Teremok is a flat finger theater made of paper. DIY puppet theater Paper finger figurines

It just so happens today that children spend most of their time in front of the monitor.

Parents are sometimes touched by watching how skillfully a two-year-old child uses a keyboard or a ten-year-old son sits quietly at home, not getting lost in the middle of nowhere. Over time, the computer replaces books, sports and even communication in the family. The time has come to sound the alarm: even the most advanced construction kits and robot dolls cannot compete with the Internet.

Own puppet theater - a godsend for the family

In search of an alternative to a harmful hobby, adults often forget about such a magical art as puppet theater. After all, young and even older children are not at all indifferent to performances with dolls. They adore simple and clear performances with a funny plot, long-familiar characters and a happy ending.

Take your children to puppet theaters more often? That's not bad either. But we are talking about the child’s behavior at home. After all, it’s not at all difficult to make dolls with your family, in a cozy, friendly home environment, at no cost. And even organize the most interesting performances. Here the children themselves will have to persuade their parents to play their favorite game.

Finger theater and child development

From the age of two, a child can retell a fairy tale or part of a dialogue he knows. He is very involved in the game and at the same time his speech is developed by the finger hero of the fairy tale. The child himself speaks for the bunny, for the wolf, for the fox. You can make such dolls with your own hands from paper.

Paper puppet theater

The simplest theater is a paper one. Every mother can make it with her own hands. It’s easy to do this even on the road or while walking. Creating finger puppets begins with drawing characters. This is a separate interesting process, and you can and should involve your child in it. But it’s easier and faster to create an entire puppet theater by printing ready-made doll templates, of which there are quite a lot on the Internet. And then we only need scissors and glue.

Eat finger theater flat and round, and both will not require much preparation. In the first case, these are the heads or the upper half of the pupa, which are placed on each finger using a paper tube. You don’t even have to make the doll’s head separately, but simply glue together bright tubes or even cones.

Before connecting the edges of the future tube, we create an image. To do this, we glue beaded eyes, sponges, antennae, wings, handles, clothes and other character attributes onto the blanks. The ears can be immediately planned on the pattern. These dolls can be put on all fingers at once and make a real little show, playing with both hands.

Absolutely indispensable on a long journey and in a long line for entertaining the baby. And the child will not demand your iPhone, but will rather enthusiastically talk with the hero fingers or play out various scenes: from life, from the same computer game, or invented by him.

In the second case, the drawings have two holes for fingers and are glued to cardboard. The fingers inserted into the slots are the doll’s legs, which move and “revive” it. Only one such doll can fit on one hand, sometimes two.

Theater made of paper on wooden sticks

Puppet theater can be made no less interesting if, instead of fingers, you attach the characters of the play to sticks intended for examining the throat. Popsicle sticks are also great. Fairy-tale characters can be drawn or cut out from old color magazines and then pasted onto cardboard. Puppets on a stick will move in the slots of the landscape prepared for the performance. This scene is very easy to make from a piece of cardboard.

We color it according to the plot: like a clearing, a river bank or something else. The river itself, for example, can be replaced by a blue scarf thrown into such a clearing. Taking a stationery knife, we make several small cuts on the bottom side of the cardboard on the left and right and also, for example, below the left one. The openings for acting out the plot must accommodate two dolls at the same time.

Paper theater on plastic spoons

Plastic spoons can serve as an excellent material for a mini puppet theater using paper. You can glue bright pictures onto their convex “faces”, wrap scarves from paper strips and even put on paper dresses - the characters are ready for the play!

Tabletop paper theater on plastic cups, corks, cubes

Have you noticed that children sometimes just assign some cubes, corks or plastic cups to the role of dolls? Such is the power of their imagination! What if you stick appliqués depicting people or animals onto such items and play with your child a little?

The cubes are interesting because each face is decorated with a paper portrait of a new hero. You will get such a multi-faceted toy. With the help of paper, cups, corks and cubes will turn into a real puppet theater, and the game itself will become much more colorful and interesting. Most children will spend a long time acting out fairy tales and scenes from life, even without our participation. The “troupe” can be replenished endlessly or easily replaced with new characters.

A tabletop theater helps develop the child’s imagination, expressive, and coherent speech. With a little imagination, every adult, and following his example, a child, will be able to come up with and make with their own hands new interesting versions of their own paper puppet theater. For example, from paper bags or papier-mâché.

IN home theater, unlike the other, where he mainly enjoys the spectacle, the baby can speak out. And here he receives the attention of his parents. And adults should carefully listen to the conversations the dolls are having in their child’s hands.

Vera Stroganova

Educator: Stroganova Vera Yurievna

In my work with children on theatrical performance, I use various types theater: table theater on sticks; carpet theater; finger theater; masque; theater on capsules; shadow theater; Bi-ba-bo theater; theater on clothespins; reel theater, puppet theater, etc.

I bring to your attention some types of theater made by myself.

Children really enjoy playing theater and inventing and acting out fairy tales themselves. These types of theater are very convenient in that they can be shown both behind a screen and anywhere in the group. The theater is constantly being replenished. Some children made a similar theater at home. They act out performances with parents and relatives.

Theater on sticks

For this type of theater, the guys and I used popsicle sticks.

We found, cut out and glued images of animals and cartoon characters to sticks

Target: Improving the ability to invent and expressively tell tales.

Tasks:

3. Develop creative imagination, speech, fine motor skills.

Theater on sticks

"Vegetable Dispute"

For this type of theater, the guys and I used chopsticks.

We found, cut out and glued images of vegetables to sticks.

Target:

Tasks:

2. Learn to pass characteristic features fairy-tale heroes.

Finger Theater

“Create, show and tell a fairy tale”

For this type of theater, the guys and I made mini cups (origami) out of paper. Parents printed out the characters various fairy tales, we cut out and glued their images onto mini cups.

Target: Improve the ability to invent and expressively tell stories.

Tasks:

2. Learn to convey the characteristic features of fairy-tale characters.

4. Develop fine motor skills of the hands, namely, teach children to move their index finger in accordance with the text.

5. Improve the telling of a familiar fairy tale.

Theater on capsules

"The Tale of the Stupid Mouse"

For this type of theater, the guys and I used Kinder Surprise capsules. We found, cut out and glued images of animals to the capsules.

Target: Improve the ability to remember and tell stories expressively.

Tasks:

2. Learn to convey the characteristic features of fairy-tale characters.

3. Develop creative imagination, variability of thinking, the ability to compose a joint sequential text, and develop speech.

Theater on reels

"Where the sparrow dined"

Here we used spools of thread (from old stock).

We found, cut out and glued images of animals to the reels. The images are stable and it is very convenient to move the characters.

Target: Improve the ability to remember and tell stories expressively.

Tasks:

2. Learn to convey the characteristic features of fairy-tale characters.

3. Develop creative imagination, speech, variability of thinking, and the ability to compose a joint sequential text.

4. Improve the telling of a familiar fairy tale.

Theater on clothespins

"Under the mushroom"

Well, here clothespins were glued to the pictures. We thought through the structure of the box (it had strips of cardboard glued to the bottom so that characters could be attached to the foreground and background) and the theater was ready. The characters are put into a box after the game. Very convenient.

Target: Improve the ability to remember and tell stories expressively.

Tasks:

2. Learn to convey the characteristic features of fairy-tale characters.

3. Develop creative imagination, speech, variability of thinking, and the ability to compose a joint sequential text.

4. Develop fine motor skills of the hands

5. Improve the telling of a familiar tale

Making a theater with your own hands is not that difficult. All you need is desire, a little patience and your fairy tale will come true.

Thank you for your attention!

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Today we will show you how to make cool paper finger toys for little ones. With the help of these animals, your children will be able to play a fun farm, or even show a small puppet theater. Making them is very simple, since we have already prepared animal templates for you. All you have to do is print them and assemble them. You can make a pig, a cat, a horse, a mouse and a rabbit for your children.

Everything that you will need:

• thick paper
• scissors
• toy templates (download)

Let's do

First, print out the templates for future toys and carefully cut them out. Look carefully, there are also parts for rings that will be glued to the heads of the animals, and then put on the child’s finger so that he can control the character’s head. These rings also need to be cut out.

Now roll the animals' bodies to form a main ring where the child will insert his finger.

Now it’s time for the little rings that need to be glued into the animals’ heads.

That's all, the toys are ready! You can start playing with the children.

DIY finger theater

Master class on making finger puppets from felt

Author: Ekaterina Nikolaevna Demidova, teacher, MBDOU “Combined Kindergarten No. 62 “Silver Hoof”, Kurgan

Theater is thoughts free flight,
Theater – here fantasy blooms generously...
Vladimir Miodushevsky
The master class is designed for educators and specialists preschool institutions, teachers additional education, parents and creative individuals.
The finger theater is intended for theatrical activities in kindergarten and at home; it can be used directly during educational activities like a surprise moment. It can become a wonderful tradition for your family.
The choice of material – felt – is determined by the following criteria:
easy to process, edges do not crumble;
wide range of colors, different thickness and density;
natural, safe for health!!!
Target: making a finger theater to develop children's creative abilities through theatrical activities.
Tasks:
introduce the technology of making felt finger puppets;
develop children's acting and directing abilities;
develop fine motor skills;
promote the enrichment and activation of vocabulary, develop monologue and dialogic speech;
to develop interest in arts and crafts;
develop skills in organizing practical activities.
Materials and tools:
simple felt, with a self-adhesive base;
lace;
beads, rhinestones, small buttons, small eyes for dolls;
reinforced threads;
tailor's pins;
needle;
tailor's chalk;
pattern paper;
"second" glue;
scissors;
sewing machine.

Fairy tale "Turnip" on clothespins. MK from me

I suggest you make a “Turnip” fairy tale for your kids. This method using clothespins develops the kids’ imagination, attention, they can independently rearrange the characters, develops the baby’s motor skills and tactile perception. The point is that the clothespins easily attach to each other.
Actually, what I’m saying is, let’s try to create a fairy tale together and you will see everything for yourself!
To work you will need:
Cardboard with images of characters (I copied them from the Internet and mirrored the drawing so that the characters were visible from 2 sides, this allows you to gather several children around you and no one will remain indifferent), scissors, clothespins 8 pcs (I took wooden ones, clean material, but you can use whatever you like), glue (I used hot-melt glue, I had it on hand, but you can use anything that glues paper to wood). The whole action, along with printing the characters, will take a maximum of an hour.

We cut out all our characters and glue the heroes of the fairy tale with glue to the base of the clothespin on both sides.
!!!Before you stick it, look carefully to see if the characters are positioned in the right direction!!!

For the theater, you can also take a box and stick the background of the fairy tale and the ground on the inside on the bottom of the sides, place the box and perform all the actions against its background.
We finished doing it and then the fairy tale began.....

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