Pop-up Groundhog Puppet

Here is what you need:

scissors
adult-size brown sock
1-foot stick or dowel
white glue
2½-inch Styrofoam ball
small round oatmeal box
two wiggle eyes
string or yarn
brown felt scraps
fiberfill

Here is what you do:

1. Cut the bottom out of the oatmeal box. Slide the sock over the box, so that the cuff opening of the sock just fits around the edge of the box. The box will be the groundhog's hole.

2. Dip one end of the stick in glue, the push it into the Styrofoam ball. Push the ball through he box and into the toe of the sock, with the stick coming out of the bottom of the box. The ball will be the head of the groundhog. Tie a piece of string around the stick at the base of the Styrofoam ball to make the groundhog's neck.

3. Glue the two wiggle eyes on one side of the head. Cut ears and a nose from the brown felt and glue them in place.

4. Glue fiberfill around the top rim of the box for snow.

Push on the stick to pop your groundhog up out of the hole to see if he sees his shadow. If he sees it, pull on the stick to put him back in his hole for sex more weeks of winter. "Oh, no!"

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