Totally a College Level Project.

For my Public Speaking class we have to give a demonstration speech and I'm demonstrating how to make felt hand puppets. 


But Elle, why puppets?
It all began sophomore year in high school.... In my chemistry class we were assigned an element and in pairs we were supposed to make a commercial showcasing that element.  My partner, Emma, and I started brainstorming about how we could be creative with this decided to to ours in the form of a puppet show. And we did.


What element was it about?
Boron. Also staring Sir Humphrey Davy. 


This was like 3 years ago why bring it up now?
After doing this project Emma and I kept planning to get together and make puppets again. Later in Sophomore planned out some time and spent the entire day making puppets. I made Einstein, Schrödinger, Marie Antoinette  and Cleopatra. Emma made Westly and Buttercup, and Seth and Summer (from the OC). This is a good sign of who's the nerd and who's the hopeless romantic. 


So, what kind of puppet are you making?
Its a hand puppet so it'll be you'll be able to put your hand in it--not those cop-out Popsicle stick puppets. Since I'm demonstrating something I'm going to make two designs and make the puppet double-sided instead of having a back. 
And,  since it's almost Halloween, one side is Vampire and the other a Werewolf-- seeing that Scientist and Historical figures don't really appeal to "normal" people. That and I want them to look "cool".


So,  I've spent the better part of this weekend working on these puppets. And examples of the various steps along the way. In the near future I'd like to put the steps on here as a guide, since I'm already taking the time to break it down into steps. But this post is about what I've done so far--


1.) Give myself a second degree burn from the glue gun. Trust me, its a wonder that an injury so small can hurt so much. But, it stopped hurting and is healing now. This and the "Concussion Cupcakes" makes me wonder if I'm tough enough to be an artist. 


2.) I've completed the figures for each puppet now I have to put one together and make props for each step of the process.


Vampire:

Werewolf: