This year was my attractive graphic designer wife’s turn to start our puppet project with an initial design pitch. A fish of dubious taxonomical origin began to emerge.

Given the head will be the focus of the puppet and be much more three dimensional than last year’s dorso-ventrally flattened alien, I resolved to find a new way to create a sturdy frame that wouldn’t require a miniature mountain of styrofoam. Since we had a surplus of used tomato cages lying around, we gave that a try:

I highly recommend using the proper personal protection equipment when working with power tools.

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