Video: How to make joints for shadow puppets

This is a tutorial on making joints for shadow puppets. You’ll need a pattern to work with; in which case use either of these two FREE ones - long dog or the redback spider. Follow those instructions until you get to joining the parts together. Then come back here and follow the below video tutorial.

I’ve done a short tutorial video on how to make shadow puppet joints. [And it uses my tiger puppet pattern as an example - please note the pattern itself is offline while I update it]. How to make a shadow puppet screen is discussed here; free patterns are here; how shadow puppets are different to silhouettes is discussed here; materials are discussed here [links to be added].

This post AKA pivots on shadow puppets