Take a piece of string and using your finger and a pen make a circle on a piece of scrap wood and cut it out, that's how I made the template. Hold it in place as you work with a few reusable cable ties .

@@LittleBallCreations thanks .. if there any chance you would remember how many shoes are in that sphere, as I'm being asked to build the same but she only has 80 shoes

80 will make approx a 60 -70cm diameter one. A 120cm one will need over 300

Thanks mate mathematical I had about 720mm but I was just asking someone that has actually built one

Any chance you could do a video on how to make a template for the globe :)