Patterns for "Practical Hand" Puppets?

[shtick]

I'm not sure if thats what they're called, but I'm looking for a basic pattern for a "Practical Hands" puppet body. (Thats what The Foam Book calls it, anyway.)

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about. A "practical hands" puppet is one which uses the puppeteers own hand rather than arm rods.

 

[Jinx]

A very easy way to do this is to simply trace your own hand to make a two-piece glove. Many puppets only have 4 fingers, so often the ring finger and pinky finger occupy one space in the glove, so trace accordingly.

The sleeve then is basically a "Y" configuration with the puppet's upper arm stuffed and the puppeteer's arm occupying the "stem" of the "Y" and the forearm/hand.

The proportions will be dictated by the size/style of the individual puppet. This part of a puppet tends to be very forgiving, so it's really rather easy to simply make your own pattern.

 

[Show and Tell]

Very informative explanation Jinx.

 

[biblebetty]

Hi,
in case you want to buy a pattern One Way Street's got a human-arm shirt pattern for sale and it's a good price and it has a hand glove pattern too. just incase your interested.

Betty

 

[shtick]

Hey. I'm just curious if anyone has asked about this pattern ever since this old thread. I tried making my own pattern to no avail. Maybe if someone has a drawing showing proportion and scale like this one but for a "practicaal hands" puppet?

 

[KermieBaby47]

You bet! Try this thread.

I posted a drawing of how I made my dragon puppets' body.

Hope it helps!