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As mentioned in my short post about what materials to use when making a puppet, there's no hard and fast rules as to what to use when building a puppet. However, there are some materials that are particularly favoured by puppet makers.

Finger puppets are most often made using some type of cloth material; some I've seen have used cotton lining and fleece for the outside; others have just cotton as the material. However, other people use felt, or crochet designs with wool; and there are plenty of paper finger puppets to make as well (particularly with the rise of fantastic Japanese-style patterns).

As for materials for decoration, facial features, accessories, and so on, materials vary. Anything and everything goes: you can use thick cotton thread to create eyes, or glue circles of felt on, use sequins, feathers... whatever you have, you can use!

Hey, you can even just cut the fingers off an old glove, decorate them, and have a play!

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