Finger Theater of felt with their own hands: patterns and patterns

In his works, the outstanding pedagogue innovator Sukhomlinsky claimed: "The mind of the child is located at the tips of his fingers." And it's not accidental - the cerebral cortex has a very extensive area responsible for the work of the hands. Therefore, the child's intelligence level directly depends on the degree of development of the fine motor skills of his fingers. To develop a jeweler's accuracy in the coordination of the work of the hands will help every possible finger games, including the finger puppet theater. Moreover - such a theater is a whole arsenal of tools for the development of the child. Judge for yourself.

What do the games give to the finger theater?

This is not only a fun pastime and an opportunity to entertain a group of children, but also a very useful lesson. Beneficial effects from the enthusiasm of the finger theater are as follows:

• Stimulation of development of fine motor skills;
• Familiarity with such concepts as color, size, shape;
• The development of skills of spatial perception (concepts: to the right, to the left, side by side, to each other, etc.);
• The development of the imagination, the training of memory, the concentration of attention;
• Activating the speech function and expanding the vocabulary;
• Formation of creative abilities and artistic skills;
• Familiarity with elementary mathematical concepts.

In addition, the children's theater - finger, shadow or classical - means acquaintance with fiction, the basics of stage skills, plastics, etc. All this contributes to broadening the horizon, enriching the child's speech, developing emotionality, communicability, curiosity, awakening interest in creativity. And if you decide to make a finger theater with your own hands with the child, then to all this you can add such qualities as love of work, development of perseverance and concentration of attention.

We make a finger theater with our own hands

We need a sheet of paper or tracing paper, a pencil, colorful felt, scissors, a brush, glue, threads of the right colors, a needle or a sewing machine. And, of course, there must be a desire with a good mood to make a finger theater out of felt by one's own hands. Patterns of heroes can be taken from this article or invented independently, using simple geometric shapes.

Pattern Patterns

Who will specifically speak on the stage of your theater - it's up to you, or rather, your child: it can be the heroes of Russian folk tales, modern animated series or characters from everyday life. The main thing is that this game was all fun. 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 of felt (with your own hands).

Patterns of all the characters are very simple, even a child from a junior school can cope with them.

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

Step-by-step instruction

1. Print a photo with characters or simply attach a sheet of paper (tracing paper) to its image on the monitor.
2. Circle the pencil you are interested in, cut it out. Attach the resulting template to the felt of the appropriate color and outline its contour on the fabric. So you get the front of the doll's body. Cut it with scissors.
3. Flip the template with the other side, attach it to the felt, draw, cut - this will be the back side of the character.
4. In a similar 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 then sew the finished ones together. Glue to the front side of the cut out small elements: paws, mane, etc. Start working with the largest parts located directly on the base, moving to the upper ones. Minor details, such as eyes or specks, leave at the very end.
6. Fold the two ready-made sides of the figure with the wrong sides to each other and sew them together with a stitch seam. Also for this purpose you can use the sewing machine, making a contour seam at a distance of ~ 5 mm from the edge. Do not forget to leave the underside of the underside of the figures uninjured - the finger should be in it.

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

House

When you made a finger theater of felt with your own hands, the patterns of the house should already be done taking into account the size and number of characters in use. If you plan to replenish the composition of the company in the future, this fact should also be envisaged. The house can be sewn from the same felt. It can look like a book with pocket pages for felt figures and contain a scene (for example, as shown in the picture below) or be a rectangular handbag - it all depends on your desire and capabilities.

Scene

With the stage everything is even simpler. In every house there is probably an unnecessary box from under the shoes (or similar to it). Cutting a rectangular hole in the bottom of the box or its lid and placing the box on the side, you will get a scene that resembles a street stage.

But if you decorate it with a curtain and backstage, for example from the same felt, then your characters can already feel themselves as actors of a big theater. And if you come up with such a construction that the stage opening would be closed, for example, with a shutter, then in such a theater-box they can "live" in their spare time.

Your home theater

The teacher S. Merzlyakov said: "The theater is a magical land where the child rejoices, playing, and in the game he knows the world". Your finger theater, the templates for which you can borrow in this article, or come up yourself, will allow your child to plunge into the theatrical activity. As a rule, children of preschool age easily and happily join the game, vigorously embody images, turning into real artists.

The game is a serious matter, but at the same time fun. Connect to her children - theatrical games can be used as an unobtrusive, but at the same time, effective pedagogical means, because during this process the child feels relaxed and free. In the process of working together on the intonation and expressiveness of the replicas of the characters, as well as their own statements, his vocabulary is invisible to the child, the culture of speech is being improved .

By connecting children of different ages to the game, when the elders show the plays to the kids or make joint performances with them, you in a game form teach the guys to work in a team and educate them in a kind relation to each other. Practice shows that the fascination with the fingered theater improves the mood in children, instills confidence in them, makes them freer and more relaxed, and children acquired in the course of the game easily transfer to everyday life - songs, dances, poems, riddles and jokes.

To be continued!

Organized in this way, work 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 forms of creativity. Therefore, it is possible that, if you taste, your child will want to make one more finger theater of felt with his own hands, for which he will already devise patterns for himself!