Marionette Puppet's - Step Four

Before we begin to mold the features onto our

puppet's we must place a hook into 

the top of our puppet heads.

This will allow us to string our puppet's 

later. They will then become marionettes.

Jane and I gathered our dry puppet heads.

We took wine corks and cut them into about 1/2 inch pieces.

Then we took a drill with a small drill bit

and drilled a hole into the center of each

wine cork piece.

Jane and I took a paper clip and straitened one end of it.

Then we ran it through the the cork.

We bent the bottom half of the paper clip 

so that it would stay put

 and not pull through the cork.

Now we had to drill a small hole

 into the top of our puppet heads,

and a large hole into the bottom of the head.

In order to get the cork into the top of the head 

we used a long wooden skewer, a piece of string

 and a small piece of tape.

We taped the string onto the bottom of the skewer 

and the top of the paper clip.

Using the pointed end of the skewer we ran it through the bottom

 of the puppet head and pushed through the top of the head.

 Once the paper clip was out of the top of the head we took the string 

off of the skewer leaving it attached to the paper clip.

 We then turned the end of the paper clip 

making it into a circle for future stringing.

Now our puppet heads are ready for 

facial details.

Tomorrow our puppets will begin to 

come alive.