Cardboard String Puppet
A figure cut from a cereal box, tied together with thread and hung from a stick — the arms and legs really move. Teaching it to walk is the hard part, and that is the whole fun.
What you need
- An empty cereal box or thick card
- Safe scissors
- String or thread
- A pencil
- Tape
- A stick or a wooden spoon
How to play
- Draw a body, two arms and two legs on the flat cardboard.
- Cut out the six parts and poke a small hole in the end of each one with the pencil.
- Tie the parts together with short pieces of string, loosely enough to swing.
- Tie one long string to each hand and one to the head.
- Tape the long strings to the stick, well apart from each other.
- Lift the stick and practise walking, waving and bowing.
