Hi.
I have been all over google and all over here but can't seem to find a tutorial or a video or anything on how to make a puppet...
Like this
http://www.retrosellers.com/images/sooty.jpg

Can you please help me for I want to make puppets that have stuffed heads.
Thank you.

Sooty is your average glove puppet. I'd guess that the head is just a stuffed ball of something, which is then sewn to a tube of fabric (the body) which has had arms attached.

It's pretty complicated, so a video or tutorial might not be the best thing to look for. My guess is you'd be better off finding a book (someone else here may have a good suggestion, but I seem to recall David Currell's "Puppets and Puppet Theatre" has some info on making something like that).

Also, Sooty is a well-known UK puppet, so there may be some info out there on UK-based puppet sites (www.puppeteersuk.com for instance) on how they were made.

Yeah I was looking for tutorials on how to make him as well.
Mostly I wanted a tutorial on how to make a glove puppet with a stuffed head.
Sooty is just the best reference I could find that is similar to the bear puppet I own.

You can find a lot of inexpensive patterns on EBay. You might have to modify the pattern a little bit.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l2736&_nkw=puppet+patterns


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Here are a few tutorials on converting stuffed animals into hand puppets. All you would need a stuffed toy/animal and a little imagination.

http://obsessivelystitching.blogspot.com/2009/09/stuffed-animal-to-puppet-tutorial.html

http://www.activitytv.com/560-convert-a-bear-puppet

http://www.tvlesson.com/video/15907_how-to-make-a-puppet-with-old-stuffed-animals-.html

http://www.ehow.com/video_5238573_make-hand-puppets-stuffed-animals.html

Thanks for posting that Obsessively Stitching tutorial Billy. I'd not seen it before and it's a good'un. Bookmarked for the future!