Kids Craft Ideas: Pig Finger Puppets

Finger puppets are great when you are looking for kids craft ideas. Older kids may not want to use them to put on little plays like younger children will, but finger puppets are still fun items for older children to make and collect. Some particularly fun animal puppets to make are pig finger puppets.

Start by making a trip to the local thrift store or dollar store and picking up a pair of pink knit gloves*. These can be bright pink, pale pink, or somewhere in between, so long as they are definitely pink. Next you will need to buy 2 pink pencil erasers, the brighter pink the better, so you should try to find some specialty pencils, rather than just using the standard No. 2. You will need a fast-acting glue, some transparent tape, some kind of craft blade with which to carve one of the erasers, and black craft paint with a writing tip.

Carefully remove the erasers from the pencils, taking care not to break them. Use your blade, if they won't wiggle out. Use your blade to cut one eraser in half diagonally, for ears. Cut a finger off the glove. Choose a finger on your non-dominant hand and use the at least two pieces of tape to completely cover the tip. Slide the glove finger onto your taped finger. Add a drop of glue in the very center of the "face" of the pink tube and press the cut side of the eraser onto the glue, holding until it is dry. Repeat this gluing process to attach the ears. Use the black craft paint to create the pig's eyes, nostrils on its snout, and its mouth.

*If you would like to crochet your own puppet, rather than using glove fingers, refer to this video on how to crochet in the round, here. From where the video leaves off, slide your hook under the "V" shaped stitch to the left of the hook, yarn over, draw the loop back through the V, but do not continue making the slip stitch. Instead, yarn over again and pull through both loops on the hook. Continue, working left, until you have created a tube that is at least 2-3 inches long. Cut the yarn approximately 2 inches from your hook and pull it through the loop, working the remainder back into the work so that it is not visible.