Set of five cute hand knitted zoo animal finger puppets. Ideal for story telling with children, or simply use as decorations around the house!
Each set includes an Elephant, Giraffe, Alligator, Monkey and Lion.
Made from recycled wools such as aplaca wool and lambs wool. As they are hand-made the characters' faces may vary slightly.
The story behind these puppets These woven toys come from Puno, a city at the top of the Andes Mountains in Peru. The locals used the leftovers of materials used for the woven garments they sold to make the puppets. On the very cold nights they told their children the same stories they had heard from their own parents but now the characters could be seen and touched! As they were so appreciated they started to make a larger variety of characters and sell them to neighbours and eventually began to send them to markets in Lima. |
