Guest Author - Carrie Davison


This quick and easy craft is a perfect way to recycle those pesky single socks!

Materials:
Clean sock (new or used)
Felt material – black and brown and a color that matches the sock
Glue (not a gluestick)
Scissors
Pen

Directions:

1. Using the brown felt, cut out two circles to make the eyes


2. Using the black felt, cut out a square with rounded corners for the nose


3. Cut out two smaller black circles to make the pupil of the eye


4. Cut two large tear-drop shapes to make the ears


5. Glue the two small black circles onto the brown circles to make the eyes of the dog


6. Put the sock over your hand so that the toe is over the fingers and the heel of the sock is over the thumb


7. With the pen, mark where the nose should be placed onto the “toe end” of the sock


8. Mark where the eyes should be placed


9. Over the knuckle area, mark where the pointy part of ear should be glued so that the rounded edge will hang over the sides of the hand making a floppy ear


10. Remove the sock from the hand and lay flat with marks visible


11. Glue the nose into place


12. Glue the eyes into place


13. Glue the pointy end of the ears in place
    

Once the glue has dried, the puppet is ready to go!