Hand for finger puppets. Master class on making a paper finger theater

Tatiana Verukhina

Importance of small toys for little ones fingers is hard to overestimate. Such toys have many valuable qualities that are not found in any newfangled children's toy.

Games with finger puppet theater develop curiosity, imagination, sociability in a child, contribute to the development of speech, memory, attention, perseverance, broadening one's horizons. In addition, the child can invent stories on his own. By using finger theater you can conduct educational conversations, and, of course, develop fine motor skills and prepare your hand for writing.

Also, play this theatre the smallest, and older children, and even parents can.

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

For this we need:

White and/or colored paper;

Scissors;

PVA glue;

Ruler;

Simple and colored pencils, markers.

To start, you need to paper draw squares.

We made a square 6 * 6cm and 8 * 8cm with 6-year-old children.

Then boldly cut them out.

After that, we make cups using the origami technique according to the scheme (see photo)

Now the process becomes creative. You can draw faces and muzzles on the cups various heroes fairy tales or cartoons or print "faces" the right heroes on the printer, cut out and glue on cups with "facial" sides.

dolls for finger puppet theater ready!

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Good day, dear colleagues! I bring to your attention Master Class"Fox" for finger theatre. We need to work.

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

Good evening dear colleagues! As you know, "Finger Theater" is a wonderful game that adults and children like. Finger.

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

Theatrical games occupy a certain place in the kindergarten system. Familiarization with different types theaters start early.

Learn how to create puppet show with your own hands. At the same time, characters can not only be sewn, molded, but also made from plastic spoons, wooden sticks.

DIY finger puppet theater

If you want to develop your 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 a finger puppet theater with your own hands.

For this you will need:

• felt;
• threads;
• scissors.

As you can see, the characters of the fairy tale "Turnip" 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.

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

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

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

Cut out the beard and bangs of the grandfather, the hair of the grandmother from gray felt. It will also help create a mouse with a long tail. These puppets for the puppet theater can be sewn. If the baby will wear them, cut them out so that they are the size of his fingers. If the performance will be shown to children by adults, then cloth puppets should be slightly larger.

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

• modeling paste (preferably Jovi, which does not need to be fired, it hardens in air);
• yellow and green Jovi Patcolor paste;
• acrylic paints;
• brushes;
• markers;
• stacks.

1. Let's sculpt the grandfather first. Take a piece of pasta measuring 2x3 cm, roll a sausage out of it, form a cylinder. You should get a kind of nesting doll with a torso and head, and at the bottom there will be a notch for a finger.
2. Separately fashion the handles, attach them to the body. But designate the facial features, beard, mustache with the help of a stack.
3. By the same principle, fashion a grandmother, granddaughter and animals. When these characters are dry, paint them with acrylic paints.
4. For a turnip, roll a ball of yellow paste, pull it out a little from above, insert green plastic tops here, fix it.

When sculpting with paste, you will find 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 the child will be able to play the fairy tale "Turnip" or come up with his own plot with some of these characters.

Table theater do it yourself

If you want to have a 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, let the child decorate the characters with colored pencils or paints. It remains 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, according to which puppets for the theater are easily made. With your own hands or, having given the blanks to the child, cut them out along the contours, glue them in pairs.

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

These characters can be made from the most unexpected materials. See how to turn plastic spoons into the heroes of the productions.

To make such toys for the puppet theater, take:

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

Then follow these instructions:

1. Use a glue gun to 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 male character just stick a bow tie around your neck.
3. Cut strips of colored paper with a fringe on one side, glue this hair. Pieces of colored cotton wool will also replace them.

Everything, the children's puppet theater at home is ready. Take a big cardboard box, paste over it with colored paper, turn it over. Make slits in the bottom with a knife, insert spoons here and lead 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.

Have your child cut out pictures of people or animals from a magazine or old book stick them on sticks.

If you want to make another tabletop theater, then milk bottle caps will come in handy. Plastic cups from under the yogurt.

Glue paper fairy tale characters on the back of these items, and you can play old stories 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 easiest options:

1. Close the opening under the table with a cloth, tying two of its corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the floor behind and leads the characters at the level of the table top - just above it.
2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Collect 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 cut in the center at the top of any of these canvases. It should be at such a height that no child or adult sitting behind the curtain can be seen, who play the role of puppeteers.
3. For the finger theater, a table screen is made. The easiest way 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.

And here's how to make a screen out of plywood. For her you will need:

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

Manufacturing instructions:

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

See how to make a cardboard screen to be able to show performances with mitten, glove, cane puppets. It should be such that the puppeteer fits there freely, standing in full height. If the performance is shown by children 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 lace;
• carton boxes;
• wallpaper;
• stationery knife;
• awl;
• roulette;
• wide brush;
• long line;
• rag.

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

1. The drawing is given for teenagers 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-layer. To do this, stick a second one on one large sheet of cardboard, then a third one on the other side. Apply PVA glue with a wide brush. Thus, you will make a frontal part - an apron.
3. The side elements are also made in three layers, but the folds, which you then glue to the apron, should consist of one layer.
4. Connect the parts by gluing them. When the glue dries, 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 paste over the screen with wallpaper of a soft color so that they do not distract from the theatrical performance.

We make do-it-yourself doll gloves

These can be seen in a real puppet theater. Puppet gloves are put on the hand. By bending your fingers, you can make the fabric character tilt its head, move its arms.

A children's puppet theater at hand will have many characters if you use the suggested 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 thread.

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

Before sewing puppets for the theater, put a puppeteer's glove on the recut pattern to decide if the base is suitable. If not, then increase or decrease it. You can do without a glove by putting the puppeteer's hand on the base pattern. Keep in mind that the character will not be static, so you need to add a little on all sides for a loose fit so that the fabric of the hero of the action 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;
• eye buttons.

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

Lay the pattern on the fabric folded in half, cut out 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 sewing both halves of each character. Take special fabric dyes that do not fade when washed. If there are none, then use watercolor, gouache, but first apply a PVA solution to the fabric, after it dries, paint this place, but use a minimum of water. When the paint dries, put another layer of PVA on top to fix it.

But it is best to embroider the nose, mouth, pulling these sections on the hoop or sew on blanks of the appropriate colors and buttons-eyes.

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

When sewn on small parts, you can grind both halves of the doll on the wrong side on a typewriter or on the face - on your hands. In the latter case, use a seam "over the edge" or take the inlay of a passing color, turn around the side seam with it.

In this technique, other glove dolls are also created, for example, a pig.

When the sides are stitched on all sides, hem the bottom. The ears of the characters can be stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester. Fill the nose of the piglet with any of these materials, only after that sew this “patch” to the head. Make an applique on his cheeks, giving them a blooming look. It remains to sew some yellow threads between the ears, and another glove doll is ready.

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

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 everything. famous characters our beloved Russians folk tales. When playing, it is important to work different fingers, with pairs of fingers, with one and two hands, with several fingers at the same time. All this helps with the development of coordination of movements, the brain.

1. Finger theater is unique opportunity 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 to develop vocabulary and activates 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 of them 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, Creative skills, 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 development 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 the youngest preschool age, since 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 ease this species finger theater is recommended to 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 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 junk 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, subject to 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. Figures can also be used as table theater. Often used on junior 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. 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"

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.

Today we will show you how to make cool finger paper toys for the little ones. With the help of these little 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 animals' bodies 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.