Sock Puppets and Cardboard Box Theater

What child doesn't love sock puppets? And what mom doesn't love a craft you can make with stuff you probably already have? All I did was stick on the googly eyes and tack on the sparkle nose and yarn hair with a needle and thread. It took 5 minutes and my daughter has played with them for hours!
We made two, Mary and Jo Jo.
We didn't want our puppets to be homeless, so we built a puppet theater out of a cardboard box.
I had some left over fabric from making my daughter's curtains a few years ago that I wrapped around the box and secured with a staple gun. The whole point of a puppet theater is the curtains... and they turned out to be my nemesis. I tried to hang them with the staple gun - they fell down. I tried duct tape - they fell down. I tried staples and duct tape - they fell down. I was defeated. There was only one option left; call my sister. She gave me the genius idea of hanging them on wire hangers and duct taping the hangers to the box! It worked beautifully!

I sewed the curtain fabric to the hangers. (I promise I wasn't sewing in the dark, even though it looks that way.)

So it looked like this...


Then duct taped them to the top of the box...
I tied the curtains back with yarn, added a support piece of cardboard across the bottom of the box (to make sure it wouldn't collapse) and covered it with a blanket.... and we were ready for the show!

They usually end up kissing...