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What materials do you use for glove/hand puppets?
As mentioned in my short post about what materials to use when making a puppet, there’s no hard and fast rules as to what to use when building a puppet. However, there are many things that tend to be favourites of puppet makers and the following will list a few suggestions for you.
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Free glove/hand puppet patterns: A list
(If you’re looking for patterns for other puppet types, please browse the other categories as you’ll find more lists there)
Yes, glove puppets are the same as hand puppets (people often mix up the terms with muppet-type puppets). If you’re looking for ‘glove arm’, ‘rod arm’ or ‘muppet-style’ puppet patterns, head over to the muppet-type puppet section.
I will be adding to this list as I find more patterns. Please note that these patterns come free courtesy of the credited people; please respect their wishes for creditation (if requested) if you publish the link elsewhere. This is the total of these particular patterns listed on this site; feel free to browse for more on my site, but you’ll just end up back here again I promise.
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What are glove puppets?
The glove puppet is perhaps one of the most recognisable types of puppetry, made famous by that old standard, Punch and Judy. A glove puppet is, quite simply, a specially made glove which fits over one’s hand. Glove puppets are also best known as their other name, ‘hand puppet’; to me this term is just plain wrong, so I stick to calling them glove puppets.
You're right Pat, they can do a lot more than what I described here. I've not used sock puppets much, and that probably shows through in what I wrote; I do think though that for the general public, sock puppets are stereotyped... perhaps people should check out my 'how to make a sock puppet' tutorial on the site, which actually experiments with a non-traditional building method.
... School of Puppetry on What are sock puppets?Perhaps in the future I can come back and rewrite the post with a little more info than I've given here.