DIY Firefighter Craft – Make a Fireman Puppet

Instructions

Step 1:

Select a colored craft paper for the skin tone of the puppet and a colored craft paper for the hair.

Select red, yellow and brown or black colored craft papers for
the uniform of the fire-fighter paper bag puppets. Let your kids be involved in selecting the colors of the craft papers.

Trace the hat and sleeve patterns on the red paper, trace the head and hand patterns on the paper selected for the skin-tone, trace the hair on the paper selected for the hair.

Trace the shoe patterns on the brown or black paper and trace the rest of the patterns (mostly strips) on the yellow paper.

Cut out the traced patterns carefully. Little kids will need help with this.

When you have finished doing this you should have the following craft papers as shown below

Step 2:

Glue the hair cut-out onto the top side of the head cut-out and cut a slit along the marked line of the hat pattern.

Stick the symbol cut-out on the top part of the hat pattern.

Step 3:

Insert the top side of the head pattern through the slit of the hat, from below.

Use glue to attach the hat to the head.

Use a sharpie to draw the eyes, nose and mouth of the firefighter puppet.

Little kids will be able to use glue and draw facial features

Step 4:

Attach the yellow strip cut-outs on either side of the sleeve cut-outs.

Step 5:

Trim the extra parts of the attached strip cut-outs and then attach the hand cut-outs to the sleeve patterns, near the yellow borders as shown below.

Step 6:

Select a paper bag and prepare a piece of red paper to cover either side of the paper bag.

Grab the shoe cut-outs and the rest of the strip cut-outs.

Step 7:

Attach the red paper piece on either side of the paper bag; this will be the front
side of the paper bag fire-fighter puppet.

Flatten the bottom side of the bag with the bag and then attach the head pattern on the flattened bottom side.

Step 8:

Attach the 2 paper arm patterns on both sides of the paper bag puppet figure.

Step 9:

Attach the big strip pieces along the top art of the puppet figure, on the bag part as shown below.

Step 10:

Attach the shoe cut-outs along the bottom side of the puppet (open side of the bag).

Attach the 2 small strip cut-outs above the shoe patterns. Use a pen or sharpie to mark a line to divide the 2 legs of the fireman paper bag puppet.

Step 11:

Allow the glue to dry. Afterwards your DIY Fire fighter puppet is ready to play with. Why not make lots of these. I mean all firemen work in large groups as opposed to alone.