Pro puppet - for a parent and toddler group Adventure Ben

Adventure Ben Pro puppet - was a challenge!!!!

The customer needed a puppet for their new business - parent and toddler group.
They had an image of Adventure Ben and the brief was very clear - we would like a puppet that is a very close resemblance.
Well it is a difficult task to work from someone else's designs .Then to be even more complicated they already had one Ben made by other puppet maker that they did not liked... so no pressure at all !!!!!

For the puppet style : I suggested non mouth operated puppet and I was very happy that the customer agreed.
So the puppet actually could be controled as a hand puppet

So to make shoes and hoodie as on the picture of the character was my second task in terms of creating such a resemblance

I was so happy that the customer liked the finished puppet Ben , they just had some opinion on his wild hair but this was easily resolved with some styling
like on the picture bellow .
I thought that a wild hair style will support the main concept of an adventures boy but with his hair combed he looks cute

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Unique ,Unusual and Quirky Puppets

Following some recent custom orders I tried to develop new designs for more unusual and quirky puppets that could be a special and more personal gift or to be used by Children's entertainers or storytellers as Pro puppets
This is the first puppet of this range :
my Hedgehog he have a very Furry top and soft tummy. It is a big mouth operated puppet that covers an adult arm to the elbow

Cool as a cucumber - custom made pro puppet

This is Custom made mouth operated sleeve puppet - nick named by my little son Mr CUMBA short of Cucumber the customer loved this name and it seems that he will to keep it http://www.puppetsinabag.co.uk/?custom-made-puppets,97

this is the working process

and the ready Mr Cumba

I must admit that was a bit of a challenge to make a cucumber to look COOL

Please Visit http://www.puppetsinabag.co.uk/?custom-made-puppets,97 , to take a look at my other Custom made creations

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Blue monster -pro puppet

For this puppet the gorgeous Turquoise blue material was a proper inspiration

the costumer request were :Friendly Monster -sleeve, mouth operated PRO- PUPPET
this is the working progress:

was great fun making the blue Monster just a bit too much fluff ,every single cut in the material was followed by few vacuum cleaning actions