Frankenstein Puppet Craft For Kids [Free Template]
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Halloween is a fun time to turn simple supplies like a brown paper bag into a little monster! This Frankenstein puppet craft is great for kids ages 4-8 to create a spooky paper bag puppet featuring Frankenstein’s monster. They can then use their creation to act out silly or spooky stories.
The activity takes about 20 to 30 minutes and gives children a chance to practice fine motor skills, cutting, gluing, and following directions while getting creative. It makes a fun addition to Halloween activities or a classroom storytelling session.
Also, be sure to look through all of our Halloween crafts for kids for even more projects for the kids to do.
Good To Know
- Themes: Frankenstein, Halloween, monsters, paper bag puppets
- Activity: Turn a paper bag into Frankenstein’s monster with a mouth, bolts, black hair, and a jacket
- Template: Includes free printable Frankenstein puppet pieces
- Ages: Early elementary
- Time: 20–30 minutes
- Skills: Cutting, gluing, puppet assembly, imaginative play, and fine motor practice
Frankenstein Puppet Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Brown lunch bags
- Frankenstein template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
Directions
Download and print out the Frankenstein template. Cut out all the pieces and set them aside.
Take the body piece and glue it to the main portion of the paper bag. Cut off any excess that hangs off the body. Next, glue the head piece to the flap portion of the paper bag.
Glue the orange shirt section of Frankenstein to the bottom of the body.
Make Frankenstein’s jacket by gluing one half of the black piece onto the left side of the orange shirt. Next glue the other black piece onto the opposite side of the paper bag.
Glue the button onto the middle of the jacket pieces, at the bottom. Alternatively, you can use a Bold & Bright marker to draw it on instead.
Glue the mouth piece below the paper bag flap and just above the shirt line.
Glue Frankenstein’s teeth along the bottom of his mouth.
Glue the hair onto the top of the paper bag, with about a 1″ overhang on the top (so there is enough room for the rest of the face).
Position the eyes just about the flap line and glue in place.
Glue the eyebrows to the top of the eyes.
Lift up the flap and secure the bolts on either side of Frankenstein’s head with glue.
Once everything is dry, you’re all set! Check out these other fun crafts and printables to keep the kids busy.
Cute Halloween Books
Room On The Broom: This has to be one of our favorite Halloween books of all time! The story follows a witch and her cat as they happen upon some animals who help the witch. There’s danger, mystery, and friendship in this adorable children’s story.
5 Minute Spooky Stories: We love Disney’s 5-minute storybooks and this one is perfect for Halloween! See how all your favorite Disney characters celebrate this spooky holiday.
Ten Timid Ghosts: This is a fun countdown book about a witch who moves into a haunted house where 10 ghosts already live. The witch scares the ghosts out one by one until they devise a scheme to get her out of their house. This Halloween children’s book is good for kids who love rhyming stories!
Not So Spooky Halloween Crafts
Handprint Bat Craft – Turn little hands into bat wings with this fun activity! Kids will cut out their handprints to create the bat’s wings, then add all the batty details using our free template. It’s a Halloween art project that gives children a chance to make a spooky keepsake they’ll love.
Vampire Torn Paper Craft – This fang-tastic torn paper art will be a great work out for your little ones hands. Kids will tear paper into small pieces and glue them onto the template to create their spooky vampire. Tearing paper helps strengthen hand muscles, hand-eye coordination, and finger control.
Haunted House Paper Bag Craft – A brown paper bag becomes a haunted house filled with ghosts, bats, spiderwebs, and pumpkins! Kids will assemble the pieces to create their own spooky house and build fine motor skills, creativity, and encourage storytelling.
Halloween Mummy Craft – Wrap up some Halloween fun with this spook-tacular mummy! Kids will use masking tape to bandage their mummy, then add the details to bring their creation to life. This hands-on activity helps develop your little monster’s fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in a fun way!
Halloween Learning Activities
Give your preschoolers three spellbinding ways to learn with these witch worksheets! On the W letter maze, children will find and color uppercase and lowercase ‘Ww’s to work on letter recognition and fine motor control. The Label the Witch page has kids cut and paste new vocabulary words onto the matching body parts. Then on the letter tracing page, children will practice pencil control and writing Ww and the word “witch”.
These ghost tracing worksheets give little ones fun ways to practice early writing skills. Kids will trace uppercase and lowercase Gg to build letter recognition and pencil control. Then they’ll follow straight, wavy, zigzag, and curved lines to strengthen hand-eye coordination and pre-writing skills. To finish up, they’ll get to trace and color a friendly ghost outline then color in the bubbling cauldron.
Bring the story to life with these book companion pages! On our There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat activities, kids will label the goblin to build vocabulary, cut and paste to finish patterns and strengthen sequencing skills, trace winding lines for pencil control, and dot uppercase and lowercase Gg to practice letter recognition. The flashcards can be used for reading, memory games, or retelling the story. Parents and teachers can use these pages after storytime, during Halloween lessons, or for independent practice.
These batty worksheets give kids four fun pages to color. Our bat color by numbers will have them follow the number guide and color the matching sections. They’ll work on number recognition, concentration, patience, and fine motor skills with each space colored in. Parents can use the pages for Halloween activities at home, and teachers can add them to fall centers or early math practice.
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More Halloween Ideas For Kids
Free Frankenstein Puppet Template
Brown Paper Bag Frankenstein Craft
Video
Equipment
- Scissors
Materials
- Brown paper lunch bags standard sized; not giant
- Colored paper in orange, black, & green
- Glue stick
- Frankenstein template
- .5″ circle punch optional
Instructions
- Download and print out the Frankenstein template. Cut out all the pieces and set aside.
- Take the body piece and glue it to the main portion of the paper bag. Cut off any excess that hangs off the body.
- Next, glue the head piece to the flap portion of the paper bag.
- Glue the shirt piece to the bottom of the body.
- Make Frankenstein's jacket by gluing one half of the black piece onto the left side of the orange shirt. Next glue the other black piece onto the opposite side of the paper bag.
- Place the button onto the bottom and middle of the jacket pieces. Alternatively, you can use a Crayola Bold & Bright marker to draw the button instead.
- Glue the mouth below the paper bag flap and just above the shirt line.
- Glue Frankenstein’s teeth along the bottom of his mouth.
- Glue the hair onto the top of the paper bag, with about a 1" overhang on the top (so there is enough room for the rest of the face).
- Position the eyes just about the flap line and glue in place.
- Glue the eyebrows to the top of the eyes.
- Lift up the flap and secure the bolts on either side of Frankenstein’s head with glue.
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my sped class would love this
Oh good! Glad to hear that!