How to make a Baby Yoda puppet from paper

Published 2023-04-01

Welcome, this video shows you how I make a Baby Yoda puppet from paper. Starting from my paper templates, I'll take you through the cutting, scoring, folding and glueing process of building this life-sized Grogu paper puppet from The Mandalorian.

I'm Ben Stanley and I've been making puppets out of paper for a couple of years now, and I recently decided I'd like to share my process with you.This is my first video, so thanks for taking the time to check it out 🙏

I love working with paper, it's a brilliant material - flexible, strong and easily accessible to create with. With this project I especially wanted to challenge myself to draw some real personality out of a puppet made of this super simple material.

As I'm a YouTube newb I'd really appreciate any feedback you might have about the video and the Grogu puppet himself, plus I'm happy to answer any questions in the comments.

Contents of this video:

00:00 - intro - the puppet in action
00:27 - the face
01:01 - the eyelids
01:27 - the eyes
02:25 - the mouth mechanism
02:42 - the head
03:24 - the ears
03:50 - joining the face & head
04:13 - the cheeks (part 1)
04:26 - the jaw
04:36 - the nose & eyebrows
05:05 - the cheeks (part 2)
05:20 - the neck
05:35 - the body
06:10 - the clothes
06:27 - joining the clothes to the body
06:54 - the sleeves
07:38 - the hands
08:07 - joining the sleeves to the body
08:34 - the collar
08:54 - final touches
09:06 - the finished puppet
09:23 - outro - the puppet in action

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