Christmas Lolly Stick Puppets
What better time than Christmas for encouraging children to get busy with their arts and crafts. Not only can children enjoy making their own Christmas presents to give to others, cards, gift tags, decorations for the tree and home, they can make puppets to inspire their imagination for story telling and puppet shows. Based around Christmas characters, their favourite Christmas story book or the Nativity story, a group of children can have have great fun at Christmas time with lolly stick puppets. To make Start with the head, adapting to suit the shape of the character's head (drawing round a jar lid initially might help to get the circle shape, then modify as desired). Using plain foam craft sheets , cut out the shapes and glue together by laying each piece on top of another. Tip - draw and cut out the shapes from paper first, then draw round the paper onto the foam before cutting out the shapes in foam - it might be easier and less wasteful if shap...