How to make a puppet theater at home. Home puppet theater in a box

You will need

• - knitting threads;
• - shreds;
• - old mittens and gloves;
• - cardboard tubes;
• - boxes from household appliances;
• - colored paper;
• - foam rubber;
• - cardboard;
• - gouache;
• - brushes;
• - PVA glue;
• - scissors;
• - 2 chairs;
• - large board;
• - bedspread;
• - rope;
• - wooden beams;
• - door hinges;
• - carpentry tools.

Instructions

Start preparing for the performance with the script. It is most convenient to write it on a computer. Find the one you need. Write down what kind of decorations you will need. Write down what is on stage when the action begins. It looks something like this. “Forest clearing. Under the trees there is a hut with chickens. There's a cat sleeping near the threshold." Write down the words according to the roles and actions of the characters.

If the store doesn’t have the dolls you need, make them yourself. This will be even better, since you can make the characters according to everyone's hand size. Perhaps you have gloves lying around, a pair of which have been lost, or old mittens. They can be very useful. Cut off the tips of the index and middle fingers of the glove. Cut them lengthwise so that the cut points touch each other. Do the same with the ring and little fingers.

Sew the sections of the index and middle fingers together in pairs. Do the same with the ring and little fingers. Instead of five fingers, there were three on the glove. Make hands or paws from scraps or pieces of fur. Cut out 2 small circles, gather them along the edge with a needle-forward seam, insert small pieces of foam rubber and tighten. Sew the balls to the hands of the toy.

Make the head. This is also a circle made of fabric or border. In the same way as when making hands, gather the circle around the edge, stuff and tighten. Connect the head and body with a cardboard tube and sew. Decorate your head as you wish. Facial features can be embroidered or appliquéd from pieces of felt. Hair is made from fur or wool. The threads are folded in half and sewn to the head in a checkerboard pattern. To make a bunny or bear have ears, insert pieces of cardboard into them. You can use heads from broken toys.

Take care of the screen. If you don't have a real one yet, string a rope across the room and hang a blanket on it. True, in this case the opportunity to put up decorations is very small. You can decorate the screen itself with flowers or trees. For a more solid screen, you need to take 2 chairs and a board. Place the chairs with their backs facing each other at some distance, and place a board on top. Drape the structure You can put a house made from a cardboard box and trees on it.

Once you feel that your passion for theater is serious and long-lasting, make a real screen. It can be large or portable, which is placed on the table. You will need 3 boards of equal length and 2 or 4 door hinges. Connect the boards with door hinges. Nail wide wooden blocks to the bottom of the screen to make it stable. You can make a stationary drapery, or you can simply cover the screen with a piece of fabric.

Learn how to create a puppet theater with your own hands. At the same time, characters can not only be sewn and molded, but also made from plastic spoons and wooden sticks.

DIY finger puppet theater

If you want to develop your baby’s fine motor skills, speech, thinking and simply be able to lift the mood of the whole family, then turn the room into a temple of art. To do this, you need to know how to make a finger puppet theater with your own hands.

• felt;
• threads;
• scissors.

Fold 2 character blanks wrong sides together, sew along the edge using a machine or with a thread and a needle on your hands.

To make a beard for your grandfather, wrap several rows of thread around your fingers and cut them on one side. Fold these identical threads in half and sew the beard in place.

Check out another interesting idea. This could be a home puppet theater for staging the fairy tale “Turnip”. In kindergarten, it is better to have larger characters so that the whole group can see them from afar. But you can do something like this by taking:

• modeling paste (preferably Jovi, which does not need to be burned; it hardens in air);
• yellow and green paste Jovi Patcolor;
• acrylic paints;
• tassels;
• markers;
• stacks.

1. Let's sculpt the grandfather first. Take a piece of pasta measuring 2x3 cm, roll it into a sausage, and form a cylinder. You should get something like a nesting doll with a body and a head, and at the bottom there will be a notch for a finger.
2. Separately sculpt the arms and attach them to the body. But outline the facial features, beard, and mustache using a stack.
3. Using the same principle, sculpt the grandmother, granddaughter and animals. Once these characters are dry, paint them with acrylic paints.
4. For the turnip, roll a ball of yellow paste, pull it out a little from the top, insert green plastic tops here, and secure.

When sculpting with paste, you will find that it dries quickly in the air, so periodically wet your fingers with water.

DIY table theater

If you want to have a tabletop theater with paper dolls, then enlarge the following image. Print it on a color printer on thick paper. If this is not possible, attach a sheet of thin paper to the screen and transfer the outlines onto it. Then place it on cardboard, draw outlines, and let the child decorate the characters with colored pencils or paints. All that remains is to cut out the images, glue each one on the side and glue the top of the head to the head.

• plastic spoons;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• ready-made plastic eyes;
• glue gun;
• textile;
• narrow tape, scissors.

1. Using a glue gun, glue the finished eyes to the convex side of the spoon.
2. Turn a piece of fabric tied with a ribbon into a dress. For a male character, just glue a bow tie to his neck.
3. Cut strips of colored fringe paper on one side and glue this hair. They will also be replaced by pieces of colored cotton wool.

Other characters are controlled in the same way, to create which you will need:

• ice cream sticks;
• children's magazines;
• glue;
• scissors.

How to make a screen for a puppet theater?

This is an essential attribute of puppet theater. Check out the simplest options:

1. Cover the hole under the table with a cloth, tying its two corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the floor behind him and leads the characters at the level of the table top - just above it.
2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Gather any of these fabrics onto a rope, tie the ends of the thread on one and the other side of the doorway. Make a rectangular cutout in the center of the top of any of these pieces. It should be at such a height that it is not visible to a child or adult sitting behind the curtain who are playing the role of puppeteers.
3. A tabletop screen is made for the finger theater. The easiest way is to make it from cardboard. Take the box. It needs to be disassembled, covered with wallpaper or colored paper, and 2 sides bent so that a canvas of sufficient size remains in the center. There is a cutout in it through which the puppeteer shows finger toys.

• plywood;
• jigsaw;
• fabric or piece of wallpaper;
• glue;
• small door hinges.

1. Based on the presented dimensions, cut out 3 blanks from plywood: a central one and 2 side panels. Cover them with fabric.
2. When the canvas is dry, attach the loops to the designated areas so that you can close the puppet theater screen and fold it.

In order to make a screen, you will need:

• PVA glue;
• rope or lace;
• cardboard boxes;
• wallpaper;
• stationery knife;
• awl;
• roulette;
• wide brush;
• long ruler;
• rag.

1. The drawing is given for teenagers or adults whose height is 1 m 65 cm. If you are making a screen for children, reduce this figure.
2. To make it durable, make it three-layer. To do this, stick a second one on one large sheet of cardboard, then a third one on the other side. Apply PVA glue with a wide brush. This way you will make the front part - the apron.
3. The side elements are also made in three layers, but the folds, which you then glue to the apron, should consist of one layer.
4. Connect the parts by gluing them. When the glue has dried, sew in these places with a lace, having previously made holes in the fastening points. Attach the top arch in the same way.

We make do-it-yourself glove dolls

These can be seen in a real puppet theater. Dolls put gloves on their hands. By bending your fingers, you can make the fabric character tilt its head and move its arms.

If you then make human dolls, you can make the hairstyle from fabric or thread.

The thickness of the character's neck should be such that the puppeteer inserts his middle and index fingers here to control the hero of the play.

So, here's what you need to sew a glove doll:

• faux fur and/or plain fabric;
• tracing paper or transparent paper or cellophane;
• pen;
• scissors;
• threads;
• buttons for eyes.

But it is best to embroider the nose and mouth by stretching these areas onto a hoop or sewing blanks of appropriate colors and eye buttons.

Cut out a shirtfront from white fur for the bunny glove doll, sew its triangular part to the front half, and the semicircular part, in the form of a collar, to the back half. The tail is attached to the same reverse side, and white paws with or without pink claws are attached to both parts.

Other glove dolls, for example, a pig, are also created using this technique.

Do you and your child love fairy tales and interesting stories? How about getting together and spending time with the whole family? Do you want to arrange a small holiday for yourself in the middle of everyday life? Then it's time for home theater! Organizing a performance is not that difficult and can become a fun game in itself. Today we'll show you exactly how to do it and offer some great ideas to get you inspired.

The day of the performance is very exciting and filled with pleasant chores for the whole family. It will be interesting for everyone, young and old, to participate in the preparation: dad can be entrusted with constructing the stage, and older children will probably want to draw a poster and get some kind of role.

It’s great to play the theater on a cloudy and rainy day, when you don’t feel like going outside and want to spend time at home in a fun, interesting and useful way. Although on a fine day at the dacha you can stage a performance in the fresh air. And this is great entertainment during the holidays, when other families with children come to visit you.

Choose together what kind of performance you will stage. It is better to choose simple plots that are familiar and interesting to the child. For example, folk tales (“Kolobok”, “Teremok”, “Turnip”), stories and poems from the child’s favorite books are well suited.

A very important and exciting part of the preparation, which in itself can become an educational game, is drawing posters and tickets. Tickets are simply small pieces of paper with “Ticket” written on them. Instruct your child to deliver tickets to the spectators; for him this will be an honorable duty. The poster can be drawn small on an A4 sheet, or on a larger paper format, then the main part is drawn by adults and older children. Be sure to write the name in large letters. You can draw characters or a scene from a fairy tale, indicate the names of the actors.

In the meantime, the actors can prepare, remember the fairy tale, and adults will come to their aid. We have already written before how to help your child memorize simple poems.

Setting up the stage

Preparing a stage for a home theater with your own hands is a very responsible and creative task that will take time, and it is better to plan it for one of the days before the performance. All your efforts will certainly be worth it, because a beautiful and thoughtfully made stage will be useful to you for games more than once.

You can make a stage out of a box - either a large one from under household appliances or a small one, for example, from under dishes or toys, then you will have a mini-theater. Decorate the stage to your and your baby’s taste and build a curtain. You can prepare the backdrop and decorations specifically for the performance. Here are some ideas on how to do this.

An even simpler option is a curtain in the doorway, especially if you know how to sew.

Or you can simply cover a couple of chairs or a table with a blanket - and the stage is ready!

Making doll actors

Another interesting and very easy to implement idea is to draw faces or muzzles on plastic spoons.

Many kids like finger puppets. By playing with them, we also train fine motor skills. Mother craftsmen can sew or knit such dolls. Or you can cut them out of ordinary household gloves in a couple of minutes or simply draw faces on your fingers.

Home shadow theater

A shadow theater performance is always a special sacrament. Meanwhile, adding a little magic to your life is not so difficult. First we need to make a screen. For this, a lid from a box (for example, a shoe box) is useful, in the wall of which we cut out a window and glue a sheet of paper (regular office paper or tracing paper) on top. In addition, you can use white fabric as a screen in the doorway. We cut out figures for the shadow theater from cardboard. You can draw them yourself, print templates from the Internet or buy ready-made ones. The cardboard figurine will need to be attached to a stick, for example, from Chupa Chups.

You can also get shadows of animals using your hands. On a sunny day or in a dark room with a table lamp on, show your baby how to do this. And this is also a great way to stretch your fingers.

Well, that’s all, the preparations are over, the guests are in place, the lights go out, and the stage is illuminated by a table lamp. Support the little puppeteer, because he is very worried at this moment. And be prepared to take on most of the performance yourself. If a child stumbles somewhere, help and catch him. The performance itself can be very short, a few minutes. In any case, the family will be delighted and will not be stingy with praise and applause, because everyone did a great job!

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For most children, home theater is a significant event, because it is much more exciting than traditional games. You can act out funny scenes together, introduce your child to the fairy tale and its characters, and introduce an element of fantasy. Believe me, the child himself will not notice how he will become the main participant and director of the fairy tale.

Try everything together with your child and become his best friend and helper. By creating a home theater, you learn together how to make puppets, sew costumes, draw scenery, write a script, design a stage and, of course, perform the play itself.

Home puppet theater for little ones

Puppet theater is ideal for the little ones, since they are not yet ready to learn roles and go on stage in front of their parents or relatives. Puppet theater is very similar to ordinary play with toys. Familiar folk tales are suitable for children.

Don't forget to use your imagination: introduce new characters, add funny episodes, or change the ending.

It is no less interesting to compose and act out your own story. To begin with, it will be better if you put on a performance yourself. And over time, the baby will join the game, choosing his favorite character. You can buy a puppet theater or create it yourself, it’s up to you.

Separately, it is worth mentioning magnetic theaters as a wonderful way to develop imaginative and creative thinking in preschoolers. Magnetic kits allow preschool children to independently create their own fairy tales and stories.

Costumes and scenery for home theater

For slightly older children, you can move from puppet theater to “real” theater with roles, costumes and scenery.

• When preparing costumes, old dresses, scraps of fabric, and scarves will be used.

• For makeup, donate the contents of your cosmetic bag; there will probably be a lot of unnecessary cosmetics in there.

• Music is what helps a fairy tale come to life. To make the performance more fun and vibrant, you can choose musical accompaniment. Burn it onto a disc and play soft music during the performance.

• Stretch a rope and hang a large piece of canvas or curtain on it - and you have a screen. You can decorate the screen with flowers, birds, stars or snowflakes cut out of paper, depending on your imagination and the theme of the performance.

• What is a theater without scenery? Preparing them at home may take time. Make the scenery so that it can be used in other performances. For example, trees can be painted green on one side and yellow on the other to represent autumn and summer. You can stretch a thread and hang sun and clouds cut out of cardboard on it. Create together with the baby, figure out together what else you can do.

The child will be happy to take part in the design of the stage. It doesn’t matter if something is cut out and painted sloppily, it’s important that the child did it with pleasure. Create with your baby, invent with him.

For yourself, reserve the role of a storyteller - someone must lead the story: “Once upon a time, there was a grandfather and a woman...” and manage the whole process: monitor the performance of the little artists, suggest words if someone gets excited.

The main thing to remember is that children are not actors. They won't have the patience to learn their role by heart, so don't try to get them to perform well and have perfect coherence. This way you can easily discourage interest in your exciting venture.

Do not waste time on home performances - the result will be worth it, because for the children this is a real holiday.

You can arrange a real celebration with a performance. Give theater tickets specially designed for the occasion to relatives, neighbors or loved ones. Also, don’t forget to have an intermission with sweets and drinks.

The benefits of home theater

Home theater will help teach a child how to conduct a dialogue correctly, look for a way out of difficult situations, develop memory and independent thinking, and enrich their vocabulary. And children's memory will retain vivid impressions of your exciting time together.

Theatrical games develop expressive speech and creativity in children. And although the hobby for home theater, as a rule, ends with childhood, communication skills, improvisation, fantasy, and most importantly, speaking skills remain. Any performances liberate the child and help overcome shyness.

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Together with your child, make a puppet theater, stage and theatrical props at home. You will have something to surprise your guests and please your family on quiet family evenings. Fairy-tale characters will help feed, put to sleep, cheer, and educate the baby. Home theater is an excellent way of speech, emotional, and creative development. And the most important thing is a joint activity that unites all family members. There are enough roles for everyone!

Organizing a home theater does not require large financial expenditures; a lot can be made from scrap materials with your own hands. Just be prepared to sacrifice your time. But it's worth it, believe me! The sparkling eyes of a child, a storm of emotions, invaluable experience, funny photographs in the family archive, applause from the audience - this is not the entire list of future “dividends”.

Hiding behind dolls, getting used to the images of heroes, children often say things that they would not say in ordinary life. When playing in the theater, a child plays out what worries him at the moment, and on behalf of a fairy-tale character he tells his own problems, experiences, and fears. Staging performances helps improve communication skills, develops expressive speech and the ability to formulate one’s thoughts.

Let's look at what a home theater can be like, what and how to make dolls from.

How to make puppets for the theater

There are a lot of different finger puppets and glove dolls on sale. We will talk about dolls that you can easily make yourself at home. Sometimes you don’t have to know how to sew to do this.

You don't need to make many dolls. The gray wolf, fox, bear, hare and other popular heroes can participate in a huge number of fairy tales.

Finger puppets for home theater

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You can introduce children to theater from a very early age. The roles of the main actors will be played by our fingers. They just need to be dressed up a little. Over time, the little one will act out short scenes himself.

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Puppets for home theater can be connected with a key.

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Finger puppets can be sewn from scraps of fleece, felt or bright cotton and knitted fabrics.

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Finger puppets can be made from paper using the origami technique.

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Special developments allow you to make the figures more complex.

Stomper dolls

Stomper dolls are interesting and easy to make. Thick cardboard will do. It turns out to be a real walking doll!

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Any flat picture with two holes for the index and middle fingers will become a talented actor in your home theater in a matter of minutes, able to walk, jump and run funny.

Glove puppets for theater

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Lost gloves, socks without a pair, mittens, leftover fabric, felt, yarn, etc. will be used.

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A sock can turn into anyone if you sew on eyes, forelocks and other missing details of the image.

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If the doll is made in such a way that it can open its mouth, that's great! A character who speaks and moves his lips (mouth) believably is capable of many things.

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A simple pattern in the form of a potholder. Draw heroes on the front side.

Knitted dolls in the form of a mitten.

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Glove puppets can be made from broken toys. It is enough to attach the head to the glove cover. Heads from rubber toys are great.

You can not only sew a doll for your hand, but also felt it from wool.

Puppets

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You need to learn how to control a puppet. Coordination and dexterity are important here.

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You can make a doll from balls, large beads, or a piece of fabric. Be sure to cross and fishing line.

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Dolls on a stick

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Dolls made from disposable spoons. Fast - and comfortable to hold!

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You can use wooden skewers or ice cream sticks as holders.

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Dolls on stands

You can cut out characters for your home theater from magazines or make figurines yourself. Be sure to stick it on thick cardboard and make stands.

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Shadow theater

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It’s not difficult to set up a home shadow theater - a white sheet will serve as a screen, and instead of a projector you can take a regular table lamp.

You can invent and show characters using your hands.

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Flannelograph

Making a flannelgraph is simple - a piece of plywood or a board is covered with plain flannel. The characters are glued onto thick cardboard (you can cut out pictures from magazines or download them from the Internet). Velvet paper or sewing Velcro is glued to the back side.

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Let the fairy tale come to life!

Dear readers! Do you have experience organizing a home theater? Perhaps you attended performances organized by mothers and fathers you know with their children? Maybe you know how to make scenery and puppets for the theater? Tell us about it in the comments.