I realize you are probably finished doing Christmas activities, but maybe you can bookmark this one for next year.
This was one of the first crafts I had planned to do with the girls and the last one that we did.
They are finger puppets.
The girls didn't get to participate as much as I wanted them to. The instructions said to use fast drying craft glue, but the kind I had said not for fabric, so I had to use the hot glue gun, which is slowly becoming my new BFF.
Start by glueing 1 1/4" wooden beads to dime size coin wrappers...
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I cut all of my pieces one night after the girls were in bed...
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Make reindeer antlers from pipe cleaners...
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Glue red and brown felt around the coin wrapper...
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Glue a smaller piece of red felt on Santa. Only secure it at the top to resemble a cloak...
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Then glue a strip of black felt to the cloak...
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Apply a black button above the belt...
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Cut a triangle out of red felt and glue a white strip of felt to the bottom...
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Glue the hat to the wooden bead.
At this point your puppet looks more like the Pope than Santa, but don't worry...
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Bring the tip of the hat to the side of the wooden bead and glue into place.
Then attach a white pom pom...
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Glue the beard and mustache...
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Next up is Rudolph.
Glue an oval piece of flesh colored felt to the belly...
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Attach a red pom pom for the nose...
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Add the ears...
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and the antlers...
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This is the part B got to help with...
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draw eyes with a fine tipped marker...
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Super cute and somewhat easy!
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