This weekend I’m building my first human handed or live handed puppet. This is where the puppet has a hand for the mouth, and the puppeteers other hand fits inside of one of the puppets hands.

I’ve making a similar pattern similar to the following, but I’m leaving out the foam body, and leaving it similar to cookie monster, telly monters, or murray monster where they appear to be just the puppeteer.

I’ve traced my hand and cut a prototype from muslin; I’ve made a foam head, and placed the mouth plate; and I used paper towel to drape over the head. Now I’m cutting out the fur.

It looks like I’ll need more time to cut the fleece I want, sew it together, and add the eyes and other details this week.