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Monster Sock Puppet Craft – DIY Fun with Mismatched Socks

Published by Chrysa on July 28, 2019 | Updated May 16, 2024 | 39 Comments

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Use an old mismatched sock to create this fun and imaginative DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft with your kids!

DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft

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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
 Supplies Needed

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

DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft Process

How to Make

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. Christina Moore says

    October 16, 2019 at 11:23 am

    This is so cute, my grnaddaughter would love this

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  2. Wehaf says

    October 16, 2019 at 12:40 pm

    I love the giant googly eyes you used!

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  3. John Smith says

    October 19, 2019 at 7:57 am

    This looks great for googly-eyed monsters!

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  4. Donna L Holder says

    October 24, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    this is so cute and precious

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  5. Pam Flynn says

    December 1, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    This would be fun to go on a scavenger hunt for the matching socks once the puppet is made! I love it!

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  6. LeAnn Harbert says

    March 2, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    This will be a lot of fun to make with my granddaughters and not too hard to make either.

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  7. Dana Rodriguez says

    April 7, 2020 at 8:10 am

    This is really cute. We all know the sock monster visits and leaves one mismatched sock behind. This is a fun idea!

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  8. Sue E says

    April 7, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    I forgot all about sock 🧦 puppets! We used to have puppet shows. This is easy, cheap, and lots of fun 🥳. This was definitely pin worthy? Thank you for sharing 😎

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  9. Katie says

    April 11, 2020 at 10:54 pm

    Oh we have plenty of mismatched socks for this! How cute, my daughter would love making something like this.

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  10. deanna says

    April 15, 2020 at 4:15 pm

    This is such a fun idea. I know I have plenty of mismatch socks. Thanks for this post.

    Reply
  11. Jessica W. says

    April 16, 2020 at 3:03 pm

    This would be a cute project for me and my daughter right now!

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  12. Sandy Klocinski says

    April 20, 2020 at 5:50 am

    This is awesome! What kid wouldn’t love it? So cute

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  13. Marisela Zuniga says

    July 7, 2020 at 3:52 am

    This is such a cute idea!

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  14. Shakeia Rieux says

    July 12, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    That is too cute! My nieces would love to make this!

    Reply
  15. Tony Platz says

    September 12, 2021 at 2:02 pm

    This brings back a lot of memories .

    Reply
  16. Dana says

    November 11, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    So cute and a possible activity for when the weather isn’t so lovely

    Reply
  17. Gina Ferrell says

    November 19, 2021 at 3:58 pm

    This is so adorable and it would be so much fun to make with my daughter.

    Reply
  18. Dana says

    November 21, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    As a kid, I loved making sock puppets

    Reply
  19. Liz A says

    January 24, 2025 at 7:48 am

    Wiggle Eyes for the win!!! I’m totally going to do this with my daughter this weekend 🙂

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