Do-it-yourself finger theater made of felt: patterns and patterns

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

In his works, the outstanding innovative teacher Sukhomlinsky stated: "The mind of a child is located at the tips of his fingers." And this is no coincidence - the cerebral cortex has a very extensive area responsible for the work of the hands. Therefore, the level of intelligence of the child directly depends on the degree of development of fine motor skills of his fingers. All kinds of finger games, including finger puppet theater, will help develop a child's precision in hand coordination. Moreover, such a theater is a whole arsenal of tools for the development of a child. Judge for yourself.

What do finger theater games do?

This is not only a fun pastime and an opportunity to entertain a group of children, but also a very rewarding activity. The beneficial effects of finger theater are as follows:

• stimulation of fine motor development;
• acquaintance with concepts such as color, size,shape;
• development of spatial perception skills (concepts: right, left, side by side, in front of each other, etc.);
• imagination development, memory training, concentration;
• activation of speech function and expansion of vocabulary;
• formation of creative abilities and artistic skills;
• acquaintance with elementary mathematical concepts.

In addition, children's theater - finger, shadow or classical - implies familiarity with fiction, the basics of stagecraft, plasticity, etc. All this contributes to the expansion of horizons, the enrichment of the child's speech, the development of emotionality, sociability, curiosity, awakening interest in creativity. And if you decide to make a finger theater with your own hands with your child, then to all this you can add such qualities as love for work, development of perseverance and concentration.

Make a finger theater with your own hands

We will need a sheet of paper or tracing paper, a pencil, multi-colored felt, scissors, a brush, glue, threads of the right colors, a needle or a sewing machine. And, of course, there must be a desire in a good mood to make a finger theater out of felt with your own hands. Patterns of heroes can be taken from this article or you can come up with your own using simple geometric shapes.

Templates for patterns

Who exactly will perform on the stage of your theater is up to you, or rather, your child: these can be heroes of Russian folk tales, modern animated series orcharacters from everyday life. The main thing is that such a game should be fun for everyone. According to our templates, following the instructions below, you can easily make four funny characters for a theatrical action called "Zoo": a lion, a cat, a bear and a hippo.

Accordingly, you will receive a finger theater made of felt (with your own hands).

The patterns of all the characters are very simple, even a child from elementary school can handle them.

But, of course, parents will also be interested in participating in the process.

Step by step instructions

1. Print a photo with characters or just attach a sheet of paper (tracing paper) to its image on the monitor.
2. Circle the figure you are interested in with a pencil, cut it out. Attach the resulting template to the felt of the corresponding color and outline its outline on the fabric. This way you will get the front part of the base of the doll. Cut it out with scissors.
3. Turn the template over, attach it to the felt, outline, cut it out - this will be the back of the character.
4. In the same way, make patterns for all the small elements of the figures (clothes, accessories, eyes, etc.).
5. Important! First of all, it is necessary to completely make the front and back of the figures, and only then sew the finished ones together. Glue cut out small elements to the front side: paws, mane, etc. Start working with the largest parts located directly on the base, moving to the higher ones. Small details, such as eyes or specks, leave for the very end.
6. Fold both finished sides of the figure wrong sides to each other and sew them together with a buttonhole stitch. You can also use a sewing machine for this purpose, making a contour seam at a distance of ~ 5 mm from the edge. Do not forget to leave the lower part of the figurines unstitched - a finger should be inserted into it.

Here, in fact, the whole master class. Finger theater called "Zoo" is ready. Now you can show views. But it would be better if you also make a house for the heroes, where they will live in their free time from concert activities, as well as a stage for performances.

House

When you made a finger theater out of felt with your own hands, you already need to make patterns for the house, taking into account the size and number of acting characters. If you plan to replenish the composition of the troupe in the future, then this fact must also be foreseen. The house can be sewn from the same felt. It can look like a book with pocket pages for felt figures and contain a stage (for example, as shown in the figure below) or be a flat rectangle bag - it all depends on your desire and capabilities.

Stage

With the stage, everything is even simpler. In every home, there is probably an unnecessary shoe box (or similar). By cutting a rectangular hole in the base of the box or its lid andputting the box on the side, you will get a stage that resembles a street stage.

Well, if you decorate it with a curtain and backstage, for example, from the same felt, then your characters can already feel like actors of a large theater. And if you come up with such a design that the stage opening is closed, for example, with a shutter, then in such a theater-box they can "live" in their free time from performances.

Your home theater

Teacher S. I. Merzlyakova said: "The theater is a magical land where a child rejoices while playing, and in the game he learns the world." Your finger theater, the templates for which you can borrow from this article or come up with your own, will allow your child to plunge headlong into theatrical activities. As a rule, preschool children easily and with pleasure join the game, energetically embody the images, turning into real artists.

Playing is a serious business, but at the same time it is fun. Connect children to it - theatrical games can also be used as an unobtrusive, but at the same time effective pedagogical tool, because during this process the child feels relaxed and free. In the process of working together on the intonation and expressiveness of the characters' remarks, as well as their own statements, in an invisible way for the child, his vocabulary is activated, the culture of speech is improved.

By connecting children of different ages to the game, when the elders show performances to the kids or make joint performances with them, you teach the guys how to work in a playful wayin a team and educate them in a good relationship with each other. Practice shows that the passion for finger theater improves children's mood, instills confidence in them, makes them freer and more relaxed, and children easily transfer the skills acquired during the game into everyday life - these are songs, dances, poems, riddles and jokes.

To be continued

Work organized in this way often contributes to the fact that such a theatrical game becomes a method of children's self-expression and self-realization of the child in various types of creativity. Therefore, it is possible that, having entered the taste, your child will want to make another finger theater out of felt with his own hands, patterns for which he will already come up with himself!