I am posting this for the benefit of those who may be confused about the categorization of puppet types. The easiest way is to list examples.
- body puppet
- Big Bird (Sesame Street)
- glove puppet
- Punch & Judy (Punch & Judy), King Friday (Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood), Kukla (Kukla, Fran and Ollie)
- hand and rod puppet
- Kermit the Frog (Sesame Street; The Muppet Show)
- hand puppet (a.k.a. hand-in-mouth puppet)
- Crocodile (Punch & Judy), Ollie (Kukla, Fran and Ollie), Lamb Chop (The Shari Lewis Show)
- human arm puppet
- Swedish Chef (The Muppet Show)
- marionette
- Pinocchio, Howdy Doody (The Howdy Doody Show)
- marotte
- a jester’s sceptre
- rod marionette
- typically represented by Sicilian and Czech theatre
- rod puppet
- wayang golek, a traditional Indonesian puppet type
- shadow puppet
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed