You can make glove puppets in a variety of ways. The most important item for making this type of puppet is the glove. Get creative with your glove choice and how you use it. Some performing artists use a whole glove to create five connected characters. Others cut the fingers off of a glove to create individual characters that are easy to get on and off during a performance. The glove material can help determine the look of your character. For example, a white medical glove can make a ghostly performer while a yellow cleaning glove may make an interesting bird puppet.
Once the glove is chosen, the artist adds details to make the glove puppet character original. If the glove is fabric, sew yarn on top for the hair. If the glove is leather, rubber or latex, gluing on shredded paper may be a better idea. Faces and clothing can be bits of glued-on fabric or drawn with markers or fabric paint.
Strong craft glue works best for glove puppets, but you can also use rubber cement or medium-temperature hot glue.
Paper finger puppets are made by creating a paper ring for the finger and gluing a cutout of a drawn character to the ring. The best glue to use is white school glue. Make decorations for the character with glitter, markers, paint or colored pencils.
If you aren't good at drawing, go to a free clip art gallery and find line drawings of people and animals that will fit your story. Print the image and then cut it out to decorate. The decorating is where you add some real personality to the simple line drawing and make it your own.
To make an ink puppet you simply draw a face and clothing details right onto the finger. You can also use markers or face paint for a less permanent puppet.