Some photos from our puppet making evenings for White Night in Brighton. What I enjoyed most about the process was being able to sit around in a room with friends for many weeks in a row, sewing, making and chatting.

How to make a life-size puppet.

• 10 hours and lots of improvised stuffing
• 4 pieces of metre length pipe insulation for the skeleton
• 8 pairs of tights for the skin
• 1 piece of plywood for the face frame
• Lump of clay big as your face for the mold
• Newspaper for paper mache to put on the mold
• Tennis balls for joints
• Pillow stuffing from 6 pillows for the meat
• Lots of thread and needles to sew it all together
• Yacht varnish to harden the paper mache
• Gesso to harden the paper mache

I wrote a talk about collaboration shortly afterwards, which contains some of the things I learned about the process.

Thanks to all those involved in the making.