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Peeper Puppets

What are they?

Peeper Puppets are a V shaped plastic piece that goes around your middle finger with the eyeballs sitting on top of the two points of the V -- your hand then makes the mouth. Aka " Finger" or "Ring" puppets.

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Available in bulk for cheap.

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I've also seen them at "Michaels".

Note:  https://peeperspuppets.com/ sell the original Peeper Puppets created by Hobey Ford for $6.00 each, there is a discount for orders over 20.


Peeper Idea Booklet
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A great booklet you can find easily by doing an online search is called Peeper Puppet Idea Booklet by author and illustrator, Dick Gruber. This 15-page booklet has creative ideas and fun ways to use Peeper Puppets. Learn catchy phrases, funny puns, and some general rules of thumb. You'll find 20 character ideas, 25 Sunday school and classroom uses, many places to use your Peepers, a Scriptural basis for puppets, and much more.


Home Made Peeper Directions:

by: Jan Nappa

These would probably not last as long as the purchased ones, but I made a bunch of these using neon colored chenille stems (aka pipe cleaners) and 1" google craft eyes. Made a pair for each of the kids to use during our puppet rotation for the Emmaus Walk ("their eyes were opened"!) They loved it and they were so inexpensive we had each of the kids take home their peepers to share the story at home.

See this website for how to make these using medium sized googly eyes and pipe cleaners for ideas  https://makeandtakes.com/eye-p...ly-eye-finger-puppet


A few ideas, using Peeper Puppets, to spur your imagination

  • Puppet peepers are great as you can use them with any bible story or bible character.
  • Luanne adds I've taken scripts/lyrics and pinned them to back of puppet curtain. Also, fun way to Lip Sync to any bible song. I have also used glow-in-the-dark peeper puppets with blacklights.
  • Animals in bible stories, someone's arm with a Peeper Puppet on their hand becomes the:

    • snake in Adam & Eve.

    • worm in Jonah.

  • (WT) Exodus: Through Water and Wilderness ~ A Special Puppet Workshop
    Luanne adds we used Peeper Puppets with the complaints/response activity, in this lesson, at our Fall Camp on Moses and we did it in a tent.

  • PUPPET Workshop for Walk to Emmaus by RFour a suggestion was made to use Peeper Puppets in place of Popsicle stick puppets.

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Ideas for Dressing up your Peeper PuppetPeeper-Puppet-Blacklight

Use neon toe socks or gloves. For hair attach ribbons/wool to an elastic hair tie. Add your peeper puppet.

In our case I created these so I could also use them with blacklights.

Our Supplies / Directions:

  1. Neon Gloves (Dollarama - Winter Season). One pair of gloves dresses two puppets.
    • In photo, the top 2 pairs of glove where nice as you had two styles in one glove, keep as is, or remove the top stripped fingerless glove, for a solid yellow or orange glove.

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  2. Peeper Puppets.
    In my case I used Glow-in-the-dark wiggle eye rings by Creatology, pkg of 10 (Michaels - Halloween Season).

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  3. Small Hair Ties

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  4. Wool, ribbon or fabric.
    • Cut 7.5" length pieces of wool, ribbon, fabric or a combination of these.
      I used 6 pieces of wool and 2 pieces of ribbon for each.
      See this post on the knotting technique I used, she provides diagrams.
    • Knot pieces until half-way around hair tie.
    • I also did one where I cut 3 pieces (7.5" L x 1/2' W) of green Microfibre Cloth, as seen in below photo.
    • Note: I found the wool I used (pictured) left pieces of fluff everywhere when we used them. The Microfibre cloth was messy to cut, but not when used, whereas the ribbon was easy to cut and didn't shed when used.


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  5. Put hand in glove, place hair tie (wool/ribbon side up) over middle finger, then lastly place peeper puppet over same middle finger.

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  6. Blacklights (optional). To see our puppet stage go here.


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