Halloween- Animal Poppet

Animal poppets are cool little trinkets for any witches house. You can label them as tools for capturing animal spirits or as dolls that turn into the creature they represent following the proper ritual.

Things you will need-

• Aluminium wire
• Yarn or wool (optional)
• Rough yarn such as help cord or hessian strips
• Glue

We are going to create a simple snake poppet today because unfortunately I don't have time to create a more complicated one (8 month old puppies take up a lot of time!). Cut a length of wire 140cm long, fold it in half and twist it to provide more strength and durability to your frame. Next shape the twisted wire into a coiled snake shape as per the photo below. 

Take your yarn and wrap it around the wire. If you like you can use a dab of glue to hold the end of the yarn in place but this shouldn't be necessary as you just wrap the yarn over the end several times to secure it. Don't worry if you accidentally bend the wire out of shape as you can bend it back once you are finished. I bulked up the shape of the snake with a softer wool before going over it with the rough hessian as the wool is a lot thicker than the hessian so takes less time to create the body. 

Keep going around the wire and build up the body shape of the snake. A snakes body is thicker in the middle than it is at the tail and neck, and the back of the head is wider than the tip of the nose.