Friday, January 30, 2009

Idea of the week:

Sock Puppets!

What you want your sock puppet to look like up to you. But there are a few key ingredients:

Clean old socks! No one wants a wiffy puppet!

Markers and felt tips.

Buttons, wool, coloured paper, scissors and glue... It all depends on what character you're making - glitter for Disco Oddie, wool for Rasta Oddie, leaves for Eco Oddie... The possibilities are endless!

---Then just pull the sock over the hand that you do not use to write.

---Draw a face - remember that your thumb and forefinger will naturally make a “mouth” from which the puppet will talk, sing, recite poetry, yodel.

---Glue on buttons for eyes or ears, added a paper tongue or even glue on wool for hair or a beard. It depends whether you want your puppet to be an animal or monster or ghost or anything!

---Then it's time to start playing... make a theatre out of a cardboard box, get your friends over with their puppets and put on a silly voice!

Have fun! And if that's not enough, there's some colouring in below!

xoxox from Oddieworld

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