Tuesday 13 July 2010

Constructing the crocodile puppet body

The basic sleeve for a glove puppet can be made easily by cutting the sleeve of a black jacket. You can pick up tatty old jackets with good silk linings quite cheap. Each jacket makes 2 sleeves!





The head is fitted into the sleeve hole, which needs making smaller




The cloth arms with hands fitted are sewn into holes cut in the sleeve. The silver duct tape here is holding stiffening rings into the cloth arms, to prevent them collapsing, which makes it easier to get the fingers into them


Crocodile puppet body under construction
The body is pre-stuffed, then sewn onto the sleeve to hang down in front of it.

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