Blogger / 5 October, 2020 / Nanny Anita

Wooden Spoon Puppets for Story Time

While I was training at college, we had to make up our own story bags; they would be full of props to go with a specific book. It is always fun to give children the props and for them to act out the story that is either being read or one from memory. This time I filled my story bag with wooden spoon puppets.

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To make your own wooden spoon puppets you will need:

• Wooden spoons
• A book
• Paints
• Paintbrushes

First choice which book you want to make puppets for; Rapunzel just happens to be one of BB’s favourite books at the moment. Which is great, because it meant I could draw Disney’s Tangled characters on the spoons.

I recommend using paints rather than pens for this. I tried using an acrylic paint pen but even that bleed into the wood.

YC was telling BB the story at bed time.

When the wooden spoon puppets were finally ready, I left them with the book for BB to find. At first, he got me to read the book while using the puppets. Then he used the puppets while I read it, and now he tells the story using the puppets. It is really sweet to watch him retell the story, and it is a great way to encourage a love of books and storytelling.

BB acting it out while I was reading it.

If you enjoyed these wooden spoon puppets be sure to check out my LR owl and crocodile who eats words puppet.

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