"My kid love puppets. Does anyone have some unique ideas for making puppets?"

Kids do love puppets and making them is more than half the fun. With a little imagination, just about anything can be made into a puppet. We were sent ideas for spoons, gloves, even fly swatters. One of my favorite ideas comes from Linda of Alabama who makes frog puppets from pot holders.

We also made some puppets for those ever popular perler beads the kids love. In fact, you can add a craft stick to just about anything to make it into a puppet. Don't forget the nice puppets you can make out of our paper doll "Friends".

Here's some more ideas sent in for puppets from our visitors:

Juice Box Hand Puppets
"Cut a juice box in half on three sides and fold on the fourth. Paint or cover with construction paper and decorate to make an animal. Fit fingers in the top half of the box and your thumb in the bottom to make it talk."
--Karen, Kalamazoo Michigan

Frog Puppet
Use a cardboard fast-food hamburger container, paint it green, cut two  strips of green fun foam 1/4" by 2" and glue ends to make a loop for your finger on the top and bottom of container at the back. Use fun foam to make tongues, eyes, etc.
--Robin J., Thaxton, MS

Paper Plate Clam Puppets
"Fold over a paper plate and add two toilet paper tubes for eyes"
--Loree, North Mankato, MN

Ducky Glove Puppet
"Glue small duck faces to the tips a glove's fingers. Glue a pompom to the back of the fingers for tails. Sing "Five Little Ducks" and use your ducky glove for finger play."
--Hilary, St. Charles, MO

Fly Swatter Puppets
"Use pipe cleaners and beads to decorate fly swatters. Add feathers for hair."
--Diane, Hampton, NJ

Family of Puppets
"Decorate each finger of a garden glove to be a member of your family. Use yarn for hair, markers for faces and scraps of materials for clothes. Stuff the upper part of the finger to form a head and tie a piece of yarn around it for the neck."
--Celia, Oceanside, New York

Wooden Spoon Puppets
"Decorate the spoon part into a head and the handle as the body. Use a craft stick to make arms."
--Anonymous

Clothespin Alligator Puppets
"Make an alligator head in two pieces out of foam or paper. Glue the top of the head to one end of the pin. The bottom half of the head to the other end. Make a body and glue to the top of the clothespin. Open and close the clothespin to move the alligators mouth."
--Emily, British Columbia, Canada

Easy Craft Stick Puppets
"Cut photos out of store catalogs glue a craft stick to the back."
--Chantale Wilson, Bolton CT

Yo-Yo Puff Marionettes
"Cut a several circles out of fabric. Make one a little bigger for the head. Turn under the edges and sew with a long gathering stitch. Gather and tie off. Stuff with cotton. Run a string through several of these going through the opening and straight through. The more you use, the bigger your puppet will be. For the legs, tie about 2 feet of braided yarn around the center of your string of yo-yo puffs -- leaving the ends even. For the feet, poke a hole in four spray paint caps. Run your yarn through and tie it off. Tie together two  small dowel rods and tie them together to form a cross. Tie a thread to the head and tail and to one of the dowel rods. To the other dowel rod, tie a string between them and the feet. It takes a little practice but it won't be long before you have them walking and eating and everything else."
--Deb G., Coulterville, Illinois

Spider Puppets
"Cut a Styrofoam ball in half, cover with fabric and attach to the back of a knit glove, add facial  to make into a spider."
--Carol B., Baraboo, WI

Feather Duster Puppets
"Use pom pom, pipe cleaners, felt, foam -- anything -- to decorated feather dusters to make puppets."
--SS, South Carolina

Paint Brush Puppets
"Decorate the metal part of a large flat paintbrush as a face. The bristles becomes the hair. Paint or decorate the handle as the body."
--Jo, Longview, Texas