Once you’ve figured out how to place the eyes on your puppet, now it’s time to place the pupils. This will determine where the puppet is looking.
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How to Place Eyes on a Puppet
I originally published Where to Put Eyes on a Puppet on June 5, 2017. I revised the original article on February 3, 2021. The next few blog articles will be a series on eyes that expands a bit on the original article.
How to Use Safety Eyes
We love the look of big, cartoonish eyes for the animal puppet patterns that we create. But not everyone wants that look. Sometimes a finished puppet calls for a more realistic looking eye. In that case, safety eyes would be the best option.
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Puppet of the Month: Bird
50% off the bird puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 5-31-21.
Costume Creation Process for the Person Puppet
After developing the Person Hand Puppet Sewing Pattern, we began to create costumes for the blank person puppet. We decided to call our clothing line “costumes” because the patterns include more than just clothing. We include patterns for different types of noses, hair, hats, beards and mustaches depending on the “character” of the puppet.
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How to Reduce the Puppet Size
All of our puppet patterns were initially made for adult performers. This finished size often ends up being too big for children. However, you can reduce the pattern to fit a smaller hand.
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Creation Process of the Person Puppet
Even though we’ve been designing animal hand puppet patterns since 2014, it wasn’t until 2019 that we designed a human type puppet pattern. Up until then, we focused on animal hand puppet sewing patterns. In all honesty, it took me that long to figure out how to create a human puppet pattern. Making most animal patterns is easy, because animals have muzzles. The hand operating the puppet fits perfectly in the muzzle. Humans really don’t have muzzles to put a hand in. Our mouths are inside our heads, not an extension like animals or birds.
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Puppet of the Month: Person
50% off the person puppet pattern. Website only sale ends 4-30-21.
Wolves in Books
In our previous blog article we listed a few links to craft projects featuring wolves that we found around the web. We also had a free download of a wolf paper bag puppet pattern.
Free Wolf Felt Hand Puppet Pattern
Make your very own felt wolf hand puppet using our free pattern. Very simple to make – just cut felt and glue together. You could hand sew it too, if you wanted.
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