We love a good puppet show at our house, as well as a good sing along! And there is nothing better to inspire puppet shows and singing then some easy to make free printable puppets!
Puppets can help kids act out a situation that is bothering them, or deal with a fear. They are a fabulous starting point for loads of creative, imaginative play and can be used in so many different ways. Puppets can inspire learning, and help us parents be less self concious when it comes to singing with our kids.
I love making puppets to go with songs, or stories, or just for fun.
Free Printable Puppets.
All of the our free printable puppets are A4 sized pdf files, so you will need a pdf reader such as Adobe Acrobat to open them. If you are printing on US ‘letter sized’ paper be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
Five Green Frogs Puppets
There are lots of fun frog songs you can use these frogs for, as well as lots of fun story telling ideas, for imaginative play or with play dough.
Find the frog puppets here.
Five Little Ducks Puppets
Just like the frogs, there are lots of songs and stories to match these cute little duck puppets
You can find the duck puppets here.
Three Jelly Fish Puppets
Do you know this fun jelly fish counting song? My kids think it is hysterical!
You can find the jelly fish puppets here.
Five Golden Autumn Leaves Puppets
This counting song is a favourite, and these autumn leaf puppets fit onto your fingers for nice floaty finger play.
Find the printable autumn leaf puppets here.
Monster Puppets
When my smallest child began to be scared of monsters that seemed to be hiding everywhere we made these funny monster puppets to help him process his thoughts.
You can find the monster puppets here.
Finger Leg Puppets
These puppets are entirely kid-made, with the help of a free printable template.
You can find the finger leg puppet template here.
Five Cheeky Monkeys Puppets… and Mr Crocodile!
These monkeys could be jumping on the bed, or teasing Mr Crocodile, it’s up to you!
Find the monkey (and Mr Crocodile) puppets here.
Five Currant Buns Puppets
This is an old favourite counting song and these sweet little buns are great for shop play too.
You can find the currant bun puppets here.
Balancing Elephants Puppets
Do you know the fun counting song about elephants balancing on a piece of string?
You can find the elephant puppets here.
All of these printable puppets are free to download, just click on the links above to visit the post and download the pdf. Then all you need to do is download, print, cut and play!
I use a regular family inkjet printer to print the puppets. I print onto matte photo paper, but you could also use light cardstock, or regular printer paper and laminate the puppets after you have cut them out. I tape each puppet to a coloured craft stick for easy use.
Would you like some more printable puppets?
I am always making new sets of printable puppets, and I am always look for new ideas! I’d love to hear your suggestions for what puppets I could make next.
Please leave a comment below and share your ideas!
Bek @ Just For Daisy says
What a fabulous collection!! Thanks so much for sharing! Have pinned these and can’t wait to print them and use them! :) I especially love the ones that go along with a familiar song, what fun! :)
Theresa in Texas says
I love all of them but I just printed out the monsters and will be making them into puppets to put in Christmas shoeboxes that I put together for Samaritan’s Purse in the fall. They are so cute!
I would really appreciate your making some “girly-girl” ones, too. Maybe some princesses or cute fairies??
Thanks for such a wonderful blog–I love opening your e-mails because I know it is going to be something fantastic!
barbara muir says
I was thinking of maybe 5 little men in a flying saucer, or 12345 once I caught a fish alive etc. your ideas are great xx
Giane says
I love your puppets! Thanks for sharing!!! It would be fun to have puppets for There Was a Little Turtle and the Little White Duck.
Shari says
I work at a library doing storytimes for babies, twos and sometimes ages 3-5. I love your printables and have used most of them at some time or another. Keep up the great work!
sara says
The itsy bitsy spider and hey diddle diddle please!!! Can’t wait to use the 5 cheeky monkeys!
fernanda says
kate hermoso tu sitio gracias por compartir cosas lindas . yo tambien soy maestra de preschool en argentina saludos
Cathy says
These are just adorable! Thank you!
Sunny Seal says
Right now I am doing Five Little Pumpkins
sitting on a gate
Sandra says
These are great…can’t wait to share them with my preschool and grandsons. Thanks for sharing!
meshell says
These are just great! I’m going to signpost my parents to your puppets without delay. Have you thought of changing old classics to suit the time of year?
For instance: Five Cherry Buns becomes Five Mince Pies/Five Christmas Puddings for Christmas.
Elissa says
Just wanted to thank you for the great printables, they are fantastic! We love the playdough ones as well.
Tina says
This is too awesome!!! Thanks so much!!
Tina
Denise S. says
Just found your printable puppets today as I was looking for a cute way to introduce subtraction to my kindergarten class. I saw that you were wondering about other puppet ideas. Five Little pumpkins is classic. Ten Timid Ghosts and the witch might be fun too. Ten in the Bed or the Napping House. Thanks so much for making the puppets free.
Cyndi says
Love your puppets! Suggestions for future puppets: farm animals, jungle animals, seasonal (Hallowe’en, Easter, Christmas, etc.), people (mom, dad, girl, boy, baby). Thanks! :)
Megan says
Thanks for a great resource!
Would love to see family puppets or different emotions/feelings.
Thanks again.
Silja says
Hi! You have done so nice material and I am glad that I can use these. I would be very happy, if You can do some day any fairytale theme puppets. I think maybe Redhood, Three pigs or Snowwhite. Thank you! Greetings from Estonia :)
Katryna says
Hi,
These are fantastic resources. My preschool children love them. What about puppets to match stories like Brown Bear Brown Bear and Dear Zoo?
Carolina says
These are so pretty!!! Would love if you’d make more like farm animals to go along. I’ll use the duck for a story. Thanks so much!
Ms. DJ says
Love your puppets for my prek kiddos! The puppets are so colorful and CUTE! I was looking for ones to go with a popular new book-“Hog in the Fog.” I’d love to see you do some of some of the newer books to help students do retelling and recalling! Keep up the great work you are the best thing to happen to a poor teacher how wants to have fun with her class!
joyce says
This is a fabulous idea thank you! I have printed these off to use when the grandchildren come to stay in the summer holidays!
Loraine says
I really loved all the puppets on this page. They are very helpful for us childcare workers, who are always on the look out for resources, to make teaching our little toddlers a fun filled activity. Hope you could make puppets on shapes, people who help us and and colours.
Lyn says
I loved all your printables….. You are a amazing ! How about five little snowmen standing in a row..
Lyn
Adie says
Thank you so much for these wonderful puppets. I’m trying to settle my son into preschool and he loves these songs that they sing there, thought it would help if we sang them at home too!
Urith says
Fairy tales for the children to retell the stories. Red riding hood, 3 pigs. These are great thank you so much.
Urith says
My Children are obsessed with Peter and the Wolf could you make the characters? They hum the musical phrase for each character and know the instruments by sight and sound. Awesome little people. I would love the instruments too if you are keen. Big ask……
Tracy Landis says
Thank you so much for sharing. These are adorable. I’m just starting out and these will be fantastic to engage my little fellows in my autistic support class at circletime.
Irene Kandik says
I teach Toddlers and it is very hard to find suitable anything. Thank you very much for sharing.
Virginia Broadbent says
These puppets are brilliant! Thanks so much for being so generous. It would be lovely to have a set of farm animals for “old MacDonald had a farm”.
susan says
Thanks for sharing these with us, they are amazing.
Vicky says
I adore your printables! They are cute and very useful))
Josephine says
Hi, would love to see some reindeer or santa puppets ???
would be lovely for our Christmas songs….
:-)
Kyndra Jones says
Hello,
I was wondering if you are still doing the puppets? They are precious and I can’t wait to use some of them in my storytime next week! Please let me know if you are planning on making more, I can’t wait to see! Thanks and God Bless!
Donna says
Oh my goodness, I love love love these! I love all the puppets! I’m about to start teaching prep (Kinder) so I am SO happy that you’ve made these! All my favourite songs, right here! :)
katepickle says
Please do let me know if you can think of some other songs that would lend themselves well to puppets… I am almost at the end of my list!
Joanne says
How about There Ten In the Bed? Cute teddy bears in a bed. Your work is amazing.
Thank you so much.
Ramona George says
This is exactly what I was looking for!!! Thank you so much for sharing for free even though I would have been willing to pay a small fee!!!
Sandy O says
I love these. Thank you so much for the wonderful artwork and for sharing them with us.
Percy says
What lovely puppets and a wonderful idea to accompany nursery rhymes with! I had been toying with the idea of making puppets to go with the rhymes, but do not have your artistic skills to do so. Thank you very much for sharing your ideas and puppets!
Libby says
Thank you so much!! My preschoolers are going to love these!!
Rae says
I love the look of the monsters! BUT I can’t seem to find the link to print them, I keep going around in circles on your page! Please help, I have 3 excited boys waiting for them :)
katepickle says
Thanks for letting me know there was a problem with the monsters. I’ve updated the post and you should be able to easily see the download links now – https://picklebums.com/free-monster-printables-for-my-scaredy-boy/
sharifah ibrahim says
Thank you so much!! My preschoolers are going to love these!!
hope can share more ideas
jose says
muy buenos
Malika Bourne says
Adorable!!! I hope you don\’t mind if I pinned these. I\’ve alwasy been able to draw my own for my classes and otehrs. I have forgotten to use clothes pins recently like you had in the bun image.TY. I\’ve been using tongue depressors.
TY
Karen Dannewitz says
How about pictures for “Slippery Fish” and “The Wheels on the Bus”….also have to agree with farm animals..I have been using my stash of ‘Teeny Beanie babies’ from McDonald’s for song props for the farm…my toddlers ADORE them!!!
Maricel Fogarty says
Thank you for these valuable resource, what a gem, very handy and useful for a student teacher studying early childhood like me :-)
Jae says
I just wanted to say:
1. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH! These cute pics and printables and song ideas and everything are amazing!
2. Do you draw the pics yourself? You are very creative and talented. :)
3. Have you heard of the ‘Baby Shark’ song? (“baby shark doo doo do doo doo doo”…)
It’s a really cute song about a baby shark, mommy shark, daddy shark, grandpa and grandma shark. I’ve been looking for cute matching printables to go with that song, and thus far no luck.
So, if you are looking for more fun songs/printable puppet ideas, I’d so love and appreciate this one! (plus, I’m sure you’ll love it too) :)
Jae says
p.s. there\’s a couple diff. versions, but here\’s a link to our fav:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ljHzljQrY8
katepickle says
I don’t know the shark song, but I LOVE it!
I’ll add it to my list! Thanks so much for the suggestion!
April says
We love your puppets. Would love to see winter theme puppets.
Laura says
Thank you so much for sharing your resources with everyone. My 1 year old loves them and often asks ‘5 ducks’ while pointing to the container they are stored in
Tammy says
I would like you to make please
5 fat sausages
10 green bottles
Teela says
I love all these! Thank you so much!
Maíra says
Precious work!! This is incredible!
Sonya D says
Thanks for sharing these are great!
Tasripa says
Thanks for sharing. They are awesome. My child enjoys them
Jack and Jill and other nursery rhymes would be great too.
Trupti Tapasi says
Great work. Please keep it up
Elena says
Hola! Hermosas tus actividades, ya pusimos mano a la obra con mis pequeños de 5 y 2 años. También usamos los titulos para aprender palabras en ingles, como en los look and find y colours. Muchas gracias por compartir tan lindas cosas. Te mandamos saludos desde Argentina. Elena, Lorenzo y Rocio.