Making a puppet theater with your own hands in kindergarten

Who doesn't like to immerse themselves in childhood for a few minutes? Of course, all adults love to do this. And just imagine how happy your children will be if you make a puppet theater with your own hands and show them various fairy tales with the help of theater puppets.

Organization of such evening leisure For children, this is not such a difficult task. Thanks to our article, you can easily cope with this grandiose project in your life. And your children will be very grateful to you for such wonderful entertainment.

You can make a beautiful scene with your own hands from different materials. For such purposes, you can take:

And many more suitable materials for these purposes. For pasting the frame of the theater, it will be possible to use colored paper, or self-adhesive paper. Do not forget about beautiful stickers that can help you make the theater unforgettable.

Gallery: do-it-yourself puppet theater (25 photos)

Do-it-yourself puppet theater from colored paper and a large cardboard box

Take a box from under large household appliances. It will be more convenient to stage performances on a large stage..

You will need:

1. Box.
2. Colored paper.
3. Scissors.
4. Scotch.
5. Glue.

Fasten the box properly with tape so that it becomes firm. It is best that the box is rectangular in shape. This will allow more characters and scenery to appear on stage. On the front side, which will be turned towards the audience, using a simple pencil, draw a window in which you will show performances. Make a cone to the top so that the hole looks a bit like a curtain. Using a utility knife, carefully cut out the puppet theater scenes.

Using colored paper and glue, paste over the entire perimeter of the puppet theater. From the sides or on the front side, you can attach signs with the words:

• Premiere!
• Performance!
• Puppet Theatre!

On the sides, where a cone begins to form upward, glue rhinestones over the stage line. On the pointed tips you can attach very beautiful bows. And glue beautiful decorative pom-poms at the bottom of the stage. Thus, our impromptu stage of the children's puppet theater is ready. The front side is decorated, and the scene cutout looks like a house. Now we need to make a curtain for our scene.

Materials for the curtain and the algorithm for its manufacture

So our little theater house is ready to play puppet shows. It remains to make the scenery for the performances. And of course, to create characters of Russian folk tales. Next, we will tell you how to make theatrical puppets for the performance.

Making a theater puppet for home theater from socks

To make sock dolls you will need:

Doll creation algorithm:

Here is a simple way we were able to make a puppet for our puppet theater at home or in kindergarten. This did not require so many materials, but the fact that the sock sits perfectly on the hand and does not twist, and note the manufacture of any patterns for such dolls is not required.

Making puppets for the theater from gloves

This type of theater puppet is very popular and not too difficult to perform. Moreover, they will look very impressive during the performance, because they can move their handles towards the audience. Gloves can be the most common, even fabric for production work.

Materials for the snowman doll:

1. The glove is white.
2. Some white fur.
3. Plush or fleece bright blue material for making a hat and mittens with a scarf.
4. A little plush for a pink nose or carrot color.
5. It is better to take the eyes purchased in a small size, they are spinning inside, and it looks very impressive.
6. Small buttons to match the hat and scarf no more than 5 pieces.
7. Brown thread with a needle, for embroidering the mouth and eyebrows.
8. Material for stuffing a snowman's hat and head, with mittens.
9. White material for the snowman's head.
10. 2-3 hours of free time.

The algorithm for creating a snowman project from a glove:

The snowman is almost ready for a puppet show, all that's left is to insert eyes, embroider eyebrows, and decorate his costume.

• We glue the eyes, having previously cut off a little pile from the fabric of the head, so that the details are better held together.
• Eyebrows are carefully embroidered in the same color as the mouth, above both eyes.

Put on our wonderful project called a snowman. And put on a hat with a scarf. Get everything right, and see if anything needs tweaking. And all that remains is to decorate his costume. To do this, use small buttons exactly in the center, sew them along the entire height of the body. Sleeves, where there is a connection with a mitten, decorate with a small amount of white fur. We lightly powder the cheeks of the snowman with blush so that he looks mischievous and perky. And that's it, our beautiful snowman for children and adults is ready, it will give you a lot of impressions and joy.

You can make a lot of toys for the theater, using disks, you can make pot-bellied Smeshariki. And if you don’t have a glove, then in the next article we will tell you how to make gloves from socks and thread with a needle.