Private puppet-building and performance workshops
Build a moving-mouth creature, then learn how to bring it to life on camera.
Silly Side Hustles / Michael Schupbach
Michael Schupbach offers adult workshops in designing and fabricating moving-mouth hand puppets, alongside a separate TV-style puppeteering session exploring eye focus and character movement. The current FAQ explicitly invites private and corporate bookings through the workshop contact, making this a hands-on creature-making option for a small celebration.
Current location note / listed area: San Francisco, California; private workshops by inquiry
No wedding package or licensed character appearance is advertised. The linked private-package page returns an error, although the current FAQ supplies a separate direct private-booking invitation; confirm current acceptance, location, group size, making versus performance format, materials and dates. Workshops are ordinarily 18+, with younger participation requiring prior agreement. Confirm suitability of needles, blades, scissors and hot glue with the organizer; no safety or therapeutic guarantee. Historical entertainment credits are not endorsements or included characters.
Public-source research · 2026-10-31 · Not vendor-confirmed or independently vetted.
Original research sources
- https://www.sillysidehustles.com/
- https://www.sillysidehustles.com/workshop-faq
- https://www.sillysidehustles.com/community-workshops
- https://www.sillysidehustles.com/about
- https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/puppet-making-workshop-78535/
- https://www.puppetkitchen.com/history
Documented state connections
Geographic evidence is retained historical research, not current service availability.
- California · based
Fresh ordinary public About HTML explicitly says Silly Side Hustles is based in San Francisco and founded by Michael Schupbach; root names same operator and current workshops. Current 2026 host independently corroborates Bay Area workshop operation. No past employment or touring-state inference.