We've been making rod puppets for years... Simple ones like these... And shadow puppets, too... But lately we've been more ambitious (this lovely lady was made at our kitchen table by a darling neighbor...) We've been adding moving parts (heads & tails and arms) and 3-D wings, too... Yesterday we made the Tomten and the Fox (based on characters from the book by Astrid Lindgren.) Below are instructions if you want to make one (or two or three) moving-part-puppets in your home. FOR EACH PUPPET…

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Portfolio - Worlds of Puppets by Bernd Ogrodnik

How to make a rod puppet. I didn't do this puppet but I thought it was such a good tutorial that I had to repost it. This is fr...

An authoritative book on puppets and automata

My artistic collaborator on Project X has requested I describe the types of puppetry available to us, and so this post is intended as a whistle-stop guide. If much of what’s on view below is …

Dark Star Books presentsThe Jim Rose Puppetry Book CollectionWe are proud to be able to offer up for sale many book from the collection of Jim Rose and his parents, Rufus and Margo (Skewis) Rose. Lege...from

In the process of being made. Still rough.