Easter Puppets Download

Easy to make, and fun to use, these Easter Puppets give you a simple way to share the Easter story together.

You can also get a printed version of these puppets in the form of a 16 page card board book for only £6.50

And they are half price when you get a pack of 10. 

It’s easy to make and have fun using these puppets:

1. Download this set of 16 pictures (onto card if possible)
2. Cut them out and tape them to the card sticks provided, or use paper straws or lolly sticks or actual stick sticks from a tree!
3. Use to tell and re-tell the Easter story using the storyboard provided.

These stunning, colourful pictures have been designed to make it easy and fun to share the Easter story.

Perfect for:

• families at home together
• grandparents and god-parents looking for an easy way to share the Easter story in a fun, accessible way
• group leaders looking for a fun way to engage either face-to-face or online*

You can use them as puppets as you tell the story, or for more fun, give them to your ‘audience’ and have them ‘act’ the story as you tell it.

Can they re-tell it?

The storyboard gives you ideas of which puppets to use at which part of the story, but you can ad lib and create your own puppet show.

*If you plan to make copies of the puppets to give to families you know, you might like to get this pack of 10 books which has them all printed and ready to go on quality card.

Have even more fun by:

• creating your own puppet theatre using blankets and a couple of chairs or a small table.
• taking pictures of each scene so you can use them to re-tell the story or share it with others
• chatting about the story using open-ended questions such as:

• • I wonder what is your favourite part of this story.
  • I wonder what the most important part might be.
  • I wonder where you might be in this story.
    (These questions can be answered by adults and children!)

• making a mini-film of the story with someone working as the narrator while others do the puppets
• leaving your puppets out, perhaps with additional props for your children to play the story again in their own playtime
• offering extra card and sticks for anyone to add additional puppets to the story (my children added a rooster!)
• reading the story from a children’s Bible storybook and ‘acting’ it out using your puppets.
• cutting up the storyboard and laying a challenge to see if the children can put the pictures in the right
  order again.

Extra ideas:

• Retell the story using some toys. Which toys could you use? Who will be Jesus? Can you make a scene for them to tell the story in?
• Listen to an audio version of the story from the Bible at biblegateway.com
• Use your puppets to ‘act’ out the story as you read the story from a Bible using the references on the storyboard.
• You could even get up early to see the sunrise on Easter Sunday morning! Take some hot chocolate and hot cross buns for a picnic breakfast!