Puschel’s Wusel Workshop

Craft ideas for children with simple materials

Puschel tinkers, Flauschi designs—and together they turn simple natural and reusable materials into little Wusel wonders. Every project includes a story, clear steps and a note explaining when adults should help.

16 workshop projects with stories and instructions.

The workshop is our home for detailed craft instructions: choose a project, gather the materials and follow the steps with an adult. For colouring, puzzles, games and movement, visit Join in.

Puschel and Flauschi gently tilt their finished maze together above the table. A blue marble travels along wide card paths towards a paper house.

New craft idea

Puschel’s Marble Woodland

A cardboard lid becomes a woodland maze. Gentle tilting helps the marble find its way to a paper house.

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The finished wheel shows four different faces and a green pointer. Flauschi listens attentively to Puschel.

New craft idea

Flauschi’s Feelings Wheel

Four faces and a movable pointer: you choose which feelings belong on your wheel today.

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Two finished pinecone Wusels stand on blue and orange bases. Puschel and Flauschi greet their handmade figures.

New craft idea

Puschel’s Pinecone Wusels

Two pinecones get paper faces, felt ears and bushy felt tails. What helps a little Wusel stand up?

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Puschel and Flauschi show their yellow, red and green painted paws and fingertips. Their finished blob flower, woodland and free colourful marks lie on the freestanding table.

Painting idea

Colourful Pawprint Pictures – Painting with Finger Paints

Little paint blobs become pawprint flowers, a colourful Wusel woodland or your own feelings picture. You choose what grows on your paper.

Paint together →
At the round window Puschel holds his tree upside down with its leafy canopy pointing down; Flauschi notices with a smile

Craft idea

Colourful Wusel Window Pictures

Translucent paper becomes a glowing sun and colourful tree for the Wusel house window.

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Puschel slowly turns the finished sealed blue-and-orange rainmaker while Flauschi smiles and listens

Craft idea

Puschel’s Rainmaker

A firmly sealed cardboard tube makes a gentle pattering sound when turned slowly.

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The decorated Wusel treasure box has three compartments for a leaf, pine cone and Puschel’s large acorn

Craft idea

Puschel’s Wusel Treasure Box

A little cardboard box gets compartments for leaves, cones and Puschel’s special acorn.

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Flauschi shines the LED torch from the right; Puschel’s tail stands between light and screen and casts a large tail shadow

Craft idea

Flauschi’s Shadow Theatre

A cardboard box, pale paper and an LED torch become a little stage for woodland stories.

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Puschel and Flauschi watch the little cardboard bridge bend gently under Puschel’s oversized acorn without falling

Craft idea

Puschel’s Wobbly Bridge

Card and craft sticks become a little bridge. Will it hold Puschel’s far-too-large acorn?

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On a wide sunny meadow Puschel holds the string of a small paper kite while Flauschi smiles up at its colourful strip tail

Craft idea

Puschel’s Little Wind Kite

Build a little paper kite together, from its straw frame to its first flight in a meadow. Children will need an adult to help.

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Flauschi proudly wears her elegant forest crown while Puschel bows in three large leaves and they both laugh

Craft idea

Flauschi’s Forest Crown

A strip of card, clean fallen leaves and grasses become a colourful forest crown.

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Puschel and Flauschi delight in their cork water wheel turning between two forked supports in a shallow woodland stream

Craft idea

Puschel’s Little Water Wheel

Cork, wooden craft sticks and two forked branches become a little water wheel that spins cheerfully in a shallow stream.

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Puschel and Flauschi quietly watch a great tit peck seeds from the perch of the securely hung bird feeder

Craft idea

Puschel’s Bird Feeder

A clean drink carton becomes a small, sheltered feeding place for garden birds for a short time.

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Puschel’s finished pine-cone car rolls down a shallow card ramp while Flauschi holds the finish flag

Craft idea

Puschel’s Pine-Cone Car

A large pine cone, four cork wheels and a shallow ramp become Puschel’s smallest racing car.

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The finished colourful Wusel lantern glows with a safe LED light in front of Puschel and Flauschi

Craft idea

Colourful Wusel Lantern

Translucent paper and an LED light turn an empty jar into a safe, colourful Wusel light.

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Puschel and Flauschi proudly show a leaf owl, leaf hedgehog and leaf fox

Craft idea

Funny Leaf Animals

Dry autumn leaves become an owl, a fox and a hedgehog—and every animal can look a little different.

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