You can make sock puppets out of almost anything and get as creative as you want. Here’s how from eHow.
If the mysterious “Sock Eater” has left you a pile of single socks, then let everyone make puppets one day. Puppets are a good way for children to talk about their world to adults without feeling pressure or embarrassment.
Hand Puppet
Instructions
STEP 1: Save a single clean sock. The sock needs to be large enough to fit loosely over a child’s hand.
STEP 2: Gather craft supplies such as construction paper, permanent marker, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, cotton balls or batting.
STEP 3: Place hand in sock with thumb and fingers working like a mouth.
STEP 4: Mark lightly with a marker - areas for mouth, eyes, nose, and ears.
STEP 5: Cut ears and mouth from felt and glue in marked areas with fabric glue or craft glue.
STEP 6: Glue wiggly eyes in place. However, make eyes with a black permanent marker if puppet is going to be using by small children.
STEP 7: Use yarn cut into small strings and glued to sock for hair or horse’s mane.
STEP 8: Make antlers, horns, or antennas from pipe cleaners.
Stick Puppet
Instructions
STEP 1: Use an adult-sized clean sock.
STEP 2: Gather craft supplies: Styrofoam balls, 3/8-inch dowel rod, plastic cups, wiggly eyes, felt, yarn, pipe cleaners, craft glue, craft pompoms, and cotton balls.
STEP 3: Push the dowel rod at an angle into the Styrofoam ball.
STEP 4: Cut four ear shapes for your puppet from felt.
STEP 5: Lay a pipe cleaner bent in half on one felt ear shape and glue the other felt ear shape on top - leaving about 1 inch of pipe cleaner sticking out of the bottom of the ear. This is what you will stick into the foam ball.
STEP 6: Place foam ball with dowel rod inside sock.
STEP 7: Glue on wiggle eyes, or draw eyes with a permanent marker.
STEP 8: Glue or draw on nose. Pompoms found in a store’s craft department make cute noses.
STEP 9: Cut a small slit in the sock on the side of the head for the ears. Poke the pipe cleaner through the slit into the foam ball. Make pipe-cleaner antennas the same way.
STEP 10: Stuff the neck with batting. You will need to use enough batting to make the head stand up.
STEP 11: Cut a hole into the bottom of the plastic cup. Turn cup upside down and slide over dowel rod up inside the sock neck.
STEP 12: Move puppet by holding the cup and moving the dowel rod.
Tips & Warnings
Stick puppets are good to use with a stage or puppet box.
Overall Tips & Warnings
For young children, do not use any small pieces such as wiggly eyes or buttons that they can remove and place in their mouths.
[from eHow]