Talking Santa Puppet

Invented and Instructions by Pluffy

I made up this cheerful guy for the OSI sponsored deco contest in 2002.

All ten of the finalists went to a special test shard and were given a tiny house to deco. I made mine a mini-mall toy-shop with a “Get your Portrait Painted with Santa” Attraction. You can make you puppet into a mall Santa just by adding a vendor with a canvas and easel!

First as always, gather your materials!

1) Lock down the stone chair where you want your Santa Puppet to sit.

2) You need to separate your red wool balls into 4 piles of 2 and a single wool ball. You are going to jump three of the piles into the chair. Just pick up a pile of 2 red wool balls and target under the seat. When it hops up into the chair, lock and repeat twice. You want to end with three piles of wool stacked on top of each other. My glove-cursor is pointing the space you want to target when placing the wool piles, and when you are done it should look like this:

3) Targetting the same spot under the shair, jump the black wool ball to the top of the stack and lock it.

4) Lock down your last pile of 2 red wool on top of the black wool ball.

5) Stack and lock the black gloves on top.

6) Next you want to put a placeholder object on top. It can be a fishsteak or a piece of black pearl. It doesn’t really matter what you use, but DO NOT lock it down.

7) Stack and lock the last red wool ball on top.

8) Stack and lock a pile of 2 cotton puffs on top.

9) Stack and lock another pile of 2 cotton puffs on top.

10) Stack and lock your flesh-colored wool ball on top.

11) Stack and lock your emeralds on top.

OKAY! SO The eyes are little bit GLARING SPOOKY ALIEN-ish, but they stack properly and they don’t fall behind the wool balls! So – if you find better eyes please send me an email!

12) Stack and lock a single cotton puff on top

13) Stack and lock the Wizard's hat on top

14) Put another placeholder like a black pearl or a fishcake on top, but DO NOT lock it.

15) Place your tailed yarn ball on top and lock it. You can Dye it red or leave it white, whichever suits you.

16) Now we have to make his feet. Go sit in the chair, hidden inside the puppet. Once you are in the chair, click the barkeep. He will appear inside the puppet but you will be able to program his key words by targeting his feet. You should customize him so that he is wearing black or red boots, as his feet are the Santa Puppet’s feet. I think the default boots look best---that’s what the completed Santa is wearing.

And that’s it! You can use the barkeep menu to make your Santa respond to keywords like “Hail” and “Santa” and “Merry Christmas.” I set mine up so that if you dropped a few gold pieces into his boots he would say, “I see someone who getting moved to the “nice” list!”