Giraffe Paper Bag Puppet
If you haven’t heard the news, April the
giraffe is all the craze right now. April is an adorable giraffe who lives at
Animal Adventure Park in
New York. She is due to birth a baby giraffe any day now. Thousands
of people have been watching the live giraffe cam feed for a whole week
now since she could give birth at any time. When she first showed up in
my Facebook feed, I thought, “Oh, how cute. A giraffe is about to have
a baby.” Then, I kept scrolling. A few hours later, I checked on
April to see if she had birthed her baby. I checked again a few minutes
later. Pretty soon, I was glued to the
Youtube live feed
along with about 100,000 other people. A week later, I’m still
watching. So are about 100,000 others. My daycare kids have become
interested in April too. Don’t worry. I don’t let them stare at the
computer all day long. In fact, I won’t let them watch the birth.
Their parents can make that decision if they are watching at home when
April’s little giraffe baby decides to come. I am taking advantage of
their interest though. We decided to make a giraffe paper bag puppet.
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| Image Credit: Abundant Family Living |
This is a super simple puppet. I did this with a four year old and a 2
year old. You can cut the snout, ears, ossicones, and spots out of
construction paper or you can download the template below for FREE. Cut out the pieces and
glue
them into place. When I printed them off for my kids, I thought I had
made the features too small, but the they worked fine when we glued them
into place.
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| Image Credit: Abundant Family Living |
Let the kids do as much work as they can by themselves. We made ours
just before the kids went home. They left just as we were adding the
last spots so I didn’t get to make a picture of theirs. The one above
is my sample. It helps if they have something to look at.
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| Image Credit: Abundant Family Living |
You can use
wiggle eyes or draw on the eyes yourself. Giraffes have such pretty eyes so we decided to draw on our own eyes.
Waiting for the template? Here it is! Just click and download! It’s FREE! >>
Giraffe Paper Bag Puppet Template
