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Dinosaur Felt Puppets

June 19, 2015 by Ellen Russell

Felt finger puppets are such a simple and fun project to make! The boys have enjoyed our robot finger puppets and our monster finger puppets so much, I’ve been trying to come up with some other fun felt finger puppets to make. Today I have a tutorial for a set of dinosaur felt finger puppets. They are super easy to whip together, and make for a great toy to play with.

An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com

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Materials:
–Felt – I used blue, brown, orange, and purple, but you can use whatever colors you want to make your dinosaurs.
–Embroidery thread – You can also use craft glue to put the dinosaurs together, but the instructions I’ll be giving is for thread.
–Google eyes
–black puffy fabric paint
-Craft glue
–Download and print off the pattern here

Start by cutting out all your pieces. A simple trick I learned from a friend of mine was actually to use a glue stick to glue the pattern pieces directly to the felt. This way they stay in place while you cut them out, but can easily be removed when you’re done.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
We’ll start with our little orange dino here. Add any stitches for texture that you want. I did a simple circle.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Now blanket stitch around the edge, leaving between the two legs open.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com

Now let’s move on to the t-rex, which I made out of blue felt. Now I messed up on my t-rex, so the pictures will be a little out of order. To start, you want to add on any details onto the body of the dinosaur. Here I stitched some simple circles to give him a little texture.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
You also want to stitch on the arms. Here’s where I really messed up – I stitched them on after putting him together, which made it really difficult to get a finger in to actually use him as a finger puppet. So don’t make the same mistake I did!
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Once you have your arms stitched on, blanket stitch around the edge of the dinosaur, but leave at the feet open.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Once he’s done, set him aside. We’ll add the eyes and mouths all at the end.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com

Next we’ll do our triceratops. I had some fun textured brown felt which I used for the body, then some plain brown for the head.
First, blanket stitch around the edge of the body.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Then place each head piece on either side of the head of the dinosaur.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Stitch around the edge of the head pieces.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Match up each set of stegosaurus spikes. Stitch around each set of spikes.
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Begin stitching around the edge of the stegosaurus at the feet.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
When you get to the beginning of the back, slip one of the spikes in between the two sides of the body.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com

An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Stitch the spike in as you continue around the edge of the body.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Do the same for the remaining spikes, spacing them evenly around the back of the dinosaur.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Then continue the blanket stitch around the edge of the dinosaur, leaving an opening at the bottom between the two legs.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com
Lastly, glue on googly eyes and add mouths using some puffy paint.
An easy tutorial for dinosaur felt finger puppets with a free pattern www.createinthechaos.com

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kids-felt-dinosaur-craft

If you’re looking for more easy felt sewing projects (either for yourself or your kiddo), we love this felt animal craft kit.

Felt craft kit

Filed Under: Crafts Tagged With: Dinosaurs, Easy Crafts, Puppet, Sewing, Sewing project, Tutorial

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