Adding a Nose: How to Make a Puppet

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Learn how to make puppets in this free video clip, including adding a nose to a puppet with a moving mouth.

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Posted by shakurra on Friday, 18 April, 2008 at 2:04 PM

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Used a plastic bottle cap glued inside a piece of pink fleece, did Paul's thread trick, glued it on and voila! An awesome nose. Thanks Paul!

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Adding a Nose: How to Make a Puppet
Hello again, this is Paul from www.puppetsnstuff.com. You can reach us on the web at www.puppetsnstuff.com. Okay, now what we want to do is to create a nose for this character so you remember the pompom earlier, pompoms make great noses. They really do. All you have to do is add a little bit of hot glue and stick in on the area that you want the nose to be or you can get a little more creative. You can take one of those Styrofoam balls or cut it in half and then you can go back and take some of your fleece (let me cut out a little square piece of fleece here) and you can stick it over the ball and then stretch it out as much as you can so that you get kind of deal. Then the way to get it to stay is to take some thread and wrap it around, wrap it around the part that you are holding and pull, cut and then tie it. Sorry I am out of the camera shot right now but what I am doing is simply tying this, so that that extra piece is already in place. Then you take your trusty scissors and just trim it because you do not need all of that excess. Then what you do is add your little nose, take your glue gun and you are going to go around the edges again (just like what you did with your eyes earlier) starting from the outer ages working your way into the center and then stick it on your character where you want it to be. Put it right there in the middle and again hold your puppet, press it down for about 3 minutes until it is nice and sturdy and bonded to your character. When we come back we are going to put some hair on it

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Expert: Paul Louis Muller is a professional filmmaker, actor, artist and puppeteer, for over 25 years. Read More