I am trying to make a snowman puppet for the holiday season and I am having a hard time trying to come up with a body for him. I want to do one big ball for the body and i got the round head all set. Also any ideas for material to use? I was thinking white terry cloth with some clear sparkle paint.

Have you seem Swazzle's Frosty the Snowman tutorial from a few years ago?

http://swazzle.com/blogs/2007/01/puppet-building-tutorial-frosty.html

the easiest thing to do would probably be to use a pattern to make a ball for the body.  I would suggest this one. http://puppetsandstuff.com/community/index.php?action=gallery&g2_itemId=8607

then for the body, White Antron fleece would make a beautiful snowman. it's soft and shiny.

That is a good one Andrew........... I had forgotten about that one. CJ Puppets that was Andrews pattern that he gave me permission to add to my gallery. Thanks again Andrew!

haha yeah I thought that was his, but I wasn't sure...

thanks for the ideas everyone, yeah i have seen the swazzle one before kind of what inspired me, i'm gonna do snow arms instead of sticks though. thank you for the wedge pattern. will definetly use it

I made a snowman and it was based on the wedge methods. I made the inner balls out of fabric and stuffed them then covered those in non pill fleece.

cool! i didn't know that pattern was on here! i ended up getting my wedge pattern from a crafting website- it was originally to make a fabric beach ball, but i knew it would work! that's what i used to make the kid's heads for their halloween costume puppets.

Nice set of heads there! You did great on them.

Love the one with the horn.