Remember that a black sock will be harder to draw on. Understand that you’ll need to attach materials to make the face rather than draw it on. You should also avoid using black materials.
Try using googly eyes. You can find these at craft stores or in the craft section of big box stores. [1] X Research source You could also draw the eyes on a piece of construction paper. Using overlapping circles of felt for the whites, color, and pupils of the eyes is an option. [2] X Research source Try using beads as eyes. You can find plenty of beads in a wide variety at a craft store. If you need to take the sock off your hand to make the eyes, then mark the position for the eyes with a small pen mark, so you can see the rough size you want to make the eyes.
For beads and felt, you can also consider sewing the eyes to the sock. If you use a hot glue gun, make sure to take the sock off your hand first so as not to burn yourself.
You could also make a more complex mouth. You can consider making a tongue out of construction paper or felt, making teeth with beads, or drawing a more elaborate mouth. [3] X Research source
For many puppets, simply drawing in nostrils with a black or color marker is more than enough for a nose.
If you want to make a basic hand puppet yourself, put your hand palm down on your piece of fabric. Now draw small dots on the fabric on either side of your hand to designate the width. This is how wide you’ll want the body of your template to be. Once you’ve done that, you can start drawing the outline of your puppet. If you want your puppet to have arms remember that your thumb and pinky will be controlling the arms. Put your hand back down on the fabric and designate where your thumb and pinky emerge from your hand. This is where you’ll want the arms to begin. Make sure you leave room for your fingers in the head of the puppet as well. Your index, middle, and ring finger will need to rest in there, so ensure that it is wide enough for those three fingers to fit inside. Otherwise, the drawing is up to you! Using the width of your hand as your guide make two straight parallel lines. Now round these lines off away from each other diagonally to create the arms. Try to keep them the same length. Keep in mind that they should be pretty short. Once you’ve completed the full outline of the arms draw a wide half circle for the head. Add ears, horns, or whatever else you would like to the outline.
Remember to include any other details your want to include in the shape of the felt, such as little semi-circles on top of the head for ears. You may want to leave a little more room past the edges of your fingertips to accommodate the space where you will sew the puppet together.
Remember to make sure that the bottom portion of the template (where the template reaches your wrist) lines up with the bottom edge of the felt. This is where your hand will go into the puppet. You’ll need both a front and a back piece of the hand puppet, so you can easily place two pieces of felt on top of each other and pin the template to both of them at once.
If you did not line up two pieces of felt together, then pin the template to the second piece of felt and cut it out as well.
You can attach the tummy felt with either a hot glue gun or by sewing it. All of the sewing required for this project is very simple, but you can learn more about sewing if you need to at: How to Sew.
Consider using beads, other pieces of felt, or even googly eyes for the eyes. You can use a bead, a pompom, other felt, or even just a knot of stitches for the nose. For the mouth, you can create lips or a tongue with felt, stitch a mouth, or come up with another idea for a mouth entirely. If you made the shape for ears in your felt, your can also give more definition to the ears by sewing or gluing a smaller semi-circle of felt onto the ear. For the bear example, you can easily use the same lighter color you used for the tummy.
Remember to leave the bottom edge of the puppet stitch free since this is where you need to put your hand inside the puppet.
