Folkmanis White Rabbit in Hat Hand Puppet

by Folkmanis

Product Features

• Pops-up with movable head and paws.
• Rabbit pulls into hat.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 9 x 4 inches ; 5.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00000K4LE
• Item model number: 2269
• Manufacturer recommended age: 3 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,977 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Abracadabra! Entertain kids and adults alike with this charming Rabbit in Hat puppet. A soft, white furry rabbit is nestled inside a black top hat made of short-napped velour. Puppeteers can manipulate the rabbit through an opening found in the bottom of the top hat. The rabbit has pink inner ears, pink eyes, and whiskers protrude from either side of its pink thread nose. If you've ever fancied yourself a master of magic, this puppet will do the trick. Approximately 8 inches wide by 14 inches long. Surface washable with cold water. --Peggy Etra

Product Description

The magician wearing this well-traveled top hat has a few tricks up his sleeve! When you poke your hand up through the velvet hat, out pops a fluffy white bunny waving his paws and twitching his nose.

Pops-up with movable head and paws. Rabbit pulls into hat.

FACTS OF INTEREST

• The poet Goethe said, "The highest problem of any art is to cause, by appearance, the illusion of higher reality." Magicians deal very directly with this artistic transformation!
• Conjuring, or the practice of magic tricks, is one of the oldest performing arts. An Egyptian manuscript, known as the Westcar Papyrus, details magic acts performed at the Pharaoh's court 4000 years ago.
• The real secrets of magic are psychological, not mechanical. The audience is fooled because it is looking for solutions in the wrong place. This is called misdirection.
• The four basic effects of magic are: production (magical appearance of objects), vanishing, transposition (vanishing then producing an object in another place), and transformation (changing one object into another).
• The rabbit-in-the-hat trick is very difficult to perform. The rabbit is either already in the hat under a black flap, or it is secretly slipped in from a hiding place while attention is on a string of handkerchiefs being pulled from the hat.
• The word 'magic' is derived from the word 'magi.' The magi were originally priest-scholars of the ancient Persians. 'Magi' means 'the mighty ones.'

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Large Rabbit in the Hat Puppet, August 9, 2005

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C. Bordner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Folkmanis White Rabbit in Hat Hand Puppet (Toy)

This was a great puppet. I used it during Magical Mayhem week at my library. The kids loved how the rabbit could disappear into the hat. I just wish that the hat was a little bit deeper so the rabbit could disappear completely. You can still see the rabbit's ears when you pull the rabbit into the hat. Another than that it's a great puppet!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rabbit in the Hat for youthful magician., November 24, 2009

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L. L. Lenamon "MAGNOLIA ON THE BOSQUE" (Crawford, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

this product appears to be "just as advertised"...including some magic trivia. it appears to be very durable.

I purchased this for my 5+ grand son for Christmas.

i am pleased with the puppet rabbit in the hat.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FANTASTIC, September 6, 2009

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B. Davis "crazy about books" (Beautiful Northwest USA) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

My son and his wife were having their second child and I was called to babysit their 4 year old who is autistic. I took this with me and pulled it out of my overnight bag while the parents were at the hospital. It absolutely brought my grandson out of his shell and started a conversation between the two of us. I talked to him through the puppet and in turn he conversed with me. I later gave him the puppet to keep. It became one of his favorite toys. I cannot recommend this highly enough. It is a wonderful tool for interacting with young children. I later bought a second one for my little granddaughter. I wish I could give this more than 5 stars!!