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Year 1 Templates in textiles: hand puppets worksheet

“Exploring Puppets” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 1 design and technology unit “Templates in textiles: hand puppets”, for children aged 5 to 6, and takes about 22 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 17 to 24 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Exploring Puppets

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 1 · Design & technology · about 22 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say what puppets are made from and how their parts are joined.

A Look back3 min

  1. 1.

    A toilet roll tube is shaped like a ___. Circle one.

    cubecylindersphere
  2. 2.

    A lever helps you ___ something heavy. Circle one.

    pivot
    liftpaintsew
  3. 3.

    Name one part of a windmill and say what it does.

    axle

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola has a puppet made from a sock. What is the puppet made from?

A brown paper bag puppet with drawn eyes, a mouth and a small red card tongue
Watch me
A grey sock with button eyes and a stitched smile, lying flat on a table

The puppet is a sock with a face.

A sock is made from fabric.

So the puppet is made from fabric.

Now you
  1. 1.

    Look at Mia's bag puppet in the picture. It has a face drawn on. What is it made from? Circle one.

    paperfabricwood
  2. 2.

    Taking a puppet apart to see how it is joined is called ___. Circle one.

    disassemblysewingpainting

C Your turn8 min

Look at each puppet and answer. Then sort the things in the last row.

A sock puppet, a wooden spoon puppet and a paper bag puppet side by side on a table
  1. 1.

    Look at the spoon puppet in the picture. What is it made from? Circle one.

    woodpaperfabric
  2. 2.

    A puppet you move by pulling threads from above is called a ___ puppet. Circle one.

    sockstringfingerstick
  3. 3.

    Joining fabric with thread is called ___. Circle one.

    sewingpaintingcooking
  4. 4.

    Write each thing in the right column of the table.

    sockpaper platewooden spoontea towel
    FabricPaper or cardWood

Say it out loud: What did you notice about the material each time? Which puppet was easiest to name?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A stick puppet with a round paper piece glued onto a lolly stick, lying on a table
Kit looks at the picture and says: “This stick puppet is made from fabric.”
  1. 1.

    What is the puppet's front really made from? Circle one.

    paperfabric

E Think deeper4 min

Four simple puppets in a row: a sock, a finger, a stick and a string puppet.
  1. 1.

    Make up your own puppet. Say what it is made from and how you would join its parts. Tell your grown-up.

How did it feel?1 min

Which puppet did you like best, and why?

I can do it Nearly Not yet
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For the grown-up

Exploring Puppets · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. cylinder If your child circles cube or sphere, ask whether the tube rolls. Point to the round ends and name the shape.

2. lift If your child circles paint or sew, ask what the lever arm does when it moves. It helps push a load up.

3. Look for: A windmill part with its job, such as sails catch the wind.

B

1. paper If your child circles fabric, ask what a paper bag feels like. Then ask which material it is really made from.

2. disassembly

C

1. wood If your child circles paper, ask whether the spoon bends like paper. Point to the wood in the picture together.

2. string

3. sewing

4. Wood: wooden spoon · Fabric: sock, tea towel · Paper or card: paper plate

D

1. paper If your child circles fabric, ask what the front in the picture looks like. This one is paper glued on a lolly stick.

E

1. Look for: A named material and a joining method such as glue, tape or sewing.

Words to use

Say“What is it made from? How do you know?”
Instead of“Just tell them the answer straight away.”

After the sheet

Puppet hunt: find a sock, a wooden spoon and a paper bag. Say what each is made from. A grown-up can do any cutting with scissors.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

7 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

  1. Feeling fabric properties(with a plan)
  2. Stitch by stitch(with a plan)
  3. Sketch your puppet idea(with a plan)
  4. Plan and Make Templates(with a plan)
  5. Sewing Puppet Pieces Together(with a plan)
  6. Adding Puppet Details(with a plan)
  7. Giving and getting feedback(with a plan)

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