Plush to Puppet

[Colbynfriends]

Has anyone ever bought or found a plush toy and turned it into a puppet? I did that with an Elmo plush i found yesterday.
So has anyone done that?

 

[CoOKiE]

i've thought about it with a kermit plush... its not as easy when you have big hands lol. Maybe for a child or someone with thin hands... but i don't see it happening with any of my SS plush

 

[biblebetty]

there's a utube tutorial on how to make puppets out of plush toys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eK0xWWAAkI
it pretty interesting.

 

[CoOKiE]

(didn't get passed alvin) it seems those ar just if you want to have your hand come from the back of the head. I was reffering to coming up through the body.

... but hey let us all know how it turned out and try to post pics

 

[Colbynfriends]

It worked out great CoOKiE. i had alittle trouble because the hole up to the head was alittle small, but i was able to make it bigger, without sissors even, just a nice hard tug (or two). i did to a "stage" puppet so the hand goes up the bottom. the sad part is, i don't know how to post pics.
but now i know that when i'm at the flea market next, look for cheap plush toys and i can turn them into puppets.

 

[CoOKiE]

join photobucket, or myspace... i'd say photobucket because alot of people may not have myspace... i do tho

 

[scarylarrywolf]

I made a little movie in high school about Winnie the Pooh using puppets made this way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpRCMNYHks

 

[Colbynfriends]

Sorry to bump this thread. But I have videos featuring the Elmo plush puppet, and a new one that I made out of a brown bear plush.

Dumb Dog Sings Shipoopi (featuring Elmo)
Brad the Bear is Sick (with the brown bear puppet)

 

[puppetise]

yes i did when i first started out then i started taking them apart and making alterations to the patterns to make more fitting puppet

 

[Buck-Beaver]

Is there interest in a tutorial explaining how to do this? I know there is the YouTube video that Biblebetty linked to, but it's fairly old and I have to make a puppet from a plush toy for someone for Christmas (not yet sure if I'm going to convert the actual plush, or pattern a new puppet off of it) and thought I could easily take some pictures/videos and document the process if there's some interest.