These Clifford paper bag puppets are the cutest craft and go great with a good Clifford book. They are the perfect Clifford the big red dog craft for preschool, kindergarten, and more.

These Clifford crafts use only brown paper lunch bags, scissors, glue sticks, and construction paper. You can create this fun puppet craft and kids can spend time playing with and pretending to be Clifford long after they are finished making the craft.

These Clifford crafts are the perfect craft to make after reading a Clifford book or can even be followed up by watching an episode of the show on PBS kids.  They make an awesome literacy connection activity for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and more.

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These adorable Clifford paper bag puppets go perfectly with the classic Clifford storybooks. For some other classic storybook activities and crafts be sure also to check out these Hungry Caterpillar activities or this If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Sensory bin.

Tips for Success

*To give little ones a variety and make the monsters look different cut out all sorts of shapes and sizes of pieces. Some ideas for pieces could be white and black circles for eyes, triangles of all different sizes and colors, rectangles for the bodies, smaller rectangles for the heads, antennae of different colors and shapes, small rectangular lines for stripes, black or red mouth pieces, and more.

 *Allow little ones to choose the number of eyes, antennae, and other pieces they want. Let them glue them on where they desire. This will make the completed project more original and fun.

*Once monsters are finished allow them to stick their hands in the bag and use them as puppets for plays.

*When we create rectangles for the body we like to make them the same size as the side of the bag. Then we can glue them on and the monster can have a colored body. For the Monster’s head, we like to make the rounded rectangles slightly bigger than the bottom of the bag. This will allow for some overhang to glue pieces on as well as more room to fit additional eyes, and other pieces.

Materials

• Brown Paper Lunch Bags
• Construction Paper
• Glue Stick
• Scissors

Directions:

1. Cut out large white circles for eyes, small black circles for eyes, small white triangles for teeth, a red or black semi-circle for a mouth, a large rectangle for the body, a smaller rounded rectangle for the head, antennae, and any other details desired.

2. Allow children to choose pieces and put their monsters together. Glue the body and head rectangles on the brown paper bag.

3. Glue eyes, mouth, teeth, and antennae on top of the monster’s headpiece.

4. Glue details on the body as desired. This may include stripes, triangles, etc…

5. Insert your hand into the top of the bag and use it as a monster puppet.