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These are probably the easiest ones to make – all you have to do is cut and paste! It is as easy as that. Paper puppets give you enough room to make mistakes – especially if you are a first-timer. Also it is possible to add details very easily. All you have to do is draw them on the paper! If you are making a cat, for example, you can use a dark colored sketch-pen or marker and add a tongue! Layering is also a good idea. You can actually cut thin strips and add whiskers on the cat’s face. Small dots could go on to be eyes, and triangles could add ears to complete the cat. Different colors can be used to make the finger puppet attractive and colorful. Cats are never yellow colored in real life – but if your child likes the color yellow, your finger puppet cat could well be yellow colored! A thin red colored strip could become the collar – and voila! You have a cat on your finger!

Felt Finger Puppet Patterns

Felt is a kind of cloth that is made without weaving fibers – it is simply made by pressing wool fibers together into sheets. Felt is very easy to model or mold into different shapes. Felt finger puppets are about as easy to make as paper finger puppets – the advantage being they are more durable. Using cloth gives you the opportunity to stitch hands, legs, ears, and tails (in case of animal finger puppets) onto your finger puppet. They definitely add more dimension to your finger puppet than can be achieved in paper finger puppets. Stitching also means you can experiment with embroidering details onto the puppet. So your finger puppet bunny can well be clad in a dinner jacket!