Even during a technical breakthrough, when many children are interested in electronic games, the interest in puppet theater is not lost. This cute and funny activity is interesting for both young children of preschool age and schoolchildren. After all, dolls are interesting characters who can tell various fables, fascinating stories and tales. And this is very attracting the attention of children. The so-called fun nativity scene is always in fashion.
What is a puppet theater for?
Such a simple play set is often used for the intellectual development of young children, and is also used to organize useful home leisure activities for a child. This is a hobby that allows you to reveal children's fantasies as such, to determine its facets of creative abilities.
To organize interesting entertainment at home, you do not need to run to the store and look for something like that. Making a puppet theater with your own hands is simple, especially if you apply all the examples below.
What tools and materials are needed for creativity?
To make a home puppet theater with your own hands, you will need small and large scissors (separately for paper and fabric), such material for crafts as multi-colored foamiran, threads, a needle, a sewing machine, a glue gun, utility household appliances in the form of brushes, dense plain patches colored material, empty cardboard boxes of various sizes, plastic pipes and corners for joining, a pencil or marker for drawing patterns, a ruler, a set of colored paper sheets of various densities. Here, in general, is the whole elementary set that may be needed in order to fulfill the samples given here.
If you still think that making a children's puppet theater with your own hands is difficult, proceed to further study the material in this article, and you will realize that there can be no easier task for parents. It turns out that we miss a lot of things in life, and when a child grows up, we find great ideas that could be very useful in the upbringing and development of the baby in the first years of life.
Do-it-yourself home puppet theater is best done together, it is interesting not only for the child, but also for parents, it is especially fun and exciting to use its result after fruitful work. Fantasy helps create a wide variety of characters.
Puppet Theater Screen Design
Work begins on the implementation of the game set with the design basis. The so-called screen can be performed in several ways. The simplest ones are shown in the photo below.
You can make such an original do-it-yourself desktop puppet theater if you use plastic pipes, ordinary shoe boxes or sew an original folding book from dense foamiran.
A sewn mini-curtain can also serve as a screen for the game creative set, which can safely be kept on a glazing bead and fastened to the door with Velcro.
These very simple ideas will help you get such a surprisingly interesting and useful game for children, like a puppet theater. A do-it-yourself screen is simply done for him, but it will serve not only as a basis, but also as a decoration, therefore a dense beautiful material is taken for its implementation - krimplen, velvet, velor.
Dolls made of cardboard and colored paper
After making the screen, they proceed directly to the creation of the characters themselves. These can be animals or heroes of fairy tales and fables. These samples can fill your puppet theater.
With your own hands, patterns of such a plan are easily cut with cardboard scissors. They are decorated with application pasting from colored paper, suede and drawing with felt-tip pens or markers.
The two circles at the bottom of the figure are cut out in order to create a convenient hole for the fingers that can hold the character like scissors. Such dolls are very practical if they are made of thick cardboard.
Theatrical characters from foamiran
You can create amazingly interesting crafts for children from the most simple means at hand. If you are seriously planning to make a puppet theater with your own hands, the simplest patterns proposed here will help you bring your ideas to life.
These cute little animals can be sewn from any dense material, as well as from plastic suede - foamiran.
You can make a very cute puppet theater with your own hands, patterns of samples are sewn to fit the palm of your hand. Here the method of mitt is observed, reminiscent of kitchen potholders, which are easy to make even for a beginner in this business. The characters have no legs, only the upper legs, which are controlled by the
thumb and little finger. Such dolls are more convenient to use in the screen of the first sample - from plastic pipes.
The photo shows a variant of applique patterns that can be sewn together manually, on a typewriter, or glued together. Of course, the more reliable option is that it is stitched with threads. Below is an example of a lion cub made from individual parts, as well as another application idea.
To sew a puppet theater with your own hands is to get a lot of positive things and to please your little households. Such variants of the den characters will be a joy to the kids when they first meet the animal world.
Crocheted dolls
There are a lot of options for creating a game set. Not only can you sew a puppet theater with your own hands, but also knit from beautiful multi-colored threads. An example can be taken from such a simple simple sample.
And you can knit not only a finger character, but also mittens. And you can also crochet the patterns of the parts above, and then sew them together.
Den game set
You can make such a puppet theater with your own hands. The dolls here are made using miniature fingertip patterns.
In the second sample, an ideally thin drape is suitable for such an application suture method. For the design of the faces used ordinary beads. Accurate products are obtained by stitching parts on a typewriter.
But the first option is manual work. And it also looks good.
Origami and interesting nativity scene
A fun activity is to do a puppet show with your own hands. Dolls can be varied, you can make them out of ordinary colored paper using the origami method. Here is an interesting sample of characters that can be made according to the scheme below.
Following the order of folding the sheet, you can create a simple little face of any animal character, it can be finished with a ballpoint pen, paints, felt-tip pens or markers.
And another interesting option for making toys
We greatly underestimate the various elements of everyday life, from which, it turns out, we get a magnificent puppet theater. A do-it-yourself screen is made of plastic pipes, who would have thought! But puppet characters can be made from brushes to clean them. It turns out such a cheerful example of miniature fairy-tale heroes.
The brush is screwed onto the finger of the person who will control the dolls, after which ears, pens are formed, a muzzle from a prepared cotton pompom is glued, as well as eyes, which can serve as factory blanks or ordinary beads.
Fascinating spiral dolls will delight any child. Such toys are certainly not sold in the store.
A few tips for beginners
So, do-it-yourself puppet theater, everyone can make patterns and description of samples in this article. The main thing is that there is a desire to develop creative inclinations in your children and not to miss a very valuable time in education - preschool age, when the child needs special attention.
A cheerful fairytale atmosphere is needed for kids all the time. They learn certain behavior from the heroes of fairy tales. The richer the repertoire of puppet theater, the better. So to stop on creativity only animals are not worth it.
In order for the puppet theater to last as long as possible, in its manufacture it is worth using only new materials - paper, fabric, foamiran rags. It is necessary to store such a game set separately from all children's toys in order to prevent its damage. After all, the decor of the screen and many details on the dolls themselves require a special thrifty attitude.
Ready-made theater sets are used for role-playing games, in which the whole character of the baby opens. He must be directly involved in voicing a character. After all, a passive viewer is not for children. Therefore, when making a puppet theater, always listen to the wishes of the child.
Unusually simple ideas can bring home comfort, fun and the keen interest of its inhabitants. Often, the whole friendly family gathers at the puppet theater, especially on holidays. So use the collected material and improve it at your discretion. All the ideas proposed here do not require excessive financial costs and a large amount of free time for their implementation. In just a couple of hours, you can create a theater screen and several elegant and cute finger-operated dolls.
Puppet theater is not a ready-made toy, you need to work hard on its creation, and in order to discover all its secrets, it’s worth trying a little and imagining yourself.
If you don’t know how to captivate a child today in the era of many modern toys, which to a greater extent are of little use, immediately start creating such an original offspring.