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Years ago I made fox sock puppet for JDaniel to play with. Over time you asked for a template for the fox’s face. Earlier this week finally added several sizes of fox face puppet templates to the post. One is just the right size for a paper bag fox puppet. Today I have an even larger fox face paper bag puppet template for you. Both the template from the set and today’s template would be great for puppets.

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If you haven’t read Fox in Socks, to your children yet I think they are going to love it. There are fun tongue twisters throughout the book.

Getting the Paper Bag Puppet Template

First, you will need to download the Fox Paper Bag Puppet Template.

Then you will need to open the template in Acrobat Reader.

Supplies for the Paper Bag Puppet

You will need the following supplies to make the paper bag puppet:

Red Copy Paper
Paper Lunch Bags
Glue
Wiggly Eyes (Optional)

Putting the Fox Puppet Together

You can print the fox head right onto the red copy paper. If you want your children to color the fox head you could print it out on white paper.
Next, you will need to cut out the fox head.
You will also want to cut out a piece of copy paper that will fit on the bottom section of the paper bag. You can place the paper bag on top of the paper and trace the outline of the bottom half of the bag.
Then you will want to glue the fox head and body paper onto the paper bag.
Finally, you can have your children glue wiggly eyes over the eyes on the fox head if you like.

Ways to Use the Puppet

Here are some ways that your children can use the puppet.

Your children can wear the puppet while retelling the story.
Children can read the story while wearing the puppet.
Your children can picture walk through the story with the puppet telling about what they see in the illustrations.
They can tell tongue twisters while wearing the fox puppet.

Here are some more Seuss themed activities:

Fox in a Sock Puppet

How to Make Oobleck Slime with an Algorithm

Horton Hears a Who Listening Activity

$Learning Activities with Dr Seuss Characters$

Cat in the Hat Math Mats

Fox in Socks Tangram Printable Set

Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set -Jumping Fox

You will find three fox-themed tangram pages, one sock theme pattern page, a small tangram set, and a large one in the Fox in Socks Tangram Mats. If you prefer to use plastic tangrams instead of the paper ones in the set, that would be fine.

Once you have downloaded the set, you could print the tangrams out of brown paper. That is what we did.

Exploring the Fox in Socks Tangrams

Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set - Working on a Tangram Pattern

You can put all of the patterns out on a table or in a center for your children to explore with printed or store-bought tangrams if you like. Some children might find that overwhelming. They may prefer to work on one pattern at a time.

Young children will need for you to help them build each pattern. As you select each shape needed for the pattern, you can have them tell you what that shape is.

Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set - Putting the Fox Tangram Together

Another choice you or your children will need to make is whether the shapes should be placed on the pattern or beside it. Younger children will probably be more successful at building with shapes on the pattern.

Fox in Socks Themed Tangram Printable Set - This is the sock pattern.

The Fox in Socks book is the Virtual Book Club book of the week. Here are some more learning activities for children based on the book that other bloggers have created.