Puppets from Paper Mache

Yay! Paper Mache!  I love doing paper mache and summer workshops are a great opportunity to work with it.  I worked with elementary students in our Sculpting Workshop and one of the projects was making these awesome hand puppets out of paper mache. This is definately one of my favorite projects of all time! See the full tutorial here: Art for Small Hands.

My example- Scrooge

Chef

 Students choose their own
cloth and cut out their hands and I
sewed them before they came the
next day.  Then they added all
the embellishments and made hats,
connected the tunic to the head, and
finished off the details. Excellent
work, students!

Puppy

I love him- she named him Blobbly Bobby

 I really love that I had a parent join the class.  Parents need time to create, too!  The kids put on a puppet show for us afterward!