Paper Puppet Handout

Materials: white paper, construction paper, glue, crayons, pencils & colored pencils

Step 1: This puppet is made using the folding method to create an “origami fortune teller.” Fold a paper square in half on a diagonal to create a triangle and then unfold.

Step 2: Fold each of the four corners to the center point. Then repeat.

Step 3: Carefully put thumb in the opening on the bottom and fingers in top opening. Fold in half diagonally, making fingers and thumb meet inside hand puppet.

Step 4: Draw beak and eyes. The opening will be the mouth. Color with markers. On a separate piece of paper, draw feathers and then color, cut and glue to puppet.