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| Left, how I decorated the sticks. Center, the head detail of the caterpillar puppet. Right, the finished caterpillar stick puppet. Design by kathy grimm 2024 |
To make a caterpillar stick puppet like mine you will need: large to small colorful pom poms, dental floss and needle, hot glue gun and hot glue, silk flowers, green acrylic paint, masking tape, white beads or buttons for it's eyes, permanent ink marker, one colorful chenille stem for the antenna, wire and two chopsticks.
The sticks may be moved about to animate the worm as though it is both crawling and eating the flowering buds beneath it.
The sticks may be moved about to animate the worm as though it is both crawling and eating the flowering buds beneath it.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- First line up the pom poms in the order you prefer small to large prior to stringing them together.
- Thread a large-eyed needle with dental floss and then string the pom poms together to form the caterpillar's body. End with the largest pom pom that will be the caterpillar's head.
- You can also reinforce the body with a bit of hot glue between each pom pom.
- Now twist a small length of wire 1-2 inches around a pencil and clip off. Sew this loop to the end of the end pom pom of the caterpillar. Do it again and sew the second loop to the lower part of the caterpillar's head, where the mouth would be. Use hot glue to further attach these loops firmly into all of the fluff of the pom poms.
- Hot glue the white buttons or beads for the eyes in place. Use a permanent black ink marker to draw black pupils on the buttons.
- Cut 1 inch short chenille stem lengths for the antenna and hot glue these on top of the caterpillar's head. Hot glue small pom poms on these antenna tips.
- To attach sticks for your puppet . . . twist a three inch length of wire to the pointy tip ends of each chopstick along with white school glue. Wrap masking tape around these ends and sticks to adhere them in place while white glue is drying.
- Insert each wire through and around the wire loops on each end of the caterpillar and then wrap them shut onto the chopsticks.
- Paint the chopsticks green.
- Wrap the chopsticks with additional decorative wire and silk flowers. Use hot glue to keep these in place. Leave enough of each chopstick undecorated near the bottoms so that the puppet may be manipulated easily. see photo above.
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