We started to seek out some materials that could be cheap and easy to obtain to make puppets I looked at some tutorial's online. They showed how to make simple hand puppets with everyday house hold objects. There pretty straight forward and very useful on what materials to us and how to even make eyes. It seemed to be that felt/fleece was a great material for making them and using everyday sponge to construct the head shape or features.
We got some materials and spent a weekend trying to make some puppets sometimes it was a little tricky but we got the hand of the basic shape and way to move the mouth. We got some fleece, sponge, felt, oven mitts, fluffy scarf, plastic spoons and used sewing, pins and a hot glue gun to put it all together. It took us a while to get the hang of how the materials worked especially the sponge as we cut it up and chopped into it to get some shapes.
We made some heads Marks came out a lot better than mine so I will redo mine to suite his puppets style a bit better eventually. But it was a very fruitful test and it let us get to play around with the materials and see there pros and cons. It seemed that fleece works really well for stretching over the sponge and the over mitts work really well for using as a jaw. We will do some film tests with these guys and see how we get on with them.
Here's us having a chat about Jim Henson and how he created puppets and inspiration for creating our own.
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