Attention all Puppet builders!  The annual "Project Puppet" puppet building contest has started! See www.puppetcontest.com for details.  This year's theme is a jungle…

If any of you people have any websites in mind that might sell puppet makeing kits like the ones on http://www.projectpuppet.com/ or diffrent .please message me back. Thank you

Hey everyone,As some of you know, I'm currently working on some sheep puppets.I want to get a nice round oval shape for the body and planned on patterning it with the "wedge" method.…

Hey guys,So I'm stumped. I'm building a puppet right now that I would like to have his eyebrows move, but I can't seem to build the right contraption to do so. Think ventriloquist brows on…

Hello all!Been awhile since I've posted, I've been very busy lately with school and also have had a chance to jump back into puppetry this summer with a new production and a…

Hi. I'm very new to the forums and probably even newer to puppet building. I am a huge fan of puppets though, and have just purchased a sewing machine and started making my first puppet, Boober…

Ahoy kids!I'm new to the world of puppetry but I've been building props and costumes for over 10 years for myself and several independent films. Now I'm on a quest to make a puppet.I…

Hi Guys,I have a custom order that is for a vent puppet.  I've never made one yet, and I'm just wondering if any of you have a pic of a soft vent figure.  The opening in the back,…

Hi Guys,Well, first of all, I had an awesome time last week at the camp I was doing...and I sold almost $800 worth of puppets!  I was very excited, since it was my first to get my name out…

hello alli was just wondering if there is a easyer way of stuffing arms and hands. i have been making the arms and hands in one and turning them inside out and some times i have trouble with the hands…

I put pics here How I'm going to saw the ears into the tuckthe patternpin the ear to one part in the tuckpin the tuck parts together, the ear is still between it and saw it has to look something…

Hello, gang!I am a puppeteer from Florida who operates marionettes and hand puppets as entertainment and as a hobby.I would like, however, to involve myself in the construction of such puppets, namely…

Ok, I have been away FAR too long.  I just can't seem to find a simple construction for the type of rod puppet that I am building.  I am not doing a hand and rod but completely…

Hey guys! I'm planning on making a puppet that has blinkable sunshades for eyes, similar to Floyd Pepper and Mahna-Mahna.I was intending to do it on my first puppet but decided in the end to skip…

My method of arm roods is permanent.  i make a loop in the end of the rod and sew it through the hand.  check out my videos on you tube,  my user name is kermit3001

Hi fellow puppeteers,it's been a while now since I had some time to visit this wonderful site... too busy with the new play - première in  october. For this play I'm making the men who…

I've been asked to make large (about 1.5metres - they actually want 3metres, but I think that's too big to carry) parade puppets in the style of chinese/indonesian puppets, with the very…

Hi all!I recently read a post in an archive that suggested a website called "foamforyou.com"that carried an outdoor reticulated foam.  I placed an order and they were extremely helpful…

I am working on a couple "hair"-brained schemes for making puppet toupees, wigs, hair-pieces, etc., etc., etc. I am unreasonably ignorant about the nature of feather boas. If I cut one into…

hello im trying to find a free patern that has the same type of shape as elmo iv seen one but cant find it nowcan some one please help thanks -lace-