Theater is a means of emotional and aesthetic education of children in kindergarten. Theatrical activities make it possible to develop the experience of social behavioral skills due to the fact that every fairy tale or literary work for preschool children always has a moral orientation (kindness, courage, friendship, etc.). Thanks to the theater, a child learns about the world not only with his mind, but also with his heart and expresses his own attitude towards good and evil.
Theatrical activities help the child overcome timidity, self-doubt, and shyness. Theater in kindergarten will teach the child to see the beautiful in life and in people, and will give rise to the desire to bring the beautiful and good into life. Thus, theater helps the child develop comprehensively.
Our group room has a designated area for a theater corner. The theater corner is equipped with industrial aids, but we do some of it with our own hands.
Old discs once seemed almost magical. To some extent, they remain magical, but in a completely different sense - now you need to apply attention and a little skill to them in order to turn them into various elements of a tabletop puppet theater.
From the age of two, a child can retell a familiar fairy tale or part of a dialogue. He is very involved in the game and arouses his interest; at the same time, the hero of the fairy tale develops his speech. The child himself speaks for the bunny, for the bug, for the mouse.
This material can be used in group work and in individual work with children on speech development and the formation of interest in theatrical activities of preschoolers. Children act as storytellers and as spectators.
Theater is like a sorcerer, a wizard,
Swiping your magic wand,
And here is a child, modest and shy,
Today he suddenly plays the king.
Home puppet theater is a good way to develop a child. In particular, the project promotes the development of speech, imagination, and fine motor skills. At the same time, dolls have an excellent psychotherapeutic effect, since they can help a child cope with his fears and worries, as well as receive the attention that is sometimes so lacking. You can make a puppet theater for kindergarten with your own hands, and this applies not only to dolls, but also to screens and decorations.
Making dolls
Dolls can be made from completely different materials, including scrap materials. However, their size is not important. They can be finger-shaped, in the form of gloves or stationary figures.
Felt finger characters
Finger puppets allow you to develop your child’s fine motor skills, thinking and speech. Making miniature dolls is very simple. To do this, you need to prepare the following tools and materials:
- felt;
- threads;
- scissors;
- pattern paper;
- pencil.
You can draw the pattern for the character yourself. To do this, it is first recommended to choose a fairy tale or story that will be staged, and then carefully think through its characters. After this, you can start making characters:
When making finger puppets, you should immediately decide who will wear them. If this is a child, then the holes in the dolls should be such that the characters do not fall off during the performance.
Modeling paste
A special modeling paste can be a good material for making dolls. It can be replaced with salt dough or plasticine. The advantages of this material are that it can be used to make both finger puppets and stationary puppets. To make characters you need to prepare:
The sculpting process is quite difficult for a child, so an adult needs to be shown step by step how to make this or that figurine. At the same time, it is still worth leaving the child the opportunity to express his imagination. If a human figurine is needed for staging, you can sculpt it as follows:
- From a piece of pasta measuring 2*3 cm you need to roll a sausage and then form it into a cylinder. His figure should resemble a matryoshka doll with a torso and head. Make a notch at the bottom of the cylinder for your finger.
- Separately sculpt the arms that need to be attached to the body.
- All facial features can be made using a plasticine stack or knife.
- You can paint the character after the paste has dried and hardened.
Paper fairy tale heroes
Paper dolls are very easy to make, but they can be disposable because they tear easily during use. The size of the dolls depends on personal preference. They can be worn on a finger or the entire hand. To make a paper doll, you can cut out special templates along the contour, and then glue them in pairs so that both the back and the back sides match the characters. There is an easier way to make paper dolls:
- You need to glue a small tube from a sheet of colored paper by twisting the sheet and gluing it along the edge. Its dimensions depend on the type of puppet theater. The doll can be worn on a finger or be stationary
- On the resulting blanks you need to glue elements of the face and hands depending on the character.
It's better not to throw away plastic spoons
You can also make dolls from scrap materials. Plastic spoons do an excellent job of this. For such characters you need to prepare:
Additionally, you may need ready-made plastic eyes, as well as felt-tip pens or markers. After preparing all the necessary tools, you can proceed directly to making dolls. To do this you need:
- Glue or draw eyes on the convex side of the spoon.
- Wrap the fabric around the handle of the spoon and tie it with a ribbon to make a dress. If a male character is being made, then a bow tie can be glued at the junction of the handle and the convex part of the spoon.
- Make hair from colored paper. To do this, cut a fringe on one side of the strip, and then glue the whole part to the convex part of the spoon.
You can also use other available materials. For example, you can make smeshariki from disks with your own hands or take ice cream sticks.
Socks will help
You can very quickly make a puppet theater out of socks with your own hands. To make such characters, you must adhere to the following instructions:
Decorations for performances
Particular attention must be paid to the decorations. The easiest way to make them is from thick cardboard. To do this, you need to draw the required element on cardboard and then cut it along the contour. Additionally, you need to glue clothespins to the decoration, which will be used to attach the decorations to the screen. It is recommended to disguise them, since the fasteners cannot spoil the appearance of the stage or attract attention to themselves. Therefore, the clothespins should be disguised as part of the decoration, for example, as a figurine of a flower or mushroom. The number of clothespins depends on the size of the decoration itself.
Theater screen
The screen is the basis of the puppet theater in kindergarten. Its appearance depends on the type of theater. This could simply be a fabric curtain that can be used to cover the hole under the table. In this case, all actions will take place at the level of the table top. You can also make a dollhouse out of fabric with your own hands, the patterns for which you can draw yourself. If you are making a finger puppet theater with your own hands or using glove puppets, then you will need a table screen. It can be made from different materials.
A plywood screen will turn out to be very light, and it will last for many years. To make it you need to prepare:
- plywood;
- jigsaw;
- wallpaper or fabric;
- door hinges.
- Cut 3 blanks from the main material, that is, one central part and two sidewalls. They need to be covered with fabric or wallpaper.
- After all three parts are dry, they need to be connected using door hinges. This will allow you to close the screen and fold it.
In a similar way, you can make a screen from cardboard. However, it is recommended to make it three-layer, which will significantly increase the strength of the structure. It is not necessary to connect the parts with door hinges; they can simply be sewn together.
The age of children who go to kindergarten places special demands on the action itself. For a theatrical performance, it is recommended to choose simple, uncomplicated plots that are nevertheless capable of teaching important life things. Gradually, the repertoire can be increased, while periodically returning to already staged performances. The peculiarity of children is that they quickly get tired and stop paying attention to some subject. This means that the duration of the performance should not exceed 10-15 minutes. Additionally, you can use musical accompaniment.
A puppet theater in a kindergarten will help not only to reveal the talents of each child, but also to unite the team. And not only at the stage of staging fairy tales, but also in the process of making dolls. The children will definitely be delighted and will definitely not forget the emotions they felt at these moments.
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Olga Asylgareeva
The most popular and exciting direction in children's
age is theatrical activity. By participating in
theatrical games, children become participants in various events from
the lives of people, animals, plants, which gives them the opportunity to gain deeper knowledge
the world. At the same time, theatrical play instills in the child
sustainable interest in native culture, literature, theater. Huge and
educational value of theatrical games. Children develop
respectful attitude towards each other. They will know the joy associated with
overcoming communication difficulties and self-doubt. Passion
children with theatrical play, their inner comfort, relaxedness,
easy communication between an adult and a child. It is obvious that the theatrical
The activity teaches children to be creative individuals.
Dear Colleagues! For theater discs you will need:
*glue moment;
*eyes purchased from stationery stores:
*self-adhesive paper;
*clothes pegs;
*scissors.
Text step-by-step description of the master class
Foxy sister
1. Let's prepare stencils - ears, eyes, cheeks, mustache, nose, tongue, bangs, paws and “pads”.
2. Place the stencils on self-adhesive paper and cut them out.
3. Nose for a fox – let’s do this:
Cut out a semicircle from self-adhesive paper;
We connect one end of the paper to the other and get a cone.
We glue black self-adhesive paper onto the tip of the nose.
We bend the paper around the nose.
Apply glue to the bent edge of the nose and glue it to the disc.
4. Glue the cut out templates onto cardboard.
5. Glue the prepared parts and eyes onto the disk.
NOTE: TEMPLATES – BANGS, NOSE, FEET, MUSTACHA AND MOUTH CAN BE USED TO MAKE A MOUTH MOUSE.
"Frog - frog"
1. Let's prepare stencils - eyes, nose, eyelashes, tongue, paws.
2. Place the stencils on self-adhesive paper, trace them and cut them out.
3. Glue the prepared parts and eyes onto the disk.
4. Cut out the body and legs from green paper and glue it onto the disk.
5. For the stand you will need green clothespins.
Dog Bug
Hedgehog
Grandmother
Grandfather
House
GOOD LUCK!
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For everyone who has been there many times.
In our kindergarten, a review competition “The Best Center" was held. In preparation for it, we together with the children made scenery, screen, costumes and props were selected. Center " Theatrical activities"replenished with different types theater, tried to choose a fairy tale for each of them. I present to your attention master class on making a tabletop theater on disks(in our case this is the fairy tale “At the Command of the Pike”).
For work you will need children's books with fairy tales, unnecessary computer disks, pencil, glue, cardboard, scissors, tape, clothespins, storage container (according to your taste).
Let's get to work. First, we select illustrations in the book that will help convey the plot of the fairy tale. Apply to them one by one disk and trace with a simple pencil.
Now we glue each such blank onto cardboard face up, cover the top with tape for strength and cut it out.
All that remains is to paste the picture to disk and attach clothespins to make it convenient to place on the table.
All is ready! Invite viewers to watch the fairy tale!
The technology is very simple and does not require much effort. This way you can make a tabletop theater based on your preschoolers' favorite fairy tales. This material can also be used in individual work with children on speech development, formation of interest in theatrical activities of preschool children. Children can act not only as a spectator, but also as a storyteller.
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I bring to your attention a craft made from traditional material. To make a theater you will need: an empty candy box, bamboo.
Among the various forms of teaching and raising children in preschool age, theater and theatrical games occupy a special place, because it is a game.
