Put on a seahorse puppet show with simple to make puppets.
Help kids make some seahorse puppets and put on their own ocean puppet show with this craft. Tell kids interesting facts about seahorses, such as that males have the babies instead of females, and seahorses can eat up to 3,000 brine shrimp a day. They neat little creatures are also without teeth or a stomach. Seahorses come in 35 species but sadly they are close to becoming extinct. Pay homage to the seahorse by making a cute puppet.
Instructions
1. Print and cut out the seahorse template for your puppet.
2. Cut a seahorse out of colored poster board or card stock using the template as a guide. Cut out the template first, then lay it on the poster board and cut around it to create a seahorse shape.
3. Decorate the seahorse and give it facial features. Glue on google eyes, or draw eyes on the seahorse with markers. Embellish the seahorse with glitter glue.
4. Decorate a wooden popsicle stick with a pipe cleaner by twisting it around the pipe cleaner. The pipe cleaner can be green or blue to look ocean-colored.
5. Tape the seahorse to the popsicle stick and you have a seahorse stick puppet. Use two seahorse shapes to make a double sided puppet by attaching the popsicle stick in the center of two seahorses.
