The Living Severed Hand!

Step 3 Filling out the glove

Since you aren't going to have your hand in the glove, something needs to be inside of it, allowing it to maintain its shape and look realistic. I opted to use some nice squishy foam that came with some electronics I bought. It was about 1 cm thick.

I cut the foam into 1 cm wide strips, each slightly longer than the length of each finger except for the thumb. A fifth strip was cut to the length across the knuckles of the glove.

Using wire cutters, cut a piece of a wire coat hanger a little bit shorter than the length of the index finger's foam.

Push the section of hanger carefully into the center of the foam, this will be the "skeleton" of the finger, allowing it to hold its shape.

Next, you are going to bulk up the finger and give it some more shape using fill. I did this by arranging the fill on the top of the foam, and then unceremoniously wrapping packing tape around the entire thing, being sure to get tape on the ends in order to prevent the hanger from potentially poking through.

All pieces are then put into their appropriate places inside of the glove. Arrange the piece of foam that you cut to the length of the knuckles below the foam for the fingers and when you are happy with the location, hold it in place using dots of hot glue. The foam in the fingers shouldn't slip, so you won't need to glue them.

Stuff the thumb with some fill. You won't need to worry about it coming out, we'll deal with that later.

Finally, bend the index finger of the glove to a "C" shape for grasping your wrist when you wear the glove.