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Monster Sock Puppet Craft – DIY Fun with Mismatched Socks

Published by Chrysa on July 28, 2019 | Updated May 6, 2022 | 38 Comments

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DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft

Monster Sock Puppet Craft

We all have those lonely, single socks missing their mates laying around. In our house it’s a mixed system between tossing the lone socks into the “singles” bag and keeping the singles in their respective sock drawer until its mate shows up. Sometimes, it never does. After a while it’s time to give up hope that the matches will ever show up.

So, what’s a person to do with all those single socks? We have a bunch of ideas in this post of 6 Great Uses for Single Mismatched Socks, but the most FUN use is to make this DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft! The extra fun thing about this craft is that you can totally let your imagination go crazy to create a wild and wacky monster. Make the craft together with your kids so they can do the design while you operate the hot glue gun.

We used ribbon to make a bow on the top of our puppet for a “cute” look, but you can use scraps of felt, yarn, or any other materials to give your monster their own unique look.

DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft Supplies
 

Monster Sock Puppet Craft

 
Supplies:

An old sock
Wiggle eyes
Ribbon, yarn or felt
Hot glue gun

DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft Process

Directions:

Plug in your glue gun and let it heat up.
Cut your ribbon, yarn or felt into the lengths and shapes desired to decorate your monster.
Glue wiggle eyes onto either side of the sock (or, since it’s a monster you can give it one BIG eye, or multiple small eyes). You can use an empty cardboard toilet paper tube to fill the sock out while gluing so you don’t burn yourself or end up with an eye on the side of your puppet’s head. (That may have happened to ours.)
Continue gluing your other decorations to the monster’s head.
Let glue dry completely before putting your puppet into action!

DIY Monster Sock Puppet

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  1. Janet W. says

    January 9, 2017 at 5:40 am

    That is adorable and so easy to make! Very creative!

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  2. Susan Hartman says

    February 7, 2017 at 10:25 pm

    My grandson made sock puppets in nursery school. He came home so excited. He loved it.

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  3. Julie Wood says

    February 12, 2017 at 7:04 am

    My son would go nuts over this fun Sock puppet craft. I will have to make this with him. It looks so cute!

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  4. Ireon Williams says

    February 15, 2017 at 8:18 pm

    I know my son would like this

    Reply
  5. Bryan Vice says

    April 8, 2017 at 7:49 am

    This looks like fun! its just me and my son 3 days a week this will give us a fun activity to do thanks for sharing

    Reply
  6. Hannah C says

    April 28, 2017 at 6:06 pm

    What a cute craft! I love it!

    Reply
  7. Sarah Mathias says

    September 30, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    This is a neat idea. I think I’ll try some hair on mine.

    Reply
  8. Dandi D says

    May 24, 2019 at 2:36 pm

    These are so cute and look like a lot of fun!

    Reply
  9. Donna L says

    May 29, 2019 at 7:49 am

    Very cool art project.

    Reply
  10. Donna says

    June 2, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    This is such a fun idea! I love that it’s so easy and quick to make.

    Reply
  11. John Smith says

    June 23, 2019 at 2:47 am

    Really excellent monster sock puppet craft!

    Reply
  12. Antoinette M says

    June 24, 2019 at 8:08 am

    Fun craft idea!

    Reply
  13. shelly peterson says

    August 28, 2019 at 12:00 am

    This is such a cute idea. My nieces would love making these.

    Reply
  14. Marisela Zuniga says

    August 28, 2019 at 7:37 pm

    This is a really cute idea, my son would have so much fun making his own

    Reply
  15. Tami Vollenweider says

    October 2, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    This seems like a fun easy craft idea to do! I know I have some socks laying around!!

    Reply
  16. Dana Rodriguez says

    October 10, 2019 at 10:10 am

    This is such a cute craft. I think any little one would love this!

    Reply
  17. Sandy Klocinski says

    October 11, 2019 at 7:16 am

    This is awesome! I love it. So cute

    Reply
  18. Vickie L Couturier says

    October 12, 2019 at 4:16 am

    really cute and fun to make with the grandkids on a rainy or snowy day

    Reply
  19. Sarah L says

    October 13, 2019 at 10:06 pm

    Heavens knows that I have enough single socks to make a whole family of puppet.

    Reply
  20. kathy pease says

    October 14, 2019 at 6:24 pm

    My granddaughter loves puppets and this would be fun to do.

    Reply
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