Baseball Craft Player Puppet (with FREE Template)

This paper bag baseball craft puppet turns your favorite player into an interactive craft. It leads to hours of creative play. Use the free craft template as a starting point for easy crafting. Then use your favorite team colors and add whatever details you like to really make this fun baseball craft player puppet. Of course, you’re going to make more than one so that you can put on a puppet show with the entire team.

When my oldest son was a preschooler, he had imaginary friends. But these weren’t just made up anybodies. Instead, he chose his favorite sports characters from across different sports to be his friends. There were times when they were life-sized or bigger and other times when they could fit in the palm of your hand. It was adorable. One of his “imaginary” friends was a Pittsburgh baseball legend…Bobby Bonilla.

If you like this craft, you’re also going to love making this basketball player puppet, this football player puppet or this hockey player puppet.

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Fun Facts about Baseball

• There are 162 games in a baseball season.
• The fastest recorded major league game lasted oly 51 minutes. Most last about 3 hours.
• The longest MLB game lasted 8 hours and 6 minutes.
• William Howard Taft was the first president to throw out the first ball at a major league baseball game.
• The record for most homeruns in a game is 4, and the first person to accomplish it was a player named Bobby Lowe.
• The most expensive autographed baseball was signed by Joe DiMaggio in 1961 and sold for $191,200.

To learn more interesting facts about baseball, check out this article from Fun Kids.

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SUPPLIES FROM THE BAG

• Paper lunch bag
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Markers
• Glue stick
• Printable paper eyes (or googly eyes)
• Baseball craft template

Do you wish that you could find more time to craft with your kids? Well…we have the solution. Prep once by using our master list of craft supplies to fill your bag, and you’re ready to make everything that you see here. It could not be simpler.

How to make a Baseball Player Craft

Step 1: Use the Baseball Craft Template

• Print the free baseball craft template.
• Use it to cut out all of the parts for your baseball player puppet from whatever colors of construction paper you like.
• Leave your baseball player bald or choose one of the hair designs from the templates. Or draw on some hair later.

Step 2: Make the Face

• Assemble the parts for the head of your basetball player, including hair (if you choose) and the ball cap. *If adding hair, cut that out and put it in place before adding the cap.
• Add the eyes to your baseball player’s face. You can use googly eyes or print and cut out eyes from our free paper eyes printble.
• Use your markers to add the mouth and nose and any other details you would like to the face.
• You may also want to cut out some ears (not part of template) and glue them in place, depending on what hair style you chose.

Step 3: Start Assembling

• With the opening of the paper lunch bag on the bottom, start by gluing on the rectangle for the jersey from the template in place, tucking it under the flap.
• Then add the head to the flap of the bag.

Step 4: Finish Off Your Paper Bag Puppet Craft

• Draw the team logo on the front of the jersey.
• Glue the hands onto the end of each arm.
• Then put the arms in place by just gluing them at the shoulder.
• Now choose accessories from template 3 for your ball player and glue them in place.
• Design, decorate and add the emblem to the hat.
• Use your markers to add any other details you would like.

Now that you know how to make this baseball player puppet, don’t stop at just one. He needs some teammates and maybe some oponents to play too. Then put on a puppet show.

Enjoy this reading of “Luke Goes to Bat” by Rachel Isadora

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