Right this moment I welcome Little Lion Mother from instagram to share one in all her splendidly whimiscal crafts with us – combining autumn leaves with recycled bathroom paper rolls, to make a set of gorgeous Fall Leaf Puppets! An effective way to discover fall leaf colours and make a set of various animal puppets relying on what you will discover. From firey purple fox puppets, to golden lion manes… too cute!

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Provides wanted for DIY TP Roll and Leaves Finger Puppets
How I really like these little fingers wielding finger puppets! All you should make these is:
- A tp roll per puppet
- Colourful autumn leaves
- Paper scraps/ slightly paint for particulars
- Scissors
- Markers for closing particulars
- A glue stick will do, although you could want to use a scorching glue gun
Glue sticks are eco friendlier.. and in case you select so as to add glitter, do use bio degradable glitter!
The best way to make your Bathroom Roll Finger Puppets with paper & fall leaves!
On this instance we present you methods to make a purple leaf fox puppet! Although all of the animal finger puppets are made in the same means. Let the fox tutorial encourage you to make a the hedgehog, lion and deer puppets too!


Start by flattening your bathroom paper roll.
Lower into the bathroom roll to make your finger puppet base. It ought to be vast sufficient to suit your or your baby’s fingers.


Preserve chopping till you could have a rounded form. With one aspect “closed” as you narrow it alongside the sting of the folded bathroom paper roll.

Add glue to the opposite edge and high. You possibly can see we used a scorching glue gun right here, however a glue stick works simply as nicely. Simply give it a second or two to totally dry!


From white paper minimize an oval for the foxes face. Yhe ovale ought to be as wider as your bathroom paper roll base.
Use this white base as a information and cout out depart oval in the identical form however be SURE so as to add ears to this oval (two level triangles).
After getting cute the purple leaf oval (plus hears), minimize out tabs to make it fox formed.
Glue onto the white background you used as a template.


Glue this fox face to your bathroom roll puppet base.
Now minimize out a fox tummy and glue in place.
Get one other purple leaf and minimize right into a fox tail form – you’ll be able to add slightly white paint to the tip.
Glue the leaf to the again of the fox.

Now with a advantageous black marker pen add the ending touches – eyes and a nostril! You can even use a gap punch to chop out little fox ft!
Your purple leaf fox puppet is completed. Now see some extra photos for inspiration:

You should use a bigger gap punch to chop out a lot of yellow circles for a lion’s mane! Isn’t that lovely?
A brown depart with some zig zags minimize into it, makes a beautiful hedgehog!

Or mix a brown depart, with some little twigs to make a beautiful reinder. You possibly can safe the twigs into the cardboard tube holder, as you glue it in place earlier on within the course of!
Performed! Aren’t they lovely?
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In search of extra pretty leaf craft concepts? Strive our simple Leaf Lanterns or take a look at the completely different methods to protect leaves!


We love Autumn Leaves!


Glad Crafting!