I made a set of these for each of my and my husbands siblings inlcuding our immediate family and his mother. That's eight total. Yeah, it was work, but so worth it! A few years back, my grandmother sent our family a tiny little bag with 5 finger puppets. It included Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, a cow, and an angel; this is where my inspiration came from. I wanted to make something kids could enjoy, so I got to searching for a kid friendly book about the nativity. I found one that looked promising (pictured a few pictures below) and I ordered them. I waited till they arrived so that I could make the characters match those in the book. They seriously turned out better then I had hoped. And what was even more exciting for me was the fact that for the first time in my life, I made my very own patterns! I kept the measurements of the bag I made, outlines of the puppets and everything so I can make them again and again. I'm up in the air about sharing the pattern (not that I could right now anyway because I don't know how to upload it) because I'm very strongly considering starting up an account on Etsy and selling them. Obviously the book would be sold seperately, but still, I think it has potential. check them out:
The Wise Men
The animals
The shephards
Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus
The Book
The Star
My husband gave me the genius idea to sew a pocket on the back of the bag in order to keep the book and puppets together. Yeah, we make a good team.
Cute right!? I LOVE it!!!
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