Peruvian Handknitted Finger Puppets

 Customers are always amazed at the details in each finger puppet.  Children can learn a lot though finger puppets or just have fun with them and adults can also have a lot of fun teaching children many facts about the animal world or enhance a story telling.

 These finger puppets are made of acrylic yarn and filled with cotton.  They are very easy to care of, just wash them with mild detergent, squeeze and dry flat.    They have been already been washed.

These cute and colourful finger puppets are handknitted by communities of Quechua women in Puno, Peru.  These women are very skillfull knitters and each one is specialised in several handknitted animals.  And together they produce a vast array of animals and other characters that have gone surpassed the frontiers of Peru.

Spinning, dyeing, carding, weaving and knitting are skills that women and men learn from an early age in Quechua communities in the Andes of Peru. 

These Peruvian handknitted finger puppets are great for kids parties, child care centres. Kids have lots of fun with them!