Finger theater do-it-yourself paper templates. We make finger paper toys with our own hands

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 prepares his hand for writing.

Also, play this theater 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. On the cups, you can draw faces and faces of various characters from fairy tales or cartoons, or we print "faces" the desired characters 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 system of work kindergarten. Familiarization with different types theaters start early.

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"The mind of a child is at your fingertips"

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Finger theater is very fond of the children of our group, especially girls. It's no secret that, in addition to aesthetic pleasure, playing with a finger puppet theater develops a child's imagination, curiosity, sociability, interest in creativity, contributes to the development of speech, memory, attention, thinking, perseverance, broadening one's horizons, helps to cope with shyness and much more. .

In this regard, at one of the parent meetings, we decided to replenish our theater with hand-made characters.

Parents tried and sewed the fairy tale "Teremok"

It turned out it wasn't all that difficult.

Some parents "took the hook" for the first time. And it turned out pretty well, in our opinion.

One family presented a nursery rhyme "Magpie Crow" made of felt.

We made some animals ourselves with children from plasticine.

Thanks to the finger theater, the child has the opportunity to fantasize, invent their own fairy tales and stories. Many thanks to the parents for their active participation in the life of the kindergarten.

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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 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 to develop lexicon 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 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 younger to school age, since educators widely use it on various activities 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 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 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, 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. 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.

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 a 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 variants theaters, such as 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 yourself with a funny plot and an intriguing end, then in general it can turn out 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 magic art in which children learn the world. 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. Also this good material for the development in children of such processes 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 glass. 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 ready-made templates heroes according to 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 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 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!” Most magic words in this 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.

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 "Turnip" have dried up, we paint the toys 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. Further - 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.