I have been contacted by a Christian children's book to build them a puppet based on a character in their books.  If all goes well, they want at least 5, possibly more!  It's my…

When finishing doing my latest dragon, I was asked to share how to make him breathe smoke.  Pretty simple, but here it is.Take some tubing and a "T" connector available at Menards (I…

Starting a new puppet project........and well, I am at a loss on how to make the nose. I am trying the tuck method but it does not produce the effect I am looking for. I would like a feminine nose but…

I'm casting about for a way to construct a "skull" for a large egg shaped head and thinking that 1/4" foam would be too flimsy and 1/2" foam too heavy. Any thoughts?

I made the fox hand-puppets for the Eurofurence 18 Pawpet-show (an over 2 hours long show). My rat-puppet got a role in the show too. The mouth is played with the puppeteer's hand. Eyelids and…

I had the pleasure of sitting down with puppeteer, hypnotist, magician, character artist, female impersonator animal trainer, theme park consultant, etc, Steve Daly last night.  While telling us…

Hello all my PnS friends,As you can see by my subject... I'm going to build a version of Godzilla for my annual Halloween puppet project. Yeah! So I thought this year I would document…

I got this great marionette from Dave Allen through ebay. I was impressed at the price of only 69usd and wanted to share what a great find it was. Here is a little vid I made. I have re-strung him to…

I'm experimenting with making a little dog marionette type puppet.  I guess he's technically a marionette since he's on strings but it's VERY simple.  He'll have a…

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't been posting much lately. I fractured my foot a couple of weeks ago, so I've been slightly off kilter for a little while. Anyway, here's what I was working…

Hey, I just recently finished a puppet using the Melonhead pattern on project puppet. i present to you Dobby the House-Elf!

I am not sure if it has been done or not. But what if there was a puppet band? Primarily the singers would be different puppet characters but with a human guitarist and keyboardist in the band. I know…

I've started my new puppet with the Roly pattern modified.. It will be for my daughter as a present for her 4th birthday, in her pirate party.

Hey, i've been making puppets for about a month now and absoultely love it.. have three of the four simple series patterns from project puppet. love the site. i will post a pic of the puppets…

My wife works for Galileo Games, which publishes a space-opera RPG called Bulldogs! They're doing a LARP in July, and asked me to make a puppet of one of the aliens in the game. I chose to make…

Here I introduce you my new project, a puppet of Hellboy. It is made with the Project Puppet pinhead pattern, which is my favorite of the ones I've used. It is completely made out of foam, and…

Hey guys, this time I come to you to ask you for advice. Next December I will celebrate the fourth birthday of my daughter Elsa and I'm starting to prepare a pirate-themed party, for what that…

So, my wife, who has shown no interest in the puppetry other than liking it being safer than my other hobbies (I broke a finger last night...) and I were in the car the other day.  We were…

Hello Everyone,I haven't posted here recently because I've been working on this puppet.  He's about 95% finished, I still have some minor details to complete. This is Dmitri the…

Started to make a new character; Little Steve.He is going to be a guitarplaying marionette with moving eyes, mouth, and righthand fingers. The whole idea should be getting it's form by using as…