Welcome, in this video I'll show you how to make Shadow the Hedgehog from paper as a hand puppet.
Hi there, I'm Ben Stanley and I love working with paper, it's a brilliant material - flexible, strong and easily accessible to create with.
This video shows the whole puppet building process but won’t show everything in exact detail, however there should be enough info in the video for those of you who like a challenge, to give it a go, though you'll probably need to pause the video quite a lot and you might want to slow it down too in the settings!
A4 Shadow the Hedgehog Paper Puppet Template: tinyurl.com/BPPShadowTemplate
Going for it? You might find my paper puppet building top tips video useful: th-cam.com/video/XhPwinerahs/w-d-xo.html
Plus you can always reach out if you get stuck at any point, I'm happy to answer any questions about the build in the comments and I'd truly love to hear how you get on if you give it a go!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:55 Shadow's face & head
02:58 Shadow's quills
04:17 Attaching the quills to the head
05:26 Shadow's mouth
06:59 Shadow's hands and arms
08:43 Shadow's body
10:27 Shadow's boots and legs
13:18 Attaching the legs to the body
13:57 Finals quills and tail
14:32 Attaching the head to the body
14:56 Outro
Template & Material Breakdown:
Please note all template pages intended for black paper are displayed in red so that the design lines stand out more when printed. Ideally all paper would be around 180gsm. the gold mirror paper will likely be thicker.
- Page 1 - Introduction (no need to print)
- Page 2 - Face (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 3 - Top central quill & part of wrist band (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 4 - Lower central quill & part of wrist band (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 5 - Quill section (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 6 - Quill section (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 7 - Quill section (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 8 - Quill section (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 9 - Arms (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 10 - Body section and chin strap section (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 11 - Body sections, arm attachment tabs, boot thruster sections (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 12 - Boot ankle section, mouth, back spine (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 13 - Boot ankle section, puppeteer thumb attachment, back spine, tail (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 14 - Leg (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 15 - Leg (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 16 - Head support section for circle (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 17 - Head support section for circle (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 18 - Head support section chin strap (1 x black paper - 180gsm)
- Page 19 - Mouth and ears (1 x beige paper - 180gsm) - you may want to double up the thickness of this section, especially if you have thinner paper
- Page 20 - Front sole of boot, quill highlights, tongue (1 x red paper - 180gsm)
- Page 21 - Front sole of boot, quill highlight, boot tongues, wrist sections (1 x red paper - 180gsm)
- Page 22 - Boot heels, front quill highlight (1 x red paper - 180gsm)
- Page 23 - Front of boot, chest hair (1 x white paper - 180gsm)
- Page 24 - Front of boot, eyes, hand sections, teeth sections (1 x white paper - 180gsm)
- Page 25 - Hand sections (1 x white paper - 180gsm)
- Page 26 - Soles of the shoe, thruster sections (1 x gold mirror card - 250gsm)
- Page 27 - Page 24 repeated for if you don't have a colour printer (1 x white paper - 180gsm)
Additionally you will need:
- Two paper fasteners
- Black wool and two wool needles
- A small black foam whiteboard eraser from the top of a dry marker pen (or similar) for the nose
- Scissors, craft knife and cutting board
- A ruler (ideally metal)
- A paper scorer (an empty ballpoint pen or scissors can also be used)
- Stick glue (glue spatula, and cocktail stick for spreading glue)
- A letter opener or a long, thin metal object to allow you to put pressure on the glued paper
to help bond it, where you can't get your fingers on both sides of the paper
- Access to a colour printer
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