Detective puppet: a collaborative project

One of my nephews in very enthusiastic about puppetry. He's been a part of our library puppet group the last two years and intends to participate again this year, taking a little bit more of a leadership role. He doesn't just think about puppets at the library, though. He plans puppets at home as well. In fact, last fall he and I roughed out plans for a puppet show that we have been working on here and there ever since. This weekend he was over at my house and we created the first puppet for the show.

Introducing: Burt the cow, private eye.

 

 

Burt's head is made out of the toe of a sock, heavily stuffed and carefully shaped, then painted with acrylic paint. His body is cardboard. His trench coat is made from a canvas end left over from a tote bag project. We made his hat out of craft foam.

We're pretty pleased with how Burt turned out and look forward to making more characters.