I made these puppets a few months ago for my daughters. It was a try out of the pattern blatch
http://www.puppetvision.info/2005/08/purple-necked-black-bearded-blatch.html
I made the neck shorter but it is a great pattern



The pink one is klaproosje with Deborah my daughter of 9, The name is the dutch name for a flower and the first part is clapping in Dutch. "BEcause her mouth does that mummy"she said. The last part is Dutch for rose. Klaproosje is made out of a towel... It had to be pink the only pink fabric I had
Here a link of this flower
http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tuinadvies.be/foto/klapro1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tuinadvies.be/klaproos_-_papaver_rhoas.htm&usg=__fvKy6XrvfIZiKI05K_QchOEejc4=&h=333&w=500&sz=51&hl=nl&start=11&um=1&tbnid=qYcrE4dTGmEepM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dklaproos%26hl%3Dnl%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
The blue one is Pim and Anouk of almost 8. She realy likes to play with puppets.................. Fabric of Pim is fleece

He Gompie,

Leuke handpoppen! Kan je mij het patroon mailen? Dat gedeelte van de website is namelijk niet bereikbaar  :'(.
Mijn drie dochters zullen dit ook wel waarderen!

Groetjes,
DUTCH PUPPET

In English:
Hi Gompie,

Nice puppets! Can you send me that pattern by email, the website is unavailable so I can't get that pattern now. My three daughters would really like that as well!

Greetings from Holland,
DUTCH PUPPET

PS a "Klaproos" is called in english a Poppy

Nice puppet.............. You can download the PDF file from Andrews site.

Here is the link to the pattern
http://www.puppetbuilding.com/free-puppet-patterns/1960s-muppet-puppet-pattern.html

If that does not work try this link from puppet buzz

http://www.puppetbuzz.com/files/Muppets-Blatch.pdf

Billy D.

Nice!

Very cute and colorful!!  I bet your daughters are thrilled with their new friends!!

Hi Gompie,

Nice puppets! Can you send me that pattern by email, the website is unavailable so I can't get that pattern now. My three daughters would really like that as well!

Greetings from Holland,
DUTCH PUPPET

PS a "Klaproos" is called in english a Poppy[/color]

Poppy is a nice name too, pop  is doll or puppet in Dutch.

I'll mail  you the patterns ...

Very nice puppets you have made.....they look like very happy girls playing with them. 

Daryl H