Four students volunteered to design and build our puppets' visible body parts: heads, hands, and feet. Faculty designer Liz Freese worked with this "puppet team" throughout the process. Given the team's varied interests and skills, she decided that the materials would have to unify the design and, after experimenting with different media, the team chose Fosshape, which could be fitted over clay and foam positives and then filled with Great Stuff and later painted.