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Wooden Spoon Animals
This is a great project for young children. Wooden spoons are very cheap to buy - you can pick them up in any of the big supermarkets for 25p or less - and you don't have to spend
any extra on embellishments if you don't want to. Most people have scraps of material, wool, odd buttons, tin foil, etc, in their home which are just as useful for making a wooden spoon puppet
as the googley eyes, fun foam and other items I've used below.
I've gone for a farm yard theme for illustration purposes but there are hundreds of designs you could try. For example, snowmen and reindeer for a Christmas craft project.
You will need:
Wooden spoon(s)
Paint
PVA glue
Craft materials for decoration - googley/wiggley eyes, glitter, pom poms, fun foam, pipe cleaners, wool, etc
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First of all, you will need to paint the wooden spoon and leave it to dry. It should dry very quickly, but if you are doing this craft project
with a particluarly impatient toddler you may want to have the spoon(s) already painted before you start.
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For the pig and cow, cut a nose, two ears and four legs out of fun foam. Then glue these on, along with a pair of googley eyes. For the pig, I also made a twirly tail from a pink pipe
cleaner and glued it to the back of the spoon.
For the cockerel, cut two wings and a beak out of fun foam and glue these on, along with two googley eyes. I then used two yellow pom poms for the feet and two red skeleton leaves for the plummage on top of his head.
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A simple theme to do with a young child is 'monsters'. If you cover the spoon with glitter glue then it is very easy for them to stick on sequins, pom poms, beads, etc, without help from an adult, so they are much
more able to use their imagination. This monster spoon puppet was made by my two year old.
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