Simple Leprechaun Bag Puppets

Your kids will enjoy playing with these fun and easy to make paper bag puppets -- you probably have all the supplies already at home!!

Supplies:
Paper bag
Construction paper (green, orange, yellow and black)
Google eyes
Glue

Directions:
1. Draw & cut out the shapes for a hat, shirt, beard, belt and belt buckle on the appropriate colors of paper. Have children who are able to use scissors safely cut out own their shapes. TIP: to give your beard texture snip thin vertical strips from the bottom to within no less than 1" from the top edge.

2. Paper bag puppet orientation...place the bag flat with the bottom portion facing up and at the top; bag opening at the bottom. When done your child's hand will go into the bag and their hand into the bottom flap to work their puppets mouth.

3. Have your child glue the pieces to their bag...
-belt and buckle onto the hat
-hat onto the top edge of the flap
-beard into the bottom edge of the flap
-shirt on the body of the bag under the flap

4. With a black crayon or marker draw a mouth onto the beard and a nose on the bag between the bead and the hat. Finish by attaching google eyes and curling or crimping the beard.