Hi there folks!
First of all thanks for accepting me!
My name is Nuno I'm 30 and I from Portugal.
I grew up with sesame street (Rua Sesamo over here) and as a kid I learnt alphabet, numbers, how to read and simple math with it. Unfortunately they only made a couple of seasons before they were shut down as they had Portuguese actors and some variations on the characters. Big Bird was called Poupas Amarelo (Yellow Bird) but he was actually orange!! Oscar the grouch was Ferrão (just a name not translatable) and instead of a metal bin he lived in a oak wine cask (now that I think of it, how wicked is that!?).
Aside from the TV show my father used to buy me the story books from sesame street and I've read them over and over (some of them I used to know them by heart!).
Anyway, I was brought to this forum because I was recently a father and all my child memories were brought back. I started to show the episodes to my daughter and she just get dazzled with the songs. Now I've started to show her as well the more recent seasons (in english). She loves specially The Count and all his counting songs!
Anyway, forgive me for dandering, I was brought to this forum because I had the idea of start building faithful repplicas of Sesame St puppets to entertain my daughter. As I work in healthcare at a major hospital I then set my goal to build these puppets to preform some storytelling for children in the pediatrics ward.
I'd love to start by building a Count von Count puppet. I've already bought foam, some antron fleece but I lack your expertise and obbviously the right patterns.
I just don't know very well were to start. But hope I can count with your support!
Cheers!