Puppet Resources

These are my top puppet making resources.

PuppetNerd

This website has multiple free puppet patterns and there is a wealth of knowledge contained in the blog posts and YouTube videos

68 Ways to Make Really Big Puppets

https://puppetco-op.org/68waystall.pdf

This text offers ideas on how giant puppets can be made but not specifics like plans or patterns.

PuppetDude

Puppet dude has a lot of really great information about more advanced techniques and you will see lots of links to his work on this page

Project Puppet

https://projectpuppet.com/

Project Puppet has some really nice looking patterns that I havent been able to afford but I am hoping to save up for their pinhead and melon head patterns for some more variety

Puppet Content Creators I Like

Sophie Truax

Sophie does music but has a large collection of puppets that she makes music about along with making videos of her making the puppets.

We love seeing women in male dominated fields.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH1r5cmb1yzMl-Ry36EdkljUFmS_ep4-x

https://www.sophietruax.com/

Adam Kreutinger/PuppetNerd

GoFundMe

Adam created the free puppet patterns that I have been using and the majority of the tutorials I followed to get started. I have Included his go fund me because he has stage 4 brain cancer and he and his Family need support.

You can also purchase his book on Amazon

Puppetry 101: Creating Film and Television Style Puppetry

Clothes for your puppet

https://freesewing.org/

Once you have your puppets measurements you can generate a pattern for any of the articles of clothes on this website

You can also scale regular patterns for them.

If you are Australian most Kmart's really do not mind if you take your puppet to the children's section and try on a couple of things as long as you're respectful.

Hair for your puppet

Hair is the hardest part of puppet making for me because I don't really like yarn hair or fur. So far I have been working through my collection of wigs that i had been collecting since 2015 that I no longer use that I can turn into puppet hair. I am almost out and have no idea what to use from here. ( I do know, I just hate the texture)