These quirky Halloween Printable Puppets have been designed with play in mind; ditching the spooky in favour of imaginative and fun play!
With a choice of three characters (Frankenstein, Zombie & Mummy), Arty Crafty Kids can use their creative flair to personalise their halloween puppets in colors of their choosing.
Once assembled, these puppets can kick, groove and wave their arms, bringing joy to Arty Crafty Kids as they play with their engaging printable halloween paper puppet toys.
Funky Halloween Printable Puppets are great for a quick and easy crafting session with your Arty Crafty Kids, coloring in the templates and exercising fine motor skills and co-ordination when cutting out your printable puppets designs.
When these printable halloween puppets are made they enable kids to engage in imaginative play. Giving your Arty Crafty Kids the opportunity to develop their social and language skills, and boosting the development of their problem-solving and self-regulation skills, especially when playing with other Arty Crafty Kids!
Halloween Printable Puppets: Materials
White Cardstock
Colouring Pencils/ Felt Tips or Paint
Split Pins (Brads/Paper Fasteners)
Hole Punch (not essential)
Needle & Thread (or Twine)
Printable Halloween Puppets: Templates
We have a set of three printable puppets available for download to our members, with a FREEBIE Mummy Puppet available when you sign-up to our fun and crafty Newsletter!!
Head over to the Arty Crafty Kids club to download the set!
Or sign-up to our Newsletter at the bottom of this post to access the FREE Mummy Halloween Puppet!
Halloween Printable Puppets: Tutorial
Step 1: Download and print the fun-spooky halloween puppets templates on to white cardstock.
Color in the halloween puppets using a medium of your Arty Crafty Kids choice. In the example above, we’ve used a combination of Watercolour paint and felt tip pens.
Once your Arty Crafty Kids chosen character is complete and colourful, carefully cut the elements.
Step 2: Locate the circles on the body, arms and legs, and create holes with a hole puncher.
Place the arms behind the body. Line up the holes and secure with a split pin.
Step 3: Secure all the limbs with split pins and ensure they’re not secured too tightly or loosely – the arms and legs need to be able to move with ease.
Step 4: Once you’re satisfied the arms and legs have a decent level of movement, thread a piece of cotton through the needle and tie a knot at the end.
Step 5: Peirce the needle through the top of the leg as shown above and thread the cotton across to the other side.
Step 6: Finish off the join with a knot.
The cotton between the legs shouldn’t be too tight or too loose. This may take a little trial and error, but you should be aiming for legs that can easily move, with tension still on the thread.
Step 7: Cut off another piece of thread and tie this to the centre of the strand joining the legs together.
Once pulled, the thread should make the legs kick out and dance!
Now, it’s time for Arty Crafty Kids to play with their quirky characters!
Printable Halloween Puppets Dance!
Playing with these Printable Halloween Puppets and I just can’t help myself humming this classic theme tune from the Addams Family!
“”Their creepy and their kooky
Mysterious and spooky
Their all together ooky
The Adams family””
“”Their house is a museum
When people come to see ’em
They really are a screaming
The Adams family””
“”Neat
Sweet
Petite””
“”So put a witch’s shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We’re gonna play a call on
The Adams family””
“”Their creepy and their kooky
Mysterious and spooky
Their all together ooky
The Adams family””
“”Strange
Deranged
The Adams family””
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