How to make a paper puppet, what supplies you need, and the tools to complete the job!
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Tools
Building materials
Tutorials
Tools
What you need to make a paper puppet
Protect your tables from the blade with a cutting mat. It is super helpful to have measurements and straight edges drawn on your mat for precise cutting
Cutting Mat
A useful tool for precision cutting. Very handy especially when cutting tape or paper
Affordable, vivid, and effective alcohol markers that make for great coloring and shading tools on your paper puppet. These have dual sides so one side is a large chisel and the other is a fine point! Pair this with some ink pen over the top and you ...
Ohuhu 48-Color Dual Tip Alcohol Markers - Honolulu
Utilize a hole punch to create slots for your paper rods or brass prong paper fasteners. Basically this hole just allows the arms/ legs or whatever to swing freely back and forth.
These can be used instead of paper coils to shove through the punched holes. These make limbs swing back and forth
Office Depot® Brand Round-Head Fasteners, 1", Brass, Pack Of 100
You're gonna need glue at some point
Super Glue
Great for gluing paper
Elmer's 2pk Washable School Glue Sticks - Disappearing Purple
Great for drawing detail, especially over water color or markers
Faber-Castell® PITT® Artist Black Pen Set, 4 Piece
Precise, easy to control, and very sharp scissors that can help with cutting out paper forms
Fiskars® Premier No.5 Micro-Tip® Scissors
A nice tool for poking holes in paper to thread wire through
ADVANTUS Aluminum Head Push Pins, Silver, 100
Blend able layer able colored pencils you can color or shade your puppet pieces with
Prismacolor® Premier® Soft Core Colored Pencil Set
Building materials
The base materials for the structure of your paper puppet
A solid thick paper that doesn't bend easily that you can color with water color, alcohol markers, or any other mark making tool with ease. It's also rigid enough that it “stands up” for puppet use
Strathmore 400 Series Watercolor Paper Pads
This is the quick and easy way to laminate small puppet pieces. You can also use clear tape on the back of the peices to reinforce it.
20 PCS 9x12 Self-Adhesive Laminating Sheets
Clear tape you can use as a diy/ cheaper way to laminate the pieces or just to reinforce the backs of them
JIALAI HOME Heavy Duty Packing Tape 1.88x55yd
You can use cereal boxes if you'd like. But thin cardboard sometimes comes in handy for paper puppets to reinforce things or to act as the sturdy parts of the base of the puppet
Chipboard Sheet by Recollections®, 12" x 12"
Thin wire you can use as a joiner between the different pieces of the paper puppet if you prefer
BEADNOVA Bare Copper Tarnish Resistant Wire
Tutorials
How to make 2 different types of paper puppets
A super helpful flat paper puppet tutorial that can be applied to a form
Flat "Swinger" Spring Trap Puppet Tutorial
How to make a paper hand puppet that is functional and looks like a dragon
Part 1 Cardboard Hand dragon tutorial
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How to make the base of a paper hand dragon puppet
Dragon Puppet Base Tutorial
How to make the gums and teeth line up on a functional paper dragon puppet without having them bend!
