What materials can you use to make a puppet?
What materials can you use to make a puppet?
To make a puppet you will need foam, fleece, glue, eyes and hair. You will also need hot glue or contact cement, needle and thread. The more complex the puppet, the more you will need, but these are the minimum. These are the materials I use in building most of my puppets and the tools I use in my shop.
What is the best material for making puppets?
Suggested Reused Materials:
- Base: a dowel, chop stick, frame piece, natural wood or cardboard tube.
- Arms: Popsicle stick, skewer, chop stick, cardboard strips, straws.
- Head: Styrofoam ball, plastic Christmas ornament, model magic, felt, fabric, ping pong ball, large beads, belt buckles, tassels, paper, paper maché
How do you make hand puppets at home?
3 Method 3 of 3: Making a Finger Puppet
- Draw a template for the puppet’s shape.
- Cut out the template.
- Pin the template to a piece of felt.
- Cut out the hand puppet shape from the felt.
- Accessorize the body of the hand puppet.
- Give the hand puppet a face.
- Sew the front and back pieces of the hand puppet together.
How do you make stick puppets at home?
STEPS
- 1Paint the box. Find a small flat box to make into a mini house.
- 2Cut out various shapes. The box house and the stick puppet characters will be made up of basic shapes.
- 3Draw faces.
- 4Glue the hair.
- 5Glue each body onto a craft stick.
- 6Glue the heads.
- 7Decorate the puppets.
- 8Glue shapes onto the box house.
How are puppets made?
A rod puppet is made out of wood wire and string and is manipulated with wooden or wire rods. Rod puppets can sometimes have a complete working hinged mouth but many do not. A rod puppet can have a fixed facial expression. Arms are usually a requirement as rods are attached to them.
