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Tools & Supplies: How to Make a Puppet
How to Draw a Pattern for a Hand Puppet
Sewing the Pattern Outline: How to Make a Puppet
Cutting Out the Puppet Pattern: How to Make a Puppet
Stuffing the Arms: How to Make a Puppet
Making the Mouth Board: How to Make a Puppet
Inserting the Mouth Board: How to Make a Puppet
How to Glue On the Mouth Board: How to Make a Puppet
Adding a Tongue: How to Make a Puppet
Stuffing the Head: How to Make a Puppet
Adding Eyes: How to Make a Puppet
Completing the Eyes: How to Make a Puppet
Adding a Nose: How to Make a Puppet
Adding Hair: How to Make a Puppet
Adding Wire to the Arms: How to Make a Puppet
Summary: Learn how to make puppets in this free video clip, including adding eyes to a puppet with a moving mouth.
Paul Louis Muller is a professional filmmaker, actor, artist and puppeteer, for over 25 years. He builds custom puppets for theaters, ministries and film/video production. He is a...read more
"And we can leave it like that for now as we do the other one. Now you are going to hear the Styrofoam crackling a bit making a little crackling sound as you apply the hot glue. I like to put the eye right next to the other eye right in the center. At this point what we are going to do, we are going to take one of these adhesive phelt tabs here and we are going to stick them on the character. So put one there like that and another there like that and what you want to do is have the character look right at you so that you can move around the little phelt tabs here so that you get a sense that he is looking directly at you. See that? Okay. When we come back we are going to put a nose on him and I am going to tell you a few pointers on how to create a customized nose. "
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eddyg said
on 12/24/2008 I used syrofoam balls for Mr. Wolf (my avatar) He's a working mouth puppet with arm rods but only for use by us teachers.
The puppets I make for the kids to use tend to have either safety teddy eyes or ones made of felt.
Little kids are so unkind to styrofoam!
shakurra said
on 8/2/2008 Using a piece of black sheet foam, I gouged out 2 circles with the tip of a permanent marker, which was just the right size to finish off the eyes. Paul, you inspire me!