DLTK's Bible Activities for Kids
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.
Printable version of these instructions