Paper Bag Dinosaur Puppet

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Do you have a child who is fascinated by dinosaurs? If so, this paper bag dinosaur puppet is the perfect craft activity!

Whether you’re getting back into the groove of school and need a fun activity for a break from the scholastics, or you’re planning out your homeschool craft time, the dinosaur puppet is a cute activity to add to your list.

Also, if your child loves to read books about dinosaurs, color pictures of dinosaurs, and learn about all things dinosaur-related, after the craft project below, you’ll find links to a number of activities and projects having to do with dinosaurs. You’ll have enough material to create a dinosaur-themed homeschool unit study for your child or children.

So, let’s start with the paper bag dinosaur puppet!

Some items you’ll need:

These are a few of the things you’ll need for the project. These are also items you likely have in your home. If not, the links here are for your convenience. They are affiliate links, which are used to help keep our website running.

List of Supplies for Paper Bag Dinosaur Puppet:

1. Colored craft paper
2. Paper bag
3. Sharpie
4. Craft glue
5. Pencil
6. Scissors
7. Dinosaur Puppet Template (opens in new tab)

Instructions for Paper Bag Dinosaur Puppet:

Step 1:

Select 3 different shades of green craft paper along with pink and white paper. Trace the head, tail, legs, and arms on a medium shade of green paper. Trace the head scales and the tail scales on dark green paper and the belly part on the other green shade of paper. Trace the claws on white paper and the blush (round shapes) patterns on pink paper. Cut out the traced patterns nicely.

Step 2:

Next, you’ll want to attach the claw cutouts to the leg and arm cutouts with glue. This part of the dinosaur puppet is a fun step for your kids to help with.

Step 3:

Use glue to attach the tail scales along the top side of the tail cutout and attach the head scales on the top side of the head cutout.

Step 4:

You can have your child glue the eye and blush cutouts on the head pattern of the dinosaur puppet. Meanwhile, you can use a sharpie to draw the nose and mouth of the papercraft T-Rex.

Step 5:

Grab a paper bag and cut out a piece of green paper to cover one side of the paper bag. This will be the front of the papercraft T-Rex.

Step 6:

Glue the green paper on one side of the paper bag (the side that has the bag’s base folded toward it). Attach the belly cutout near the top of the attached green paper, keeping the round edge facing down, toward the bag opening.

Step 7:

Flatten the base of the paper bag and glue the head pattern onto the base of the paper bag. The dinosaur puppet is coming along, and we’re nearly done!

Step 8:

Attach the tail pattern to the right side of the paper bag with glue.

Step 9:

Next, you’ll want to glue the leg patterns along the bottom of the paper bag puppet (the open side of the bag). Then glue the arm patterns to both sides of the paper bag.

And there you have it! An adorable T-Rex dinosaur puppet ready for your child’s imaginative playtime.

Additional Activities:

These dinosaur activity pages include a Dinosaur I Spy page, a coloring page, a word search, and a maze. And all your child will need in order to use these pages is a pencil or crayon! (If your child wants to color the coloring page, he or she will need a set of crayons or colored pencils too.)

This dinosaur unit study bundle is an introduction to dinosaurs including the Ichthyosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Pteranodon, Stegosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops. These easy-to-use dinosaur printables for Kindergarten – Second Grade include fun facts, a dino mix-up game, a dinosaur matching game, and more.

Themed unit studies are so much more fun when you supplement them with themed reading and playtime! Here are some books, science kits, and toys you can use alongside a dinosaur unit study.

A great activity to go with a dinosaur theme is a fossil study, and you can make some fossils of your own to help your child learn about fossils in a creative way.

Still need more material? Here is a list of ideas, resources, and activities about dinosaurs.

And if you’re not sure how to put together a unit study, here are some tips on doing just that—creating a unit study to encourage your child’s interests.

Themed Books on Dinosaurs:

As promised, here are a few books about dinosaurs. Your child can use the newly crafted dinosaur puppet to act out some of the stories below:

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