Pontefract Castle: Dragon Egg Day

Ilbert the dragon keeps falling asleep and, during a nap that’s lasted somewhere between 2-days and 1,000 years, all of his eggs have gone missing! Don’t worry though – brave adventurers were on the case and the eggs were soon located, though it took a little negotiation with some Easter bunnies…

Ilbert and The Case of the Missing Eggs is a fun interactive story, involving Ilbert the dragon, Clack-Clack the Talk-Bird, and some rather eccentric Easter Bunnies. The show involves a variety of puppets, including some simple paper-bag bunny puppets.

I love making paper-bag puppets. They’re fun and relatively easy to make and they can be played with almost immediately. Not only that, they’re recyclable! So, why not have a go at making your own?

Make Your Bunny Puppet

The show includes some mischievous bunnies and you can make your very own by following these simple steps.

You will need:

a glue stick;
some scissors;
some paper;
colouring pencils, crayons or pens;
a paper bag;
a grown-up to help out.

a photo including: a glue stick, pencil crayons, a piece of plain A4 paper, a paper bag and children's scissors.

A photo of the plain A4 paper, with drawings of the bunny ears, eyes, teeth, nose and a mouth.

First get your paper and a pencil, then:

draw some bunny ears with a space for the glue;
draw some teeth with a space for the glue;
draw the triangle nose, circle eyes and an oval for the mouth (glue the backs of these to stick them to the paper – I went a bit wrong with my mouth, and initially thought that I needed a tag for gluing, but I didn’t);
Don’t start gluing just yet!

Now colour in all of your bunny pieces!

they can be any colour you like;
then cut them out (you may want to get a grown-up to help you with this bit).

A photo of the bunny ears being cut out of the paper.

A photo of all of the cut out pieces arranged ready for gluing onto the paper bag.

Assemble all of your pieces together:

Glue them onto your paper bag!

Now you have your bunny puppet!

You may want to draw some whiskers on it – or you may not – it’s your bunny, you can do whatever you want;
ask a grown-up to post a picture of your bunny masterpiece to: Facebook, the platform formerly known as Twitter, or Instagram and tag @StoryTrailsUK, so I can give you a big thumbs up!
have fun playing with your new bunny puppet, and why not make your very own show!?

A photo of a finished paper-bag bunny puppet.