I thought you might be interested in seeing what the to-do list on a puppet build looks like. This is the one for the fish. Bear in mind as you look at the list that we have to build sixteen of them.
Things in bold mean that anyone can do them.
- Ask office about painting in parking lot. – Emily
- Spray glue on all foam and dry it.
- Design belly paint – Emily
- Call Brickman’s – paint – Emily
- 1. Design Master 1 can Blueberry
- 2. Beltone Molatov Premium – Goldfish (brooklyn or Pearl Paint) or TerraCotta 1 can
- 3. Krylon Special Purpose Florescent Green 3106 need 3 cans
- 4. Krylon OSHA special purpose Safety Yellow
- 5. Fireproofing spray
- Pick up spray paint.
- Pattern fish tails and fins with accordion folds – Mary
- Cut fish tails and fins
- Split fish heads – Erika
- Cut spacers for heads
- install headspacers
- Paint inside of thirty eyeballs
- Pattern eyelids – Mary
- Cut eyelids
- Test rod placement – Mary
- 16 10″ rods cut and sanded from bamboo
- cut 16 wedges for rod placement, see pattern.
- Install rods
- Check girl lips – Emily
- Pattern fish lips – Mary
- Cut fish lips
- Look at inside of eyeball color – Emily
- Finish sewing bellies – Sarah
- Paint bellies – Jane
- Assemble fish
- 1. Head to spine
- 2. Belly pulled on
- 3. Attach belly to head
- 4. Attach belly to spine
- 5. Attach lips
- 6. Attach eyes (No heat after eyes attached!)
- 7. Attach eyelids
- 8. Additional painting
- 9. Attach fins
In the photo at the top, the fins are pinned on and we still need to do the additional painting. We have five fish at this state. The rest should be finished fairly quickly tomorrow.
There’s another to-do list, like this one, for the crocodile and leopard which we are also making.
You didn’t tell us about the leopard.
That’s so cool. I took a puppet-making class as a kid and really loved it.
-d-: They added that after we started and I forgot to tellyou.
Vy: Neat! Do you remember whatkind of puppets you built?
Man, it’s been years, and I took so many art classes.
I know I’ve made Gleeps. In third grade we made marionettes with segmented egg-carton-piece bodies, big googly eyes, tissue paper boa legs, and jar-lid feet. Gleeps look a bit like ostriches.
In the puppet class I remember lots of glue and Muppet-like materials. Felt, fuzzy stuff, and so on. I think I made a hand puppet and another marionette?