They can be stiff, made from e.g. a hard plastic, but are more often flexible, made from fabric, possibly with some stuffing and attached decorations for eyes, nose, and so on.
Cool Hand Luke | Tony Hand | hand grenade | Second Hand | Right- and left-hand traffic | Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers | The Hand of Fear | Slow Hand | Learned Hand | Hand in My Pocket | Hand Built by Robots | Augustus Noble Hand | Puppet Master (film) | Puppet Master | Nugan Hand Bank | Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand | Michael Jon Hand | Kernan "Skip" Hand | In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre | Elizabeth Hand | Edward Hand | Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe | Bread and Puppet Theater | Bird-in-Hand | Tonda Traditional Bunraku Puppet Troupe | The Upper Hand | The Old Trout Puppet Workshop | The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand | Take My Hand, Precious Lord | Stony Creek Puppet House |
Kee MacFarlane, an employee at the center, had the idea to use hand puppets and anatomically correct dolls during interviews with children, believing they would aid disclosure and therapeutic recovery.
Later in the 1960s, Sweep (a dog hand puppet from the popular UK children's TV programme The Sooty Show became the mascot for "Coco Pops."
Goggle was a hand-puppet and operated by then unknown puppeteer Caroll Spinney (later known as ‘Big Bird’ of Sesame Street).