Sharing techniques is what a forum is all about, these are pictures for somethings I've discovered.
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Eye1 Start with a standard foam craft ball. You are going to make 2 cuts in it (the bottom line that is visible on this ball is the mold seam, top two are cuts) |
Eye2 1st cut takes of a little bit to give the ball a small flatspot, so that it doesn't bulge away from the surface of your puppet later. |
Eye3 Next, make another cut a bit further down and cut a hole in the second piece. This is neater and easier than "scooping" out polystyrene, which makes a mess and the depth is always a bit random. |
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Eye4 In this picture you can see I've hot glued the ring back on in its original place, leaving a neat recess in the ball, next sit your ball on the square of fabric you are going to cover it with... |
Eye5 Pull the fabric around, gathering it, as much as possible, over the hole in the ball. |
Eye6 Tie off the extra fabric with cotton (wound round and round and round, Tight!!!)tie off (if you can't tie knots, tie lots!) |
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Eye7 Cut off the excess fabric with some good scissors. Till now not so different, but here's where the hole comes in. In the past I've had the cotton come off after trimming the stretched fabric and you have to start again. Hot gluing the cotton and fabric pr |
Eye8 As an accidental development to this method one of the eyes I was making decided to drop the cotton before I could glue it anyway, so I filled the recess in the ball with hot glue and used my trusty screwdriver handle (so as not to burn myself) to push th |
Eye9 One of the eyes I was making decided to drop the cotton before I could glue it anyway, so I filled the recess in the ball with hot glue and used my trusty screwdriver handle (so as not to burn myself) to push the ends of the fabric into the hole. I didn't |
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MouthTutorial For the thread "placing a mouth for a permanent smile" |
Nose1 As with the eyes the same system works with the nose... |
Nose2 As with the eyes the same system works with the nose... |
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Nose3 As with the eyes the same system works with the nose... |
Nose4 As with the eyes the same system works with the nose... |
Nose5 This is before it is glued in. I did use a running stitch on this also. To see how it looks check out Elmo in my other Gallery. |
