Soft Foam Puppet Part

For puppets and prosthetic appliances, carved foam rubber tends to look like, well, carved foam rubber.  A properly sculpted and refined shape can be rendered in soft, flexible urethane foam in a relatively simple process utilizing basic mold making methods and materials.  The softer and more flexible and compressible the material, the better.  The artificial skins on Hollywood animatronics and puppets are often much softer than they appear so as to make them respond realistically to their limited range of operation.  Dead weight can be made to move like live muscle and subtly respond to the operators/puppeteers.  

  This Instructable covers the construction of the snout for a donkey mask.
  With an effective donkey mask you can:
  -Play a practically-themed joke on a farmer
  -Scare your dog
  -Promote the Democratic Party
  -Rob a bank
  -Make an ass of yourself
  -Get a discount on your entrance to a furry convention

  This project was created at TechShop.

Step 1: You Will Need:

  -Scrap wood and basic woodworking knowledge
  -Two-part silicone rubber
  -Two part soft urethane expanding foam
  -Release agent
  -Clay
  -A fine-toothed sawblade
  -Proper mixing containers and tools