puppets take two i did a video a couple weeks ago
about puppets where i painted on them it was a massive fail
but i didn't want to give up on poppets quite yet i need to do it some justice so today i'm
trying puppets again but this time i'm making my own poppets diy pockets they're super easy
to make and mostly with materials that i already had at home i've already tried and
tested them so i won't fail on camera so i won't let you down this time unless you're expecting
evil puppets in which case you might be slightly disappointed i just i don't
know i don't have an excuse i just kind of went with the flow and the flow led me here
they're more silly rather than evil which is okay i like silly for each of these puppets i did a
different method i just wanted to give you guys options in case you wanted to try them at home
for the first kind of poppet you'll need some gum or cough drops or whatever as long as they come
in this kind of packaging with the push out bubbly things these things you've seen these
before i know you have you wanna eat all the gum i had one piece left so i'm just gonna eat it now
yum minty fresh and then there's this little plastic on the back
i just peeled that right off all i care about is the bubbles
nothing else matters i love you except for honey bunches of oats which is why i have a giant family
sized box of them i took out the cereal so we could use the box you want cardboard but not super
thick cardboard it needs to be very thin very flimsy and bendable i cut two big giant rectangles
out of the box i needed two sides so that's why i then traced the bubble thing onto the cardboard
just to get a rough idea of how big i want my character to be after tracing the gum bubbles
onto there i started sketching out my first poppet this one's going to be a very very happy cow
and the bubbles are going to be his 8-pack needless to say he's been working out this
cow doesn't skip ab day after i was happy with the way he was looking i cut out two pieces of
cardboard in the shape of the cow i then used an exacto knife to cut out the rectangle where
his abs are going to be displayed i made the rectangle a little smaller than what i had
traced i tried to make the bubbles a cozy fit so the edges could be glued shut between the two
layers of cardboard after that i glued the abs shut between the two pieces using some hot glue
and then i just touched up around the edges of the cow a little bit trying to be as neat as possible
i take pride in my work not that i'm proud of all of it but you know some of it it's a
learning process just don't watch the last poppet video i was having a rough week with that one
i sanded around his edges a little bit just to kind of smooth him out the cardboard's not perfect
but it's what i had lying around and it serves the purpose so i can't complain i'm just painting
my cow now it's a standard run of the milk cow white with black polka dots nothing unusual here
moo i did give him some personality though he's having an amusing
time it kind of looks like his nose and mouth are a little emoji smiley face
that's not what i intended i added a little tongue to it in an attempt to make it look a
little less like an emoji i really don't know if i succeeded in that you can be the judge
anyways so on to my next sparkle butt poppet there are one or two people who are always challenging
me to make something cute i'm slightly confused because my characters are meant to be cute
but like in a creepy way creepy cute
that's what i always try to go for at least they're not meant to be ugly really not meant
to be scary either more just funny and creepy cute and quirky things that make me laugh i guess they
might have meant for me to make something not evil so i hope they're watching this video and admiring
these tame sparkle buddish poppets this one's for you so this one's going to be a cute chubby little
frog having an existential crisis in order to make that i use the cheerio box no other box will do
you need a cheerio box because if you don't eat the cheerios inside you won't be in the
right mindset to make this pop it so i cut out two rectangles again and i drew the outline of my frog
the first step is basically the same but you don't need gum bubbles for this one so it's a little
different i cut out one frog and then i traced it onto the cardboard and then i cut that out too i
just found it's easier to cut this way rather than trying to cut two at once i then started painting
him a dark green i thought it looked too dark on camera so i went with a lighter green instead
i painted both sides of the frog the front and the back in the same green and then i set them aside
we'll come back to that patience padawan i had some foam paper so i'm using that for this poppet
since mine is white it kinda looks like normal paper but it's not it's foam paper do not try
this with normal paper i don't know what'll happen if you do but i can't recommend it don't do it
you also want a little circle it could be anything i have a roll of tape and you also need a little
ball that fits into that little circle i just made a little ball out of epoxy since i have a ton of
it but you can use a little marble or any other kind of sphere and then here's where things got a
little heated i pulled out a hair straightener yes i stole this from my girlfriend it's her back up
straightener that she never really uses she likes to keep a second one on hand in case her first one
ever breaks down for whatever reason i guess she's prepared for anything life throws at her
if you're new here and you don't want me to practice my straightening skills on you
you should consider selling your soul to me by subscribing to my channel and ringing that bell
thing so you don't lose me on the internet i post new videos every friday so you want to take the
hair straightener and melt the foam paper it only takes like a second really don't have to hold it
on there for long just need to get it a bit hot it works better if you turn the hair straightener on
so while the foam paper is warm i just put the tape dispenser on top and the little ball
underneath and press down to make a little snipple i made four bubbles mostly because i
wanted to double each one up i feel like it gives a better pop that way i'm all about that pop the
bubbles are meant to be the existential crisis frog's eyeballs i cut out two holes for where
his eyeballs are going to go and then glued in the bubbles after that i glued his back on and sealed
in the eye bubbles now i can kind of just have fun drawing out the frog fleshing out the rest of him
like i said he's just kind of sitting there just thinking about something having an existential
crisis if you haven't had one you wouldn't know i drew his feet but they kind of looked too much
like fins so scratch that i added some webbing between his feet and now they still look like
fence but it's a frog i promise i drew on his little eyes and then i was ready to poke him out
this poppet is the most intensive of the three my hand got quite the workout i suggest doing some
zumba before this one just to warm up trust me you're gonna need it don't come crying to me when
your hand is sore you can't say i didn't warn you so um i ran out of boxes that i could empty out
i wasn't allowed to use the pop-tart box apparently i've reached my box quota i
didn't even know i had one but that's okay because mama didn't raise no quitter it's fine because you
don't really need a food box i just used poster paper for this last one it works just as well
honestly feel like i should have just used poster paper for all three of them but it's too late now
i was naive back then i'm just cutting this purple poster in half i needed two big pieces which is
a pretty consistent theme throughout this video and then i pulled out some silicone molds they're
actually chocolate molds i got them in the baking section of michael's nerdy crafter's craft kit
comes with some eyeball and gem silicone molds the gems work especially well as poppets i didn't want
to ruin the mold though it's just too precious and i wanted to keep it for when i want to use
it again so instead i picked up these chocolate molds i thought they were cool with the aliens and
the spaceships on them but i found that the circle ones actually pop better so i'm just going to be
using the planets i cut out a very wonky looking circle two of them actually one for the front
and one for the back same as the other two i cut out little circles for each planet with an exacto
knife again i made it a really snug fit so they would really stick in there in order to glue the
silicone to the poster i used silicone adhesive to make sure it sticks i've learned nothing sticks to
silicone so i got this special silicone glue to make sure things stick i just kind of went
around each planet with the glue and popped them into their spots then i used more silicone
glue on the backs of the poppets to glue the back poster on after that i went around the edges with
hot glue to stick the poster papers together at this point it's looking kinda simple kinda plain
as i've learned from my last poppet video nothing you do to silicone will make the paint stick to it
so i didn't want to paint on the silicone there's no point in having the paint just peel off again
instead i decided to just paint on the poster itself to add a little something
something so i'm drawing the booger alien in his donut spaceship and he's back in cookie and
donut space just in a poppet version with some blue planets thrown in why not this is
really all the booger alien does he just flies through donut space there's not a lot to him
he's just a booger in a donut spaceship flying through donut space
overall i'm pretty happy with how these poppets turned out puppets aren't that
expensive but this is just a little diy way to do them with things around the house
sparkle butt puppets why have you forsaken us graveyard loon
click on the top right or bottom left if you want to see something truly evil