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I used a rivet on each side. The ones where you make a hole through each piece, push metal through & screw on the back. It allows you to open and close the mouth & keep the pieces together

@@tatianahernandez3130 thank you.

Glad it was helpful!

I saw your video, great work!

@@BusyBsyMom Thank you I appreciate your input

If you can’t move it up & down, hot glue a strap inside. (Strap should be glued to the roof of the mouth, not the inside top of head) That way your fingers slide inside the strap. I’ve made them out of cardboard before when making puppets. I have to go check Audrey to see what I did in this case but I’m not home right now

The air clay stuck to it. I think I let it dry first then realized it would easily come off so I covered in paper towel mix.

It was a regular balloon and I blew it up to the size I wanted my pod to be (I made this one and a baby pod) This one is 12 1/2” long: from the back (where you insert your hand) along the top to the top lip. I bought the 2mm foam sheets from Hobby Lobby

@@BusyBsyMom how did you do the tongue? And I’m guessing 1mm will also do well, or is 2mm better?

I’m not sure what 1mm looks like but I’m sure it will work fine. For the tongue I made 4 strips and hot glued the edges together to form a somewhat rectangular shape but it got smaller towards the tip. Then I covered the top with a leaf shape piece of foam. I used white and then painted it. Honestly I paused the movie & took a bunch of screenshots and tried my best to copy what I saw.

@@BusyBsyMom what will be better (or at least no yellowing) Clear crystal spray or clear polyurethane spray?

I use clear acrylic high gloss coating spray from craft store

I used newspaper strips on the balloon. Once it was completely dry, then I used blue shop towel strips. They’re kinda like a paper towel roll only thicker and you can find it in the auto section of a Walmart. Not sure if you know this already but always tear your strips, never cut with scissors. The strips won’t blend into each other right otherwise. Then I added the air clay veins & to keep those from falling off I put a final layer of thin napkin. Once it was all painted and done & sprayed it with a clear polyurethane spray. (If you buy a spray like this make sure it says something like “no yellowing” bcz some that are made for furniture have a yellowing tint.) Good luck!!!

@@tatianahernandez3130 how many layers of newspaper did you use though?(like you add one layer of strips, let it dry, do you add more layers on top of the previous or just move to clay? Plus, air dry or model magic clay?) (Thx for responding BTW)

@@tripplertagger8124 Just one layer of newspaper. Let it dry completely. Then one layer of shop towels. Once it's dry completely you can pop balloon inside. I used air dry clay.

@@tatianahernandez1359 thank you

@@tripplertagger8124 No problem. I want to see your puppet when you’re done!

The pod is cut fully in half. Then I took a thick cardboard and bent it in half and shaped it to the inside of the mouth and hot glued it in. On the back there is a half circle shape hole on top pod and half circle shape hole on bottom half (basically a hole in the back to fit your hand through) with your hand inside (well, not your whole hand… your thumb and fingers really) you can open and close your hand making the mouth of the pod open & close (I hope that makes sense)

@@tatianahernandez3130 wow thank you, I didn’t expect a response for a while

Plastic plant pot from Walmart

Problably foam or fabric

It is fabric

Sorry, just saw your message. (probably too late but maybe it will help someone else) At the beginning of video you can see how my hand fits inside the pod from the back. That's how you make the mouth open and close. I glued felt fabric in a tube-like shape to the back of the pod down to the flower pot. I used a real plastic flower pot and I cut a section out of the back so that the elbow rests inside the bottom of the pot and your arm sticks up through the tube of green felt. I hope I explained it well enough.

What do you use for the top of the mouth and bottom of the mouth so it was closed? After cutting the paper mache in half, I have two open shells.

I cut out cardboard and used a lot of hot glue to secure it in place. I used thin eva foam to line the inside parts of the mouth. I painted the white parts of the eva foam.

Thanks!