Creative Puppets is run by Ian Mac, a professional puppet builder with 20 years experience as an entertainer. We not only have our own range of puppets designed with the performer in mind, we also offer a complete custom creations where you can see your own ideas brought to life.
Natalia Love
A great puppet makes the job so much easier and Creative Puppets is proof of that! All figures are made with such love and care, it’s a joy to perform with them. They bring a certain magic to the stage that just doesn’t happen with all figures and I have witnessed grown men talking to Charlie the dog with such sincerity because of it!
Ian Mac’s customer services is second to none and you can count on him to go above and beyond to help you with your puppet! The same can be said for the exquisite quality of the puppets and you can rest assure that purchasing one will be giving you years of stage time with no concerns what so ever! Creative Puppets work has been an incredible platform to my venting career and I can’t wait to have more of his characters join my merry little band! - Natalia Love
Max Fulham
Ian at Creative Puppets was fantastic to work with in the process of creating my first custom puppet. I really felt involved during every step of construction with regular updates and questions about the design. The puppet head with magnetic changeable features that I had made is not a very ordinary idea but I am so glad I chose Creative Puppets to make it because the time and effort put into making, as well as the wonderful creative discussions had with me along the way, have ensured a top quality puppet was created. Thank you
Shane West
"Ian has made some great characters for me and he is great to work with to get what you want out of a puppet. He takes time to listen to your requirements and then talks you through the complete build process. Keeping you up to date with pictures and video calls to make sure he makes exactly what you want. I can highly recommend creative puppets. Thank you Ian"
Alan Horne
"Very pleased with the item built from my basic idea. Ian made something really special".
Alan Horne
Mick and Don
TiGz the cat by Gary Duncan
Hi, folks, TiGz, here.
Ian wanted a piece about puppets’n’that. “Stuff that!” was the first thing that came to mind. Enthusiasm. Ian has bucket-loads of enthusiasm. Oh, and skill. Lots of skill.
He was the one who picked up a few sketches and design ideas and literally brought me to life. You see, it wasn’t that long ago I was just a drawing and some inanimate bits of green fabric. I’m real now!
Not only is he skilled, he listens and discusses fine details of manufacture, colour, type of material, expression and stuff like where to put things for maximum for comic effect!
Martin Parsons Theatre Company
Groovy UV
Ian had made several Characters for GROOVY UV.
All of which have bee to a very high standard. We really enjoy working with Ian at Creative puppets as his attention to detail is amazing, keeping us inform on how the build is going.
We often ask for the impossible due to the nature of the show but Ian has always delivered and helped solve the our technical requirements and ideas for our puppets and props.
Creative puppets are the 100%, The 1 Stop, Only Stop for your puppet needs.
Creative Puppets have made several puppets including A Dracula, Silt working Birds, A Cave Man called Dave, Alien, to set of Emojis! We look forward to our set of characters
Campus West, Welwyn Garden City Theatre.
Creative Puppets made us a set of Dwarf puppets for our Adult Panto. The all Characters had their own personal features. Ian did an Excellent job from coming to see us, to keepings us updated on the build, to the finished Product. Many Thanks to Creative Puppets
Dov Zak
Ian is not just an amazing puppet creator, he worked with my concept, offered up lots of ideas and ultimately created a unique creature that I was proud to bring on stage with me. The colours match my brand and the special features built in to it mean that it is bespoke and a perfect addition to the Captain Calamity world. I thoroughly recommend Creative Puppets and I'm sure we will work together again.
