so, I'm making a 'small mouth' puppet (Zoot, to be exact) I've got the mouth cut out, any suggestions on a mouth plate?
Well I more have a suggestion on what not to use to support the mouth.
Right here was the basic structure I that’s in the head of my puppet. Most online guides were like “~*~USE STYROFOAM~*~” but the Styrofoam I found wasn’t cheap (I’ll probably look into buying it cheaper online if I can since I can probably have a lot more supported puppet if I had used it). There’s some more cardboard I added along the top and back, but overall this is basically everything supporting the head (though I did fold extra felt into the head so maybe that helped too). I should also note that while I looked at guides, I didn’t use any guides to make this, it’s amazing the puppet actually is useable (I’m actually probably gonna have to hot glue it some more in a few places OTL)…
For the mouth, I used a rather rigid cardboard I had lying around, which provides descent support—HOWEVER, it provides no flexibility. So if I wanted to do Kermit-like mouth movement, I couldn’t with it. I had been suggested by a friend to use foam, but then my friend pointed out that it might not be supportive enough for the mouth…although there is a thicker type of foam I’ve seen at Michaels that I might consider using next time…
As for Zoot, the mouth structure doesn’t seem to be as large a part as it would be for Kermit or another large mouthed puppet, so you might be able to get away with using a type of foam, which will provide more flexibility in the mouth…
Anyone is free to chip in on their thoughts as well, I’d be interested to hear especially from more experienced individuals *_*
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