Using some cereal box card board, pipe cleaners, pom-poms and googly eyes you can make your very own DIY animal finger puppets. Create a menagerie of these fun little finger puppets using your imagination to guide you with the design, then put on a puppet show for friends and family. Younger children will have fun making animal sounds for each puppet while older children can write a play and perform a show.
Materials:
- cereal box card board (you will need circle shapes for the faces and small rectangles for the back)
- pipe cleaners
- googly eyes
- hot glue gun and glue sticks
- ink pen
- construction paper
- scissors
Instructions
- Cut out a circle for the face of your puppet from cereal box card board and glue pom-poms or construction paper features to the face for features like ears.
- Continue adding features like googly eyes for the eyes and a pom-pom nose for the nose.
- Doodle additional details with an ink pen like a tiny mouth or whiskers.
- Glue a pipe cleaner to the back of the card board circle and use a small rectangular piece of card board to hold the pipe cleaner in place
- Twirl the pipe cleaner around your finger like a spring.
You are all set to put on a puppet show! Write a script for the characters and put on a play for your friends. Ask younger children what animal sound does each puppet make? 
SOURCE:http://www.pbs.org/parents/crafts-for-kids/diy-animal-finger-puppets/