I found an interesting way to make an "amusing bird puppet" here:
http://www.gis.net/~puppetco/page48.htm

and I liked the black raven electronic puppet here:
http://www.anatomorphex.com/commercials.html

One involves a costume- like covering for one of us to wear and the other is more technical. I'd like to try something involving electronics (I've never done anything like that). I found a ceiling fan at my regular dumpster today-- haha... yeah ok. Well I figured we could use it for something. It probably still works.