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Buttons or googly eyes (obtained from craft or fabric stores) are used for the puppet's eyes.

Streamers and felt strings might be glued on for hair. Additions can be glued on in order to give the sock a personality. Any sock may be used to create a puppet, but socks that are too tattered may fall apart during a performance, so they are usually bought new. Sock puppets can be made from socks or stockings of any color.

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Sock puppeteers may also stand in full view along with their puppets and hold conversations with them through using ventriloquism. Often, the puppeteer hides behind a stand and raises the hand above it so that only the puppet is visible. The sock is stretched out fully so that it is long enough to cover the puppeteer's wrist and part of the arm. The arrangement of the fingers forms the shape of a mouth, which is sometimes padded with a hard piece of felt, often with a tongue glued inside. The puppeteer wears the sock on a hand and lower arm as if it were a glove, with the puppet's mouth being formed by the region between the sock's heel and toe, and the puppeteer's thumb acting as the jaw.

JSTOR ( March 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī sock puppet decorated to look like a snake A collection of sock puppetsĪ sock puppet, sockpuppet, or sock poppet is a puppet made from a sock or a similar garment.

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