Easy Nativity Paper Puppets for Kids to make at Christmas
A fun way to tell the Christmas Story – use this set of 10 Nativity Paper Puppets for Kids. A fun Christmas Coloring Page and Craft in one. Children can listen to the Christmas story whilst coloring in their puppets, followed by their own puppet show demonstration! So sweet! We love Christmas Printables and Paper Crafts.
10 Nativity Puppet Printables
Fun Paper Finger Puppet Printables on Red Ted Art
These are part of our fun and quirky paper puppet collection, that you may have browse here on the site before they include the following sets:
- The Addams Family for Halloween
- ABC When I Grow Up Puppets for Carreers in the classroom
- 12 Zodiac Animal Puppets for Chinese New Year
As well as –
- Farm Animals puppets printables
- Jungle Animals puppet printables
Supplies needed to make your occupations paper puppets:
- Printer & Paper (light card is great for these)
- Coloring pens/ pencils/ markers
- Scissors
- Glue stick
This printable is available as a set of 10 Paper Puppets (also available in the Teacher’s Pay Teacher’s store), or as a single Angel Paper Puppet (enter $0 at check out)!
The full nativity puppet set includes:
The nativity puppet set is made up of 10 individual nativity characters, these are:
- Baby Jesus Puppet
- Mary Puppet
- Joseph Puppt
- Angel Puppet
- 3 kings – Caspar Puppet
- 3 Kings – Melchior Puppet
- 3 kings – Balthasar Puppet
- Shepherd puppet
- Sheep puppet
- Donkey puppet
How to make your Nativity Printable Puppets
As with all the finger puppets in this series (check out our Farm Animals and our Jungle Animals), making these finger puppets is really VERY EASY!!!
There is a video on autoplay, that shows you how to make the Snake Paper Puppet! The steps required are the same!
All you need to do, to assemble this cute farm animal puppets, is:
- Print your favourite occupations out
- Color them in
- Cut out carefully
- Fold the mouth part in 3 to create the mouth cavity
- Cut out the two strips for your fingers
- Glue the finger strips in place
Make one. Make them all. A fun collectible Nativity Craft to enjoy in the classroom or at home.
More nativity coloring pages – a set of Nativity Christmas Cones (all free at the time of writing) and a super lovely Nativity Scene candle holder (electric tea lights):
