3D Art - Puppets

This unit involves designing an making a marionette puppet from Air-dried clay and other materials. This is a project that requires quite considerable effort and a lot of planning. Students must be prepared to find a lot of materials themselves particularly for costumes for their puppets.

Project

• Create 4 fully coloured design ideas in your visual diary for your puppet. The designs are to be 1/2 page sized and fully coloured using coloured pencils. You should think in terms of particular characters that use different costumes (like a policeman, a footy supporter, a demon, etc)

• Make the clay parts of the puppet. (The Head, hands, feet, body section). Make sure you have holes in the right place while the clay is still soft.

• Glue eyes and the loops on the top of the head. Also join the body to the head.

• Use ropes to make the arms and legs.

• Make the costume from the materials you have collected from home. Gluing the material usually works well.

• Make the cross bar from dowel using a square file and sandpaper.

• String up your completed puppet.