Seuss & Me

The daughter has been assigned to do a book report on a biography. She chose Dr. Seuss. Part of her assignment is to create a puppet of the individual and perform her report in the first person for the class. We're pretty involved in the homework around here anyway, but building a puppet? Oh yeah.

I've suggested to the daughter that she explain that while we did work on this together (which we did) her father went a little crazy living out some repressed Muppet fascination from his youth.

Puppet: Styrofoam head, clearance fleece skin, yarn hair, dollar store infant shirt, old sock collar and cuffs, refrigerator clippy things (for hands that can hold items), 20 lone socks for stuffing, surplus pair of 3D glasses and a bunch of hot glue.


The kids glued on his googly eyes this morning, post photos. Now that I look at him, he'd pass for a Stan Lee puppet too.

Old Skool Robot

The Son wanted to be a robot this year. So, we got all DIY and whipped up a classic "robot" outfit.

I soldered my first solders on this project too for the nifty blue LED in the head lamp. I had planned to have several other LED lights on the chest plate, but it seems I melted the plastic battery holders while soldering and broke the circuit somewhere.