Use an old mismatched sock to create this fun and imaginative DIY Monster Sock Puppet Craft with your kids!
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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.
Supplies Needed
An old sock
Wiggle eyes
Ribbon, yarn or felt
Hot glue gun
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!
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Christina Moore says
This is so cute, my grnaddaughter would love this
Wehaf says
I love the giant googly eyes you used!
John Smith says
This looks great for googly-eyed monsters!
Donna L Holder says
this is so cute and precious
Pam Flynn says
This would be fun to go on a scavenger hunt for the matching socks once the puppet is made! I love it!
LeAnn Harbert says
This will be a lot of fun to make with my granddaughters and not too hard to make either.
Dana Rodriguez says
This is really cute. We all know the sock monster visits and leaves one mismatched sock behind. This is a fun idea!
Sue E says
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 😎
Katie says
Oh we have plenty of mismatched socks for this! How cute, my daughter would love making something like this.
deanna says
This is such a fun idea. I know I have plenty of mismatch socks. Thanks for this post.
Jessica W. says
This would be a cute project for me and my daughter right now!
Sandy Klocinski says
This is awesome! What kid wouldn’t love it? So cute
Marisela Zuniga says
This is such a cute idea!
Shakeia Rieux says
That is too cute! My nieces would love to make this!
Tony Platz says
This brings back a lot of memories .
Dana says
So cute and a possible activity for when the weather isn’t so lovely
Gina Ferrell says
This is so adorable and it would be so much fun to make with my daughter.
Dana says
As a kid, I loved making sock puppets
Liz A says
Wiggle Eyes for the win!!! I’m totally going to do this with my daughter this weekend 🙂