Make the baby kangaroo from a small child’s sock in a beige or other light color. Insert a cone shaped piece of cardboard in the toe of the sock instead of the cardboard roll used in other finger puppets. Also for the baby kangaroo, there is no need to take a tuck in the heel, but rather let the heel become the top of the head (Figure 1).

FEATURES: Turn the sock inside out and sew the toe to a point. Turn right side, add padding in the very tip of the toe; then insert the cone in the toe and pad around it up to the heel. Embroider a nose and eyelines in brown, mouth in red or pink. Add tiny brown button eyes with a dot of white for highlight. Add pink felt ears similar to Mama Kangaroo’s (Figure 2).

ARMS: Cut a slit on each side of the sock just below the neck. Be sure slits are large enough to fit the fingers for manipulating the puppet. Make glove-like fingers from the second sock or the fingers from an old glove and sew them to the slits. Be sure not to sew slits closed. The best way to avoid this is to turn the puppet inside out, fit the “fingers” inside the slit and whip-switch the edges together (Figure 3).

TRIM: Add a big baby blue bow under the chin—not too tight. When not acting uppity like a puppet, baby kangaroo rests comfortably in Mama Kangaroo’s pouch (Figure 4).