On a recent post about what books to look for at garage sales, Erin from Letter Soup had a great idea about turning an old book to puppets.
The opportunity presented itself when this Clifford book was torn. Instead of recycling it, we turned it into puppets by putting them on popsicle sticks. Now they are perfect for pretend play or retelling a story. This book was thicker like a board book. If you are going to use a book with regular pages, you might want to mount them on cardstock or cardboard first.
Jackie H.
Saturday 9th of October 2010
Those turned out great! Lord knows we have enough torn books around here-- especially now that the baby is mobile.
Erin @ Letter Soup
Wednesday 6th of October 2010
I love how your puppets turned out! Thanks for the kind mention! :)
Infant Bibliophile
Tuesday 5th of October 2010
Great idea! I always find it hard to cut up books, but we've been gifted with some library discards in rough shape that would be perfect, especially when we have both a clean copy and a beat up copy (so that they could play with the puppets while we read). [Ack, I think that is the first time I referred to plans to read to my kids in the plural. Next baby due soon.] :)
Lindsay
Tuesday 5th of October 2010
oo what a great idea! I will have to do that with the next book!
Jen @ lil Mop Top
Tuesday 5th of October 2010
Great idea! John tears his books up all the time so I am glad to find a way to reuse them!