Well, he isn’t quite ready yet. But below you can see all of his parts, which have yet to be put together. We promise he’ll be an intrepid explorer when he is finished!

After much deliberation, the segment of the show that we are showing at Black Cherry Puppet Theater in March has a new title. We hope you will be excited to see the new piece by Wit’s End Puppets:

Flight to the Scraplands

And really, looking at the various materials we have been using to build, doesn’t it seem like an appropriate name for our strange new land?

After our brainstorming session, we each chose characters to continue to sketch out and (hopefully) begin to try and build. Nikki experimented with turning a shoehorn into a bird and here are some photos of her results.

A lanyard helps control the head of the bird.

There are lots of possibilities for adding feathers and other embellishments to the head!

Genna, Nikki and I met last week to start to brainstorm possible characters for the 3-D section of the new project. We know that we want these puppets to be created from objects, hopefully a mix of odd, unusual objects and everyday things you might find around your house. Part of the fun of puppetry is animating something unexpected, so we are looking forward to finding humorous and serious characters in the inanimate items around us.

Some ideas for characters sketched by Genna

Nikki sketching an idea for the puppet environment around the audience.

Nikki (on the floor) and Cecilia sketch out ideas for new characters and settings.