Notes 
from The Kids' Storytelling Club 

How to Make a Tabletop Puppet
     You can make a tabletop finger puppet that will walk across your table as you tell a story. Slip your first two fingers into the pocket in the back of the doll to make it walk. You can draw streets on a piece of paper if you want.
1.      First print out the pattern below.
2.      Draw a line across the body of the pattern from under the left arm to under the right arm. Use this leg piece for the finger pocket pattern.
3.      Pin the full pattern to two piece of flesh colored felt.
4.      Cut the pocket pattern out and pin it to a third piece of felt.
5.      Pin the two felt puppet pieces together. Position the pocket on back and pin all three pieces together.

6.With matching color thread and an overcast stitch, sew around the puppet. Begin where the puppet’s right ear would b e and stitch around arm. When you come to the pocket sew through all three layers around the legs. Stop where the let ear would be. With felt marker, crayon or pen, draw eyes and a mouth on your puppet. If you want to draw clothes on the puppet, do that now. (You could embroider the face and clothes if you prefer.) Or, you can create the clothes from scraps of colored felt.
7. With a tiny amount of fiberfill, begin to stuff the puppet legs, then the arms and the head. Now finish stitching around the head.
Reprinted with permission from Storytelling For The FUN Of It: a Handbook for Children, by Vivian Dubrovin.

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