While the body dries, make your puppet head! Draw your puppet face onto a plain piece of paper and colour it in, then cut it out and stick it onto thin card. Once stuck to card, cut out again.

Colour in the puppets and attach each to a stick using tape or glue. Carefully cut a large hole in the front of the box. Tape the white tissue paper or greaseproof paper behind the hole.

They are called karakuri puppets and they have been used in Japan as early as the 17th Century. The technique is called Kirigami which differs to origami as the paper is cut rather than just folded.

In the Heart of the Beast has its hub in the neighborhood and offers workshops, like the one it hosted on Thursday, just down ...