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Are you in search of a Halloween DIY craft idea? Then, create these fun Halloween finger puppets from felt with free patterns. The Halloween puppet set includes a bat, pumpkin, black cat, vampire, ghost, spider, candy corn, and Frankenstein finger puppet. It’s an excellent Halloween craft for adults and 10-year-olds and above. Looking for more finger puppet free patterns? Visit my FREEBIES for woodland animals, Easter bunny, and vehicle finger puppets.

These Halloween finger puppets can also be made into ornaments by filling them with fiberfill and closing the below opening. If you are making Halloween ornaments, you can sew a ribbon or string into the top of the finger puppet to hang them later. These finger puppets can be given as a Halloween treat when filled with small candy.

Happy Halloween crafting!

Eager to make more felt Halloween crafts? Get inspired with these Halloween crafts:

• DIY Pumpkin Faces Halloween Felt Board

• Easy Felt Pumpkin Craft for Kids with Free Pattern

General Instructions for DIY Halloween Finger Puppets

These Halloween felt finger puppets are easy to make. They are stitched entirely by hand, using a running stitch, backstitch, French knot, and whip stitch. Looking for a concise guide on embroidery stitches? Visit my article 9 hand embroidery stitches for felt to learn more. 

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

Tips for Sewing with Felt

TIP for sewing with felt: Explore the felt sewing tips to help you while sewing felt. In this comprehensive guide, you learn what types of felt exist, what’s the best needle and thread for felt, how to trace on felt, and how to cut felt shapes.

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 elephant’s body. I use Beacon Fabri-Tac glue for my felt crafts. Ensure you don’t place glue where you need to sew. It happens to me occasionally, and getting the needle through the dry glue gets really difficult.

TIP felt glue: Have you wondered what is the best felt glue? Find the findings of a test comparing 8 different glue for felt.

TIP felt scissors: Curious what are the best scissors to cut felt? Learn the secrets of the best scissors for cutting perfect felt shapes in Felt cutting made easy.

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

Materials & Supplies for DIY Halloween Finger Puppets

• Halloween finger puppet free template PDF - 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 Halloween finger puppets, white and black 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 - Elmer’s CraftBOND 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 Fun Halloween Finger Puppets with Free Pattern?

The step-by-step Halloween finger puppet tutorial with the free pattern starts with more detailed steps of the bat finger puppet. It’s followed by the candy corn finger puppet with its three colors body piece. Then you find the steps for the black cat and spider finger puppets. If you are looking for the easiest finger puppet, it’s the ghost one. Next, the pumpkin finger puppet is the only one that uses a whip stitch. Last, the vampire and Frankenstein finger puppets with their hair shape.

DIY Bat Halloween Finger Puppet

1. Use the Halloween finger puppet template to cut out all Bat finger puppet shapes from felt.

DIY Candy Corn Halloween Finger Puppet

1. Use the Halloween finger puppet free template shared in Materials & Supplies (section above) to cut out all of the Candy corn shapes from felt.

DIY Black Cat and Spider Halloween Finger Puppets

The Black cat and Spider Halloween finger puppets have identical steps. I will show you the steps for the Black cat finger puppet. For Spider finger puppet, you follow the same steps.

1. Use the Halloween finger puppet free template shared in Materials & Supplies (section above) to cut out all Black cat shapes from felt.

DIY Ghost Halloween Finger Puppet

1. Use the Halloween finger puppet free template shared in Materials & Supplies (section above) to cut out all Ghost shapes from felt.

DIY Pumpkin Halloween Finger Puppet

Use the Halloween finger puppet free template shared in Materials & Supplies (section above) to cut out all Pumpkin shapes from felt.

DIY Vampire and Frankenstein Finger Puppet

The Vampire and Frankenstein Halloween finger puppets have very similar steps. I will show you the steps for Vampire finger puppet. For Frankenstein finger puppet follow the same steps without the step 5 (wings attachment).

1. Use the Halloween finger puppet free template shared in Materials & Supplies (section above) to cut out all Vampire shapes from felt.

Adorable Felt Halloween Finger Puppets Wrap Up

What Halloween finger puppets will you create? Now, it’s time to play with the Halloween finger puppets you made. It’s such a fun and easy sewing project that anybody can give it a try and sew them. Thank you for crafting with me! I would love to see your finished Halloween puppet project. If you share your felt Halloween puppets on social media, please tag me #funclothcrafts to see your lovely work.

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