helloo floating hand

so lately it’s been a bit challenging keeping sadie entertained (quietly) during church. we bring books for her to look at, but beyond that, i’m stumped.

i don’t really want to bring her stuffed animals. they are quiet, but really she just tosses them around. i don’t really want a pile of poor defenseless animals behind our pew every week. so…hand puppets! i had a totally different idea of what i wanted when i started, but then it morphed into these nature inspired “puppets”.

i decided to use my trusty hot glue gun, in the sake of saving time. i’m not gonna lie, i burned my fingers more than once. (alright, five times) i sewed the finger pockets and cut around them with my pinking shears, and then free-handed the nature shapes. i just used the cheap craft felt, since i have every color under the rainbow (ha, ha) sitting around here. (except white…???) btw, that dag nab rainbow was the reason i have burned fingertips. grumble grumble. the things we do for our kids.

super easy, and a quick project during her nap. i think i’m gonna make some more sometime. animals….modes of transportation….the possibilities are endless!

Comments

  1. These are adorable. What about Book of Mormon characters or stories? That would be awesome!

  2. I can totally see you doing a felt quiet book. Was that your original idea?

    Also I was looking though my bookmarks and found another link you may like to blog about, National Sewing Month.

    http://www.nationalsewingmonth.org/files/media/National_Sewing_Month_PR_Jun09.pdf

    You can put a banner on your page too:
    http://nationalsewingmonth.org/html/materials.html

  3. Ooh! There’s a contest for it. You should totally enter with your refurbished chair bed!

    http://nationalsewingmonth.org/html/contest.html

  4. Very cute idea! These work for teaching the creation:)

  5. oooh the creation! perfect. i totally meant to do that. lol. and yup, these were my own design at least. finger puppets have been around for awhile. but still, one thing i can call my own! woo hoo.

  6. Very cute! My felt book of the seasons has been a work in progress for…a while. haha! Way to get it done quickly!

  7. I love how they turned out. I bet Sadie will have a fun time pulling them off and on your fingers (and her own).

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