Puppet tutorial

(I posted this tutorial in pieces, I decided to organize it and put it in one place for your convenience should you wish to make your own puppet. Is fun. *shrug*. The sock pictured is the winning sock of the Ingrid Michaelsock contest here: http://www.ingridmichaelson.com/ingridmichaelsock . I don't think they've done anything with it yet. People keep asking...) Before you start chopping up socks you'll need some materials: a sock no one is going to miss, a hot glue gun, some light cardboard…

How to Build a Quality Puppet: The Muppets have had a huge impact on our culture. So much so that the Smithsonian has an exhibit detailing how the Muppets have impacted our world. The creations of Jim Henson have certainly impacted my life. Because of the Muppets, I have a lov…

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In creating my puppets, I had planned to refer to several books on my shelf; I own a small library of books on the topic of building puppets and also a couple of books on making Waldorf dolls, but none of my books offered much help when it came to creating a glove-puppet with a Waldorf style doll-head. When making a glove-puppet, it is usual to have space inside the head for the fingers of the puppeteer; however, on a traditional Waldorf doll-head, it would be very difficult to create a…

I think we've established that I am bad at keeping a blog. Whelp.... Here's some more of the sock puppet tutorial. Now, that copy of the mouth pattern in card stock is for the inner mouth. It'll be too big to comfortably fit inside the mouth of the puppet so it'll need some trimming. I just set it inside the puppet and marked the over hang. When you trim it down there should be a little bit of sock past all sides like this: Then, you hot glue fabric onto the card stock like so: I didn't get…

In this video tutorial you will learn how to make a professional hand puppet. This project is very special to me because I got to work with my little sister....