Hand puppet

A puppet worn over a puppeteer's hand and operated by its fingers, typically to move the head and mouth. Its form lets one performer animate a character directly.

Puppetry: A performing art in which puppeteers animate figures or objects to create characters and action. Hand puppets are one form of this broader performing art.
Puppet: An inanimate figure or object manipulated to represent a character or perform an action. A hand puppet is defined by being a puppet controlled from inside.
Punch and Judy: A British puppet-show tradition featuring the comic and often violent characters Punch and Judy. Its glove-puppet performances became one of Britain's best-known hand-puppetry traditions.
Marionette: A puppet controlled from above by strings attached to its limbs or body. Unlike a hand puppet, a marionette hangs from external controls.
Puppet television: Television programming that uses puppets as performers or central characters. Hand puppets can frame close-up expressions for a camera.
Mouth puppet: A puppet whose mouth opens and closes through the puppeteer's hand or a control mechanism. Many hand puppets use finger movement to create visible speech.
Puppet head: The head-shaped part of a puppet, often designed to hold its identity and facial expression. The puppeteer's fingers commonly support and animate the hand puppet's head.
Pulcinella: A traditional Neapolitan comic character associated with Italian theater and puppet performance. Pulcinella helped shape the European glove-puppet character later known as Punch.
Rod puppet: A puppet moved by rods attached to its body or limbs. Rods provide external control instead of a hand inside the figure.
Puppetry in education: The use of puppets in teaching, learning, and classroom communication. A hand puppet can model dialogue or introduce ideas in an approachable form.

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