Hi everyone I am new to making puppets although I have used puppet for several years working with preschool children.  This year our VBS required 6 people puppets for our program so after checking out prices I decided to try and make my own.  Now I am hooked.  I have made over 15 puppets and have sent 2 puppets to brazil and 2 to Romania to our missionaries.  I am in love and hooked for life.  I am always looking for ideas and supplies so if you have any suggestions I would love to hear about it. I am having a hard time finding patterns and fur any suggestions?  Thanks 

Thats exactly how I started. And I find making your own puppets is more satisfying anyway. Welcome to the site-Steve

Hello and welcome!

Can you give more specifics as to what you're trying to make? I have lists of patterns at my site, but it's hard to point you to one without knowing what kind of puppet you're after. - Someone else will be along with fur supplier suggestions, but you may want to search the forums too because I'm sure it's been mentioned before.

Welcome to Puppets and Stuff as Na said there is a abundance of resources on her website, others, and the forum. Shawn has at the top of the front page members websites................... Here is my resource page
http://sspuppets.com/resources/

I found this on ebay................. check in our section called bazils bazaar as well

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Welcome!  I started making puppets for church too because of the cost.  We have a $0 budget for the puppet team.   But God has always provided and I have more puppets that I know what to do with now! 

I ordered the fur- I'll post when it gets here-Steve

First and foremost WELCOME TO PUPPETS AND STUFF!! And welcome too to the wonderful world of puppetcraft! You've found a whole bunch of like minded folks here at P&S! As Na indicated which kind of puppets you're wanting to make will have some influence over which sites get recommended but I always recommend the great stuff at http://www.projectpuppet.com/ Great patterns and great instructional materials that will serve a builder well.

And now I need to address something Billy posted...

I found this on ebay................. check in our section called bazils bazaar as well

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DUDE! I am so TOTALLY going to scoop up some of this $10 awesomeness!!

thanks for all the advise.  The puppets I have made so far are people puppets with rod arms.  I have 5 children and they want me to make them a dinosaur, snake, bear, dog and just about anything they can think of.  I like to use wigs on my puppets and have been finding them at yard sales and thrift shops but i would like to find a place to purchase them.  I also found a place to purchase eyes on the web but am having a hard time finding eyelashes.  Thanks for the tip on material i appriciate it.  Again thanks for all the advise this is a great site to learn.

Welcome.  This is a great place for fur or eyelashes.  http://www.crscraft.com/products/product.asp?V2=0&V3=0&V4=0&pid=20104&L1=0&L2=0&L3=0&L4=0&searchoffset=36


Julie