Dinosaur Puppets

A baby dinosaur hand puppet is the closest our work gets to a child. No plinth, no barrier, no sensor — the animal is held, and it opens its mouth when the person holding it opens theirs. It is also the cheapest way to put a dinosaur into a school hall, a hospital ward or a shop unit where an 8-metre build would never fit.

The construction is plush hair over a foam core, with the jaw hinged at the back of the skull so a single hand movement produces a wide gape. Teeth are soft-moulded rather than rigid, because the puppet ends up near faces. The eyes are set under a brow, which is what stops a plush animal reading as a toy.

Where a Hand Puppet Is Used

Five settings come up again and again: school science programmes and dinosaur weeks, children's parties where the performer needs to speak as well as perform, retail launches and product promotions, museum touch carts and education tables, and street or festival events where a full costume is too hot or too large to wear for an hour.

What Can Be Customised

Species is the main choice — Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Carnotaurus, Velociraptor, or a custom sculpt. Beyond that: overall size, hair length and colour, eye style, jaw tension, and whether the mouth interior is painted realistically or left plain for retail handling.

Nothing here is electrical. That is deliberate — a puppet with no battery can be used in schools and hospitals without a test certificate, and there is nothing to fail in the middle of a show.