How cute is this little guy?
My little kindergartener was looking over my shoulder as I added the photos to this article, and she was oohing and aahing all over the pictures of this not so scary monster. In her words, “he’s even cuter than Kermit”.
High praise indeed 🙂
If you’re looking for more monster crafts, check out this Trollhunters DIY Sword and Armour.
Even better, he’s easy to make out of things that you probably have around your home already, or that you can pick up for a song at your local dollar store.
How to Make a Monster Sock Puppet
Here’s how to make your own adorable DIY monster sock puppet.
What you’ll need
1 pair of fuzzy socks
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Googly eyes
Pom Pom balls
Felt
Cardboard
How to make a monster puppet
Cut cardboard circle that will fit in your sock for the mouth and fold in half.
Trace the circle twice onto your piece of felt, cut out, and glue to both sides of the cardboard.
Cut the toe off the end of your sock, roll the edges around the felt covered cardboard, and hot glue in place to make your mouth.
Hot glue googly eyes to 2 pom pom balls and glue above mouth for eyes.
For back spines, cut two long strips of felt and hot glue half of it together, leaving two flaps.
Separate flaps and hot glue to back of the sock.
Decorate as you desire, we added extra pom pom balls and a felt bow tie.
Here’s what he looks like from the back.
Here’s what he looks like from the side.
And here’s the finished front view.
And there you have it, an adorable, and easy to make DIY sock puppet.
DIY Cute Monster Sock Puppet
This adorable and easy monster sock puppet is quick to make!
Materials
- 1 pair of fuzzy socks
- Hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Googly eyes
- Pom Pom balls
- Felt
- Cardboard
Tools
- scissors
- hot glue gun
Instructions
- Cut cardboard circle that will fit in your sock for the mouth and fold in half.
- Trace the circle twice onto your piece of felt, cut out, and glue to both sides of the cardboard.
- Cut the toe off the end of your sock, roll the edges around the felt covered cardboard, and hot glue in place to make your mouth.
- Hot glue googly eyes to 2 pom pom balls and glue above mouth for eyes.
- For back spines, cut two long strips of felt and hot glue half of it together, leaving two flaps.
- Separate flaps and hot glue to back of the sock.
- Decorate as you like! We added extra pom pom balls and a felt bow tie.
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4 comments
So cute! what a fun project to do with and for the kids.
omigoodness! too friggin’ cute! and it looks so easy to make !
Can you tell me where you found such fuzzy socks? Such a cute project! The “fur” really gives it the extra character it needs!
Nice post! You can do this craft with your children and if they have fun using it, you can buy a puppet so they have one more character to create stories with. Using puppets to play is an educational way to play that can take them away from technology for a while.