Five Little Ducks felt puppets

This blog post was written as part of the PinAddicts challenge, where a group of bloggers actually made crafts inspired by some of the things that they had pinned! These felt ducks were inspired by a pin from ohsofelty, although they are sadly no longer available.

I've posted before about how Harry loves acting out stories and rhymes using props. I've seen some great ideas online, and one that caught my eye was some felt ducks to use when singing the children's song "Five little ducks went swimming one day".

I didn't have much yellow felt left, but I was pleased to make use of some which was rather poor quality (I think it may have come in a reduced children's craft kit). I didn't have enough yellow to make the backs, so I used felt in a pale coral colour.

They were very easy to make, I just drew out a basic template for the body shape and cut out the two pieces and sewed them together. The wings and the beak are sewing on separately, with tiny stitches for their eyes. My finished puppets came out quite big, which makes them a little uncomfortable to hold, but you don't need them all in place for very long as you sing the song!

However it does mean that they are too big for a small child to hold, so next time I would make them a bit smaller. I had assumed that he would be quite happy to sit and watch, but of course he wanted to join in too!

In case you are unfamiliar with the song, this is how it goes:

Five little ducks went swimming one day
Over the fields and far away
Mummy Duck said 'quack quack quack quack'
But only four little ducks came back

and so on until there are no ducks left...

No little ducks went swimming one day
Over the fields and far away
Mummy Duck said 'quack quack quack quack'
And all five ducks came swimming back!