Materials and tools needed for making muppets by hand;

Thin thread for sewing clothes, straw or macaroni hair root strip, acrylic pigment or gouache pigment, brush, red plush ball, black marker, wooden stick, scissors, hot melt glue gun, blue cardboard and perforated wooden beads.

Methods and steps of making muppets by hand;

1, cut a thin thread as the main line of the puppet, and put 1 small wooden beads and 1 big wooden beads above the main line as the head of the puppet: take 1 root hair and fold it in half, and put it under the head as the arm of the puppet: then take 1 root hair and fold it in half. Put some pieces of macaroni between your legs and arms as your body; Put some macaroni and small wooden beads near your legs and arms. Brush macaroni and wooden pillars blue and dry them.

2. String the wooden beads and macaroni on the side of the arm onto the hairy root strip. The ends of the hairy root strip are folded back and stuffed into the macaroni as palms. Make legs in the same way.

Tie one end of the prepared thin thread first, then string small wooden beads and big wooden beads, then tie them around the folding point of the arm, then string macaroni as the body, and finally tie them at the folding point of the legs and fix them.

3, blue cardboard, cut out a piece of circular chest and abdomen and stick it on the puppet's body, then cut out a semi-circular hat rolled into a conical shape and stick it on the puppet's head to cover the small wooden beads. Decorate with small red plush balls and draw the five senses.

4. Cut three thin threads, one end of which is tied and fixed on a wooden stick, and the other end is fixed on the puppet's hands and head respectively. So you can have a funny marionette. You can make more puppets, each with a different color, and maybe you can form a small puppet dance troupe.