Live-hand Muppet



A live-hand Muppet is a variation of the Hand-Rod Muppet. The hands for these puppets are actually gloves, which the puppeteer puts his or her less dominant hand into. This way, the puppet is able to pick things up. These puppets tend to be large to stay in proportion with the large human-sized hands. Since the puppeteer has a hand in the head and the other hand in one of the puppet's hands, another puppeteer is usually used to operate the other hand (or sometimes both, in more complicated scenes.)The term for this is right-handing. This is usually done by the newest performers, and tends to be a difficult task. Because most Muppets only have 4 fingers, the puppeteer puts his or her pinky and ring finger into the puppet's pinky finger. Examples of this type of puppet are Cookie Monster, Fozzie Bear, Dr. Teeth, Rowlf, Telly, Baby Bear, and many others.