{"id":2707,"date":"2023-07-05T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/halloween-stick-puppets\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:58:45","slug":"halloween-stick-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/kids\/halloween-stick-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Stick Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Create some Halloween fun with these wiggly paper stick puppets! Using just some card<\/a>, lollipop sticks<\/a>, and wiggle eyes<\/a>, you can bring these playful characters to life. Don\u2019t stop at one – add to the spooky fun by creating a whole gang of Halloween favourites, like ghosts, spiders, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Create some Halloween fun with these wiggly paper stick puppets! Using just some card, lollipop sticks, and wiggle eyes, you can bring these playful characters to life. Don\u2019t stop at one – add to the spooky fun by creating a whole gang of Halloween favourites, like ghosts, spiders, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,233,244,227,314],"tags":[583],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kids","category-activity","category-halloween","category-occasions","category-pop-stick","tag-halloween"],"acf":{"age":["3-5","6-9","10+"],"skill-level":["Beginner"],"time-to-make":["1 hour"],"idea-type":["Craft Projects","Art Projects"],"free-printable":"","ID":"K299","time":"1 hour","skill_level":"Easy","how_to_make":"

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  1. Take a natural wood craft stick and paint it with acrylic paint in the colour of your chosen character. Here are some ideas: Spider, witch or pumpkin.<\/li>\r\n
      To make the Spider<\/b>:<\/ul>\r\n
    • Paint the natural wood craft stick with black acrylic paint and leave it to dry.<\/li>\r\n
    • Use a pencil to draw an oval shape on a sheet of black paper as the body of the spider. Cut out the shape.<\/li>\r\n
    • Cut out 8 rectangles measuring 12 cm (L) x 1.5 cm (W) for the spider's legs.<\/li>\r\n
    • Fold each rectangle in a zigzag pattern.<\/li>\r\n
    • Apply a small amount of super sticky glue to the top 2 cm of the natural wood craft stick. Attach the body of the spider to the upper part of the stick, leaving enough space to hold it with your hand. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
    • Using a glue stick, glue 4 legs to the left side of the spider's body and 4 legs to the right side of the spider's body. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
    • Glue 2 large, coloured wiggly eyes onto the spider's face.<\/li>\r\n
    • Colour in a smile with teeth using a white deco pen.<\/li>\r\n
        Witch:<\/b><\/ul>\r\n
      • Paint the natural wood craft stick green.<\/li>\r\n
      • Draw an oval shape on green paper with a pencil. Cut out the shape.<\/li>\r\n
      • Cut out the shape of a witch's nose from dark green paper and stick it in the centre of the witch's head.<\/li>\r\n
      • Cut out 4 rectangles of purple paper measuring 12 cm (L) x 1.5 cm (W) for the witch's hair.<\/li>\r\n
      • Fold each rectangle in a zigzag pattern.<\/li>\r\n
      • Apply a small amount of super sticky glue to the top 2 cm of the natural wood craft stick. Attach the witch's head to the top of the stick, leaving enough space to hold it with your hand. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
      • Using a glue stick, stick 2 strands of hair to the top left-hand side of the witch's head and 2 strands of hair to the top right-hand side of the witch's head. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
      • Cut out the shape of a witch's hat from black paper. Stick a strip of purple paper in the centre of the hat using a glue stick.<\/li>\r\n
      • Glue the hat to the top of the witch's head with a glue stick.<\/li>\r\n
      • Glue 2 large, coloured wiggly eyes onto the witch's face.<\/li>\r\n
      • Cut out a cheerful mouth from black paper and stick it onto the witch's face with a glue stick.<\/li>\r\n
          Pumpkin:<\/b><\/ul>\r\n
        • Paint the natural wood craft stick orange.<\/li>\r\n
        • Draw an oval shape on orange paper with a pencil. Cut out the shape.<\/li>\r\n
        • Stick 2 large, coloured wiggly eyes on the face of the pumpkin.<\/li>\r\n
        • Use a pencil to draw a triangle on black paper as the nose of the pumpkin. Cut it out and stick it on with a glue stick.<\/li>\r\n
        • Draw a smile on the black paper for the pumpkin. Draw some squares in the mouth to represent teeth. Cut out the shape and cut around the teeth. This will make the teeth visible when you glue them onto orange paper.<\/li>\r\n
        • Cut out 4 rectangles of yellow paper measuring 12 cm (L) x 1.5 cm (W) for the straw of the pumpkin.<\/li>\r\n
        • Fold each rectangle in a zigzag pattern.<\/li>\r\n
        • Apply a small amount of super sticky glue to the top 2 cm of the natural wood craft stick. Attach the pumpkin to the top of the stick, leaving enough space to hold it with your hand. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
        • Using a glue stick, stick 2 straws to the left side of the pumpkin on the back. Glue the other 2 straws to the right side of the pumpkin on the back. Leave everything to dry.<\/li>\r\n
        • Cut out a pumpkin vine from green paper. Stick it to the top of the pumpkin with a glue stick.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","shopping_list":"
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          • Fine Tip Acrylic Deco Pens (Pack A)<\/li>\r\n
          • A Pencil<\/li>\r\n
          • Scissors<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","shopping_list_2":"","top_tip":"Instead of drawing on the mouth with a white deco pen on the spider you could cut out a mouth and teeth from white paper.","image_01":72072,"step_instruction_01":"","image_02":72073,"step_instruction_02":"","image_03":72074,"step_instruction_03":"","image_04":"","step_instruction_04":"","image_05":"","step_instruction_05":"","image_06":"","step_instruction_06":"","template":"","related_projects":"2722,2702,2717,2712,32358","latest_idea_content":"most-recent","show_date":false,"adult_supervision_needed":"Yes","youtube_video":"","products":"FC968,AG2063,EV685,FE9554,EV7056","fbt_products":"","recommendation_products":""},"view_count":10,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92023,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/92023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bakerross.co.uk\/craft-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}