optional - yarn for whiskers or hair

Clean a styrofoam tray with warm water and detergent. Using a pen, draw the outline of an animal (head or entire body), person, or something else on the tray. A simple circle or oval with ears will make most animal heads.

Go to a cat template

Cut out the animal. For templates, click on the pictures near the top of the page (or the cat to the left). There are templates of stars, a cat, a dog, an apple, a fish, a tooth, a snowman, a rabbit, and a butterfly.

For the puppet's details (like the nose, eyes, mouth, whiskers, or a hat), either draw them with a pen (or marker), or cut them out of construction paper and glue them on the puppet. To make hair or whiskers, you can glue on bits of yarn. Optional: Glue on googly eyes using a glue stick.

Tape the back of your styrofoam animal to the end of a drinking straw.

You now have a great animal puppet that you can use to put on a play or use while reading your favorite story.

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