teaching resource

Adorable Animal Finger Puppets Template

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    Updated:  11 Oct 2023

Download a set of 12 animal finger puppets to use when teaching poetry, creating narratives and more.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  2 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  F - 2

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teaching resource

Adorable Animal Finger Puppets Template

  • Updated

    Updated:  11 Oct 2023

Download a set of 12 animal finger puppets to use when teaching poetry, creating narratives and more.

  • Non-Editable

    Non-Editable:  PDF

  • Pages

    Pages:  2 Pages

  • Curriculum
  • Years

    Years:  F - 2

Download a set of 12 animal finger puppets to use when teaching poetry, creating narratives and more.

Add Animal Finger Puppets to Your Teacher Toolkit

Do you need fun finger puppets for your creative play or drama? How about visual cues for teaching poetry? These printable animal finger puppets aren’t just adorable — the set of 12 individual puppets is versatile too!

Available in an easy-to-print PDF format, this teacher resource download includes the following animals:

  • dog
  • fish
  • horse
  • whale
  • snake
  • frog
  • deer
  • rabbit
  • cat
  • bee
  • panda
  • ladybug

Print the puppets in full colour, or opt for the black-and-white pages that your students can decorate themselves.

animal finger puppets are seen on a teacher's hand

How to Teach Poetry With Animal Puppets

As we know, in the early years, poetry education focuses on listening to, reciting and performing poems. Also, it’s important to have heaps of fun exploring chants, rhymes and songs.

Finger puppets are perfect for little hands to invent simple narratives and poems, and you can use these adorable animals to bring songs, chants and simple rhyming poetry to life!

Want to take your poetry puppet work deeper? We suggest you pair them with our Poetry Prompt Task Cards!

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