How to make a Parrot Finger Puppet

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And as part of our Sky Kids Best Makes we have a super cute and easy Parrot Paper Puppet to share with you today. In fact, this isn’t just ANY parrot finger puppet.. but a PIRATE Finger Puppet Pet! Once you have learn to how to make this little guy, do you feel inspired to make make more pirate pets? Maybe a monkey?! Let’s read on!

parrot finger puppet
Adorable Paper Parrot Finger Puppets – these are quick and easy to make!

FYI – this is NOT a sponsored post.. as Sky kids did not pay me to post this. However, I have been working them for a couple of years now and am so excited about the series, that I really wanted to take this opportunity to show case this craft to you! The Best Makers Ever! series is a collaboration with the lovely Arty Crafty Kids. We each delivered 10 projects to provide you with some great variety!

The aim of the Best Makes Ever! series was to bring easy, do-able crafts for kids of all ages that use everyday materials! Nothing too fancy.. some basic stationary/ craft materials, some recycling and off you go to make these fabulous set of every day crafts! There is a lovely mixture of “art” and “craft”… and many of the crafts can be played with or used in some other way (e.g. some lovely photo frames to gift to mum on Mother’s Day maybe?!).

All of the projects aim to teach children some basic arts and crafts skills and projects ideas, which they can then take and customise further themselves!

And today, I get the opportunity to showcase one of these crafts our – super fun and easy Paper Parrot Finger Puppets with you (you can watch the video embedded below for the Pirate Puppet.. or hop over here for step by step Pirate Puppet instructions)! You can watch the actually video on the Sky Kids’ new YouTube channel… and if you enjoy it, why not pop over to Sky Kids and watch the rest of the Best makes Ever! series?

In order to stay “in keeping” with how we share crafts here on Red Ted Art, Sky has allowed me to not only embed the YouTube video, but also outline the step by step makes below. So… have a quick browse of the tutorial.. and then watch the video with your kids for more detail!

Supplies needed to make a paper parrot finger puppet

only paper and glue for finger puppets

You basically only need paper!!! However, you can add optionals in terms of googly eyes, or if you dont have the “right” paper colours, use pens to make your parrot features:

  • Scrap paper in a varitye of colours
  • A pair of child friendly scissors
  • A good quality glue stick
  • Black pen
  • Optional googly eyes

How to make paper Parrot Finger Puppets

As mentioned, you have this fabulous “show case” video you can watch on Sky Kids’ YouTube channel.. or you can give the written instruction a quick once over first. Then settle down to watch the video “properly” with your kids!

To watch the parrot paper puppet “bit” fast forward to 2 min 3 seconds

Step by Step Instructions for the Parrot Puppet

Make the basic Finger Puppet Shape

paper the basic finger puppet shape
Make the finger puppet your color of choice

Begin by making the basic finger puppet shape to fit your child’s fingers “perfectly”.

Take a piece of paper using a colour of your choice. Don’t have the colour paper you want.. use white paper and colour it in with pencils or crayons!

Wrap around your finger to make a simple measurement.

Crease the paper a little where it fits around your finger onces, and also at the top of your finger – leave a space for folding at the top of the paper when cutting.

Cut out a rectangle along these creases. If in doubt, cut a little bigger, you can always trim it later!

Once your basic shape is cut. Roll around the finger again for size and glue in place.

Fold over the “top” of the finger puppet head and glue in place.

For the parrot puppet we also folded down the corners a little to “shape” the head (whilst the pirate finger puppet‘s heads remain “square”).

Cut our paper parrot features

cut out paper parrot features
Now you need some features for your parrot uppet

You now need to create some parrot featurs. You need a beak and some feathers.

Draw a little beak and cut out.

For the feathers, we cut a bunch of feathers out the same size.

Glue them together and them trimmed them a little so they fit the parrot better!

Assemble the paper parrot

paper parrot
The parrot only needs a few basic features

Here you can see all the parrot’s features – a beak, two wings, a tuffed of feathers for the top of the head and some googly eyes. Of course you can just draw some eyes or cut out some “googly” eyes from paper scraps too.

Glue all in place….

the parrot finger puppet is finished!

….ta-daaaa. Your Papper Parrot Finger Puppet is finished!!! Isn’t he adorable?

Now what other pirate’s pets could you make? Maybe a monkey? Or make the ship’s crew:

pirate line up!

…all you need is our basic pirate finger puppet pattern! So cute and easy!

easy pirate puppets
Now it is time to play with your finger puppets!!

What to learn how to make the Pirate Finger Puppet?! You can either head here for more detailed instructions, or better still, watch the Sky Kids YouTube video embedded above! ENJOY!!!

Remember, you can watch the rest of this fabulous series on Sky Kids today:

best makes ever
Best Makes Ever! A series developed to inspire kids to get crafty!
pirate finger puppets
Explore lots of different pirate characters with different skin tones, hair colours and facial features!
easy finger puppets
Making paper finger puppets is easy and fun!