The first time I ever saw a hand puppet was in kindergarden. The teacher put the puppet on my hand, played a record, and told me to make the puppet mimic whenever I heard the person talking. I thought the puppet's mouth would move on its own until she showed me to move my thumb and fingers.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- My teacher held out a hand to say, "stop" but I thought she wanted a high-five.Anon
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- I used to think vending machines had a person inside, who would hand you the item that you'd selected.Anon
- I used to believe that if you played a record too many times it would wear it out.— April
- when I was 8 or9 I thought that you could only move to 3 houses or then you would get in big truble!!!— 3 houses