Artsy Audiologist: Disney Princess Finger Puppets (Templates included for 6 princesses)

Hello once again from the Artsy Audiologist!

In my last post I had shared with you all some templates of animal finger puppets. I was happy to note that I got several responses from some of my mommy friends who said they would try it out. Now I am yet to receive feedback on how well or how bad the templates worked (since it was my first attempt to make them), I decided to also share with you some templates for the Disney princess finger puppets that I have shared on my channel. I have also added the link to this video at the end of this post.

Here again, the method is pretty straightforward to make the finger puppets. However, there would be a few more steps to it compared to the animal ones. In the animal finger puppets, you only had to draw the templates on to two layers of felt and add the detailing for it with smaller pieces of felt and stitch the edges.

For the princess finger puppets; the dress, body and hair would need to be made separately and slightly differently for each princess. For eg., the Cinderella, Belle and Elsa finger puppets have the dress as a single piece with a little part of the body visible and the hair to be added. On the other hand, for the Ariel and Jasmine ones the body should be slightly bigger as the tummy area would be visible. And finally, for the Snow-White finger puppet, the dress itself is in two parts. Another difference to be noted is that in these princess finger puppets, the finger is meant to be inserted only in the lower part of the dress. The upper part would be a bit too narrow and also in some of the finger puppets it would be fixed to the body and hence stuck. This is the reason I have made sure that the templates are wider in the lower part of the dress and not in the upper part.

The pictures below are self-explanatory so as to give you all an idea of the parts of the templates to be cut out. They are also coloured to denote the colour of the felt to be used. I have tried to use the closest colour to the actual Disney character. And I am also happy to note that my niece was able to guess which character each puppet was even though some of the ones I had made were a bit stouter than the princesses! Some ideas for Pinterest used a slightly darker coloured felt for the body part of Jasmine. But I didn’t choose to do so and used the felt I had readily available.

The printable version of the templates is not labelled and hence you will need to refer the pictures from this post and the video if you have any questions as to which goes where. I also would be happy to help you with any questions that you write in the comment section below.

Here again, I would like to request you all to make a special note of the settings while printing. This time I noticed that if I had the page setting to actual size part of it was getting cut out as opposed to when I had a fit to page setting. So I would recommend that you print out one page to assess which setting you would need to keep it. Another option would be to look in the preview window (marked with arrow) to see what setting works.