Shadow theater with hand figures for children. How to make a shadow theater for children? The principle of organizing the spectacle

Shadow theater is magic that can live in your home. You can create it for your child with your own hands.

What we need:

Thick cardboard
white paper
PVA glue
brushes for glue and paint
scissors
steel wire 2 mm
wire cutters and pliers for working with wire
wooden slats approximately 1.5 X 1 cm
Fibreboard approximately 14 X 30 X 40 cm
screws
wallpaper nails
dye
white fabric (cotton) without pattern
cocktail straw
insulating tape
slide projector (lantern, table lamp)
templates (you can take ready-made ones, or you can draw them yourself)

Draw or print templates for puppets and decorations.

Puppets for shadow theater can be small in size - about 5-10 cm, and during the performance the height of the characters can be changed by bringing the figure closer to the screen or, conversely, moving it away.

Glue the template sheets onto cardboard. Try to lubricate the template with glue without gaps, but not too much - the part should fit tightly and not warp the cardboard base.

Press dry the dolls and cover them with a layer of PVA glue for strength. The brush should be semi-dry so that the figures do not warp.

Cardboard dolls are not easy to cut, especially in areas where there are internal or external corners. Instead of scissors, it is convenient to use a stationery knife.

If you have golden hands and a lot of patience, you can use a stationery knife to cut out the kennels of the face, eyes and small parts inside the dolls. If you glue transparent tracing paper onto the figures, they will sparkle with different shades of black and gray. You can also use transparent color film to add color.

To make movable dolls, you need to separately draw and cut out arms, legs and other parts that can move. Dynamic parts rotate on screws or wire, and a wire holder is attached to each of them for control.

If the dolls are still warped, put them under a press for several days.

Holders for dolls and decorations can be made removable for convenience. Glue paper pockets on the back of the dolls. They should be slightly curved outward so that the holder loop fits in easily.

The most suitable material is wire. Make rings on both sides of a piece of wire - one for the pocket on the “back” of the doll, the other so that the holder does not rotate in your hands. We got holders 13 cm long for dolls. The decoration holders turned out to be 5 cm long and with rings on only one side. The diameter of the rings is 1 cm.

If you don't have wire, gluing on popsicle sticks is a quick option for doll holders. But it has a drawback - the sticks roughen and spoil the silhouette of the dolls during the performance.

You can make standard dolls (grandfather, grandmother, granddaughter, animals) and use them in different performances. If you want to put new performance, you will only have to make the missing heroes. Sets of heroes for different fairy tales It is advisable to place them in signed envelopes.

The screen for the performance can be wooden or cardboard. You can even use a picture frame instead of a screen.

Cardboard screens are easier to make and decorate, but are less durable.

It is not at all necessary to make the screen traditionally rectangular. If you are seriously interested in shadow theater, then you can make a whole set of screen-scenery in the form of a castle, a forest, a hut...

Our screen is made of wooden slats. Its dimensions are:

total height – 45 cm
height of “camouflage” fiberboard – 15 cm
screen height – 30 cm
frame width – 50 cm
the length of the stands (legs) for the frame is 25 cm.

The frame needs to be painted, and the lower part of the frame can be decorated with a story picture.

A favorite theme for screen design is the starry sky. For our theater, we played up the plot of the fairy tale about the golden key. We made decorations from silver insulating tape.

For strength, parts can be coated with PVA glue or varnish.

The screen is covered with fabric. To measure the fabric correctly, trace the frame directly onto the fabric and cut out a rectangle, slightly away from the edge (about 1 cm around the entire perimeter).

On the back side of the bottom rail of the screen, grooves for decoration holders are glued. We used a cocktail straw, cut into pieces about 3 cm long.

We stretch the fabric and attach it with wallpaper nails. The smoother the canvas is stretched, the clearer the contours of the figures will be.

Behind the screen, at a distance of about 25 cm, a light source is installed - a flashlight, a slide projector or a table lamp.

The direction of light is from above and behind, so the puppeteer’s hands will be invisible, and the shadows will be the clearest. The puppeteer's hands are located between the screen and the light source, and the puppeteer himself is located behind the light.

Tips for a puppeteer

For the first performances, choose simple stories from folk tales.
Rehearse well and learn the secrets of shadow theater before performing.
If you want a puppet or decoration to disappear or appear unnoticeably, turn it so that its edge is facing the screen and move it.
Arrange the dolls in order, and then during the performance the audience will not have to wait long for the “artist” to come out.
During the performance, play appropriate music.
Voice each doll with “her” voice.
By moving the light source, you will achieve different effects - depict wind, storm or snow.
IN shadow theater You can play anywhere there is bright light and a flat wall. Instead of dolls there are finger figurines.

Children immediately fall in love with the shadow theater. First, they enthusiastically watch the performances, and then begin to invent the plot themselves. Let, regardless of whether the child has directorial abilities or not, an ovation always awaits him at home.

Creativity in children needs constant nourishment. And sometimes standard toys at home are no longer very pleasing. They want more - their own performances, invented stories that can be demonstrated to parents in an unusual form. The play of shadows in this case becomes an excellent solution. Let's look at how to make a shadow theater with your own hands at home and what you need for this.

What can become a shadow theater

Of course, the main characters in any shadow theater plot will be the shadows themselves. However, there may be several options for how and on what basis they can be obtained.

	Hand movements	You can make a theater with your own hands in the literal sense of these words. Probably, many, given a convenient angle and opportunity, create all kinds of figures of birds, fish, and animals from their hands on the wall. But you can turn improvisation into a real art if you learn how to correctly group your hands for a particular character.
	Shadow theater on the wall	If you have a large spotlight or lamp in your home and a lot of free space, you can direct the light at an angle onto a wall that does not have unnecessary objects. Children stand under these rays and begin to act out scenes; I find the poses interesting. Figures cut from a stencil can also be reflected on the wall. You can cover the spotlight itself and the “scriptwriters” with a screen made with your own hands from chairs and bedspreads.
	Performance on stage	The audience sits in the dark, with a “screen” in front of them. Manipulations with figures made of cardboard, wood or plain paper take place between the front wall of the stage and the lamp.

How to make a shadow theater with your own hands at home

If with the first two options everything is quite easy to come up with, then with the third you need to try. You can go the simple route and use a simple cardboard box as the basis for the scene. For example, from household appliances. A white sheet or thin white paper is stretched over the box. Special paper for patterns is also suitable - it has optimal density and does not show through.

You can make the figures yourself from different materials, but cardboard is best suited for this role, because it will be possible to cut out thin details from it (handles, legs, tails, smooth curves). You can come up with characters yourself or use stencils.

1. Initially, cut out two identical parts from cardboard and, when gluing them, place a part of the cane inside from below.
2. Tape the cane to the back of the figure. You can take a tube, cut its tip into strips, place them to the sides and glue these strips to the back of the hero.
3. Glue it with glue.

The cane itself can be a wooden skewer, a toothpick, or a plastic tube. The decorations are made similarly to the characters and are mounted on foam plastic or any other suitable material.

If you want to make your own shadow theater even more interesting for children, you can make individual parts of the characters movable. They are cut out and attached to the main part with wire or thread. To do this, holes are made on both sides. The moving part also needs to be attached to a skewer, or, even better, placed on a string, which the child himself can pull up at the right moment - the character’s arm or leg will magically rise and the bird will fly away.

The light source in this case can be an ordinary lamp, which will shine at a right angle onto the back of the stage, highlighting the figures of the characters in the shadow theater. But it will still be safer to use a flashlight.

Interesting exciting games, can be used with great delight by children both in kindergarten and at children's day birth. You can start with staging the simplest ordinary fairy tales, where only 3-4 characters are used (for example, “Ryaba Hen”), and then create original performances with children for grandparents in several hands.

Shadow theater is an ancient, very spectacular and amazing (especially for children) art form. How to make a screen and “actors” for a shadow theater with your own hands; how to come up with and provide for the most spectacular and surprising moments of the performance; how to involve children in rehearsals and staging shadow theater performances - answers to all these questions can easily be found in the publications of this thematic section. Here is collected the living experience of teachers in the field of this type of theatrical art, which contains great opportunities for the comprehensive development of children.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW

STATE BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

CITY OF MOSCOW "SCHOOL No. 851"

(GBOU School No. 851)

Prepared by: Chirkina E.N.

teacher first

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Moscow 2017

Master class “Do-it-yourself shadow theater”

Integration educational areas: cognition, communication, socialization, artistic creativity.
Target: Stimulate children and their initiative in theatrical activities.
Tasks: Develop imagination, creative abilities, develop the articulatory apparatus. To form in children a persistent interest in theatrical activities, a desire to participate in a common action, to encourage children to actively interact and communicate, teaches them to be able to communicate with peers and adults in various situations, to develop speech and the ability to actively build dialogue. Develop play behavior, aesthetic feelings, and the ability to be creative in any task.

"The theater is magical world. He gives lessons in beauty, morality and ethics. And the richer they are, the more successful the development is. spiritual world children..."
(B.M. Teplov)

"Magic land!" - this is what the great Russian poet A.S. Pushkin once called the theater. The feelings of the great poet are shared by both adults and children who have come into contact with this amazing form of art.

A special role belongs to the theater in solving problems related to the upbringing and development of a preschool child. Through theatrical and playful creativity, we can develop children’s emotional responsiveness, intellectuality, and develop children’s communication skills, artistry, and speech activity.

In the daily life of a kindergarten, teachers use various types of theaters: bibabo, finger, table, planar (flannelgraph or magnetic board), puppet, book theater, mask theater, etc.

I want to tell and show how to make a complex and at the same time very interesting shadow theater.

Shadow Theater – ancient theater. Since time immemorial, shadow paintings have been shown in India, China, Java and Turkey on the street at night under the light of an oil lamp.

Props , which is required for this theater: a light source (for example, a headlamp, a table lamp, a filmoscope), a screen with a white screen, silhouette puppets on sticks.
Shadow theater is an ancient theater. Since time immemorial, shadow paintings have been shown in India, China, Java and Turkey on the street at night under the light of an oil lamp.

For work we will need:

Carton,
- colored paper,
-glue,
-scissors,
- figured hole punches,
- parchment paper,
-contour drawings of the heroes of the fairy tale “Kolobok”.

Carefully cut the edges of the cardboard box, then cut out the bottom of the cardboard box (as in the photo). This gives us the basis for our craft.

After pasting the base with blue paper.
Then cut out a rectangle of the desired size from parchment paper and glue it tightly to the inside of the base.

Now let's start making characters.
Cut out the outline drawing (since I don’t know how to draw, such drawings help me out)
Afterwards we apply the finished drawing to thick black paper, trace with a simple pencil and cut it out.

Then we roll up a roll of white paper and carefully apply glue to the edge (as in the photo)