Once i had done some designs for the mechanisms i did some simple prototypes from the designs. I used basic materials so that i could quickly experiment to see how and if they work how i wanted them too.
The first one work very simply and which i thought was the more effective of the two, it work by simply using gravity to let the mouth fall open and then using a piece of string to close the mouth. I think that this would be effective once it was inside the puppet as it would be attached to a ring that would go on the finger and would be pretty simple to make the mouth move.
The second mechanism i created used an elastic band to keep the mouth shut and then used the string to open the mouth. This didn't work quite as well as the first one as the tension in the rubber band made had to open the mouth.
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