Part of my self-education when I was growing up was to read my father’s collection of bound copies of "The Boy’s Own Paper". Poring through the contents I’d come across articles on knot-making, or survival skills, or magic tricks in amongst the stories about the relief of Mafeking. I remember one of the articles was about using the hands to make shadow puppets. I avidly practised this (it was cheap and required no special materials other than a lamp and a wall).

 

I can’t say I was ever particularly good at it, though. If you want to see a master at work, then here’s Raymond Crowe…

 

 

(hat tip to Neil Gaiman for the link)