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Do you want to make a homemade Christmas present for kids? Then, why not try Christmas puppet craft! Follow the tutorial, use the free template, and sew your DIY Christmas finger puppets. The Christmas finger puppet set includes a free pattern for Reindeer, Snowman, Santa, Elf, and Penguin finger puppets. If you want to craft more Christmas felt crafts, visit DIY Felt Gingerbread House, which also includes free patterns.

I hope you enjoy crafting with me, and if you are looking for more free felt patterns, visit my Freebies section.

Happy Holidays Crafting!

Looking for more felt Christmas crafts? You can craft your felt gingerbread house ornaments using the detailed tutorial and the 3-in-1 free pattern, which includes gingerbread house felt board, ornament, and easy gingerbread house kids’ craft.

Explore the 37 DIY felt ornament patterns in the round-up post. These adorable patterns will bring a festive charm to your Christmas tree or make charming Christmas gifts.

General Instructions for Christmas Finger Puppets

These Christmas felt finger puppets are easy to make. They are stitched entirely by hand, using a running stitch, cross stitch, backstitch, French knot, and whip stitch. Are you looking for help with embroidery stitches? Visit 9 hand embroidery stitches for felt to learn more about each stitch.

Bellow, follow the step-by-step instructions on how to make Christmas puppets. The finished puppets are approximately 3” (7,5 cm) tall. The Christmas puppets are made from scraps of felt. I recommend using wool blend felt as it’s the easiest to work with. However, craft felt is also possible.

Note that finger puppets are not recommended for children under the age of 3.

Three-strand, two-strand, and one-strand embroidery floss are used to embroider the Christmas felt puppet. Knot thread ends on the wrong side of felt.

Tips for Sewing with Felt

TIP for holding pieces in place for sewing: Felt pieces can be pinned to the body shape to hold them in place until they are stitched.

Another option is to place a tiny dab of instant dry fabric glue on the reverse side of felt shapes and position them on the puppet’s body. I use Beacon Fabri-Tac glue. Find the best glue for your felt project in How to glue felt.

TIP for sewing with felt: Searching for more information about sewing with felt? Visit my post on how to sew felt. You learn about different types of felt, needles, and thread to use when sewing with felt and more tips for working with felt.

TIP for cutting felt shapes: If you like to learn tips on how to cut out felt pieces, you can read my post about 6 techniques for cutting felt shapes.

TIP for tracing on felt: You are welcome to read how to trace on felt post to learn more about transferring the pattern on felt for embroidery.

Materials & Supplies for Christmas Finger Puppets

• Christmas finger puppets free template - to download the file, subscribe to the FunClothCrafts newsletter. In the newsletter, you find a password to the subscriber's Free Downloads Vault

• felt scraps (find great felt at Benzie Design or find more buying options in the Types of Felt section of How to Sew Felt blog post): colors you choose to make the Christmas finger puppets, white for eyes

• embroidery floss: matching colors to the darker tone of felt, black, white

• embroidery needles

• small or embroidery scissors (KAI 5 1/2 inch Embroidery Scissors are the ones I use)

• pins (optional - these are my favorites)

• a glue that works on felt (optional - Beacon Fabri-Tac glue works well)

• freezer paper (optional - Check out my tutorial to learn how to use freezer paper for cutting precise shapes from felt)

• iron (optional - if you cut felt with freezer paper: I use Rowenta travel iron)

How to Make a Christmas Finger Puppet?

In this tutorial, you find step-by-step instructions on how to make Christmas puppets. Follow the steps to make Penguin, Reindeer, Snowman, Elf, and Santa finger puppets. The reindeer finger puppet is the easiest to make. Elf and Santa finger puppets are more complex to make.

Penguin Finger Puppet

1. Use the Christmas finger puppet template to cut out all Penguin finger puppet shapes from felt.

Reindeer Finger Puppet

1. Use the Christmas finger puppet free template to cut out all of the Reindeer shapes from felt.

Snowman Finger Puppets

1. Use the Christmas finger puppet free template to cut out all Snowman shapes from felt.

Elf Finger Puppet

Use the Christmas finger puppet free template to cut out all Elf finger puppet shapes from felt.

Santa Finger Puppet

1. Use the Christmas finger puppet free template to cut out all Santa finger puppet shapes from felt.

To Wrap Up Christmas Felt Finger Puppets

Thank you for crafting with me! I would love to see your finished Christmas finger puppet project. If you share your Christmas puppets on social media please tag me #funclothcrafts so I see your lovely work. I welcome any feedback as it is important to make my products better. Don’t hesitate to contact me with your suggestions at anna@funclothcrafts.com.

Be sure to visit more on this website for free embroidery and sewing tips and tricks to help you out as you stitch my patterns. For free felt patterns visit my Freebies page.

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Let’s craft together!

XO, Anna