How to make your own Kermit the Frog! Paper Puppet Tutorial
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Welcome, in this video tutorial I'll show you how to make your own Kermit the Frog from The Muppets out of paper.
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.
Starting with my free PDF template, which you can find via the below link, this video takes you through the cutting, scoring, folding and glueing process of building a fun and functional Kermit the Frog puppet out of paper, so you can create your very own Muppet Mayhem!
I'm happy to answer any questions about the build in the comments and I'd love to hear how you get on if you give it a go!
Contents of this video:
00:00 Intro
00:53 Kermit threatens to sing!
01:12 Tools & Templates
01:23 Kermit's upper jaw
01:59 Kermit's lower jaw
02:25 Attaching the jaw halves together
02:46 Kermit's mouth
02:56 Kermit's eyes
03:10 Kermit's body
03:59 Kermit's collar
04:09 Kermit's legs & feet
04:54 Attaching the legs to the body
05:06 Kermit's arms & hands
06:00 Attaching the arms to the body
06:20 Attaching the head to the body
06:31 Full puppet view
06:42 Kermit sings...
07:36 Outro
A4 Kermit the Frog Paper Puppet Template: tinyurl.com/BPPKermitTemplate
Materials:
• 9 sheets of green A4 paper (ideally 120 gsm) although 1 of the 9 sheets will be a template for the mouth and collar elements, so doesn't need to be green.
• 1 sheet of light green A4 or A5 paper (ideally 120 gsm)
• 1 sheet of red A4 or A5 paper (for the mouth)
• 1 small piece of pink paper such as a post-it note (for the tongue)
• 1 3cm diameter white polystyrene ball
• 2 paper fasteners
• 1 or 2 thin wooden barbecue skewers (as needed for manipulating Kermit's hands and arms - see this 15 second clip: • How to add hand rods t... for how to attach them - note, you will need to glue the tip of each skewer before feeding them into the wrist in so that it holds fast inside the wrist.).
Tools:
• Printer (I recommend printing the template either via your web browser or via Adobe Acrobat Reader and make sure to print the pages at 100% scale)
• Cutting board
• Glue stick
• Wooden skewer / cocktail stick / spatular (to spread the glue)
• Ruler (ideally metal)
• Metal pointer or ball point pen that has run out of ink (to score the paper folds)
• Scissors / Craft knife
• Sharp bread knife (to cut the polystyrene ball)
• Black marker pen
• Pencil
• Coffee scoop with a long handle or something similar to help press the paper together when glueing difficult to reach areas of the puppet.
If you decide to give it a go you might also want to check out my paper puppet building top tips video here: • My tips for building p...
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Let me know how you get on if you try to make your own Kermit the Frog! Happy to help if you have any questions, just drop me a note here in the comments.
Would love to see the results of anyone making their own Kermit 🐸. You can tag me on Instagram at @benspaperpuppets
@@benspaperpuppets 0:14 hi
Thank you for giving me the free template ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Talking Kermit the frog 🐸
Thank you for giving me the free template Ben stanley
You are welcome!
This is very creative! Gotta make one myself definitely!
Ah, thanks, please do and I would love to know how you get on!
Jim would have been proud!
Thanks so much, I do hope so!
What are the measurements ¿
@@dude376 The template of the design can be found via a link in the description, it was designed for A4 paper.
Your Kermit voice is good!
Lovely to hear, thank you 🙏
I’m so happy the template is free
Hope the build goes well, if you try it!
Thank you so much! Now I can make any puppet!
You are welcome 😊 Yes the body, legs and arms can be pretty universally adapted to other puppets.
Hi your amazing
That is super kind, I'm just doing what i love doing!
Your work is amazing! Brilliant!
Ah, thanks so much! Just checked out your channel loving your work 😀
@@benspaperpuppets thank you very much 😊
thank you
I'd love to create them n speak my language. Mikmaq. Endangered... not many speakers left. This would help.for sure. Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
That's the great thing, these puppets can speak any language you want!
Do beaker next :D
I have a few others lined up first, but Beaker is most definitely on the list to do!
Wowwwww your so under rated this is amazin !!
Ah, thanks much, glad you like it 🙏
Hi Ben, I would love to make the Kermot puppet with my class. Do you provide the template at a cost.
Hi there, the template is free, you can find a link to it in the description of the video. Would love to see how you get on, tag me on Instagram @benspaperpuppets if you go ahead and give it a go 😁
Ribbit oh kermet I was a frog but meow
Nice puppet.I will try making that🤗
Fantastic, thanks, would love to hear how you get on!
Where can I get the templates
Hi @cruzcondon4257, sorry to have missed this message, hopefully you have found them by now, but the templates can be accessed via a link in the video descriptions.
@@benspaperpuppets❤❤❤❤
I did this one
I don't understand what the letters arre for on the template......do lowercase letters glue to uppercase letters?
Yes, exactly. So, for example, the tab with the capital A will glue to the area where you see the lower case a and so on
Omg!!! I make papper characters, but they're masks
Sounds cool, would love to see your work!
You will, once I get a CZcams channel.
I look forward to it!
Is it okay if i can use this muppet while i order one?
Hi there, you are welcome to download the template from the description link and make a kermit puppet yourself, but they aren't orderable.
i would make one
you need more subs
Thanks again, just gotta keep getting content out there and hopefully they'll build!
Where do I get the patterns
There is a link in the video description
@@benspaperpuppetsThank u
muppet monster adventure
How do I get the patterns
Hi there, where I have said a template is available, check out the video description and you'l find a url link to the pdf to print out 😀
Do Peter Griffin next
That would certainly be a challenge!
How I do the form
If you are looking for the PDF template to make Kermit there is a link in the description of the video
I don't understand What valley and mountain
Stands for
A valley fold is where you fold the paper so the two sides of the fold line fold up towards you. A mountain fold is the opposite, so the two sides of the fold line, fold away fom you. Does that make sense?
Could you make a video of to make a human great video
Great idea, I'll start thinking!
It's too hard to make Kermit the Frog 😡
Hey i did it
Thats your problem 😂
My owner loves little shop of horrors and it and he thinks you should audrey 2 in a paper puppet form
Oh wow, your owner has great taste, I hadn't considered Audrey 2... hmmmmm....
@@benspaperpuppets he made a paper plate puppet of audrey 2
I bet he has not upload in 2 weeks cus he is working in a new puppet
Yep, that is exactly it (currently working on a Miss Piggy puppet). Unfortunately it isn't a quick process, but am also working on a way to get more regular posts up!
Make jeffy
Great suggestion, will add to the list.
Hands will crap, It will break
Sorry to hear this, which part of the hands are breaking for you?
Its tok fast bro
😂 You should see the TikTok version!
You're going to fast so I can't even get to it
Fair point, it can be a bit fast especially if you are following whilst trying to make it. (It's a challenge to balance showing everything and not putting up a 2 hour video!). Perhaps not a perfect solution, but you could slow the video down in the playback settings where needed, which would allow you to see any particularly technical bits with a bit more time.
It's so fast I can't keep up😭
Hey there, the build will take a few hours, if you slow down the video speed in the video settings it should hopefully help, but of course you will need to keep pausing it as you go along as well. Hope that helps.
The end is cringe 😬😮
🤣 fair enough, but I appreciate you watching to the end, much appreciated!
The and is cringe 😬😂