Welcome to Picture to Puppet, a small company making custom puppets and toys to order in Edinburgh. Founded and run by puppet maker Mari Jones in 2012, we are now a busy team of 6 makers.
Custom Puppets and Toys by Picture to Puppet
We make beautifully crafted puppets and soft toys to order, by hand, in our Edinburgh studio. Our clients range from TV companies to children’s counsellors and from ventriloquists to Mums and Dads. We also have a toy hospital and repair all kinds of soft toys.
Things We Make
- Individual custom puppets
- Custom soft toys
- Bulk orders of up to 50 puppets or toys
- Mascot costumes
- Likeness puppets – just send a photo
- Hand puppets
- Glove Puppets
- Pet likeness toys
- Puppets and toys based on your child’s drawings
- Finger Puppets
- Sock Puppets
- Custom Jack-in-the-boxes
- Toy Repairs
Just send us a picture or a description, and within weeks we can transform your idea into something as beautiful or scary as you want. There are no limits— if you can dream it, we can make it.
At Picture to Puppet, we offer a highly personal bespoke service, and will talk to you in detail about your requirements before we start.
Picture to Puppet’s products are built to last, and guaranteed for 5 years, so if they get damaged through normal wear and tear, we will repair them free of charge.
Get in touch with Picture to Puppet now
or email team@picturetopuppet.co.uk
or call 0131 554 4753
Our studio is at 64 Constitution Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6RR
PLEASE NOTE: We are currently asking that customers do not visit to collect their toys. For more information, and alternative arrangements see here.
Picture to Puppet’s Services
Here are some of our most popular puppet and toy making services. If you’re looking for something that’s not listed here, just ask! The weird ones are our favourite.
Custom Puppets
Custom Likeness Puppets
Send a photo of person – yourself, a loved one, your favourite celebrity – and we can make them into a custom puppet. Our famous lookalike puppets are frequently used on TV and on stage, by comedians, ventriloquists and celebrities. Previous orders have also included companies getting all their board members made up as puppets, business people using puppets of themselves for adverts, and lots of individuals as gifts. Our portrait puppets are available as full or half body hand puppets or glove puppets.You can also add character with moving eyebrows or a blink mechanism!
Custom Animal Puppets
Custom Character Puppets
School Puppets
Bring your core values characters to life with puppetry! Get the kids engaged with core values mascots, rights respecting mascots and eco mascots. We also offer puppet making workshops in schools.
Custom Toys
Custom Pet Soft Toys
Send us a photo of your pet and we can make a beautiful soft toy likeness of him/her. Our pet soft toys are ever popular with the pet industry, pet owners and families whose pets have passed on.
Children’s Drawing Toys
For a truly personal gift, commission a soft toy based on your child’s drawing. Just send us an image of your child’s drawing and let us know what size you’d like.
Find out more about our toys from kids’ drawings
Character Soft Toys
We can make a custom soft toy of your illustration, book character, your company’s logo, your charity mascot… or pretty much anything you like.
Custom Jack in the Boxes
We can even make your Mum come out of a jack in the box! (Or your favourite TV personality, your boss, or pretty much anyone else). You can choose the colour of the box, what they’re wearing and what they look like.
Leith Toy Hospital
Leith Toy Hospital has grown out of Picture to Puppet and taken on its own identity. At Leith Toy Hospital, we repair and restore all kinds of modern and antique toys. We have a full time teddy surgeon, who repairs the soft toys, and a doll specialist who repairs plastic, porcelein and composition dolls. We also have an electrical technician, who fixes mechanical and electrical toys.
