This is awesome!
It is like a hand puppet of a hand! It has bony fingers and creepy look! The index and middle finger can be controlled independently, but the ring and pinky fingers are both operated using the same ring. Each finger is connected to a red strip that is attached to a ring for your finger to go into. You place your finger into the ring and pull down. When you pull down the finger comes down, simple design but very entertaining.
You can pull all fingers down to make a fist, point your index finger, give someone the finger (pointing middle finger only), point the ring and pinky fingers, point ring, pinky, and index fingers, point index and middle fingers, point ring, pinky, and middle fingers, point index and middle fingers, and point all of them at someone! I just wish the ring and picky fingers could be controlled separately, but it doesn't matter that much. The thumb can be twisted to adjust the look you want. The hand can be used by right and left handed people. So no worrying there.
It is really fun to wear a large coat, slip the hand up your sleeve and walk up behind someone and grab their shoulder! Watching their reaction is priceless, a bony hand grabbing at them! Oh the hand is white but the strips in them are red giving it an awesome muscle tendon look. The handle is also red too. The whole puppet is light and portable, it is about the size of an average adult male's hand. Except it's skeletal!
The puppet is plastic, the strips are thin and plastic as well. It seems very durable though. It is screwed together nicely and feels very solid. The foam pads it comes with: is to help grip slippery objects. The glue wore off kinda fast and they fell off. I never really noticed a difference in gripping. It can grab stuff, flick, and become a handy back scratcher! It pretty much does everything our hand can do. It may be hard for young children to pull the rings down all the way, as they do give some resistance while the fingers start curling up into a fist. I would recommend ages 5 and up. The operation is smooth and nice. Plus just watching the fingers twist and curl is awesome!
The education value gets 5 stars because of the awesome book it comes with. It has facts, and diagrams of the human hand. It was amazing seeing all the muscles in the hand! It goes to show how unappreciated the hand is. It is the one thing that makes all our days go by easier and helps us grab and grip stuff.-From the book.
I have had this thing for about 6 years and it has been very fun to pick up and fool around with. I will guarantee this will last a very long time, even without proper care! I lost the book unfortunately, I wish I placed in a better place. Oh well, my loss. The puppet is amazing itself and worth it by itself. I bought mine in a Scholastic book order form for about 5 dollars. Back in elementary school, ah... good times.
I hope my clunky review helped describe what this fun model can do. This is definitely a keeper!
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