In order to create a fascinating and mysterious world of a fairy tale for a baby, you do not need much effort. It is worth spending a little time and creating a finger theater for playing and performing at home. The uniqueness of such a theater lies in the fact that it was created with the love of a mother or grandmother. Each toy is filled with the energy of positive and love, in each element there is a piece of the soul of a loved one.

From a very early age, every kid learns various songs, poems and fairy tales. A fairy tale can teach a child to recognize good and bad, to understand what time and space are, and also to learn about the connection between nature and man.

Finger theater functions

Finger theater allows you to create a fairy tale in miniature. It can be placed in the palm of your hand. The child can play a role any character with small figurines. Each character can be put on fingers or on special stands that allow you to organize a performance on the surface of the table. If the child is still too young, then his relatives can act out the performance. The kid is guaranteed delight from the finger theater.

This kind of theater can be wonderful simulator for speech and sensory-motor system. Suitable for babies over 1 year old. Pupae help to develop the mobility of children's fingers, communication through the replicas of the heroes of a fairy tale, and also contribute to the disclosure of the child's creative potential.

The game can be a mechanism by which the baby will quickly master the account. An example of such a teaching fairy tale can be safely called "Teremok". In a fairy tale performance, there is a constant Counting Heroes("... and the three of them began to live"). The child will not only learn to count, but will also be able to master concepts such as “left and right” with the help of fairy-tale characters and their actions.

You can play such a puppet theater not only at home, but also on the street, in a clinic or in transport. A fairy tale plot will help not only fascinating spend time, but also not to notice the long and tiring road to the country or to the village to your beloved grandmother.

Instructions for creating a mini-theater

In order to make a finger theater at home, you must have:

• Fabrics of different colors and textures (you can use felt).
• Interlining. It will help to glue small parts.
• Threads for embroidery (preferably floss).
• Wooden slats for creating a frame theater for finger heroes (horizontal slats should be 45 cm long, and vertical - 30 cm. There should be 4 sticks in total).
• Scotch.
• Gouache.
• Cardboard (preferably thick).
• Fabric for sewing curtains of a small theater (you can take silk).
• For the design of the rear view you will need bright color pictures.

Making a stage for performances

1. The first step is to fasten the wooden slats together with glue.
2. The finished frame for beauty can be painted with paint (preferably white).
3. In order to make a sign for an impromptu theater, you can use thick cardboard. You need to draw a template on cardboard, cut it out and color it with prepared gouache or ordinary felt-tip pens. Cardboard in this case can be purchased, or you can use an unnecessary box from a game or equipment that everyone has in the house.
4. The sign must be cut out along the contour so that two longitudinal puzzles can be made in the future. Then the sign must be fixed on the basis of wooden slats.
5. The next item of work will be the creation of the background of the theater. To do this, cut out a piece of cardboard. The cardboard will have a length of 45 cm and a height of 30 cm. It is imperative to make 4 notches in the cardboard so that you can then insert pictures of the size of an album sheet into them. In order for the cardboard to be fixed on a wooden base, special small cuts must be made. The details are ready. Now they need to be fixed on the base and hang curtains made of silk or other material. The material can be tied with a beautiful ribbon or cord, or simply fall in a straight line. Curtains can be attached to the base of the slats with thread, wire or tape.

Sewing fairy tale characters

Before sewing fabric dolls, you need to make do-it-yourself finger theater templates from paper and make a pattern. A child can help with this. This is a very exciting activity - creating a drawing of heroes - develops the imagination. To save time, you can print paper finger puppet templates. Then follow these instructions:

1. Finished patterns must be cut with scissors. Transfer them to a fabric base. Do not forget that the torso of each character will consist of two identical parts.
2. Ears, nose and eyes can be made of fabric of different colors or embroidered with threads. Fabric details are carefully cut out.
3. If too thin fabric is used for dolls, then it can be glued with interlining for additional sealing.
4. On the front of the torso of the heroes, you need to place small details, such as eyes or a nose.
5. When creating a grandmother or granddaughter, you must not forget about the hair. They can be made from woolen threads. A handkerchief and a bow will help to complete the look.
6. When creating grandparents, do not forget about wrinkles. For greater realism, they can be embroidered with threads.
7. The finished front and back must be sewn by hand. Each hero of a fairy tale is put on a finger or a special stand.
8. If the performance is planned to be played on the table, then for each character you need to make a special stand. It can be made of a plastic cork-chopic, into which a screw is screwed. The base of the cork can be made from a five-kopeck coin. To do this, using ordinary glue, the coin is glued to the plastic base.
9. If you didn’t manage to complete the figures for the theater on your own, then you can buy ordinary small fabric key rings. Rip the bottom with it and, pulling out the synthetic winterizer, change it to a frame made of durable fabric.

Setting the fairy tale "Turnip"

For the turnip, you need to prepare the main character of the fairy tale - the turnip. It can be made from fabric. After that, the back of the scene needs to be decorated with a printed or hand-drawn picture. It can depict a garden, a house and nature. After that, each character appears on stage and is voiced. The heroes can be voiced by mom or dad, or the baby himself.

Believe me, such a pastime will surely captivate the baby, and will help not only develop speech and motor skills, but also simply have fun with the whole family.

Attention, only TODAY!

Good afternoon guests and readers of the blog! Today I again want to touch on the topic of how and how to lure a child at home. This topic is very close to me, because I have two children at home. that require attention and care.

In the previous article, I told you about didactic games with your favorite characters from "Paw Patrol". For those who missed this episode, read here.

Today I want to offer another version of the game at home, this is a puppet theater. Of course, you can take your child to a real puppet theater, or you can create one at home.

Therefore, I will share with you some thoughts, developments to make such a miracle.

We'll need: your desire and a little free time 🙂

To be honest, we have different types of theaters at home, for example this wood.

My kids love it very much, because it's so funny and exciting when I show them a fairy tale, and they sit and listen. Now I have an older son, he can show and tell fairy tales himself. Just think, it's very cool, because the child, while playing, learns to retell his favorite fairy tale, build a dialogue, etc.

I think that all preschool children, as well as most children of primary school age, will not remain indifferent to such theaters. And if you come up with fairy tales with a funny plot and an intriguing ending, then in general you can get a real holiday for a child.

The easiest version of a do-it-yourself puppet theater is paper. It is easy to make your own. Well, or together with the child.

DIY paper finger puppet theater, patterns

Paper finger puppet theater, kids really like it, it lures them, and also develops fine motor skills of hands. Look here.

The first option is a flat round finger theater. You need to make the head and the upper part of the doll, dress on the finger with a paper ring or you can make cones.

Create such dolls together with your child, start with character templates. Download them on my website by writing me a comment below, I will be happy to send you templates, print and have fun playing.

After all, the finger puppet theater is a whole magical art in which children learn about the world around them. Any child will like to be in the role of an artist, and this helps to believe in themselves and achieve success in the future. It is also a good material for the development of such processes in children as imagination, thinking, as well as the development of fine motor skills and much more.

A finger theater can be made from any materials at hand, such as paper, fabric, cardboard, corks, threads, cups, etc.

DIY desktop paper theater, templates

I show my children, here is such a desktop paper theater, which I made very quickly.

We will need:

• cups from Rastishka, illustrations, ice cream sticks

Stages of work:

1. Take any illustrations and cut out all the characters in the fairy tale along the contour.

3. Glue ice cream sticks on each fairy tale character.

4. Now take the cups and make a horizontal hole at the top of each cup with a clerical knife.

5. Well, now insert the wand with the hero into the cup. Look how cute it turned out. Very easy and simple, no worse than buying in a store.

Ice cream sticks can be replaced with plastic forks or spoons.

If you do not want to take illustrations from books, then you can find characters from any fairy tales on the Internet, save them, and then print them, and then cut them out and stick them on sticks. You can download from my website such ready-made templates of heroes for such fairy tales: Kolobok, Teremok, Turnip, Bunny hut, just write a comment or review below, and I will send it to you by mail.

Paper puppet theater "Walkers"

Such a theater is very popular with young children; for such a theater, favorite characters and a couple of holes are needed.

Believe me, children will be happy to play such games.

And if you invite friends to visit, then it will be even more fun to play.

You will also receive samples of walkers of your favorite heroes to your e-mail address.

Desktop paper theater on plastic cups, corks, cubes

This option is also very easy to make, you can even draw the characters yourself or find and cut out, and then stick them on corks or cubes. Everything is ingeniously simple.

And how do you like this idea? All children love Kinder Surprise, and all of them have small containers left from them that you can pay to such a theater.

DIY glove doll

In fact, puppet theaters can be built a lot. Even at almost no cost. You just need to turn on the ingenuity and do it! You can sew for example.

And you can learn to knit and knit such cute characters:

I honestly used to knit well, now there is not enough time for all this. But I never liked sewing. But, also as an option, you can sew such a theater, who loves this business.

Although here is the simplest master for you - a class on sewing a puppet theater from fabric using gloves. Anyone can do it, even those who do not know the art of sewing.

We will need:

• household gloves, knitted - 2 pcs., buttons for the eyes - 2 pcs., threads, scissors, braid, stationery knife

Stages of work:

1. Take the first glove and steam out the thread-seam on the cuff, usually it is red or yellow. Tuck in the little finger, thumb and forefinger so that they do not come out, sew them up. You should end up with a head with ears and a bunny neck. Sew up the bases at the ears so that the fingers do not get there.

2. Now take the next glove and hide the ring finger in it, sew up the hole. Connect the middle and index fingers together and now put the hare's head on them.

3. Sew the head to the neck. To hide the seam at the neck, tie a bow or tie in the form of a butterfly. Sew on button eyes and embroider a muzzle, or you can draw with a marker. From a fluff or knitted threads, you can decorate a hare by gluing a cute cap on his head. 😯

In this way, other toys can be made, such as a dog, parsley, etc.

I have a son who generally loves such a simple glove, puts it on and goes around making up all sorts of stories with the characters 🙂

Here is such a short article turned out for today. I think who of you has small children, you are happy to diversify their leisure time. Choose any kind of theater, do it with your child. And then enjoy a good mood and positive. After all, all joint work strengthens your relationship! And the child will only be happy and glad from this, and will definitely tell you: “Mommy, how I love you!” The most magical words in the world.

Well, I say goodbye to you today. See you again.

P.S. Do you know what is very important?! It is in the home puppet theater that you can watch the child, his behavior. Because the baby can think of something, speak out, and we adults should still listen to what the child is talking about, what conversations he is talking about.

Finger puppet theater is an exciting educational activity for kids. It perfectly expands the imagination, strengthens fine motor skills. The heroes of such a theater, that is, toys, can be self-made, sewn or knitted, cut out of paper or wood. Making a finger theater with your own hands is quite simple. Let's consider all the ways.

Sculpted finger theater

Let's see how to mold the toys of the famous fairy tale "Turnip".

We will need:

• modeling paste. Very good JOVI, which becomes hard in the open air. It dries quickly and does not need to be burned. The paste can be coated with paint or varnish;
• green and yellow JOVI Patcolor pastes;
• brushes;
• acrylic paints;
• stacks (special sticks with tips);
• markers.

It is necessary to take a paste with a volume of a third of a matchbox. Let's start with my grandfather. We sculpt the cylinder, form the head, outline the torso. In general, the result should be a figure in the form of a nesting doll. At the base of the matryoshka, you need to make a hole for the finger. To the finished body, you need to attach handles molded from the same paste.

Remember to constantly wet your fingers with water, as the paste dries quickly in the air. Small details - mustache, beard, nose, eyes - it is better not to mold, but cut out in a stack.

All the characters of the fairy tale are made in the same way, the rest of the toys - from the grandmother to the mouse. Don't forget to make a hole for your finger in the base of the toy!

We make a turnip as follows: we sculpt a sphere from yellow paste, and with the help of a stack we cut out tops from a sheet of green paste. We fasten the "vegetation" to the root crop, fix it tightly.

When the heroes of the "Turnip" have dried up, we paint the toys with acrylic paints, using brushes. You can entrust this work to the child himself. Plasticine puppet theater is ready!

Paper Finger Theater

Making a do-it-yourself finger theater out of paper is even easier. We will need:

• multi-colored and plain paper;
• glue;
• paints;
• brushes;
• scissors.

Making finger toys out of paper is easy. You can find templates on the Internet, print them on a color printer, cut and glue. You can simply cut out the paper “fingertip” of the desired character, color it yourself and also glue it.

If you or your child are strong in origami, then in this case the scope for imagination is simply unlimited. The only negative is that such dolls are very fragile and short-lived. On the other hand, every day you can put on a new play with new characters. That is, it is a theater where the most ambitious productions and the introduction of new characters are possible with the relative simplicity of implementation.

Sewn finger theater

Toys sewn from dense fabric are as durable as those made from paste. Such finger puppets can be made of wool, felt, leatherette, felt. In addition to the fabric itself, we will need, of course, threads, a needle and elements for embroidering the muzzle of a toy: beads, sequins, etc.

How to sew dolls? First of all, decide - can you make patterns for cats, chanterelles, dogs on your own, or is it better to use ready-made ones? There are a lot of them on the web. What follows is simple work. We transfer the pattern to the fabric, cut out two parts of the doll, sew them with a regular seam over the edge.

However, if you know how to work on a sewing machine with small forms, then it’s even better - the edges of the doll will turn out to be more accurate. When the silhouette is ready - do not forget that the base cannot be sewn, with the help of it the toys will be put on the finger - we embroider with a floss seam or we make eyes and a nose with the help of beads. The toys are ready. It remains to put them on your fingers and arrange a performance.

Another option: link. But for this you need to be able to knit, and quite well.

Wooden finger theater

This is aerobatics, such a home-made puppet theater is already close to a professional set and is almost eternal. But only those who know how to work with it can make toys out of wood. Figures carved from wood need to be painted and varnished. The only disadvantage of such a puppet theater is the constancy of the repertoire. Wooden toys are not easy to remake, as well as to make new ones.

So, if you decide to make a finger puppet theater yourself, then evaluate your hand-made skills. If you cut wood or knit perfectly, it’s fine, but if you don’t know how, then feel free to sculpt dolls from pasta or cut them out of paper.

Remember: the main developing property of the finger theater is that the child can not only put on a performance with ready-made puppets, but also take a direct part in their creation.

In the finger theater made of felt (you can draw patterns for dolls with your own hands or take those suggested below) you can play with both kids and older children. And little needlewomen can even help to make the characters of any fairy tales out of felt. Already at the age of five (and some young artists even earlier), a child can draw a pattern of a bunny or a fox and cut a blank out of fabric.

This activity is not only fun, but also useful. Firstly, during the game (performance), the child can try on the role of absolutely any fairy-tale hero, and secondly, the finger theater is a good simulator for motor functions and speech, it develops artistry. Thirdly, an older child will develop in several directions, not only during the game, but also while making dolls for presentation with mom or dad.

Felt features

It is very easy to work with felt, this material:

• does not need processing of cuts, does not crumble;
• pleasant to the touch, soft, warm and fleecy;
• keeps a neat edge when cutting with curly scissors;
• the material has a wide selection of colors, bright and saturated;
• keeps its shape well, durable and does not wrinkle;
• has no inside and face, the same on both sides;
• you can not only sew, but also just stick;
• does not change color after washing or when in the sun;
• does not form pellets and does not fray during sewing and use.

Fairy tale "Teremok"

In order to play the fairy tale "Teremok" on the stage of an impromptu finger theater, you need to make a mouse, a bunny, a frog, a fox, a wolf, a bear and the teremok itself. You will need several sheets of thin felt of different colors, glue, scissors, a needle and thread. You also need a pencil and several sheets of paper to draw patterns for future finger theater toys.

To make the Teremok finger theater, you will need nine colors of felt: two shades of green, white, black, gray, pink, orange, brown and beige.

fairy tale characters

Let's start making toys for the theater with a frog. You need to draw on paper, and then cut out only seven parts from felt: two green bases, one frog tummy (you need a different shade of green, lighter or darker, depending on which one was the main one) and four details for the eyes (two circles from white felt and two, but smaller, from black). First, with large stitches, bast the tummy to the front of the frog and glue the eyes. A smile can be sewn with a “back needle” seam or simply drawn with a black marker. Then it remains only to sew together the front and back sides, but so that there is room for a finger at the bottom.

To make a mouse, you need to cut out two bases from gray felt, a gray tail and a white tummy. Details for the muzzle (nose and eyes) can be cut out of black felt, or you can simply draw. This will be easier than trying to carefully glue small parts. You can add pink semicircles to the mouse on the inside of the ears. Then it remains only to sew on all the details, and then sew the two halves of the toy together, leaving a hole for the finger.

Making a bunny with your own hands is a little more difficult due to the large number of small details. In addition to the base of white felt, you need to cut out pink cheeks, the same tummy, a white tail and oblong pink ovals for the inside of the ears. First glue or sew all the details to the parts of the toy, draw eyes and a nose, and only then sew the bases together.

To make a fox-sister, you need to cut out two parts for the body from orange felt, a tail and a muzzle, a white tip of the tail, a breast, almond-shaped eyes and a black nose. First sew the breast and muzzle, tail, then stick the rest of the details. As in the previous cases, then fold the two parts of the fox and sew together with a buttonhole.

Now it remains to make only a gray wolf and a bear. For the wolf, cut out two parts for the body, tail, muzzle, white eyes, breast and tail tip, black nose. The technology is the same - sew the larger parts, and glue the smaller ones to the base. Then sew the front and back of the body together.

For the bear, you need to cut out two body parts from brown felt, a tummy and muzzle from felt with a shade lighter, two white eyes (draw the pupils with a marker). On the muzzle, embroider floss with black thread or draw a nose and mouth with a marker. Sew the muzzle and tummy to the base, sew the two halves of the base.

From the remaining felt, you can make a house with pockets for all characters - a tower.

Masha and the Bear

In the finger theater, you can play the fairy tale "Masha and the Three Bears" or several episodes of the popular children's animated series "Masha and the Bear". Bears can be made as described above, but for Masha you will have to prepare other patterns. So, to make Masha, you need to draw the base (two details) - the silhouette of a girl in a sundress and with a scarf on her head. You also need to separately prepare two parts of a scarf (front and back), hair, two parts of a sundress (also front and back). For a sundress, you can additionally cut out decorations, for example, flowers or buttons. All the details are quite large, so you can do without glue, and draw a face with a marker. You can brown Masha with ordinary blush or pastel crayons. The finger theater made of felt “Masha and the Bear” is ready!

Fairy tale "Turnip"

Do-it-yourself finger theater patterns from felt for the fairy tale "Turnip" can be drawn independently based on images of finished toys. But dolls for such a performance are more difficult to make than the characters "Teremka" or Masha from the fairy tale "Masha and the Three Bears", but you can choose simpler options. In total, you need to make seven toys: a grandmother and a grandfather, a granddaughter, a dog and a cat, a mouse and, of course, a turnip. Finger toys are made according to the same scheme as for other fairy tales: details are attached to the base that will make this or that hero recognizable. For example, a braid for a girl, a scarf and an apron for a grandmother, a beard for a grandfather. Also make a turnip with a finger toy - it will be more convenient to show a performance based on a fairy tale.

"Kolobok"

For the fairy tale "Gingerbread Man" you need such felt dolls: grandfather and grandmother, bun, bunny, wolf, bear and fox. We have already learned how to make all these characters in the description for the schemes of the finger theater based on the fairy tales "Teremok" and "Turnip". It remains to make only a kolobok. To do this, you just need to cut a circle out of yellow felt, draw eyes, a nose and a mouth for it, sew it so that there is room for a finger.

Other characters can be made as already described, or you can use other patterns. Making a finger theater out of felt with your own hands is a creative process (both during the creation of toys and during the performance), so variations are possible. One of the options for a bunny pattern, for example, is below.

"Three pigs"

Felt dolls for the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs" can be made in different ways. Toys can be both complex, detailed, and simple. One of the options for a pattern for a finger theater made of felt with your own hands (pig) is below. But a pig can also be drawn schematically. A toy can only consist of a pink base, tail, ears and stigma - the presence of even these elements alone will already make the doll recognizable. Of course, the performance will not do without the house of the three little pigs.

"Ryaba Hen"

Patterns for a finger theater made of felt (it’s very easy to make toys with your own hands) based on the fairy tale “Gingerbread Man” is presented below. You can, of course, draw the characters a little differently, add or remove some details.

If you work according to the proposed finger theater template, you need to transfer the pattern to felt and cut out all the details. There will be a lot of them, so it’s better to make toys in turn: first a grandmother, then a grandfather, then a Ryaba chicken, then a mouse (or in another order). Here you can give free rein to your imagination, because the clothes of the old people and the hen Ryaba herself can be of various colors.

Most small parts will be more convenient to glue to the base. But it is better to sew on a shirt, pants, apron, sleeves, a wing of a chicken and some other elements for a fortress.