I am trying to make a snowman puppet for the holiday season and I am having a hard time trying to come up with a body for him. I want to do one big ball for the body and i got the round head all set. Also any ideas for material to use? I was thinking white terry cloth with some clear sparkle paint.

Have you seem Swazzle's Frosty the Snowman tutorial from a few years ago?

http://swazzle.com/blogs/2007/01/puppet-building-tutorial-frosty.html

the easiest thing to do would probably be to use a pattern to make a ball for the body.  I would suggest this one. http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/index.php?action=gallery&g2_itemId=8607

then for the body, White Antron fleece would make a beautiful snowman. it's soft and shiny.

That is a good one Andrew........... I had forgotten about that one. CJ Puppets that was Andrews pattern that he gave me permission to add to my gallery. Thanks again Andrew!

haha yeah I thought that was his, but I wasn't sure...

thanks for the ideas everyone, yeah i have seen the swazzle one before kind of what inspired me, i'm gonna do snow arms instead of sticks though. thank you for the wedge pattern. will definetly use it

I made a snowman and it was based on the wedge methods. I made the inner balls out of fabric and stuffed them then covered those in non pill fleece.

cool! i didn't know that pattern was on here! i ended up getting my wedge pattern from a crafting website- it was originally to make a fabric beach ball, but i knew it would work! that's what i used to make the kid's heads for their halloween costume puppets.

Nice set of heads there! You did great on them.

Love the one with the horn.

thanks. the kids had a lot of fun with their crazy monster heads.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I love the monster photo!