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>> Olaf: Yeah, can I get a snow cone?
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>> Benjamin Martin: Welcome to another episode of Homemade How-to, where we show
you how to make costumes and props out of just stuff from around the house.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're getting ready for our homemade Frozen trailer.
And today we're gonna show you how to make a homemade Olaf puppet.
>> Benjamin Martin: So we're gonna start off with the body of Olaf.
And we're gonna use foam.
>> Bianca Lemaire: And for the body we were thinking of using cardboard, but.
We just got a rug, so there was this awesome tube here.
And we figured this would be really great for
the base that the hand will go throughout the whole puppet.
>> Benjamin Martin: So if you look at the design of Olaf,
his head is actually the same size as the rest of his body.
Like let's say we want to make it to fit on your arm,
your hand is gonna be his head, so you want to exclude that.
That's going to be your halfway point.
Right here will be like about how big you want to make it.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're making ours a little larger actually,
significantly larger for our homemade trailer.
The scale of it about the size of torso.
[SOUND] All right we've got our two body pieces.
So now it's time to put the foam on.
So take our tube.
We're going to roll a bit right over it.
We're going to do two layers of that so he's nice and fat.
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>> Benjamin Martin: So once you get the bottom half all rolled up with the foam
you're gonna wanna do the exact same thing to the top half.
We're gonna wrap these with fabric.
>> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH] We found some incredible fleece.
>> Benjamin Martin: Let's do the bottom half first.
Leave a little bit of fabric at the top and the bottom of this tube.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: You don't need a needle or thread for any part of this puppet.
And that glue tends to get really hot, so just watch your fingers.
>> Benjamin Martin: Okay, so now we're going to tuck all of this fabric
into the inside of the tube to create the shape
of the bottom part of Olaf's body Just burned herself with hot glue.
>> Bianca Lemaire: After I told everyone to watch their hands.
>> Benjamin Martin: [LAUGH] >> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH]
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>> Benjamin Martin: We're gonna use tape just to make it a little bit more secure.
We're gonna do the exact same thing with the smaller, top half.
We're gonna wrap that in the same fabric with the exact same technique.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Olaf's body comes apart in different pieces
>> Benjamin Martin: Head comes off
>> Bianca Lemaire: The head comes off
and all that.
And so we're gonna put a bit of velcro on the inside so
that it sticks together and it becomes one body when we need it to be one body.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Yeah magic.
>> Bianca Lemaire: I like that sound.
>> Benjamin Martin: It's a good sound.
It's very satisfying.
>> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH]
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>> Benjamin Martin: Hey it's Olaf.
>> Bianca Lemaire: Wait a minute, he's missing his head.
>> Benjamin Martin: He's missing his head.
Let's do his head.
>> Bianca Lemaire: To build the head we are going to use Tupperware.
>> Benjamin Martin: The first we have to do is cut the bottoms of all of these off.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Cover this with some graft tape.
Just so we don't cut ourselves.
Our next step is gonna be attaching the middle and the bottom piece to each other.
So now we have the pieces glued together.
And we're going to cut a hole for the mouth for the puppet mechanism.
Okay?
Opening there.
We're going to create the top part of the head.
So we need a piece of cardboard for that.
>> Bianca Lemaire: Sorry.
I forget.
This piece wasn't good enough [LAUGH].
Each piece of cardboard is handpicked from the finest boxes.
>> Benjamin Martin: [LAUGH] He has kind of an overbite, like a Simpsons overbite.
So I'm including his cheekbones cuz he does have cheekbones that stick out.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're gonna attach this large mouth piece onto
the top of that head.
>> Benjamin Martin: Cool, we're gonna need to cut a hole for
something later which is gonna be the eyes.
So the next step is we have the Tupperware top that we're gonna use for his head.
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>> Benjamin Martin: It's like I said, he has kind of an underbite.
I wanna make this a little bit smaller.
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>> Benjamin Martin: All right, so now we've got the bottom jaw,
which is gonna go in there somewhere.
We're going to make a little strap for our thumb.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're gonna use a bit of elastic.
>> Benjamin Martin: Mm-hm, and.
>> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH] We're gonna put a little strap on the inside of this.
>> Benjamin Martin: Yeah, you're gonna put a little strap on there.
>> Bianca Lemaire: The front of Olaf's head is a little bit flat in the front, so
we're gonna make a panel that the eyes will go on for that.
>> Benjamin Martin: He's ready for eyes, and
I'm gonna show you guys how to make some really awesome,
really simple blinking eye mechanisms.
Let's go to the overhead.
We're gonna need a wire coat hanger, a piece of cardboard, some of our fabric,
a scrap of that.
And of course we're gonna need some eyeballs.
Googly eyeballs.
I love these things.
And these are the same ones that I used on Brian for our home made Family Guys,
check that out.
And we need to make a base for the eyes.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Then you're gonna take a coat hanger.
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>> Benjamin Martin: And we're just gonna straighten
this out with our needle nose pliers.
Okay, kind of find the middle, it doesn't have to be exact.
You're gonna just bend the wire in half.
So we're just gonna bend it that way.
And then do the same for the other side, kinda create a t.
This is where we're gonna make use of the corrugation in the cardboard.
Feed the wire through.
Shh.
All the way to there.
Okay, I'm gonna create wire eyelids that go over this.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Bend it down to meet our trigger.
Cut this excess off here.
Do the same thing for the other side.
And you'll notice that the trigger is on the bottom and
on the eyelids are on the top.
Now we're going to put an eyelids on these guys.
So get our extra fabric here.
I'm gonna trace all the way around.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Going to flip the eyes over, and
you're going to glue the fabric to the back of the cardboard.
Now we're gonna attach the end of the fabric to the eyelids,
to the wire, and then fold the fabric over the wire.
Okay, and you do that for the other side.
>> [MUSIC] >> Benjamin Martin: And there you go.
That is the blinking eye.
And I think I'm just gonna temporarily attach these eyes in here for
the rest of the demo.
But there you go.
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>> Benjamin Martin: We have our googly eyes here and
we're going to attach them to our head.
Cut a hole through the face plate and through the head so
that we can run this trigger switch into the inside of this head.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Olaf.
I think you're ready for foam.
>> Benjamin Martin: Foam!
>> Bianca Lemaire: You've got a nice sheet of foam.
>> Benjamin Martin: Okay, let's do it.
>> Bianca Lemaire: What happened to Ben?
>> Benjamin Martin: Shh.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're going to put some foam from here and
kind of wrap it around the back.
So it's from corner to corner of the mouth.
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>> Benjamin Martin: We are going to attach the bottom jaw directly to the foam.
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[SOUND].
>> Bianca Lemaire: All right we gotta cover this upper lip with some foam.
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>> Benjamin Martin: This is way, way, way too thick.
So we're gonna be trimming this down.
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>> Benjamin Martin: All right, so he's all ready to get wrapped.
And what we're gonna use is the same material that we used for the body.
So we're gonna do the top of his head first.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We cut slits in the front piece, so
that the eyelids can poke on through.
>> Benjamin Martin: And wrap him pretty much like a present,
trying to get as few seams in here as possible.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We just kinda wanna eyeball it and wrap it around.
>> Benjamin Martin: You know, feel free to play around with it.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: For the inside of the mouth,
we were gonna use felt, but then we found
this t-shirt that was the perfect color.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: We are ready to wrap the front of his mouth with some fabric.
>> Benjamin Martin: Open the mouth as wide as we would like it to go.
Wrap the fabric around.
>> Bianca Lemaire: So this little bit, the fabric that you see right there,
that actually has to be there cuz you're gonna need that extra fabric for
when he opens his mouth to speak.
All right, it's time to make the nose, and for
the nose we're gonna use this styrofoam cone.
>> Benjamin Martin: Carve it, and then we're gonna wrap it up in tape.
All right, we got our nose made here.
It's time to spray paint it.
>> Bianca Lemaire: All right, come on carrot.
For the arms and the antenna we're gonna use a regular old wire coat hanger.
He's got three fingers on each hand and a little bit of a thumb.
We're gonna cover the wire with little bits of pieces of daft tape.
As you're covering it you want to make sure that you kind of make it a really
loose, it looks a little more like a stick.
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>> Benjamin Martin: So then we're gonna do the exact same technique for
the antenna hair twigs that are coming off the top of his head.
And then once you have this all covered with tape, we're gonna take it outside and
spray paint it brown.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Olaf has three buttons on his body.
>> Benjamin Martin: Two on the bottom, one on the top.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're gonna use cardboard for this, and
just a little bit of our foam cushion.
We're also gonna need a bit of black felt.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Close that up a little bit.
Tah dah!
Boop.
Boop, boop.
>> Benjamin Martin: So we are gonna make some feet.
>> Bianca Lemaire: We're gonna cut the foam into a smaller strip.
You're gonna roll it up.
>> Benjamin Martin: We're essentially gonna wrap this like a burrito but
we're gonna leave extra fabric on top that we can then
hot glue to the bottom of our body.
So for the arms,
we're going to wrap the wire in some cardboard at the end, making some pegs.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Carrot nose, eyeballs, eye brows.
Let's get all of it on his face.
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>> Benjamin Martin: Olaf's butt.
>> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH] >> Benjamin Martin: Olaf's torso.
[SOUND] Yeah, that is awesome.
>> Bianca Lemaire: Really cool.
Really cool.
Wow, wow, my god.
[LAUGH] >> Olaf: In summer.
>> Bianca Lemaire: [LAUGH] That's awesome.
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>> Bianca Lemaire: Thanks for watching our homemade movies.
How to make a Frozen Olaf puppet.
>> Olaf: Yeah, that's right.
And comeback in two weeks to see me in a homemade Frozen trailer.
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>> Olaf: Yeah. >> Bianca Lemaire: All right, Olaf.
Want to go to the beach?
>> Olaf: I love the beach.
>> Bianca Lemaire: I know you do.
Give me a hi-five.
>> [NOISE] >> Bianca Lemaire: All right, and
let's get out of here.
Let's do it.
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>> Mickey Mouse: Hey, what's up, buddy?
>> Olaf: Crazy seeing you guys here.
>> Mickey Mouse: Yeah, it's really hot.
>> Olaf: Yeah it's really hot.
>> [INAUDIBLE]. >> Olaf: It's way hotter than I
thought it would be.
All right guys, I'm gonna go to the beach.
>> Mickey Mouse: Yeah!
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