How to make Puppet Hands! - Puppet Building 101
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- A step by step tutorial on how to make hands for your puppet. Free pattern in the link below.
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Foam Type: Dry Fast (2.15 lb)
Firmness: Medium
Length: 24 inches
Width: 48 inches
Height: 1 inch
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Adam your videos helped me so much- The LEAST I can do is donate!
I think I'm going to dedicate myself to this
Now that I'm in quarantine, I think I'm gonna build my first puppet. This video is a great stepping stone!
Awesome! Can’t wait to see it!
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I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the arms and body but thankfully this UA-cam channel exists
Simple, easy to understand, and actually doable for your average Joe this is a great instructional video
Thanks so much!
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Marisa Chaverra wth? 🤔
3:02 HE PUT HIS MIDDLE FINGER UP
gaming with Spicey chip he had to..
Adam your instructions are awesome
Thanks! Happy to help!
Thanks for the info ....need to make a new puppet for a library show I'll be doing soon...
@@boboblazerobinson oooh I wish I can see it
Nooooooo man!!! I really love you. You've saved me!!! I have to built a puppet for next month and I didn't have any idea how to do it. Now I know how! I'll send you a picture of my puppet when i finish it! Thaaaaaaaaaaaanks a lot 🤗🤗🤗
Can’t wait to see it!
That pencil trick for turning is awesome!!!! Thanks for all your work!
Wow, that is some technical work. I'm afraid I'd go insane. It's beautiful though and I can tell you are very skilled at this
+RL Smail this is the quick view. I'm planning on a mother video exclusively for the arm rods.
Thanks for the free patters to get us started - finding patterns (free) online is durn near IMPOSSIBLE ... you rule!
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Your amazing thanks for letting us have a free copy. Most of tutorials you have to by.
Before i watched your vids i had no a idea hoe to build the body but then i started watching your videos . BOOM!!! I knew how to build a puppet bc of you bro keep uploading how to make a puppet thank you
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i came across your site and love it. Just finished my first puppet...wish i knew how to post a picture. I can't believe how easy it was. THANKYOU!!! This will bring hours of joy to the kids.
Happy to help!!! Try Instagram.
I just liked it 🎉really nice thank you !❤
This helped me so much! I'm making this exact type of puppet hands and I'm so glad you could help out! Thank you very much for the information, you were clear and direct!
I love just listening to your voice
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Great video thanks for making 4 videos in a row
+TheGameplay Master you're welcome!
I finished my first puppet thanks to you! Love your vids! Working on the arms of my puppet right now, his name is Alex.
So excited about this! Thank you for these videos!
Happy to help!
It is so much fun to watch you create!!!🤯😃
Did you by any chance kill Calvin by pouncing on him?
@@Nephina13 what?
Could you maybe do this video but with 5 fingered hands? Great video for puppeteers still after 7 years!
I love this video. Thanks, Adam.
You are very talented ❤
I love cutting corners to take the edge off
Hahaha.
+Adam Kreutinger ps thanks for these videos my foam puppet is coming along greatly and my skills as a puppeteer and animator have increased tremendously from this.
Happy to help!
He raised up the middle finger!!!🤣😅
😂😂😂 Sorry about that.
Best puppet maker
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Great vid,Adam! I was thinking about making a hippie rock guitarist puppet! I think that would be so cool!
Cool! You totally should!
Absolutely amazing !
You are really talented. Thank you for amazing lessons
I do my arm stuff differently. I have the whole arm and hand stitched up. Then I cut a whole and put the arm rod in the hole. Then I glue the foam stuff on the arm and hand and then turn it right side out.
I really appreciate your videos Adam, I donated to your website! Thank you for everything!
I am making a puppet today and this helps me a lot
Love it! Thank you. 😉👍❤
this is so easy! thank you :)
THANK YOU ADAM
You make it look so easy. I'm making puppet hands with my giant puppet hands !
This is a great video. Cute puppet.
Thank you!
I am working on 4 puppets at once now, and it's my 1st time making puppets. I have heads attached to all 4 bodies and I'm pretty happy with how they look. I spent a good part of the day today struggling to stuff the foam hand into the fleece hand but managed to get 2 sets of them done. It was incredibly frustrating. I didn't like how they looked at all, the foam wouldn't reach all the way to the fleece finger tips, the hands looked misshapen....it was not good lol.
While taking a break from it I was twirling a foam hand around on it's rod and a little voice in my head said ,"That hand looks a little thick." I got a ruler and measured...sure enough all and I mean ALL of the foam hands I made were 2 inches thick! Good lord I was mad lol.
So now I'm going to remake all 4 sets of foam hands, and remake 2 sets of fleece hands. I could try to trim the foam hands I have so that they are thinner, but I feel like that would be too much to deal with. For me I'd feel better just making new ones and getting a fresh new start.
I use this technique for the hands, I use wire between the foam glue it together and glue the hand edges together to make it look more even than i push the fingers in to form a little pocket, and put the fingers in. Than I push the hand in fill the arm with stuffing and sow the hole in the hand
So cool
This is awesome, thank you so much Adam!!!
Thank you so much for that tutorial. It helps very much! :)
WOW! EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!!
Thanks!!!
This is really great, I needed hands for miss piggy
Is that a snoof
Yes it is!
Your videos are very useful and practical. Thank you so much :)
cool puppet
I love this!!
Brilliant
Awesome! like it very much.
Please, I would like to make the famous mahna mahna puppets from the muppet show.
Cool! Can’t wait to see it!
I covered my eyes with my hand an wound up driving the drill through my leg. Terrible advice!
(Great vid, thanks for the tips!)
I love it!
thank you for these.
+Mark Cagle sure thing!
Great video, helped me out a lot! Thanks!
dude you are so good! keep going.
AMAZiNG! So glad I found your channel, I’m entering a competition next week and I’m definitely going to use some of these epic ideas to make my puppets for the short film, thanks so much! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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I really appreciate what Adam is doing I hope he’s feeling a lot better I am fighting chronic Lyme and I feel horrible but trying to fight depression I try to make puppets and hopefully will be healthy and active form I have a little money and was hoping to find the hand pattern for free to download didn’t have it copied on a machine and I can’t find it please help have a great day /puppet sisters and brothers
3:34 that totally sounded like richard hunt
😂😂😂 Thanks !
I’m building a character with the foam body from the free series and I want to be able to switch from live hand to arm rod so can I use really strong magnets or will it come off when using the rod. Also I love your videos and your so inspiring and if you remember me because I comment on like a lot of videos lol it’s because I can’t help myself but be positive towards you I’m 10 years old and I’m getting my own workshop for puppet making! Wish me luck
Love you work
+Classybeaverlord thanks!
+Classybeaverlord thank you!
+Classybeaverlord thank you!
Hello Adam, i wanted to learn how to make puppets for a while and i did find your videos recently, I just start making my first puppet two days ago, and man I Fell in love with all the process and how the materials talk to you and tell you everything about the puppet while you are putting it together.
I think this is something that I wanna do, and I just wanted to ask you what kind of sewing machine you will recommend me to buy?
Thank you for the awesome tutorials.
I would recommend an industrial straight stitch machine. I use a Juki
Adam Kreutinger thank you, keep the awesome work. :D
So cool, thank you 😁
I like it
I'm going to use this to make arms for my snoof
awesome video (i hate hands).
Favorite moment: 'cover your eyes and keep your fingers away from the bits". *drills into thin rod directly towards hand*
Next time I’ll hold it with my teeth.
Just a tip for those who can’t use contact cement, use rubber cement. It’s cheap, and it burns you less than hot glue
i would put strong magnets in the hands so it can pick things up
Is there a way to use beads for arms? This is really awesome.
Can you do a closeup tutorial of how you closed up the hand with fur and fleece
Hi Adam how are you? Love your videos btw! Anyways, I have an 18 x 18 x 2" square piece of foam how can I make it thinner? Cut it with scissors?
Give it a try!
hey Adam is it possible to put bendy wire inside of the puppet's hand becuase im making a puppet that can bend its fingers becuase it's gonna have a removable ruler that it can hold in 2 hands
i'm geussing you answerd that in the video
i love your video!!!!
Thank you!
You should make a video about how to make a eye mechanism
Is it 1/2 inch foam for the arms too, as well as the hands? This is a great video!
Great! Thank you
@PuppetNerd how do you control both hands and the mouth?
I glue the foam hand to the fabric, (still leaving that little spot open,) then flip it around like you did and I glue the wire to the hand
Yeah. I glue the wire to the foam. But if you glue the foam to the fabric I would think it would be hard to skip the covering over. And what to you gain by flying the fabric to the foam?
Adam Kreutinger I do my hands the way you do your feet. Then put the arm rod in the little spot I leave open, I will make an Instagram video and tag you In it
Wow! All of your videos are awesome! Thanks so much for making them, I'm making puppets for our church ministry, and I hope to start a drama puppet club at our local events building. What I am having a hard time finding is the atron/nylon fleece fabric. Could you give me some hints on where you get yours please? Thanks!
+Scott Brown: Yeah! www.puppetpelts.com tell them I sent you!
Your videos have been so valuable! How long do you normally leave your arm rods?
Jk just found your video on arm rods! Whoops
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1:28 dang. that ring looks really tight on your finger. does it hurt a lot?
Thanks
Really good video! Hard to find clear instructions for hands and wires.
Thanks!
I think the pattern is gone I can only find the live hands
Hey Adam that’s one thing that’s kind of confusing I guess it’s even if the hand is in the puppet loop in the mouth how come on be moving
Could you use pillow stuffing for arms and foam fir hands?
Sure!
Going to make Snoofs with (for) my kids. Any hints on using beads in the arms? Pros, Cons?
You would only consider it really for fur covered arms.
I want to build legs for my body!
Im late but same i wanna do sum legs
What if I want rod arms, but I want a different design
I’ve always been obsessed with puppets, and I would love to make my own
Can I use the exact same method to make arms of fur or is it going to be complicated?
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I made my puppet without a grip. Now I have to do some pretty advanced surgery to fit one!
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@@PuppetNerd Seriously though: Aagh. What glue would you recommend for attaching two sheets of polypropylene (Ice cream tub lids) to one another?
Can l use stuffing instead of foam because I have 2 dogs
Yup! Sure can!
Hi - Great videos! How do you attach the arms to the body? You touch on it at the end briefly (stitch them on), but was just after a little more detail :) Cheers
You are so cool!!
I now have a use for the gift card I got for Christmas,
Time to yeet myself to the nearest hobby lobby!
Hey, Adam! Love your tutorials. They're so comprehensive and easy to follow! What material(s) would you recommend for puppet arms that need to be flexible and bend (like Grover or Elmo)?
Can can use all types of things. Foam, beads, fiber fill, rope. Lots of things could work.
Kinda late but for Elmo or Grover, they usually have a string of beads in the arms for them to be flexible and loose
Can u make the hands into paws
Yup!
I find cutting and sewing around the fingers the most difficult part of to do of all the puppet pieces 🥵
First sew, then cut is easier 😃
Hi Adam😊 what gauge wire is it for the hands that you used? I am so excited to finish this guy.. You are fantastic!!
Happy to help! I linked the exact wire I use in the description. Sorry, I don’t know the gauge off hand.
Question what foam do you use and what foams can i use? 😅😊
Adam I have a question. Do you recommend using hot glue instead of stiching? I was just wondering
How long are the hand rods?
I typically do 16 inches.