Finger theater do-it-yourself templates. We make a puppet theater with our own hands

Today we will show you how to make cool paper finger toys for the little ones. With the help of these animals, your kids will be able to play a fun farm, or even show a small puppet theater. Making them is very easy, as we have already prepared animal templates for you. All you need to do is print them out 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)

Doing

First, print out the templates for future toys, carefully cut them out. Look carefully, there are still parts for rings that will be glued into the heads of 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.

Now fold the bodies of the animals to form the main ring where the child will insert his finger.

Now it's time for the little rings to be glued into the heads of the animals.

That's it, the toys are ready! You can start playing with the kids.

Colored paper is a versatile material. She can easily turn into a kitten, a dog, the hero of her favorite cartoon or fairy tale. A little imagination and effort - and now you already have the scenery ready. What you need for a fun dialogue of little animals.

So, we choose the right colors, prepare glue, paints, felt-tip pens, pencils and go ahead - make wonderful finger puppets.

1. Print and cut out patterns for finger toys.

2. Glue the faces of the little animals.

3. Now glue the torsos. From a strip of white paper, make a finger holder in the shape of a ring 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 the younger brother or sister wants to try himself in the role of, for example, a bunny, I hope you will not mind.

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

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

Puppet theater for the little ones:

And here are a few more finger puppet templates for pleasant leisure time with the 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 it when creating the next character for the game.

Marina Topychkova

The purpose of my work:

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

Tasks:

1. Improve the ability of children to convey the images of the heroes of a fairy tale.

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

3. Form friendly relationships.

4. Enrichment of vocabulary.

5. Increasing the level of speech development.

6. Cultivate the ability to perform freely and loosely.

Methods:

Playful, creative, verbal.

Preliminary work:

Reading the story, looking at the illustrations.

What is Finger Theatre?

Finger theater is a set of figurines-characters that are put on a separate finger. It can be just individual dolls, animals, some items for staging a fairy tale, or well-known characters from our favorite Russian folk tales. When playing, it is important to work with 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, 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 to master the speech of the characters, help develop vocabulary and activate speech functions.

3. The game can be used for dating and learning counting

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

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

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

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

Benefits of Finger Theater

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

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

The use of finger theater does not imply that the child has special technical skills that may be needed when using glove puppets, puppets, etc.

Finger theater is familiar to children from preschool age, as educators widely use it in various classes in the learning process;

In dramatizations, the 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 - puppets. In this type of theatrical game, the child "voices" his characters and comments on the plot, as 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 dolls is their fragility. Due to its lightness, this type of finger theater is recommended to be used at the initial stage of work 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 with your own hands, but having previously prepared a pattern. Due to the material 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 cloth, threads, buttons, plastic spoons and forks, etc. You can make such a theater together with the children, having previously prepared the material. Prerequisite: the safety of the material used. Such a finger theater can be used in all age groups, while taking into account the physiology of children.

4. Wooden finger theater. It has gained wide distribution in various online stores. Producers pack such a theater in a variety of "boxes" that correspond to the theme of a particular work. The figurines can also be used as a tabletop theatre. Often used on the younger group due to the small recess for the finger. The main disadvantage is the difficulty in choosing the size of the dolls for each child.

5. Knitted finger theater. One of the most durable and easy-to-use types of finger theater. The main condition: possession of knitting skills, as well as the availability of certain patterns for knitting a particular character. Puppets of such a finger theater are very "live", 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 the 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, drawing patterns on felt and felt.

7. Finger theater "Puppet heads". Usually factory. Can be made of rubber or plastic. Requires the child to own a certain technique, as it is the most difficult to use.

This is the kind of theater we have.

Now I want to introduce you to making a finger puppet using the origami technique.

First we make the body of our doll

Now fold the head.

Here we have such a fox. You can also make other heroes of the fairy tale, only by changing the ears and the sharpness of the muzzle.

Maybe someone will be interested in my work and want to do the same theater with the guys.

The flat finger theater made of paper "Teremok", 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 - insert the index and middle fingers into the holes-slots. 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 are going to “play theater”. And almost all the guys want to be an artist. But, although the fairy tale is familiar, such games will develop the speech of children - after all, for each character you need to speak in a certain voice, try to convey his character. The hare speaks timidly, the fox slyly, the mouse squeaks, and the bear growls menacingly. To convey all these shades with a voice is an interesting and difficult task for younger preschoolers. In addition, children can actively participate in the creation of puppets and scenery for the finger theater from Teremok paper.

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 fairy tale teremok on plain paper. The height of the dolls should be approximately 9-10 cm, and the width at the bottom of the figurine should be less than 4.5 cm - so that you can freely cut holes for the fingers.
Templates of puppets for a flat finger theater made of paper "Teremok"

We paste the template on very thick paper or thin cardboard. We give to lie down under the load (2-3 thick books) for 10-15 minutes. We color the animals with colored pencils of suitable colors.
Cut out the figure, 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 a child to paint an already cut figure. The doll is ready.

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

Scenery for the finger theater from paper "Teremok"

To play a fairy tale with such dolls, we need a decoration - a house-teremok. Making it is quite easy.
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 for the roof. Decorate the windows and the slope of the roof with stripes. You can make a carved edge on the strips.

Step 4
Cut out circles-logs with a diameter of about 2 cm from yellow paper. Stick them on the teremok.

Step 5
Cut grass out of green paper and glue it on the bottom.

Step 6
Finish the details with a felt-tip pen and cut off the excess cardboard above the roof.

Step 7
From another sheet of cardboard, fold 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 link will be about 3-4 cm each)
We glue the narrowest part of the "accordion" to the tower from below.

In order for the tower to be stable, we glue the side parts of the second link of the "accordion" to the tower. A pocket is formed, as it were, in which we will “populate” the animals.

The photo shows how our teremok will look from behind.

Teremok is ready, you can start the performance.
The Teremok finger theater can be done 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.