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Out of the Deep Blue: Make your own puppets @ home

Available until the end of 2020, 'Out of the Deep Blue' Web Series is our partner Autin Dance Theatre's brand new digital programme featuring unique and practical creative step-by-step tutorials to 'Make Your Own Puppet @ Home' out of reusable household items!

We'll be releasing a series of five short films of Eko, a sea-giant puppet, telling inspiring and climate change awareness stories to children and young people.

DIY Tutorial 1: Make a milk bottle puppet

This puppet was designed by Toby Olié and inspired by his Blue Peter Milk Bottle Puppet

Make a milk bottle puppet

DIY Tutorial 2: Make a marionette octopus

Create an octopus designed by Ellie Cooper, made from plastic to highlight the plastic in our oceans - marionette style!

Make your own marionette octopus

DIY Tutorial 3: Make a beautiful butterfly

Puppeteer Ben Thompson shows you how to make the next puppet in our web series designed by Hugh Purves

Make a beautiful butterfly

DIY Tutorial 4: Make a polar bear

Puppeteer Ben Thompson shows you how to make the next puppet in our web series designed by Samuel Parker... a polar bear!

Make your own polar bear

DIY Tutorial 5: Make a long-legged lockdown bird

Puppeteer Ben Thompson will show you how to make the final puppet in our web series designed by Samuel Wyer... 🐔 A lesser-spotted long-legged lockdown bird (a silly marionette with a lot of possibilities)

Make a long-legged lockdown bird
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