How do you make a puppet? There’s no right answer to this question. Puppetry is much more complex to learn than one first realises. Puppets can be anything. So figuring out how to make a puppet is incredibly challenging to those who are new to it. Puppets can be amazingly simple to head-scratchingly complicated. There are a million different ways to build every type of puppet, based on what you choose for mechanisms, characters, materials, style, budget, and methodology. Puppeteers often reinvent the wheel, coming up with different answers to the same questions. 

There’s no right or wrong way to make and use puppets: but there may be a better way according to your needs. This website endeavours to answer some of the most basic questions about puppetry - as well as being a growing base for tutorials, articles, videos, news and patterns for creating and using puppets. Lost? Begin learning here!