How to Make a Foam Puppet: Prepping for Mechanisms - FREE CHAPTER

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How to Make a Foam Puppet - Prepping for Mechanisms
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In this excerpt from Part 1 of "How to Make a Foam Puppet," master puppet maker & puppeteer BJ Guyer (Muppet's Wizard of Oz, Glee, Crank Yankers) demonstrates how to use a Personna razor blade to hollow out foam puppets to create room for a simple mouth mechanism.
#MiniLesson Highlights
-- Coring a foam puppet
-- Using a Personna razor blade
-- Smoothing foam with a rotary tool & sanding disc
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[@allisonranceypants8345]

KURT AND BLAINE PUPPETS FROM GLEE IM CRYING

[@porkchop1184]

I wanna muffin now, BLUEBERRY!!!!!!!

[@lasarith2]

Do you know the Muffin man...

[@puppetschtick9694]

Where can I find that big sanding disk for a rotary tool!? That's fantastic & I've never seen them that big.

[@porkchop1184]

Where do you get thick foam like that, all I can find is 1/2" foam

[@Shrimpy08]

Walmart Michael arts and crafts

[@craftedashes]

Great chapter. I will be getting this series as soon as it is out on DVDs. Thank you.

[@sgaloia]

How did you get the foam shaped for your starting point of the muffin?

[@StanWinstonSchool]

Hello there,
Feel free to join our forum where you can meet our students and other artists, and you can ask anything from them. Join here, it's free: forums.stanwinstonschool.com. - Balázs

[@animeaddict9877]

Thanks for the help.

[@drwolfgangchannel]

And that is how to make Carl from FNaF! (:

[@justusmarks7919]

thats cool.

[@bawulf1]

Is this upholstery foam or a specific type.?

[@Astrobiologica]

did you find out the type of foam ?

[@StanWinstonSchool]

​@@Astrobiologica Here you can find the foam list:
(1) Block of Soft Polyfoam or Cushion Foam at 6" thick and measuring at least 12" x 18" dimensionally
(1) Sheet of Black Craft Foam
(1) Sheet of White Craft Foam (get the thicker 1/4" if you can find it)
Assortment of Different Colored Sheets of Craft Foam
(2) 4" "POOF" soft foam balls. - color of choice
(2) 7" POOF" soft foam balls. - color of choice - Balázs