The Mind Creative APRIL 2014 | Page 16

The Mind Creative March 2014 The Human Arm Puppet This puppet is very similar to the glove puppet and usually needs two puppeteers to manipulate the puppet. They are much larger in size. One puppeteer puts the arm through the puppet to hold the main body and manipulate the head. The other person uses his/her arms (sometimes with a glove) through the sleeves of the puppet to allow complete and arbitrary control over the arm movements. The Shadow Puppet Shadow puppets are flat, two-dimensional figures that are placed between a light source and a translucent screen so that the audience on the other side can see the shadow. Some shadow puppets are created with translucent coloured material that allows the creation of coloured shadows. 16