Family Puppets These can be treated as coloring pages, puppets or felt board characters. To make them into puppets, simply tape a drinking straw, popsicle stick or unsharpened pencil to the back. To make them felt board characters, glue a small piece of coarse sand paper to the back.

Materials:

• printer
• paper
• something to color with
• scissors
• OPTIONAL:  thin cardboard (old cereal boxes)
• OPTIONAL:  clear contact paper
• OPTIONAL:  materials to turn into puppet or felt board (see above)

Instructions:

• print out the templates (as needed) to make a family for the child.  You can make a pretend family or use the templates to model their own.  Depending on how many siblings, etc the child has, you may need to print duplicates of some of the templates.
    
• color in the pieces
    
• optional:  glue to a thin piece of cardboard (ex:  old cereal boxes) to make them a bit sturdier.
    
• cut out the pieces along the outside oval (great scissor practice for preschoolers!)
    
• optional:  cover (front and back) with clear contact paper to keep them from getting wet or dirty.
    
    

Templates:

You can also add pets by looking through the pet animal coloring pages for appropriate ones, if you wish.