Pinocchio - puppet story bag

"Pinocchio" actualy "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is a popular story of old times by Carlo Collodi
I still remember my " Pinocchio " book with the most beautiful pictures, from my childhood.
I have been asked to create a Puppet set for a local school ,they requested as many characters from the story as posible but on a reasonable price
The teacher that made the order said :
"Pinocchio" is a complex story , especially for "Year 1" kids , we would love to introduced it with some puppets.

Design:It took me, a bit of a time to came up with the design as all those so popular and well-known characters ,actually proved to be difficult.
Materials :I have chosen Felt for all of the puppets and Calicco cotton for the bag
Colour scheme ; Pastel colour scheme to sugjest some vintage style and to take us to an old times

The set is listed in my website http://www.puppetsinabag.co.uk/?505,pinocchio-puppet-story-bag

Pinochio is a hand puppet made entirely from felt and is 60 cm tall -this is my firs felt hand puppet I usualy make finger puppets only from felt

He is also available as an individual hand puppet

the rest of the characters in the set are 5 Finger puppets:

-the Turquise Fairy ,Geppetto ,Mr Cricket , Cat and Fox (2 in 1)and the "baddy" Stromboli

I am offering the 5 finger puppets on a set https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/221249015/pinocchios-characters-puppet-story-bag-5
and Pinocchio only as well https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/221251389/pinocchio-hand-puppet-felt-teaching?

The set contains 7 pieces - Pinocchio hand puppet , 5 finger puppet and a calico cotton bag

Hope The Children will enjoy reading and acting out the story with my puppet story bag

Chick- Sewing pattern ,my first creature from "Old Mc Donald had a farm"

Recently I started to work on some sewing patterns inspired of my best selling puppets and as the Nursery rhymes characters
are my favourite

My next project is "Old MC Donald had a farm" sewing pattern
and This Little Chick is the first from the future set



the sewing pattern is already listed in my ETSY shop

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/151608908/chick-pdf-sewing-pattern-hand-puppet-how

Was very enjoyable to created step by step instruction and the pattern ,



and I love working with felt


thank you xxx

Twinkle twinkle Little star –How to make Star Hand Puppet ,Sewing pattern

Twinkle twinkle little star 

How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.....

is one of the Very favorite nursery rhymes ,
will be great if is acted out with a little star puppet.... so  I started to create the template and the instructions for This simple ,fun project

If you want to do a Star hand puppet will take approximately 2 hours to make and just Basic sewing skills and HAND stitching are required

What you need...
Felt in Yellow ( 3 x A4 Felt Sheets 1mm thick) and little bits of orange, red, black and white
Tread: cotton perle tread and machine tread In yellow, red ,orange and black
Polifiller (for stuffing)
Needles Fabric scissors
Pins

the instructions and the step by step directions are available in my ETSY shop as a Digital Pattern

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/150933753/twinkle-little-star-pdf-sewing-pattern

And as a little Booklet" Twinkle little start hand puppet " with transfer paper enclosed have a look  at my website www.puppetsinabag.co.uk

TIP : make it in RED and will be the perfect Christmas tree Topper