Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

Pujya Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda

August 31, 2009

Mouse Puppet


© 2008 This project is dedicated to Gurudev.
For use in Balavihar classrooms (or personal use) only.

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This is an easy project to do for Ganesha's mouse, or any of the Panchatantra tales.

Materials
1 piece of card stock (for printing template below.)
Brown Paper Lunch Bag
Brown construction paper (or card stock)
Pink construction paper (or card stock)
2 wiggly eyes
Glue stick
Scissors
Scotch tape
Black marker

Directions
1. Fold paper bag to create face shape. (See instructions on template below.)
2. Cut out shapes from template. (Trace shapes onto construction paper as indicated.)
3. Cut out 2 big circles from brown construction paper for ears.
4. Cut out 2 smaller circles from pink construction paper.
5. Glue the 2 smaller circles onto the big brown circles.
6. Glue ears onto the paper bag.
7. Glue wiggly eyes on.
8. With black marker draw a nose (and whiskers - optional.)
9. Glue (or tape) long rectangular strip on the backside for a tale. (Use pencil or scissors to roll the strip around. This will give the tale a little bit of curl.)

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