Last summer I was asked to help with The Summer-Bibelclub. I wanted to bring some humor in the program and made inspired by The Muppetshow some hand-puppets: Wolfie and Schapie.
I had lots of foam-plastic left over from an old fitting-doll project so I could start right away; I had only a few weeks to write the dialogue and make 2 hand-puppets. Writing the dialogue was fun as was making extra accessories like a tiny rug sack and I-Phone and a dead canary etc.
After 2 weeks my puppets and extras were finished and the children were very interested :)
Here are some photo's from the work progress; since this are my first hand-puppets ever I had to find out how to create the snouts; I cut them out from thicker pieces of foam plastic.
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| Pattern basis-head and patterns of arms |
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| Snout and ears and eyes added to basic head |
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| Eyes made from plastic eggs and felt. |
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| Making the cloth mould for the cover of the head, I have removed the temporarily pinned on ears | . | | I use stretch cloth. |
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| You only have to make a half mould; mirror it on pattern-paper and you have a head-cover-pattern :) |
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| Sideview |
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| Backview |
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| Topview |
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| Mould on carton |
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| Schapie head first covered in cloth then with fake sheep-fur | | | | |
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