Raccoon Puppet

口を閉じたり開けたり、パカパカさせながらしゃべるとものすごくウケる。意外と（？）大人の方が喜んでくれます。本物のアライグマは恐ろしい動物らしいけど、これなら平気。両手で何か持って渡りたり、握手したりすると、びっくりするほど喜んでいただけます。

My first reaction when I opened my package is that there was a sleeping animal in there. The raccoon has a certain uncanny realness to it that one can't get over until you closely inspect it. It looks great and almost like a real animal with you make it move. The downside is that it is quite difficult with one hand (and I have large hands) to reach both arms and insert fingers in the narrow opening where the mouth moves. My young son (9 years old) was able to move the mouth, but could not reach the arms at the same time. Pity I didn't have one of those puppet control sticks where I could push a lever and make the mouth move. Then I would just have to focus on mouth the arms with my hand....