Perhaps you can design a medal for the sergeant. Use the exclamation point as the ribbon, and a very large period dangling below the exclamation point.

Excellent idea, thanks Chris, I am going to use that one.
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Here's what I thought of.

First of all,  Love the idea!  I in an elementary school and I think this is great way for kids to learn!

I say go with ex-clam-itory.  I believe that there is a pattern at one way street for a clam. For the mouth have the pearl and the inside top shell (like the roof of the mouth)  could have a white strip.  So he opens his mouth and there's the exclamation point!

Declarative:  Why not D-eclair-ative?  Not sure how to make this but it goes with a lot of the food puppets I'm about to suggest.

Inter-frog-ative is great! I like the frog asking lots of questions. For some reason I pictured him/her with a french accent.  just an idea....


Lastly I thought maybe Im-pear-ative?  A pear might be fairly easy to make.  I see him of her being fairly big and bossy...of course!

Hope this helps you!  Happy puppeting!

I love the way your puppet brain thinks, the clam idea is similar to mine but I was going to use hard upper part of exclamation point with a folding hinge, I think your soft idea is better, I am going to use your idea, thanks.  The eclair and pear are cute but the characters are already set in the curriculum so I have to use the drill seargent, and some kind of girl with yellow hair named Clair.  I was hoping to have pictures of finished puppets by now, got side tracked, sick kid losing tonsils. Thank you all for your help.

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Lol, me too, Miguel!
But intriguing non the less, looking forward to seeing the end products.

Sorry for the delay, had sick son who had two surgeries and lost 6 members of puppet team for the summer, so have been too busy to sew.  Son well now and I want to get this set of english teaching puppets completed before teacher's July Birthday.

Finally the Frog reporter is done. It only took me 2 years, but I am very pleased. I made the fedora hat from wet felt pushed over a mold of newspaper and masking tape with white glue to make it stiff. I saved the vest pattern to fit the ProjectPuppet Alternate Body pattern. I hope the pictures can be seen. He starts kindergarten tomorrow.

You can find all sorts of hats at Build a Bear, or from doll suppliers. I found safari hats online for a puppet project.

Nice work. Love the hands and feet!

taking notes here....good ideas.