How To Make a Cat Marionette Puppet

Learn how to make a cat puppet! It’s a really fun game and you can even combine it with our super fun dog puppet.

This craft is for kids, fun all year round, and there are no limits to cat coloring – check out how fun ours turned out.

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If you are a cat lover, you will find this project amazing.

Today’s tutorial will show you how to make a cat puppet, a cute recycling project that will bring you lots of fun.

Are you ready to make friends with this cat?

Let’s do it!

How to Make a Cat Puppet

What you need:

• 3 rolls of toilet paper
• Paint of your choice
• drag
• colored pencils
• colored paper
• black pencil
• white cardboard
• hot glue
• glue
• pencil
• 2 wooden bars
• 6 pipe cleaning sticks
• wool
• 1 cork

Step by step instructions

Body

Paint 3 rolls of paper. Any color will do.

Cut out the stripes because we are making a striped cat.

Use scissors to cut 4 holes in the paper roll to make legs.

Leave an equal distance between them.

Apply a little glue to the stripes and stick them to the paper roll.

Cut two long pieces of yarn and thread them through the holes.

Now cut two more holes in the middle of the body, opposite the legs.

Thread a long piece of yarn through them.

Head

Take another roll of toilet paper and cut it 1/3 of the way down.

The larger piece will act as the head.

We will use the smaller part later.

Punch two holes in the middle of the toilet paper roll on top.

Now measure the amount of space you want to leave between the body and head and tie a knot.

Place the head in (thread the yarn through the holes).

Marionette Hand Controller

Wrap two cotton swabs around the wooden stick and cut off the excess.

Repeat this step one more time so that you have two equal wooden sticks wrapped with cotton swabs.

Make an X shape and use the 5th cotton swab to secure them in the middle.

Pull the cat straight up and make sure the yarn on both sides is the same length.

Apply a little glue to one side of the X and glue the yarn in.

Eye

Draw two cat eyes and color them with colored pencils.

We use green.

Eyes on the head.

Ears

Cut the third roll of paper and flatten it.

Draw cat ears and cut them out.

Glue the ears to the head as shown.

Cut two smaller ears from colored paper…

…and glue them onto the larger ears as shown.

Nose

Draw and cut out a small cat nose. Color it with colored pencils. We used gray pencils.

Put your nose on your face.

Mustache

Take a strip of velvet fabric and cut it into 6 equal pieces.

Glue the pieces around the nose.

That is the mustache.

Foot

Take the cork and divide it into 4 equal parts.

Color the parts with acrylic paint and set aside to dry.

The cork circles will act as the feet.

Place 4 cork loops in (thread them through the yarn), then make the legs equal in length.

Tie 4 strong knots. Trim off excess thread.

Tail

From the leftover paper used for the ears, we cut out a tail and glued it to the cat’s body.

Cut off extra stripes and glue them to the tail.

Tongue

You can cut a small tongue from the remaining toilet paper roll if you like and tape it to the inside of the end of the toilet paper roll.

We’re done here!

Now start moving the wooden sticks up and down, left and right and watch how silly and lazy your cat becomes.

You can even make it stretch like a real cat.

Show your friends how to make a puppet cat so everyone can play.

It was fun.

Hope you enjoy this project.

See you soon with more interesting crafts.

Stay tuned!

Project contributed by Ema.

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