Animals for the theater made of paper. DIY paper puppet theater

Colored paper- universal material. She can easily turn into a kitten, a dog, a hero from her favorite cartoon or fairy tale. A little imagination and effort - and now you have the scenery ready. Just what you need for a fun dialogue between animals.

So, choose the right colors, prepare glue, paints, markers, pencils and go ahead - make wonderful finger puppets.

1. Print and cut out the patterns for the finger toys.

2. Glue the faces of the animals.

3. Now glue the torsos. Use a strip of white paper to make a ring-shaped finger holder and glue it to the inside of the toy's head.

Kids, as a rule, are delighted not only with the process of creating figures, but also with participation in the performance itself. So, if your little brother or sister wants to try themselves in the role of, for example, a bunny, I hope you won’t mind.

Well, the dolls are ready! The theatrical performance begins!

But if you want to make fairy-tale characters (king, princess, knight, dragon or robber pirates), print out the following templates:

Puppet theater for the little ones:

Here are a few more finger puppet templates for pleasant leisure time with your baby:

Finger toys are easy and fun to make. Note that dolls made from several materials at once - paper, fabric, beads - look very cute and touching. Think about this when creating your next character for the game.

Tatiana Verukhina

The importance of small toys for little ones fingers are hard to overestimate. Such toys have many valuable qualities that cannot be found in any newfangled children's toy.

Games with finger puppet theater They develop a child’s curiosity, imagination, communication skills, promote the development of speech, memory, attention, perseverance, and broaden their horizons. In addition, the child can make up stories himself. By using finger theater You can conduct educational conversations, and, of course, develop fine motor skills and prepare your hand for writing.

Moreover, playing this theater The little ones, older children, and even parents can do it.

I suggest you make the simplest look together with your children. finger theater - made of paper. TO making a paper finger puppet theater You can also involve the child himself. This process can be quite exciting for him. A younger child will be able to draw a face, and an older child will be able to complete the entire process independently, under the guidance of an adult.

For this we need:

White and/or colored paper;

Scissors;

PVA glue;

Ruler;

Simple and colored pencils, felt-tip pens.

To begin with, you need to paper draw squares.

My 6-year-old children and I made a square of 6 * 6 cm and 8 * 8 cm.

Then we boldly cut them out.

After this, we make cups using the origami technique according to the diagram (see photo)

Now the process becomes creative. You can draw faces and muzzles of various fairy tale or cartoon characters on the cups, or print them out "faces" the right heroes on the printer, cut it out and glue it onto cups with "facial" sides.

Dolls for finger puppet theater is ready!

Publications on the topic:

Making theatrical toys for finger theater and theater on flannelgraph We began our acquaintance with theatrical play in the process.

Master class for parents “Making a finger theater from dough” Master class for parents. Making a finger theater. Characters from the fairy tale “Kolobok” using the testoplasty technique. (Slide No. 2).

Good day, dear colleagues! I present to your attention Master Class"Little Chanterelle" for the finger theater. We need it for work.

Master Class. Stand for finger theater. Educator: Kuznetsova Irina Aleksandrovna Dear teachers! I offer you a master class.

Good evening Dear colleagues! As is known " Finger Theater"is a wonderful game that adults and children enjoy. Finger.

Today I present to your attention a master class on making masks for the fairy tale “The Fox and the Hare”. The master class is designed for children.

Theatrical games occupy specific place in the work system kindergarten. Familiarization with different types theaters begin early.

My kids are finger puppet fans! But this was not always the case; many children are interested in them even in infancy and listen with pleasure. mother's tales and nursery rhymes, but my children didn’t like it. They became interested in finger puppets and role-playing fairy tales only after 2 years (both son and daughter) and after some time they themselves began to tell and compose mini fairy tales with different characters.

A year ago I already wrote an article about. In this article I want to show and prove to you that you can make finger puppets with your own hands. This is a very exciting activity that does not take much time. The dolls turn out to be very compact, they are convenient to take with you, they will not take up much space in your bag and will even fit in your baby’s pocket.

Have you noticed how popular it has become in Lately How's the material?! Yes!? And this is no coincidence - it really is ideal for creativity for a number of reasons, I’ll try to prove:

Felt holds its shape well
Edges do not require processing
It can be stitched, glued, or stapled. Felt is ready for any impact
It is bright and colorful. Have a wide color scheme colors and shades
Pleasant to the touch
Available in different thicknesses from 1 to 5 mm
Has different composition (wool, wool blend, acrylic, polyester, viscose)

So, I hope I convinced you to use felt for finger puppets, then prepare a thread and a needle and start creating. Here are a few interesting ideas for dolls, maybe you will like some:

Felt finger puppets “Farm” - a horse, a cow, a pig, and a farmer.

You can also make finger puppets, which will also be very beautiful and functional, but, unfortunately, not durable.

The Teremok flat paper finger theater, from our point of view, is not very suitable for children under 5 years old. But 5-6 year old children will be happy to play with it. The principle of movement of the dolls is very simple - the index and middle fingers. These are the “legs” of the doll. Now she can “walk.” Of course, children of this age know the fairy tale “Teremok” by heart. But here we will be “playing theater.” And almost all the guys want to be an artist. But, although the fairy tale is familiar, such games will develop children’s speech - after all, you need to speak for each character in a certain voice, try to convey his character. The bunny speaks timidly, the fox speaks slyly, the mouse squeaks, and the bear growls menacingly. Conveying all these shades with a voice is an interesting and difficult task for younger preschoolers. In addition, children can actively participate in creating puppets and decorations for the Teremok paper finger theater.

Flat finger theater made of paper “Teremok”

In order to make puppets for our finger paper theater you need to print (or draw) the heroes of the Teremok fairy tale on plain paper. The height of the dolls should be approximately 9-10 cm, and the width at the bottom of the figure should be less than 4.5 cm - so that holes for the fingers can be freely cut.
Puppet templates for flat finger theater made from Teremok paper

Glue the template onto very thick paper or thin cardboard. Let it rest under a load (2-3 thick books) for 10-15 minutes. We color the animals with colored pencils of suitable colors.
We cut out the figure and cut holes for the fingers.
If you wish, you can paint the back of the doll. Keep in mind that it will be more difficult for your child to color an already cut out figure. The doll is ready.

You can print colored figures right away or use the appliqué technique (as in the photo below).

Decorations for the paper finger theater “Teremok”

To play out a fairy tale with such dolls, we need a decoration - a house-teremok. It's not difficult to make.
Step 1
Take a sheet of brown (not glossy!) cardboard. Draw it as shown in the diagram.

Step 2
Cut out the windows.

Step 3
Cut strips of red paper 1 cm wide for the windows and 2-3 cm wide for the roof. Decorate the windows and roof slope with stripes. You can make a carved edge on the strips.

Step 4
Cut out circles of logs with a diameter of about 2 cm from yellow paper. Glue them onto the tower.

Step 5
Cut out grass from green paper and glue it to the bottom.

Step 6
Draw in the details with a felt-tip pen and trim off the excess cardboard above the roof.

Step 7
Fold another sheet of cardboard into an accordion. The first link of the “accordion” is 2 cm, the second and third – 5 cm. Fold the remaining piece of cardboard in half again (that is, the fourth and fifth links will be about 3-4 cm each)
We glue the narrowest part of the “accordion” to the tower from below.

To make the tower stable, glue the side parts of the second link of the “accordion” to the tower. A kind of pocket is formed into which we will “populate” the animals.

The photo shows what our mansion will look like from behind.

The tower is ready, the performance can begin.
The finger theater “Teremok” can be made in other ways, for example. Or . These models do not require any decorations. In addition, you can play with them with very young children 2-3 years old.

Marina Topychkanova

The purpose of my work:

Create conditions for the development of children's creative activity in theatrical activities.

Tasks:

1. Improve children’s ability to convey the images of fairy tale characters.

2. Develop fine motor skills of hands and fingers in children, develop memory.

3. Form friendly relationships.

4. Enrichment of vocabulary.

5. Increasing the level of speech development.

6. Develop the ability to behave freely and relaxed when performing.

Methods:

Playful, creative, verbal.

Preliminary work:

Reading a fairy tale, looking at illustrations.

What is finger theater?

Finger theater is a set of character figures that are put on a separate finger. It could just be individual dolls, animals, some objects for staging a fairy tale, or everything famous characters our favorite Russians folk tales. It's important to work when playing different fingers, pairs of fingers, one and two hands, several fingers at the same time. All this helps with the development of coordination of movements and the brain.

1. Finger theater is a unique opportunity to place a fairy tale on the palm of a child, in which he can play the role of any hero.

2. Theater is also an excellent speech and sensory-motor simulator. Dolls develop the mobility of the fingers of both hands, help master the speech of characters, help develop vocabulary and activate speech functions.

3. The game can be used to get acquainted and learn counting

(for example, in the fairy tale “Teremok” a mouse, a frog, and a hare began to live together, then a fox came - there were four of them);

to get to know the characters and plot of the fairy tale,

to get acquainted with the concepts of “to the right is glory”, “nearby”, “one after another”.

4. And small finger theater figures will keep you company during your walk. With their help you can revive any poems, fairy tales, nursery rhymes. Simple toys develop intonation, artistic skills, Creative skills, imagination, memory, thinking, attention, fantasy.

Advantages of finger theater

Finger theater is one of the types of puppet theater and has the following advantages over its other types:

Finger theater promotes development fine motor skills. Thanks to actions with dolls, subtle differentiated movements of the fingers are formed;

Using a finger theater does not require the child to have special technical skills, which may be needed when using glove puppets, puppets, etc.

The Finger Theater is familiar to children from a young age. preschool age, since educators widely use it in various classes during the learning process;

In dramatizations, finger theater allows the child to show several characters at once;

Finger theater puppets take up little space and do not require large material costs. There are various types of finger theater, made using various technologies that take into account the physiological capabilities of children.

In the finger theater, director's play is used as a type of theatrical games. In it, the child does not play the role of any character himself, but controls the artists - the dolls. In this type of theatrical play, the child “voices” his characters and comments on the plot like the author, thereby developing his monologue speech.

Types of finger puppets

1. Finger theater made of paper. Perhaps the easiest type of finger tetra that you can make with your child. The disadvantage of this type of doll is its fragility. Due to its lightness, this type of finger theater is recommended for use on initial stage working with children of all age groups.

2. Finger theater made of fabric. Such a theater can be purchased in stores. You can also make it yourself, but first prepare a pattern. Due to the material it is very functional. Can be used in all age groups.

3. Finger theater from waste and natural material. Another type of easy-to-make finger theater. The material can be various cups, pieces of fabric, threads, buttons, plastic spoons and forks, etc. You can make such a theater together with your children, having previously prepared the material. Prerequisite: safety of the material used. This finger theater can be used in all age groups, while taking into account the physiology of the children.

4. Wooden finger theater. It has become widespread in various online stores. Manufacturers package such theater in various “boxes” that correspond to the theme of a particular work. The figures can also be used as tabletop theater. Often used on younger group due to the small indentation for the finger. The main disadvantage is the difficulty of selecting the size of dolls for each child.

5. Knitted finger theater. One of the most durable and easy-to-use types of finger theater. The main condition: knowledge of knitting skills, as well as the presence of certain patterns for knitting a particular character. The puppets of this finger theater turn out to be very “alive”, soft and pleasant to use. Can be used in all age groups.

6. Finger theater made of felted wool and fabric. Felting or dry felting is a process of making products using special needles that mix and tangle wool fibers. Dry felting is suitable for creating three-dimensional products: toys, decorative figurines, designer dolls, applying drawings to felt.

7. Finger theater “Puppet heads”. As a rule, factory-made. Can be made of rubber or plastic. It requires the child to master a certain technique, as it is the most difficult to use.