How to make a theater at home. Algorithm for creating a doll. Dolls made of plasticine or salt dough

Of course, in a puppet theater, the screen and puppets are most important, but the role of the scenery should not be underestimated either. Without scenery, it is difficult for the audience to determine the place where the action takes place, all events seem to be torn out of reality and suspended in the air, and the entire performance looks deliberately rustic, as if it was done in a hurry, even if you spent a whole month on rehearsals. Personally, the empty black “pit” of the stage makes me sad. On the other hand, even a simple scene played out in beautiful scenery looks advantageous and makes a much stronger impression. Therefore, my advice to you is to spend a little time and decorate your performance with scenery that matches the scene, the audience will definitely appreciate it.

Making decorations with your own hands is not at all difficult. This illustrated master class is dedicated to flat cardboard house decorations. The action of many fairy tales and fables takes place in a house or in its immediate vicinity, so the scenery of a mansion, huts, shacks and other houses will be useful for every home puppet theater.

Before we begin, I would like to draw your attention to several important points that must be taken into account when making decorations for any home:

Dolls near the house should not appear too big or too small, unless, of course, this is part of the plot of the fairy tale. Therefore, if this is not a bear at the tower, not an elephant at the mouse’s house, and not godfather Pumpkin at his kennel, then the house should be higher than the characters living in it. The scenery of this master class is designed for ordinary glove puppets with rubber heads, familiar to all of us from childhood, which rise 20 centimeters above the garden bed. Therefore, the decoration of the house for such dolls should be 25-30 cm high. For a small stage, make an ordinary house higher inappropriate. The other extreme, when the house is huge compared to the hero, unless it is a giant's castle next to Puss-in-Boots, should also be avoided. On stage you create a miniature fairy world, in which everything should be combined as best as possible.

The decoration of the house is usually located in the foreground and acts as a right or left wing. That is, the doll must be able to completely hide behind the decoration (enter the house), which means that the decoration itself must be at least 15 cm wide and not see through. In this case, the hero may come out unexpectedly and will be seen by the audience no earlier than required by the plot. But such a narrow house is only suitable if it does not have a slotted window through which the doll should look out during the action. Such a window should be large enough so that the doll can easily stick its head through the hole without shaking the decoration. For ordinary dolls with rubber heads, the optimal size of a slotted window is 10x10 cm. Accordingly, the width of a house with a slotted window increases to 20-30 cm, and if the house also has a canopy or porch, then to 35-40 cm.

If you are depicting an asymmetrical house with a porch or an entryway, then you need to take into account that the backstage hut can be right or left, depending on which side of the scene it is located on. Therefore, before making the scenery, you need to think through the action of the play itself and decide on which side it is more convenient to place the house on the stage and where, in accordance with the location of the house on the stage, the porch should be located.

Try to make the outline of the decoration as simple and smooth as possible, so that later it will be convenient to cut it out of cardboard, and small protrusions will not come off and become frayed.

Now take a regular sheet of A3 or A2 paper and, following the rules described above, draw on it a house for your performance.

		If you are painting the house of a merchant or wealthy peasant, then emphasize the wealth of the owner by depicting the house as new, built from good quality light logs, cover the roof with elegant tiles and decorate the trim with carvings or bright paintings. Of course, not only human heroes, but also animal heroes, for example, the Cat and the Rooster from the fairy tale “The Cat, the Rooster and the Fox,” can live in such a house.
		If you are painting a poor man’s shack, then, on the contrary, depict the house as dark, sunken into the ground, overgrown with moss, and covered with old thatch. The same hut can become a suitable home for a forest Bear or other forest animal.

If you depict houses as beautifully as wonderful artist from Astrakhan Elena Davydova didn’t work out for you, don’t be upset. You can download her drawings to your computer right now in good resolution, and then print them on a color inkjet printer. Since the house does not fit on one A4 sheet, it is divided into two parts in the file. The houses are large, so do not forget to set the maximum print area in the printer settings.

To download a file with ready-made pictures, right-click on the desired link, select “Save target as...” or “Save via link as...” and save the file to disk; to open it you will need free program Adobe Acrobat Reader.

After you have drawn or printed the design, you need to cut out a base for the decoration from plain paper. After all, it has not only an upper part visible to viewers, but also a hidden part, located below the level of the bed. From a sheet of white paper, cut a strip 4-5 cm longer than the bottom of the picture and 5 cm wide. The strip may not be continuous, but composite, because it will still be glued onto cardboard. The base of the set will not be visible to the audience, so there is no need to paint it.

Now you need to glue all the parts of the decoration onto the cardboard. Corrugated cardboard from ordinary packaging boxes with a thickness of 2-3 mm is perfect for these purposes. If you use thicker corrugated cardboard, then it will be difficult for you to cut out the finished decoration from it, and it will not be so convenient to attach it to the screen. Our decoration must hold its shape well and not bend under its own weight, so using whatman paper or thin coated cardboard instead of corrugated cardboard is impractical.

Using a utility knife, cut the box into individual sheets without folds.

		Lubricate the back side of the design (half of the top part of the decoration) with glue (for more reliable gluing, it is better to use PVA glue rather than glue sticks), and then glue it onto a sheet of cardboard so that at least 5 cm remains between the edge of the sheet and the bottom of the design for gluing the base. Then glue the other half of the house end to end. Try to match the details of the design on both halves of the decoration as accurately as possible.
		Now grease the prepared strip of paper with glue, which will serve as the base of the decoration, and glue it along the bottom border of the picture with a shift in the desired direction. If this is a left wing, as in our case, then its base should have a protrusion on the right, and if it is a right wing, then the protrusion should be on the left. Everything above the base will be visible to the audience, so make sure that there are no unpainted areas.
		To prevent the cardboard from warping or warping when the glue dries, leave the decoration to dry under a press (place several thick books on top). When the glue has dried, use a utility knife to carefully cut out the outline of the house along with the base. It is better not to use scissors, otherwise all the cardboard will be in unsightly creases. But if you don’t have a stationery knife at hand, then try not to guide the scissors along the contour, as when cutting from thin flexible paper, but free the contour from excess cardboard, cutting it into small pieces. Cut out the window especially carefully.
		In the same way, we will turn a drawing of a poor shack into a blank for decoration.
		We will secure the house decoration to the screen using two clothespins. Any plastic or wooden clothespins with flat sides without protruding parts will be suitable for this purpose. Plastic clothespins are more convenient than wooden ones because they open wider.
		One clothespin will hold the decoration by the protrusion of the base, and for the second clothespin we will need a hole. To cut it, attach a clothespin to the decoration so that the metal spring bracket is flush with the “bed” line, and trace with a pencil the part of the clothespin that is above the base of the decoration.

Using a utility knife, carefully cut a rectangular hole in the decoration and make sure that the clothespin can be easily inserted and removed. If necessary, widen the hole slightly.

But it’s too early to declare our houses ready. If we now fix any of them on the screen, then through the window it will shine through - the background behind the house and all the movements of the dolls inside the house will be visible to the audience. This is not very beautiful, so we will give our house a false volume by securing it with reverse side at home an additional curtain made of light, plain fabric in dark colors. The curtain will make the decoration of the house opaque, hide the movements of the dolls inside the house from the audience, and the doll will be able to look out the window by diving under this curtain. In this case, behind the doll’s head there will be a contrasting background that will highlight it favorably, against which it will look good. Choose fabric for the curtain that is not thick. During the performance, the stage is usually brightly lit from the side of the auditorium; this will make the curtain on the actors’ side translucent, which will make it easier to control the doll looking out of the window. Also, do not use shiny fabric to avoid bright light she didn't glare.

Turn the house decoration over, place the fabric so that it covers the entire window and use a pencil to mark the top side of the rectangle. Remove the fabric, apply a strip of Moment universal glue to the marked line, carefully place the fabric and press it to the cardboard.

Lay the decoration horizontally, with the glued fabric facing up, in a well-ventilated area and let the glue dry.

And now, so that the clothespins with which we will secure the house do not spoil the view of the stage, we will decorate them too. Read about how to do this in the master class:

If you did not draw the decorations yourself, but used the beautiful drawings of Elena Davydova, then in the files you downloaded on the fourth page there are ready-made pictures for decorating clothespins.

Cut out the images along the contour, turn the pictures down, and then using universal glue, glue a clothespin to the back of each picture so that the clothespin is not visible from the front side.

After the glue has dried, you will have these cute sets of decorative clothespins:

But that's not all. Each house, if there are more than two of them on the stage (left and right), needs a pair of scenes that will occupy the opposite side of the stage, balance the composition and allow the dolls approaching the house not to appear “out of the ground” in front of the audience . If the play takes place in the yard, then it is logical to use a fence suitable for the house as a steamy backstage, behind which there may be fruit trees.

		If the house is rich, then the fence should be drawn to match it - strong and well made.
		And opposite the poor shack, the fence should be depicted as old, flimsy and rickety.

Since the fence is also a backstage, it must be opaque and of sufficient size for the doll to come out from behind it (15-20 cm wide and 25-30 cm high.) You can print paired fence decorations for houses from this MK from the page 3 corresponding files.

The decorations themselves are made in the same way as the decorations for the huts, only the protrusion of the base of the decoration should be located on the opposite side from the protrusion of the decoration of the house, because they will be located on different sides scenes.

Real home puppet theater children It is, of course, too early to buy until one year old. But mitten toys will be just right. Soft and pleasant to the touch, they are quickly put on the hand of an adult or older child - brother or sister. What can you do with such a toy? A lot:

sing a song and tell a story,
distract and shift attention,
entertain on the road,
stroke and hug toys-gloves with soft paws.

When the child grows up, glove actors can easily join a home puppet theater troupe consisting of glove toys.

Home theater for children 1-5 years old

Children 1-3 years old enjoy watching and directing performances using puzzles, wooden construction sets and magnetic sets. for babies they are made of soft PVC or wood. All details are large. They are easy to hold with small fingers.

- a set of soft or plywood magnets with or without a magnetic board. Instead of a board, it is convenient to display a fairy tale on the wall/door of a refrigerator or a magnetic tablet. Magnetic home theater for children - classic sample toys for growth. While the child is small, let the adults act out the plays. Then you can buy for home theater an additional 1-2 sets of figures, and the young director himself will stage performances with the simultaneous participation of several characters, even from different fairy tales.

The "" section has a wide variety of toys. There are classic cardboard/plywood sets for juniors preschool age and theater games for older children: ceramic and paper kits that need to be colored first. The sets include all theatrical paraphernalia: panoramic stage settings, scenery, cards with text, etc.

— entertainment for children over 1.5 years old. The fact is that most of the heroes of the toy puppet theater have small details: noses, ears, hands. They are easy to bite and swallow. Do not leave children playing with finger puppets unattended, or perform the show yourself. You can buy a set for the performance finger toys for puppet theater or purchase characters separately. If you are not going to limit yourself to presenting one fairy tale, the second option is preferable.

Wooden based on Russian folk tales— sets of several figures united by one plot. The nesting dolls, like the finger puppets, there are age restrictions related to the size of the figures. Otherwise, the nesting dolls are like home actors children's theater, is an excellent solution:

develop fine motor skills,
teach you to concentrate
stimulate tactile sensitivity,
develop imagination.

Screens and toys for puppet theater

For a full performance you will need a screen and actors. with a curtain and a stage - just like the real ones! Based on the height and age of the child, you can buy a tabletop or floor screen with a height of 43 to 150 cm for your home children's theater.

The cast ranges from simple to complex, with a high degree of detail. Our store sells sets for performances based on specific fairy tales, individual dolls and sets of toys for puppet theaters with a wide variety of repertoire.

Make a puppet theater, stage and theatrical props at home with your child. You will have something to surprise your guests and please your family on quiet family evenings. Fairy-tale heroes They will help feed, put to sleep, cheer, and educate the baby. Home theater is an excellent way of speech, emotional, and creative development. And the most important thing is this joint activities which unites all family members. There are enough roles for everyone!

Organization home theater does not require large financial costs; a lot can be made from scrap materials with your own hands. Just be prepared to sacrifice your time. But it's worth it, believe me! The burning eyes of a child, a storm of emotions, invaluable experience, funny photos V family archive, the applause of the audience is not the entire list of future “dividends”.

Hiding behind dolls, getting used to the images of heroes, children often say things that they would not say in ordinary life. When playing in the theater, a child plays out what excites him in at the moment, on behalf of fairy tale character tells his own problems, experiences, fears. Staging performances helps improve communication skills, develops expressive speech and the ability to formulate one’s thoughts.

Let's look at what a home theater can be like, what and how to make dolls from.

How to make puppets for the theater

There are a lot of different finger puppets and glove dolls on sale. We will talk about dolls that you can easily make yourself at home. Sometimes you don’t have to know how to sew to do this.

You don't need to make a lot of dolls. Gray wolf, fox, bear, hare and other “running” heroes can participate in a huge number fairy tales

Finger puppets for home theater

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You can introduce children to theater from a very early age. The roles of the main actors will be played by our fingers. They just need to be dressed up a little. Over time, the little one will act out short scenes himself.

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Puppets for home theater can be connected with a key.

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Finger puppets can be sewn from scraps of fleece, felt or bright cotton and knitted fabrics.

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Finger puppets can be made from paper using the origami technique.

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Special developments allow you to make the figures more complex.

Stomper dolls

Stomper dolls are interesting and easy to make. Thick cardboard will do. It turns out to be a real walking doll!

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Any flat picture with two holes for the index and middle fingers will become talented actor your home theater, will be able to walk, jump and run funny.

Glove puppets for theater

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You can use lost gloves, socks without a pair, mittens, leftover fabric, felt, yarn, etc.

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A sock can turn into anyone if you sew on eyes, forelocks and other missing details of the image.

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If the doll is made in such a way that it can open its mouth, that's great! A character who speaks and moves his lips (mouth) believably is capable of many things.

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A simple pattern in the form of a potholder. Draw heroes on the front side.

Knitted dolls in the form of a mitten.

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Glove puppets can be made from broken toys. It is enough to attach the head to the glove cover. Heads from rubber toys are great.

You can not only sew a doll for your hand, but also felt it from wool.

Puppets

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You need to learn how to control a puppet. Coordination and dexterity are important here.

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You can make a doll from balls, large beads, or a piece of fabric. Be sure to cross and fishing line.

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Dolls on a stick

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Dolls made from disposable spoons. Fast - and comfortable to hold!

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You can use wooden skewers or ice cream sticks as holders.

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Dolls on stands

You can cut out characters for your home theater from magazines or make figurines yourself. Be sure to stick it on thick cardboard and make stands.

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Shadow theater

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It’s not difficult to set up a home shadow theater - a white sheet will serve as a screen, and instead of a projector you can take a regular table lamp.

You can invent and show characters using your hands.

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Flannelograph

Making a flannelgraph is simple - a piece of plywood or a board is covered with plain flannel. The characters are glued onto thick cardboard (you can cut out pictures from magazines or download them from the Internet). Velvet paper or sewing Velcro is glued to the back side.

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Let the fairy tale come to life!

Dear readers! Do you have experience organizing a home theater? Perhaps you attended performances organized by mothers and fathers you know with their children? Maybe you know how to make scenery and puppets for the theater? Tell us about it in the comments.

“Isn’t it time, my friends, for us to take a swing at William, you know, um, our Shakespeare?”

And let's take a swing!
But before you play Shakespeare’s immortal works, you can first stage a puppet show based on one of the Russian folk tales that children know and love very much. For such a puppet show, you do not need a real theater stage - the performance can be performed at home.
In order to set up a home puppet theater, all you need is a small piece of bright festive material that stretches across the room. This will be the scene. And the actors will be dolls of the main characters of fairy tales or cartoons, controlled by children. It’s great if adults are not only spectators, but also participants in the puppet show. Acting out a fairy tale in a home puppet theater, adults and children will not only be able to feel like real actors, but also to become them.
Preparing a puppet show is no less exciting than the activity itself. puppet show. Choose the plot of the play, write or select interesting scenario, prepare musical accompaniment, make scenery, design and draw a poster - these are things that can and definitely should be done together with your child and the whole family!
And don’t forget to come up with a name for your home puppet theater that is unusual and fun.

The child will receive an unforgettable experience from staging a play in a family home puppet theater! After all, he will speak for his hero, work with his fingers so that the hero moves correctly, learn the text and “get used to” the role. And through playing with a glove puppet, which can rightfully be classified as educational toys, the child will develop motor skills and memory.
Puppets for the puppet theater can be purchased individually or in whole sets. Typically, such sets include dolls of all the characters involved in the play. Extended sets may also include a play script with texts from the characters and even material for constructing a screen. If you are just starting to play at home puppet theater, then such an expanded set will be the right choice. In the future, when premieres in the home puppet theater follow one after another, you can purchase dolls of additional characters and come up with your own scenarios with the participation of new artists. If you feel that home puppet theater has become an integral part cultural life your family, then you should think about purchasing a “stage” - a stationary screen. Screens for puppet theaters can be tabletop or stationary. Typically, screens are made collapsible so that they can be stored compactly during breaks between performances.

We believe that these initial information will be enough to organize your own home puppet theater. And don’t forget - at home puppet shows there are no failures. Each performance is a great holiday, both for the actors and for the audience.

Turn off the sound on cell phones! The lights are already going out. The curtain opens.
The puppet show begins...

Preschoolers are very impressionable and respond well to emotional influences, therefore, the bright colorful puppet theater is perceived as a real fairy tale come to life. Playing with dolls, the child abstracts himself from the environment, which helps him express all his problems and fears. If there are any conflict situations in the family or kindergarten, child psychologists recommend playing them out in a puppet theater, giving the child the role of different participants in the conflict. Children's participation in puppet theater helps them develop coherent speech, train memory and attention.

Buying a puppet theater is not a problem now, but good toys are expensive and out of reach for the average family. That is why many parents are interested in the question of how to make a puppet theater with their own hands for kindergarten?

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Making dolls

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Homemade toys for the puppet theater have the highest educational value. Making theatrical puppets develops creativity, imagination, and thinking. And a good kindergarten definitely uses this kind of benefits.

Toys can be made from any materials: foam rubber, fabric, paper, wire, cardboard, etc. Let's consider the manufacturing technology of the most common theatrical puppets.

Flat dolls

The character is drawn on cardboard and cut out. The finished figure is placed on a second sheet of cardboard, traced and cut out. Images are colored with paints, pencils or felt-tip pens. Both parts are glued together by inserting a stick between them (glued together paper tube, ice cream stick, etc.). The resulting figures can be placed on a stand (thread spools or plastic plugs).

Cylindrical (cone-shaped) dolls

Using a stencil or compass, circles of different diameters are cut out, cut in half and glued together in the form of a cone - this is the character’s body. The head is made of newsprint, which is torn into small pieces and filled with water. When the paper gets wet, drain off the excess water, add flour in a 3:1 ratio (3 parts newsprint, 1 part flour) and knead the dough. Roll the dough into balls, put them on a cone and sculpt a head. The heads should dry on the cone. After the heads dry, they are removed and the cone is decorated with lace, braid, various fabrics, beads, etc., depending on the character. All decorative elements are glued with PVA glue. You can make slits on the cones and insert handles, paws or tails. When the body is ready, the doll's head is glued onto the cone.

Foam dolls

First of all, the pieces of foam rubber need to be painted. This is done with aniline dyes dissolved in water. The foam rubber must be dipped into the dye solution several times, squeezing it out each time. After drying, the foam rubber is given the shape necessary for the doll: cuts are made, constrictions are made, some parts can be sewn.

The process of making such dolls completely depends on the imagination of the master; we will look at just a few examples. To the glove we sew a stocking or a piece of tights, to the heel of which we glue or sew beads (eyes) - we get a snake. The snake can crawl and talk thanks to the movement of its hand.

You can sew an animal from two gloves; to do this, we tie one of the gloves together. middle finger With index finger, and the ring finger - with the little finger. We fold the glove and hide the extra parts inside, cut off the thumb. We pull back the ears (the ends of the ring and middle fingers) and sew the parts together. So we have the head of the animal; we sew it to the middle finger of the second glove. We sew the thumb of the first one onto the second glove - this is the tail of the animal. All that remains is to sew on the eyes and nose (beads), change the shape of the head and tail. If you put the doll on your hand, then all its parts (head, tail and legs) will be movable.

The mitten can represent the whole doll, in which case the thumb can be the tail, or just the doll’s head, then the thumb is the nose.

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Making decorations

When interested in how to make a do-it-yourself puppet theater for a kindergarten, parents and educators often think about making puppets, but forget about such an important theatrical element as scenery. The simplest decorations are made from cardboard boxes, which are painted, covered with colored paper, and additional elements are attached.

To ensure a quick change of scenery, they need to be glued onto sheets of cardboard bound in the form of a book. Such a book can be placed behind a screen. Another option for changing the decorations is to mount them on a pinwheel, which is a thick wire driven into a round wooden base. On the back side of the turntable there is a screen consisting of 3 stretchers covered with fabric.