When the baking paper runs out, all that remains is a cardboard tube. I decided not to throw it away and make dolls out of it for a home puppet theater. From one tube we got four characters at once - a wolf and three pigs. This is exactly how many dolls are needed to stage the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs”.
Materials and tools for the master class "The Three Little Pigs Puppet Theater"
cardboard tube; gray felt, beige felt, pink polka dot fabric, doll eyes; three pink buttons, one black button, thread, double-sided tape or PVA glue, blue, green and raspberry ribbons, scissors, a stationery knife, a needle.
Instructions:1. Take a cardboard tube (from baking paper, foil or plastic film). In extreme cases, it can be glued together from cardboard.
2. Cut the tube into four parts. You should get three small tubes, 7 cm long, and one larger one, about 10 cm long.
3. Cut out a square measuring 10 x 10 cm from gray felt.
4. From pink polka dot fabric, cut out three rectangles measuring approximately 10 x 11 cm.
5. Wrap the gray square around the long tube and sew the edges.
6. Wrap a pink square around each short tube and also sew the edges.
7. Cut out the muzzle and paws of the wolf from gray felt.
8. Sew a black button nose to the muzzle and glue on the doll’s eyes.
9. Sew the muzzle and paws to a long tube covered with gray felt. We will embroider claws on the paws.
10. Cut out the faces and legs of the piglets from beige felt.
11. Sew a pink button nose to each face and glue doll eyes.
12. On each short tube, fold the edges of the fabric inward and glue them using double-sided tape or PVA glue. Let's sew the faces and paws to these tubes.
13. So that the piglets can be distinguished, we will make them bows of different colors. Let's tie small bows from blue, green and raspberry ribbons.
Such performances can also be shown at children's parties, involving children and guests in participation.
Surely the vast majority of parents and educators kindergarten or after-school groups pondered the question of how to more interestingly organize the leisure time of the children whose upbringing they are busy with. Popular modern children's entertainment includes tabletop puppets or puppets, thanks to which you can organize exciting activities for a group of children or together with them. theatrical performance, which is based on some folk or literary fairy tale. A good example is the Three Little Pigs puppet theater.
Wanting to involve a child or group of children in making their own fairy-tale heroes or decorations that will consist of tabletop theater"The Three Little Pigs" can be adopted, accessible to children of different ages sculpting technique. This type of creativity will also become in a great way development fine motor skills children's hands.
How to mold characters for a puppet theater, each of their creators can decide independently. Work on creating fairy-tale figures can be done:
- from plasticine;
- from plastic mastic;
- from salt dough;
- from polymer clay.
To get each pig from plasticine, you need to of this material in a pale pink shade, sculpt an oblong body and a spherical head, two pairs of legs, and from small fragments form triangular ears and a spring-like tail.
The figure of a wolf made of plasticine should be somewhat larger. Here it is advisable to combine gray and black shades of material. Black plasticine is recommended to be used for sculpting ears, nose, and paw claws.
Each plasticine hero can be decorated with fragments of the same material, imitating clothes, shoes, and hats.
A figurine of a hero such as a wolf or a pig from polymer clay can be sculpted under the guidance of adults, as it requires adding to the material acrylic paints. If you choose to make figurines salty dough, you will also need the help of adults to control the baking of the molded toys in the oven.
We use f etr
Having chosen the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs”, we play theater using felt toys. For the performance according to this folk work The characters can be made from both natural felt and synthetic felt, which is popular today and widely represented on the handicraft market.
A felt theater can be made without any special frills. Felt figures of three little pigs and a wolf can be attached, for example, to cocktail straws for easy play.
To make characters this way you will need:
- gray and pink felt;
- small contrasting felt pieces, including black, for clothing fairy-tale characters and designing the wolf’s face;
- colored and black threads;
- four cocktail straws.
The bodies and heads of toys are formed from paired parts, inside of which the legs are placed. The parts are connected step by step with threads selected by color, using a front overlock stitch.
Eyes and mouths are embroidered with black thread. To form the wolf's nose, you can use a piece of black felt.
At the end of the work, a tube is inserted into the hole left at the bottom of each character’s body. If desired, it can be secured with silicone glue.
The torsos of each theatrical puppets You can also assemble it in such a way that the holes through which the toy is controlled are at the top and bottom. Fingers can be inserted into the lower symmetrical holes, thereby simulating pig's feet and allowing the doll to move during the performance.
Finger characters
For finger theater most good material Felt is also considered.
The models of the three little pigs and the wolf can be very different. The main condition when sewing finger toys, from which you will create a do-it-yourself puppet theater, there is a cavity in the lower part of each figure, thanks to which the toy can be put on your finger.
The felt theater “3 Little Pigs” can also be tabletop. To create it yourself, we recommend using step-by-step master class below.
Make it from cardboard bases of household rolls of food foil, film or parchment.
In addition to such a stable foundation, you will need:
- pieces of gray and pink felt;
- rectangular pieces of textile with print;
- toy eyes;
- beads or buttons;
- multi-colored grosgrain ribbons;
- scissors;
- thread with needle;
- silicone glue.
The wolf doll is made from a larger roller, which must be wrapped in gray felt. Connect the edges of the fabric with a hidden seam.
Piglets are created from smaller rolls covered with textiles with a delicate print.
To decorate the faces and paws of each toy, we use the patterns of these parts suggested below.
At the end of the work, each piglet is tied around his neck with a grosgrain ribbon folded into a bow.
Funny figures for the theater are ready.
Theater of glove toys
For a theater at home or a performance with a screen in a children's institution, a glove puppet is successfully used.
You can learn how to sew a wolf or pig glove doll yourself in the master class attached below.
Make a printout of the pattern shown in the photo.
According to it, each glove puppet is sewn from paired parts made of fleece or faux fur.
We offer two master classes on making a shadow theater for children at home. You will learn how to make a screen and actors for a theatrical performance with your own hands from light and shadow, get acquainted with the theater of manual shadows, download templates for figurines of fairy tale heroes and find useful tips on working with shadow theater.
Shadow theater helps children get acquainted with theatrical activities, develop speech, show imagination, encourage children to active interaction, communication, etc. Theater productions can be carried out with children of all ages, both in a group and individually.
Lego Shadow Theater
We present a step-by-step master class with photographs on how to make a shadow theater from Lego Duplo or its analogues.
Necessary materials:
- designer Lego Duplo (on, on)
- building plate Lego Duplo green (on, on)
- A4 sheet of paper
- phone with a flashlight function or other light source.
How to do
Build a frame theater stage made of red blocks and adjacent turrets made of multi-colored bricks.
Source: lego.com 
Place a white sheet of paper between the structures.
Build a stage behind the screen and use the blocks to make a phone stand. Place the light source in front of the paper sheet.
Decorate the theater and prepare the actors for the performance.
Turn on the flashlight on your phone and start the show.
Shadow theater "The Gruffalo" out of the box
Create your own shadow theater using popular book Julia Donaldson "The Gruffalo" (,).
“The Gruffalo” is a fairy tale in verse for adults to read to children. A little mouse walks through a dense forest and, in order to escape from a fox, owl and snake, invents the terrible Gruffalo - an animal who loves to eat foxes, owls and snakes.
But can a resourceful mouse outwit all the hungry predators? After all, he knows very well that there are no Gruffalos... Or do they?
Source: domesticblissnz.blogspot.ru
Necessary materials:
- printable hero templates (download);
- A4 paper;
- black cardboard;
- wooden skewers;
- scotch;
- glue;
- cardboard box;
- scissors.
How to do
1. Download and print templates with characters for the shadow theater. Glue onto black cardstock. 
2. Cut out the figures and glue a wooden skewer to each.
3. We make a screen (screen) for a shadow theater.
Lay the box flat. On the large rectangular parts of the box, draw a frame, stepping back 1.5-2 cm from the edges. Cut along the marked lines.
4. Assemble the box in its original state, but with the colored side facing inward.
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5. Take a sheet of white A4 paper and cut it to the size of the box. Cut out a rectangle of the same size from black cardboard.
6. Cut out trees from black cardboard and glue them onto a white sheet.
7. Glue the paper to the inside of the box as shown in the photo below.
8. Make a slot at the bottom of the box for the figures.
9. Secure the screen to the edge of the table with tape.
10. Install the lamp at the back at a distance of 2-3 meters from the screen. For clear shadows, the light must fall directly and not from the side. Be sure to warn your child to be careful around the hot lamp.
The shadow theater is ready! Turn off the lights, invite an audience, and perform a shadow show.
Hand shadow theater
The hand shadow theater is one of the most simple types shadow art. To equip it you will need the most ordinary items - a table lamp and a screen - large leaf white paper or cloth. If the room has light walls, a theatrical performance of light and shadow can be shown directly on the wall.
The pictures show how you can use your hands to create silhouettes of animals, birds, and people. With practice, you can bring the shadows to life and show your own story.
- You can start introducing children to shadow theater at the age of 1.5-2 years. The first classes should be held as a theatrical performance, when the roles are played by an adult, and the children act as spectators. After the child understands the rules and traditions theatrical arts, it can be included in the game as a participant in the action. Children play and voice roles, learn texts and poems. At first, trust small, simple roles. Then gradually make it more difficult.
- Cardboard figures of shadow theater actors should be black, then they will be contrasting and noticeable on the screen. To make your own figures, use curly stencils. If you plan to reuse your homemade figures, we recommend laminating them.
- To ensure clear shadows, place the light source behind and slightly to the side of the screen. The light source will be a regular table lamp or flashlight.
- The size of the shadow on the screen depends on the distance from the figure to the lamp. If you bring the figure closer to the screen, its shadow will become small and clear. If you place it further away, the shadow will increase in size and the contours will be blurred.
- To ensure that the decorations do not move during the performance, attach them to the screen itself using tape or paper clips.
- What paper, tracing paper or a white sheet are perfect as a screen. The smaller the screen you use, the thinner and more transparent it needs to be, and the brighter the light source you need.
- In order to create a theatrical atmosphere, you can draw a poster, tickets and even arrange an intermission.
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