Easter Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppets
When I had to idea to create some finger puppets out of pipe cleaners, little did I realize what creativity I would unleash in my children. 3 packages of pipe cleaners later, I have enough different finger puppet ideas for probably 10 more posts! I had no idea these would be such easy crafts for kids.
Pipe cleaners are extremely forgiving and deceptively easy to work with. Anything you ‘mess up’ while bending them is fixable. And by using a hot glue gun, you are pretty much unlimited in how you can attach eyes, limbs, and embellishments.
What you Need to Make Easter Finger Puppets
Pipe cleaners of various colors
Mini pom poms of various colors and sizes (you can substitute cotton balls sometimes)
Googly eyes
Hot glue gun
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Wire cutters
(Our local Dollar Store had great cheap coordinating sets of pipe cleaners with matching pom poms)
How to Make Easter Finger Puppets
Once you see the components of each of these pipe cleaner finger puppets, assembly is pretty self-explanatory. But here’s the key “puppet base” that they are all made from:
Finger Puppet Base
Step 1 is to take the pipe cleaner and wrap it around your finger. I like to do it rather tightly, because once it is off of your finger, it is easier to stretch it out than it is to tighten it up.
Important: Notice that the top of the pipe cleaner coils down to a smaller circle. Do this so that it is easier to glue the pom pom head on top, and to lessen the possibility that you will get the hot glue on your fingers (which, if it hasn’t happened to you yet, pray that it doesn’t. OMG.)
Here are the pieces of each of the pipe cleaner finger puppets shown above. I was skeptical whether the hot glue would work on some of these pieces, but it worked perfectly. Just put a tiny dab of glue onto the wire end of the pipe cleaner and stick it straight down into the pom pom – it will stick after just a second or two of holding it in place.
Easter Bunny Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppet
Easter Bunny Finger Puppet
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After gluing the white head onto the pipe cleaner body, stick a dab of glue onto both wire ends on one of the bent pipe cleaner ears. Stick them firmly into the pom pom while squeezing the ends together.
Glue two tiny white pom poms on the face as a base to stick the googly eyes. This is really optional, and you can see on the kitten finger puppet below that you can also just glue the googly eyes directly onto the pom pom head.
Then glue on the pink nose and the medium sized pink pom pom for the tail.
Easter Chick Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppet
Easter Chick Finger Puppet
After gluing the white head onto the pipe cleaner body, clip a tiny piece of orange pipe cleaner and bend it into a V shape, and glue it onto the middle of the face. Glue the two yellow mini pom poms right above the beak to make a base for the googly eyes, then glue them on top of them. Take about a 4 inch piece of extra yellow pipe cleaner and bend it into the wing shape as shown. You don’t even need to glue these in, just slip them onto the body in between the coils and they will stay put.
Spring Kitten Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppet
Spring Kitten Finger Puppet
After gluing the white head onto the pipe cleaner body, clip two small pieces of white pipe cleaner (about 3/4″ long) and bend them into a V. Glue them onto the top of the head. I skipped the extra tiny pom pom eye base on this one, wanting to go for a more “Hello Kitty” look. You only need one tiny pink pom pom for the nose, but here’s a little tip: if you don’t have a tiny pom pom to use, you can clip a tiny piece of pink pipe cleaner (less than 1/4″ long) and glue it onto the face instead. The tail is attached by bending it onto the bottom coil on the back of the kitten’s pipe cleaner body.
Bluebird Pipe Cleaner Finger Puppet
Spring Bluebird Finger Puppet
To make this variance on the Easter chick, I omitted the mini pom pom base for the eyes, and added a little tuft of feathers on the top of the head the same way I did the kitten’s ears (but only added one and put it on lengthwise instead of sideways). The wings are also a slightly simpler version of the yellow wings, and might be easier for smaller children to bend on their own.
You might also like this easy Easter tree craft!
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befor i thought the cats were misssing something but i figured it out and i found some extra wire laying around the house and thought i would give the cats some wiskers, now they look much more like kittys.
after i made the bunnies i decided i would give it a try on popcicle sticks. so i basicly did the exact same thing except they are no longer finger puppets but props for plays, they turned out awesome!
i tried this craft and the bunnies are SO cute!!! the only thing i messed up on was that i was a little messy with the hotgue gun and one of my bunnies had a glue all over him!!
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Hi! Wanted to stop by and let you know we loved making your puppets. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Hi there! I absolutely love these finger puppets ~ my daughter passed away in August 2010 and I am always looking for seasonal ideas to decorate her cemetery site with. By gluing a popsicle or wooden stick to the inside of this puppet (where you would normally put your finger), these can easily go into the ground. I just love them – thank you!!
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these are SOO CUTE!!!!!!!! I absolutley love the kitten and the easter bunny!
These are really cute! They’d be great as pencil tops or straw wraps too…
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I am dying over how cute these are! I’d love for you to submit this to the M&T Spotlight at http://www.makeandtakes.com/spotlight
Just wanted to let you know that we made your puppets and LOVED them. So much fun.
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Hi,
I am one of the Editors for the crafting and DIY website FaveCrafts.com and our blog FaveCraftsBlog.com. We offer hundreds of free craft projects, tutorials, home décor ideas and more in every area of crafting.
I saw these Easter puppets and fell in love! They are adorable! I would like to invite you to contribute this craft project to FaveCrafts. All the details of your authorship are preserved. We love to feature fresh voices on our website constantly and nurture such a vibrant, creative community of crafters.
In addition to publishing Guest Features at our website (with over 1 million page views per week and over 200,000 page views per day) and blog, we promote these items in our bi-weekly newsletter, which currently has over 600,000 email subscribers.
If you are not interested in contributing to our website or blog, we hope you will consider a reciprocal link with FaveCrafts.com. We wish to develop a quality network of crafters and crafting writers for all our readers.
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