Hey Guys!
As I've mentioned in the past, we are heading to Poland for mission work, in March.   
I am looking for some VERY simply ideas for making some puppets.   
We will be working in children's hospitals and orphanages, and I would love to be
able to hand out a simple puppet to children there.
I would LOVE to be able to have MANY to take with, and it should be simple enough
for my daughter to help make them. 
What do you think?  Any ideas?   
It could even be an "all glue" project. 
Thanks for your input guys!   
Sara

you can use 2 pieces of felt or cloth cut in a hand puppet shape then glue together ,the kids can then glue eyes hair or whatever on them to make each look different...thats what i do to get kids in the area interested in puppetry.
its simple and easy for most any young child.just an idea...good luck 

Thanks...can you give an example of the shape you mean?

Thanks, Billy!

sorry i forgot to put a link to a pattern...thanks Billy

great link for patterns and ideas, but just to warn you all, half way down the page of that link to the hand puppet pattern is a picture that is definately NOT a hand puppet, so just incase there are any young members of P&S, its not a suitable link to follow!!!

Thanks Jeezbo for the warning! there were so many I didn't want to post all the links.

I'll remove the link, I just noticed it   for those of you that want the links just type hand puppet in your search box.

Hey, Great!

 Very simple puppets can be made using 1) a paper lunch bag 0r 2) a sock! Using the lunch bag, the crease becomes the mouth, where you mat glue in tongues, etc., the face is what's above it, and so on.
Using a sock's a little more involved, but fun...I'm not sure if I can describe it, though...

Have fun! And thanks for doing this work! Blessings...   luv, Jess

great link for patterns and ideas, but just to warn you all, half way down the page of that link to the hand puppet pattern is a picture that is definately NOT a hand puppet, so just incase there are any young members of P&S, its not a suitable link to follow!!!

At first I thought it was because you might have your filters set to moderate or off but even on strict the image still shows.  I did report it but who knows if that well do any good or how long they may take to remove it. Hard to keep up with spammers and especially ones like this. I am actually surprised you don't get more of these when searching.