Types of puppets

The main types of puppets are:

• Finger Puppet

• Pop-up Puppet

• Paddle Puppet

• Jumping Jack

• Hand Puppet

• Rod Puppet and Bunraku

• Shadow Puppet

• Hand and Rod Puppet

• Hand and Glove Puppet

• Marionette (String Puppet)

• Ventriloquist Figure

• Junk Puppet (Found Object)

• Humanette

• Cable-controlled puppet

• Radio-controlled puppet

• Animatronic

• Body Suits/Walkabouts

• Pneumatic (air-controlled) puppet

• Hydraulic puppet

• Stop-action Puppet

• Computer-generated Puppet

• Waldo-input Computer Puppet

• Motion Capture Puppet/Digital Monkey