Juice Box Puppets

An empty juice box becomes a super cute puppet and leads to hours of creative fun.

For each puppet…

Dry out empty JUICY JUICE boxes.
Cut slits at the top and bottom of the JUICY JUICE juice box to put dowel through.
The dowel should extend out about 3-1/2-inches at the bottom to create a handle and about 1-inch at the top.
Press the Styrofoam ball onto the dowel for the puppet's head.
Cut small slits on sides of box and insert a pipe cleaner through. Twist the ends to create a circle for hands.
To make the hair:
- For a girl puppet – Wrap yarn around fingers about 15 times. Tie off the yarn so it is a complete circle. Cut one end and use another color to tie a bow.
- For a boy puppet – Cut pieces of black or brown pipe cleaner into 1-1/2-inch pieces (for blond hair, you can color the pipe cleaner yellow). Insert into top of Styrofoam ball to create "spiked" hair.
Glue on wiggly eyes (or you may use round pieces of felt).
Cut out and glue on a felt mouth.
Use colored felt to dress the puppets:
- For a girl puppet – Cut out two simple dress shapes and glue onto the front and back of the JUICY JUICE box. Glue three pom-poms to the front of the dress.
- For a boy puppet – Cut out two felt rectangles for the shirt and glue onto the front and back of the juice box. Cut out a collar shape and glue to the front (near the top). Cut out two squares with a "vee" slit at the bottom to create shorts. Glue these to the front (near the bottom) and back.

You can follow these instructions to make the puppets in the pictures, or be imaginative and create your own original puppets.

Have kids make original puppets and then write a puppet show about them.
Create puppets that represent favorite characters from books and act out the story.

All activities should be parent supervised. Parents, please make sure that the tools and items needed for a project are appropriate for your child.



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