Little Miss Muffet, The Spider Hand Puppets
Here is a way to fill a rainy day with fun: make a puppet and give a little show. Most of
the materials you will need are around the house. Glue, poster paint, colored paper, rags,
yarn, old socks - do you have them? Then, let's go!
17.LITTLE MISS MUFFET HAND
PUPPET
You need yarn, a bit of lace or rickrack, construction paper, a bathroom tissue
tube or paper towel tube and an old glove. Cut a 3-inch section of the tube (3 1/2 inches
if you are using paper towel tube). Make another tube of stiff paper big enough to fit
snugly over the top of your first finger, but too tight to slip down past the second joint
of the finger. Insert this tube into the larger one and glue it in place with no more than
an inch sticking out. Cut the eyes, eyebrows and mouth out of paper and glue them in
place. Make three coils of yellow yarn. Tie them together as shown. Glue them in place on
top of the tube face. Miss Muffet needs a glove body with a bit of rickrack or lace sewed
to the palm to give her a flouncy look.
18.THE SPIDER HAND PUPPET
Sew or glue an old piece of fur to the back of a glove. Glue
six shiny black buttons into the fur for eyes. Crouch your fingers to make the awful
creature scuttle up behind Miss Muffet.
To make a quick body out of an old glove,
just tuck the fingers you are not using out of sight. Or you can cut the spare fingers off
and sew up the holes. You will need a glove large enough to allow you to double your
fingers up inside. Hands of cardboard can be slipped over the ends of the second finger
and thumb.