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 it to simplify things. Now, I'm not totally sure how to make such eyes but I believe that you somehow make the eyes out of felt and make hollow "pipes" out of those and once they're done you either sew or glue those to holes on the puppet where those eyes are going to be.
What do you think how I shall make those kinds of eyes? Would appreciate if you guys could show some pictures on how to make them.

Have you tried this video:

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v5370462KAW8tkT9

It has a really good explanation of making blinking eyes

Thanks for the video plug

No worries; it's a good video, helped me learn a lot about blinking eyes.

Dr. Puppet makes a great tutorial for $5.00 to download and it shows you a professional style of blinking including a cable idea.  Keep that in mind.

www.drpuppet.com

Once you enter the site you go to the bottom right hand and you will see a little button that says video.

Hope this helps as well.

Daryl H

I always forget Dr Puppet... I really shouldn't, his stuff is great

The video is great but does leave a few questions to be answered.  But you can't ask for a better first step in learning how to make them.  FOr five bucks you can't go wrong.