Puppet making

Are you looking to make your first real puppet? Then this is the perfect project for you! Follow these instructions using simple…

These photos are quite old, and don't really reflect how I build puppets now, but they show the basic process I followed when I started buil...

Fraggle Style Puppet: I've always wanted to make a muppet style puppet and have liked the Fraggles since i was a kid... So why not combine the two!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did creating it. If you like my puppet PLEASE VOTE for him in the PUPPET CONTEST sponsore…

How to Build a Quality Puppet: The Muppets have had a huge impact on our culture. So much so that the Smithsonian has an exhibit detailing how the Muppets have impacted our world. The creations of Jim Henson have certainly impacted my life. Because of the Muppets, I have a lov…

Last weekend, my kids came up with a delightful idea to put on a puppet show. The only catch? We didn't have any puppets. Seeing their excitement, I thought, why not make them ourselves? With a little bit of research and lots of imagination, we set out to create our puppet cast. We gathered old socks, yarn, buttons, and fabric scraps. It turned into a fun crafting afternoon, filled with laughter and creativity. Each puppet began to take on its own character, sparking stories from my kids…

Building a Beastie Called Biscuit: a Puppet Build.: Hello Instuctables! I received such wonderful feedback from all of you with my very first puppet building post! Thank you! So, here is a more detailed look at another puppet build .

Low Budget Mechanised Movable Eyes: Hellooo Instructables! Halloween is fast approaching once again and I would like to share with you a cheap way to add movable eyes to your cosplay, props or puppets. To be fair this can be used at anytime of the year not just Halloween This is a r…

In creating my puppets, I had planned to refer to several books on my shelf; I own a small library of books on the topic of building puppets and also a couple of books on making Waldorf dolls, but none of my books offered much help when it came to creating a glove-puppet with a Waldorf style doll-head. When making a glove-puppet, it is usual to have space inside the head for the fingers of the puppeteer; however, on a traditional Waldorf doll-head, it would be very difficult to create a…

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This post is in partnership with Paramount Pictures. As always, the opinions are entirely my own. Sherlock Gnomes is coming to theaters March 23 and it looks soooo funny. Just the name of the movie makes me smile. It's the sequel to Gnomeo and Juliet (I love clever movie names!) and it looks like such a fun family movie to take the kids to see. We put together a fun and simple craft project inspired by the characters in the upcoming film. These Sherlock Gnomes wooden spoon puppets are so…