Create Your Puppet
Recap of a unique Friday evening
On April 26, 2024, at 18:30, Creatosphere hosted an event that unleashed imaginations and opened new realms of creativity. “Create Your Puppet” was an adventure in the world of sock puppet making, and it was definitely one of our fun events to make!
Event Highlights
The evening was filled with creativity, laughter, and a sense of community, as we were led by the talented puppet actress Silvia Teneva. Participants let the child inside them play, unleashed their imagination, and connected with their authenticity. Materials were provided, but everyone brought their own lonely socks and additional creative supplies like yarn, fabric, felt, acrylic paints, threads, and feathers.
How to create a puppet – instructions
- Choosing the Sock: Participants started by picking a sock that served as the base for their puppets.
- Creating the Mouth: They cut out a small piece of cardboard, shaped it into an oval, and fitted it inside the sock. After cutting an oval shape in the sock for the mouth, they glued the cardboard cutout in place using a hot glue gun.
- Adding Felt for the Mouth: Various colors of felt were chosen for the mouth and tongue, which were then glued on top of the cardboard.
- Attaching the Eyes: Participants either picked or cut out sets of googly eyes and glued them wherever they wanted their puppet’s eyes to be positioned.
- Creating the Hair: Yarn was circled around hands, folded into piles, and cut to create hair. This hair was glued onto the puppets, forming pigtails, braids, beards, or mustaches.
- Adding Extra Features: Many added unique elements like horns, eyebrows, or spikes to give their puppets more personality.
During the Synchro Seminar “Broad perspectives” about conflict resolution, Tony and Toni used the puppet-making technique to introduce the participants to nonviolent communication as an approach to communication. To learn about the approach about the Nonviolent communication through puppet theater approach, please watch the video:
The “Create Your Puppet” workshop was a delightful evening for us and definitely one to repeat. Participants left with unique puppets, newfound skills, and wonderful memories. The event not only fostered creativity but also strengthened the sense of community within Creatosphere.
Thank you to everyone who participated and made this evening so special. We look forward to more events where creativity and community come together. Stay tuned for future workshops and activities!
This is my inspiration for this theme and it is something I recently discovered as a mindset. I found new logic for my entire life through caring for another and how much hope that brings to an individual when they have to do things to make another creature’s life better and not their own. Which of course makes everyone in the equation happy.