Doorway Puppet Theater

This morning we woke up to the magic of the first snow fall.  Last night before going to bed Josh and I watched it silently fall for a little bit.  I know I may be in the minority, but I LOVE snow!  Alas we were out of hot chocolate mix (lame), but we had pumpkin waffles with cinnamon syrup for breakfast which was all very cozy and festive.  The boys are currently zipping through their "stuff" so they can go outside and play snow football.  This is the BEST time of year!


Lincoln has something called "Fairy Tale Friday" in his class (so cute!) It is where one of the parents signs up to come and read the kids a Fairy Tale and then they do an activity. Part of the exercise is for the kids to be able to tell the story back. I made this little puppet theater for my Fairy Tale Friday. I was inspired by this one I saw on "Skip to My Lou".

First I read the kids this version of "Little Red Riding hood," and then the kids retold the story with a narrator and puppets. I bought the images on etsy from this vendor and then mounted them on large craft sticks (I am going to laminate them).
Basic instructions for the theater (for more detailed instructions go to the link above) are that I bought some fabric (striped from IKEA, polka dot from Walmart), measured the door and cut the fabric with a little bit of extra to sew around. I sewed a pocked at the top for a shower curtain rod to go through to hang it up. I cut out a window (seriously I just eyed everything and I am not a seamstress, though I hope to be someday....this really wasn't hard), cut some curtains out and sewed around them and sewed some ribbons into the window to tie them back with.

Under the window I had to sew some fabric to put a dowel into because the window will droop if you don't. Alright...that was about as clear as mud.
I am looking forward to all sorts of puppet shows in the future! McKay thought this one was pretty great :)