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For young patients leaving the Janeway Children's Hospital in St. John's, it's been a long-standing tradition to leave with one (or maybe two or three) hand-knit finger puppets, to cover up their ...

The group is already hard at work making more finger puppets for Claudie to deliver next year. One of the knitters in the group, 'Les amis de Claudie' made 400 finger puppets for the IWK.