Cardboard man and a moth. There are different theaters Cardboard house theater

Good afternoon, guests and blog readers! Today I again want to touch on the topic of how and how to lure a child at home. This topic is very close to me, because I have two children at home. That require attention and care.

In the previous article, I told you about didactic games with your favorite characters from Paw Patrol. Read who missed this episode here.

Today I want to offer another version of playing at home, this is a puppet theater. Of course, you can take your child to a real puppet theater, or you can create it at home.

Therefore, I will share with you some thoughts, developments to make such a miracle.

We need: your desire and a little free time 🙂

To be honest, we have at home different variants theaters, for example this wood.

My kids love him very much, because it is so funny and exciting when I show them a fairy tale, and they sit and listen. Now I have an eldest son, he can show and tell fairy tales himself. Just think, it's very cool, because the child is playing, learning to retell his favorite fairy tale, build a dialogue, etc.

I think that all preschool children, as well as most of the younger children school age such theaters will not remain indifferent. And if you also come up with fairy tales with a funny plot, and an intriguing end, then in general it can turn out real holiday for a child.

The simplest version of a do-it-yourself puppet theater is a paper one. It is easy to make it yourself. Well, or together with a child.

DIY paper finger puppet theater, patterns

Paper finger puppet theater, children like it very much, it attracts them, and also develops fine motor skills hands. Take a look.

The first option is a flat round finger theater. You need to make the head and the upper part of the doll, you will put on your finger using a paper ring or you can make cones.

Create these dolls with your child, start with character templates. Download them on my site by writing me a comment below, I will gladly send you templates, print and play fun.

After all, finger puppet theater is a whole magical art in which children learn the world... Any child will like being in the role of an artist, and this helps to believe in yourself and achieve success in the future. Also this good material for the development in children of such processes as imagination, thinking, as well as the development of fine motor skills and much more.

Finger theater can be made of any materials at hand, such as paper, fabric, cardboard, cork, thread, cups, etc.

DIY desktop paper theater, templates

I show my children, here is such a desktop paper theater, which I made very quickly.

We need:

• cups from Rastishka, illustrations, ice cream sticks

Stages of work:

1. Take any illustrations and cut out along the contour of all the characters in the fairy tale.

3. Glue ice cream sticks on each fairytale hero.

4. Now take the cups and make a horizontal hole on top of each cup with a clerical knife.

5. Well, now insert the stick with the hero into the glass. Look at how lovely it is. Very easy and simple, no worse than buying in a store.

Ice cream sticks can be replaced with plastic forks or spoons.

If you do not want to take illustrations from books, then you can find characters from any fairy tales on the Internet, save them, and then print them, and then cut them out and stick them on sticks. You can download from my site such ready-made templates heroes based on such tales: Kolobok, Teremok, Turnip, Zaichya's hut, just write a comment or review below, and I'll send you an email.

Paper puppet theater "Hodilki"

Such a theater is very popular with young children; for such a theater, favorite characters and a couple of holes are needed.

Believe me, children will be happy to play such games.

And if you invite friends to visit, then the game will be even more fun.

You can also receive samples of your favorite heroes' walkers to your e-mail address.

Desktop paper theater on plastic cups, corks, cubes

This option is also very easy to make, you can even draw the characters themselves, or find and cut out, and then glue them onto corks or cubes. Everything is ingeniously simple.

How do you like this idea? All children love a kinder surprise, and they all have little containers that you can bring to such a theater.

DIY glove doll

In reality, a lot of puppet theaters can be built. Even with almost no cash costs. You just need to turn on your wit and do it! You can sew for example.

And you can learn to knit and knit such cute heroes:

I honestly, I used to knit well, now there is not enough time for all this. But I never liked sewing. But, also as an option, you can sew a theater who loves this business.

Although here's the easiest master for you - a class on sewing a puppet theater from fabric, using gloves. Anyone can handle it, even those who do not know the art of sewing.

We need:

• household gloves, knitted - 2 pcs., buttons for eyes - 2 pcs., threads, scissors, braid, stationery knife

Stages of work:

1. Take the first glove and steam the seam on the cuff, it is usually red or yellow color... Tuck in your little finger, big and index finger so that they do not come out, sew them up. You should have a head with ears and a neck. Sew the bases at the ears so that your fingers do not get there.

2. Now take the next glove and hide your ring finger in it, sew the hole. Put your middle and index fingers together and now slide the hare's head over them.

3. Sew the head to the neck. To hide the seam around the neck, tie a bow or bow tie. Sew on the button eyes and embroider the muzzle, or you can draw with a marker. You can decorate a bunny from a cannon or knitted threads by gluing a cute little bunny on its head. 😯

Thus, other toys can be made, such as a dog, parsley, etc.

My son, in general, loves such a simple glove, puts it on and walks around all sorts of stories coming up with heroes 🙂

Here is such a short article for today. I think how many of you have small children, you will be happy to diversify their leisure time. Choose any kind of theater, do it with your child. And then enjoy good mood and positive. After all, all joint work strengthen your relationship! And the child will be only happy and glad of this, and will certainly tell you: "Mommy, how I love you!" The most magical words in this world.

Well, I say goodbye to you for today. Until next time.

P.S Do you know what is very important ?! It is in the home puppet theater that you can observe the child, his behavior. Because the kid can think of something, speak out, and we adults should still listen to what the child is talking about, what kind of conversations he is talking about.

Learn how to create a do-it-yourself puppet theater. In this case, characters can not only be sewn, dazzled, but also made from plastic spoons, wooden sticks.

DIY finger puppet theater

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

For this you will need:

• felt;
• threads;
• scissors.

As you can see, the characters of the Turnip fairy tale are cut out very simply. Each hero consists of two identical parts. But on one side you need to embroider facial features with threads. You can make them and cut them out of dark felt, and then glue or sew on.

Fold 2 blanks of the character with the wrong sides, sew along the edge on a typewriter or thread with a needle on your hands.

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

But what the heroes of the fairy tale "Ryaba Hen" can be like.

Cut out your grandfather's beard and bangs, and cut your grandmother's hair out of gray felt. It will also help create a mouse with a long tail. These are the dolls you can sew for a puppet theater. If the baby will wear them, cut them out so that they are the size of his fingers. If the play is shown for children by adults, then the fabric dolls should be slightly larger.

Check out one more interesting idea... This can be a home puppet theater for staging the fairy tale "Turnip". V kindergarten it is better to have larger characters so that the whole group can see them from afar. But you can do this by taking:

• modeling paste (better than Jovi, which does not need to be fired, it hardens in air);
• yellow and green Jovi Patcolor paste;
• acrylic paints;
• brushes;
• felt-tip pens;
• stacks.

1. Let's sculpt the grandfather first. Take a 2x3 cm piece of pasta, roll it into a sausage, form a cylinder. You should have a semblance of a nesting doll with a body and head, and at the bottom there will be a notch for a finger.
2. Sculpt the handles separately, attach them to the body. But mark the facial features, beard, mustache with a stack.
3. Sculpt a grandmother, granddaughter and animals using the same principle. When these characters are dry, paint them with acrylics.
4. For a turnip, roll a ball of yellow paste, pull it out slightly from above, insert green plastic tops here, fix.

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

This is how you get a finger puppet theater, with your own hands a child can play the tale "Turnip" or come up with his own story with some of these characters.

DIY table theater

If you want to have table theater with paper dolls, then enlarge the next image. Print it on a color printer on thick paper. If this is not possible, attach a sheet of thin paper to the screen, transfer the outlines to it. Then place on cardboard, draw outlines, have the child decorate the characters with crayons 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.

And here are some more templates by which puppets for the theater are easily made. With your own hands or, giving the blanks to the child, cut them along the contours, glue them in pairs.

If you glue a small rectangular sheet of colored paper on the side, you get a small tube. It should be such that it fits well on the finger. Glue the ears, nose, eyes, front paws to the workpiece, and you get the hero of the finger puppet theater.

These characters can be crafted from the most unexpected materials. See how to turn plastic spoons into stage heroes.

To make these toys for a puppet show, take:

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

Then follow these instructions:

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, it is enough to glue a bow tie around his neck.
3. Cut strips of colored paper with a fringe on one side, glue this hair. They will also be replaced by pieces of colored cotton wool.

Everything, the children's puppet theater at home is ready. Take a large cardboard box, cover it with colored paper, turn it over. Make a slot in the bottom with a knife, insert spoons here and guide the dolls along these holes, as if along a path.

Other characters are controlled in the same way, for the creation of which you will need:

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

Let the child cut pictures of people, animals from a magazine or from an old book, stick them on sticks.

If you want to make another tabletop theater, then milk bottle caps can be used. Plastic cups for yogurt.

Glue paper heroes of fairy tales to the back of these objects, and you can act out old plots with them or come up with new ones. The background is created from a large sheet of cardboard, which is painted in the theme.

How to make a screen for a puppet theater?

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

1. Cover the hole under the table with a cloth by tying its two corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the back of the floor and guides the characters to the level of the table top - just above it.
2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Gather any of these canvases on a rope, tie the ends of the thread on one and the other side of the doorway. Make a rectangular cutout in the center at the top of any of these canvases. It should be at such a height that the child or adult sitting behind the curtain, who is playing the role of puppeteers, cannot be seen.
3. A desktop screen is made for the finger theater. The easiest way is to make it out of cardboard. The box is taken. It needs to be disassembled, pasted over with wallpaper or colored paper, bend 2 sidewalls so that a canvas of sufficient size remains in the center. A cutout is made in it, through which the puppeteer shows finger toys.

Here's how to make a plywood screen. For her you will need:

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

Manufacturing instruction:

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

See how to make a cardboard screen in order to be able to show performances with mittens, gloves, cane puppets. It should be such that the puppeteer fits there freely, standing in full height... If the play is shown by children of different ages, then the tall ones will kneel, placing a pillow under them.

In order to make a screen, you will need:

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

A do-it-yourself screen for a puppet theater is crafted as follows:

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

It remains to cover the screen with wallpaper of a dull color so that they do not distract from the theatrical performance.

We make doll gloves with our own hands

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

Children's puppet theater on hand will have many characters if you use the proposed template.

But it is not necessary to create all the heroes at once. Let's start with two - bunnies and a pig. Having understood how to make such dolls gloves, you can sew others, thereby, gradually replenishing your theater.

If you then make human dolls, you can make a hairstyle from fabric or from threads.

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

Before sewing theater puppets, put a puppeteer glove on the repetitive pattern to decide if the base fits. If not, then increase or decrease it. You can do without a glove by placing the puppeteer's hand on the base pattern. Please note that the character will not be static, so you need to add a little on all sides for a free fit so that the fabric of the action hero does not stretch while controlling him.

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

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

Enlarge this pattern. Attach a transparent material (cellophane, paper or tracing paper) to it, redraw. Cut along the contour.

Place the template on a folded fabric, cut with a 7 mm seam allowance. For a bunny, it is better to take a gray fabric or white fur, for a piglet - pink.

If you want to draw facial features, ponytails, palms, hooves, then do it now, before stitching both halves of each character. Use fabric dyes that won't fade when washed. If there are none, then use watercolor, gouache, but first apply a PVA solution to the fabric, paint this place after it dries, but use a minimum of water. When the paint is dry, lay another layer of PVA on top to secure it.

But it is best to embroider the nose, mouth, pulling these sections over the hoop or stitching blanks of the corresponding colors and buttons-eyes.

Cut out a white fur shirt-front for the doll's bunny gloves, sew its triangular part to the front half, and a semicircular one, in the form of a collar, to the back. To the same back side a tail is stitched, and white paws with or without pink claws are attached to both parts.

When sewn small parts, you can grind both halves of the doll on the wrong side on a typewriter or on the face - on the hands. In the latter case, use an over-the-edge seam or take a translucent tape and wrap around the side seam.

In this technique, other dolls and gloves are created, for example, a piglet.

When the sides have been sewn on all sides, hem the bottom. The characters' ears can be stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester. Fill the pig's nose with any of these materials, only then sew this "patch" to the head. Applique to his cheeks for a blooming look. It remains to sew a few yellow threads between the ears, and another doll glove is ready.

Now you know how to sew characters for a puppet theater, if you want to see it also, then check out the following stories.

Who would have thought that in the 19th century, cardboard theater was one of the serious hobbies of adults living in Great Britain, Germany and Denmark. In puppet theaters, scenes from real historical events... The hobby became widespread. Large cardboard boxes were taken out on market days in the square. Played live music... Wealthy parents could buy ready-made sets cardboard performances and arrange a theater at home. Pablo Picasso and Lewis Carroll created their own cardboard stage, inventing new plays for adults and children. Why not follow their lead?

1 Theater begins ...

All ingenious is simple! This also applies to your future. cardboard theater.

What you need:

• shoe box
• scissors
• wallpaper cutter
• plain cardboard
• oil pastels (or colored pencils)
• scotch tape (regular and double-sided)
• long bamboo sticks (like canapes)

Progress:

1. Take the shoe box lid and cut out the middle to make a large window. Use duct tape to glue the lid to the box.
2. Have your child paint the bottom of the box. These will be the background decorations. For this task, oil pastels are perfect.
3. Use a wallpaper cutter to cut openings in the "roof" of the future theater. They are needed to move self-made actors around the stage. Build columns and stucco - draw outlines on cardboard, cut out, paint and tape the box to the front of the box.

2 Making decorations

If you have to depict a meeting of animals on a forest edge, let the kid take a cardboard box, pencils and draw strawberry bushes - these are additional decorations, make sure that there is a few centimeters of free space under each picture - the "extra tail" will be a support for the decoration. The strawberry bush can be placed both inside the theater and in front of it. This will create a three-dimensional, lively effect.

3 Recruiting actors

A very exciting moment for a baby. He will have to decide which characters will participate in his performance and how he will distribute the roles. Allow your child to dream up to their heart's content. Let people and animals meet on the stage, coffee pots and flowers come to life ... It's such happiness - to create magic with your own hands! In an unobtrusive way, children develop thinking, learn projection, and create perspective. Cut out the finished characters and use adhesive tape to glue them to the bamboo stick so that the actor stays on the bottom and the stick on top. Then slide each character into the box through the slots in the theater ceiling. The actors must be clearly visible. Check the height of the sticks. They should not roll onto their side.

4 Hooray, rehearsal!

Discuss in advance what will happen on stage. Make a list actors... Let the little one think about what the characters will be. Magpie - sly, in bright beads. The boy is kind, in a blue panama hat. So it will be more interesting for him and you to play with intonation, to demonstrate the behavior of the characters on the stage. It may take several days to prepare for the show. The reward for long rehearsals will be applause from friends and family.

5 Secrets of a graphic artist

▸ Oil pastel - perfect option for babies. Bright, juicy colors are well read by children early age... It does not slip out of your hands, it allows you to create a character with a few strokes.

▸ Markers are one of the favorite “tools” of younger students. Drawing butterflies in bouquets of young ladies, specks on the ties of mustachioed gentlemen, beads on the neck of a magpie are preferable with felt-tip pens - the audience will see everything from the mezzanine.

▸ Colored pencils are a timeless classic. When choosing, pay attention to the lead. It shouldn't be dry, like scratching paper. If the resulting character comes out pale and barely noticeable, the child can be upset. Choose pencils with a thick, soft lead.

6 Simple plots for performances

Forest history

▸ Hedgehog meets Squirrel, she cries - Magpie stole a letter from Bunny with an invitation to the ball.

▸ Bunny appears, and everyone is happy to meet and have fun.

▸ The magpie is embarrassed, she asks for forgiveness, the animals reconcile.

Sea adventure

▸ The dog runs to the beach, plays with a ball.

▸ A boy and a mother appear, leave their things, go for a swim.

▸ The crab dresses up in a boy's panama hat, hides behind a stone.

▸ The dog finds a crab, everyone laughs and has a picnic.

7 Create dolls

• Make heroes about five centimeters in size.
• Clearly highlight the facial expressions on the faces of the characters.
• Avoid thin and difficult parts to cut.
• Use double-sided tape for fasteners.
• Attach the actors to the bottom of the bamboo stick.
• For complex decorations, you may need two bamboo sticks at once.

8 Why is this needed?

As in the days of William Shakespeare, so now acting skills- deep psychological work of a person on himself. Observe how the child behaves during rehearsals and performances. If there are several children in the family, this is a great opportunity to deal with "old" grievances and strengthen friendships between siblings. A fight over a scooter, jealousy of a sister, self-doubt ... You will be surprised, but during such a simple game you can work wonders not only on a makeshift stage, but also in the soul of a child. Make theater, write plays, and you yourself will not notice how your children will become calmer and more enthusiastic.

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The world outside the cardboard box is so interesting and impressive! But in order to feel new joys, you need to open your heart to friendship.

Parents often ask themselves: at what age should they start going to the theater with their child? The sooner the better! Many children's theaters in Europe are passionate about performances for the little ones. But you don't have to fly thousands of kilometers to introduce children to the theater. After all, our Teatrium loves and knows how to work with the youngest audience ...

This performance is made especially for children from 3 years old. There are only 2 heroes on the stage, so it's easy for a small viewer to concentrate. For 40 minutes, which lasts "The Cardboard Man and the Moth", the child's attention will not have time to dissipate. In chamber space New scene there is no fuss and a cozy atmosphere for viewing is created. And the conversation with the child in the play is conducted at the level of emotions and feelings. Simple and at the same time very honest. After all "The Cardboard Man and the Moth" is a wondrous and graceful history about friendship.

The child's toy world fits into a simple box. But if you open it and take a closer look, then in this box you will find a happy world. Cardboard man, who suddenly turns out to be disturbed by an ordinary cheerful Moth. These completely different creatures become friends. But not at once...

Play -Laureate All-Russian festival theatrical art « Tales in the land of Olonkho » (Republic of Sakha, Yakutsk) nominations for "Best musical arrangement"And" Best Stage Design ".

Worked on the play:

Playwright and stage director- Olga Sidorkevich
Composer, arranger- Vladimir Zeynalov
Production designer- Laureate of the State. awards, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Maria Rybasova
Costume designer- Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Victoria Sevryukova
Lighting designer- Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Evstifeev
Choreographer- Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Svetlana Shishkina

Characters and performers:

Cardboard man- honored art. FR Boris Ryvkin
Butterfly- Margarita Belkina