What am i going to do?

Well to answer i'm going to be using the rubber hose style of animation due to limtiations of my given object. As i said the limtations to a hat-stand are that its is neither living nor jointed, it being inanimate would not work with the characteristic i received 'Clumsy'. The other problem of being a solid object does not allow me to move it without outside help. i have decided that the rubber hose style is perfect for what in need due to the fact that i can give the hat-stand life and flexibility.

What is rubber hose?

Rubber hose was developed as the most early form of animation, it was commonly used with music or as a cute cartoon filled with gags. Like most other styles of animation, it depends on what it was used with. Story construction wasn't very focused in the era that the "rubber hose" style dominated, but those cartoons still dealt in gags the way most of the later shorts did.