Story telling and finger puppets seem to be a good fit for bookplates - since many of my customers enjoy reading and telling stories to their children, grandchildren, or students.
I have a bunch of fnger puppets I'm working on, most to go with familiar stories we tell our children, with and without books. These are all from my own design - later I may work on writing out descriptions of the patterns but... that's a lot of work!
First up is Red Riding Hood...check her out Etsy ... a set of four characters from the story..Red Riding hood carrying a little basket - her hood will slip off and on. Grandma, looking all innocent. The Big Bad Wolf, complete with white fangs, and the Hunter, wearing a dapper green cap and carrying an ax.
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is next -- Papa Bear has a hat, Mama bear has an apron and Baby Bear has a bib... cute!
Then there is the classic Princess and Prince Charming set -- you can turn this into just about any story. It comes with Prince Charming, a beautiful Princess, an evil Witch and... a horse. You have to have a horse so you (Prince or Princess) can ride off into the sunset....
A knight with a shield, sword and of course a horse - and a dragon - seem to make sense ..
To go with the Pooh bookplates, a set of not-Pooh finger puppets - but almost as cute and they will work just fine when telling that Classic story. A little honey bear, a donkey, a striped tiger and a little pink pig.
Each set is hand crocheted, with embroidered faces, so each will look slightly different from others and from these photos.
More will be coming as I think of anything to encourage role play, creative thinking and fun for kids and their grandparents (especially) seems like a good idea to me. And I am open to suggestions, too!
Although I'm selling these on
Etsy, not everyone wants to open an account there - and if an item sells out, it won't be at the link - so I'm also offering these on my website, in a new section I've created for
Finger Puppets.
