Did you make the Costumes ?

Billy D.

Yes, I made the costumes.  The jackets are removable but I didn't make a real shirt to go under them.  It's just a dickie with a bow-tie sewn on.  My mom made the hats out of posterboard.  I may have to remake the hats, but for now these work.

  I like them...

Great puppets....i like the color & each has a different personality.
The eyes are simple and expressive....congrats.

What is a 3-piece method? Looks something like Na's box like
puppet head pattern.

Bhanu

The Three Piece Head method is much like Na's pattern in which two head pieces are glued together and attached to the top of the mouth plate and a third piece being the chin is attached to the bottom of the mouth plate. Making it  simply three pieces of foam to construct the basic shape of a puppet.

Billy D.

They are a perfect quartet!  I would like to see them in action!

Awesome job....they bring a smile to the face....even just sitting there.

Daryl H

What is a 3-piece method? Looks something like Na's box like
puppet head pattern.

I learned this method from The Foam Book.  They call it the 3-piece method because the head uses three pieces of foam. I haven't seen Na's pattern, it may be similar but I made my own pattern.  After viewing The Foam Book guys, I now know how to make any shape puppet head I want!  I'm very excited about this possibility.  However my least favorite thing about this method is how the neck looks from the side and back, and how the head is glued to the mouthplate. I'm working on a few different techniques. I don't like gluing the mouth on and I hate hand sewing and do as little of that as possible, so am working out how to sew the mouth and head together first like I learned from the Project Puppet patterns. But these guys were my first using this technique and I'm really proud of them.  They are going to be used in part of a song we are going to perform at our church in May.  When I showed them to the team they really loved them.  I hope to get video of the song and we may possibly use this song in the One Way Street competition we go to every year. 

Also, I thought I might mention something I did for two of the puppets eyes.  I used Shrinky Dinks http://www.shrinkydinks.com/.  I bought the white shrinky-dinks and cut out the shape I wanted, shrunk them following the directions and then painted on the pupils.  They turned out fairly well.  I don't think I've seen that mentioned before so I thought I would mention it in case someone else would like to try it.  I assume you could also drill through them and add in the post type irises in you wanted.  I haven't tried that yet.  Or you may even be able to cut the hole before you shrink if you can figure out what size the hole would need to be before hand.  It took a little experimenting for me to figure out how big to cut them out to have them shrink to the size I wanted.

Wow these look fantastic, great work and am definitely looking forward to seeing them in action :D
Also love the eyes, they look great and I'm glad you shared your method for making them.

And have fun at One Way Street! It's always a treat to go watch everyone perform and then recieve some feedback to take home. c:

Shrinky Dinks!  I remember that stuff! Great use of a product, I love that you can get an irregular shape like you have on the one guy.  I wonder if you can melt them over a form so that they could be three demensional....     .... I may have to run to the hobby store.

One of my friends once took a full sheet of shrinky-dinks, drew a grid onto it, and baked it whole.  The result was that he always had an accurate guide for post-shrinking size.  What a clever guy!