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Bring The Little Donkey to Life with a Paper Bag Puppet Craft

ByShannon L. Mokry
Promotional graphic for a book-themed donkey paper plate craft inspired by The Little Donkey by Shannon L. Mokry. The image features a smiling gray donkey face made from a paper bag puppet with large ears, googly eyes, a black yarn mane, and a gray muzzle. In the upper left is the turquoise book cover for The Little Donkey. Text reads, "Book Themed Crafts – Donkey Paper Bag Puppet Craft," with the website www.sillygeesepublishing.com at the bottom. Blue accents and simple white heart doodles decorate the background.

Paper bag puppets are a hands-on way to bring book characters to life. With practical hands on learning combined with hours of fun imaginative play you get more than a few minutes of craft time with this project. Add in this book on patience and empathy into the mix and you have the perfect helper for tackling real life questions that arise from how to be a better friend with special needs/autistic children.

👉 Click here to read more or order your copy of The Little Donkey

Materials Needed:

  • Silver or Gray paper bag
  • (5.1 x 3.1 x 9 approximately)
  • color printer and paper
  • scissors
  • glue
  • Black or Dark Gray ChunkyYarn
  • googly eyes (1 /2 inch or size desired)

Instructions:

Promotional graphic for a book-themed donkey paper plate craft inspired by The Little Donkey by Shannon L. Mokry. The image features a smiling gray donkey face made from a paper bag with large ears, googly eyes, a black yarn mane, and a gray muzzle. Text reads, "Book Themed Crafts – Donkey Paper Bag Puppet Craft," with the website www.sillygeesepublishing.com at the bottom. Blue accents and simple white heart doodles decorate the background.
  1. Print and carefully cut out Donkey’s pieces.
  2. Glue on the ears, glue them to the back of the head.
  3. Then glue the yarn to the head between the ears, as shown.
  4. Glue the head to the bottom flap of the paper bag.
  5. Glue on the nose piece to the bottom of the head.
  6. Glue on the two black dots as nostrils.
  7. Open up bag, and glue second gray over just below the fold line for the mouth as shown in image below.
  8. Glue down red oval as the tongue and the white rectangles as teeth over the tongue.

📖 Storytime Tie-In:

The Little Donkey is a story about patience, empathy, and learning to see the needs of others. Through Little Donkey’s journey, children discover that growth takes time and that everyone has moments when they need understanding, encouragement, and kindness.

As you read:

  • Talk about the moments when Little Donkey needed patience and how rushing or becoming frustrated can make challenges feel even harder.
  • Discuss how everyone has different strengths, struggles, and things they are learning. We all need patience from others at different times in our lives.
  • Explore how challenges can shape our hearts and help us grow. We don’t have to pretend that difficult moments are easy, but we can trust that God can use both the hard things and the good things in our lives to help us become more compassionate and caring toward others.

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