Paper Bag Puppets

Paper Bag Puppets collects together designs for making hand puppets of selected famous men and women and storybook characters out of paper bags (recommended size 5 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 10 5/8in.). US shops tend to use strong paper rather than plastic bags for transporting shopping home. Similar bags are now available from IKEA. These bags are central to the making of these hand puppets.

The book was compiled for the use of librarians, teachers and students and is intended to be used to act out or illustrate an historical event or storybook character. An introductory section explains how...