Easy Christmas Crafts for Kids – Paper Bag Reindeer Puppets

This little craft is awesome, because once you have helped them make the puppets they can create their own puppet shows that will give them hours of fun and you much needed guilt-free time to get the holiday chores done.

You’ll need:

• Brown paper bag {lunch sized}
• Medium sized black pom-pom
• Craft glue
• Black, white, red and brown construction paper
• 4 little bells
• Scissors
• Gold glitter pen {or just a marker will work}
• Glue stick

Directions:

1. Lay the paper bag flat.  Flap side up.  {By flap, I mean the bottom of the bag—see the picture if you are confused about the placement}
2. Use craft glue to attach the black pom-pom on the center of the flap toward the bottom.
3. Cut out white circles from the construction paper.  Glue them on above the pom-pom as eyes.
4. Cut out smaller black circles from the construction paper.  Glue them on top of the white circles for pupils for the eyes.
5. Cut out a black strip of construction paper, about an inch thick and the same width as the paper bag.  Glue it onto the main part of the paper bag, about 1 ½” down from the flap.
6. Space the bells equally across the black strip and use the craft glue to glue them on.
7. Cut a circle out of the construction paper.
8. Using the glitter pen or marker, write your child’s favorite reindeer name on the red circle.
9. Glue the “name tag” just below the black bell strip—now you have a reindeer collar.
10. Have your child trace their hands on the brown construction paper {or do it for them if they are little}.
11. Cut out hand prints and glue them to the top of the paper bag on the back side, so that they make hand print antlers.

That’s it, now repeat if your kiddo wants a whole herd.

Merry Crafting,

~ Mavis