Paper Bag Puppets — 6 Free Printable Templates
Print-and-cut faces for lunch-bag puppets — pick lion, frog, dog, robot, princess, or monster. Two-piece design uses the bag's bottom flap as a moving mouth.
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The bottom flap of a lunch bag is the puppet's mouth — that's the whole trick
Paper bag puppets are the most-assigned classroom craft for ages 3–8 because the mechanism is so simple it almost teaches itself: a standard brown lunch bag sits with its bottom flap folded forward. Glue the upper face piece on the panel above that fold; glue the lower jaw piece on the underside of the bottom flap. When a hand inside the bag opens the flap, the mouth opens. When it closes, the mouth closes.
All six templates on this page follow the same two-piece structure — upper face and lower jaw — separated by a clear cut line so kids never glue the wrong piece in the wrong place. The six characters span the most-requested archetypes: lion (mane + tongue), frog (bulging eyes + wide mouth), dog (floppy ears + tongue), robot (antenna + grille), princess (crown + eyelashes), and monster (three asymmetric eyes + horns + jagged teeth).
Decoration is the part where every kid's puppet becomes their own — colour the printed lines, add yarn for hair, glue on googly eyes, dress the bag in fabric scraps. Pair with the Paper Crowns & Party Hats for a princess birthday party, or with the Paper City Buildings for a backdrop the puppets perform in front of.