Little ones are very amused when they can independently put funny animal figures on their fingers and act out, for example, a puppet theater based on the Teremok fairy tale. It won't take much to accomplish your plans. For example, we offer children's theater Teremok in several versions. All parents need to do is download the templates and print them.

The paper Teremok finger theater cannot be called durable. It can fail quite quickly, but don't worry. After all, this is its peculiarity - finger theater The Teremok can be printed again. And all the fairy tale heroes who have fallen into disrepair will be replaced by new ones. In this article, the Teremok paper theater is presented in several versions.

So, let's begin our short review. Don’t forget that the Teremok cone theater can always be downloaded for free on our website. The first option involves constructing figures of fairy tale heroes. It features a mouse, a frog, a bunny, a cockerel, a fox, a top and a bear, and the little house itself. This Teremok puppet theater can be played out according to the following scenario.

To download the script just click on it so that it opens in full size, and save the file to your computer. The Teremok tabletop theater itself can be downloaded here. Just click on the image and save it.

The second version of the Teremok Theater production of the fairy tale is a plot in a clearing. The set includes animal templates, a clearing, stripes for heroes and a background. The main characters do not have a rooster, so a different fairy tale scenario will be required:

You can also download it by clicking on the file and saving it to your computer. To make the Teremok puppet theater with your own hands, you need to download images of all the characters and print them.

The next version of the theater contains only such characters as a frog, a mouse, a hare, a fox and a bear. That is, it is necessary to exclude the words of the wolf from the script. You can download the Teremok table theater below - just click on the image and save it.

The next option is a do-it-yourself finger theater Teremok with decorations. The decorations include birch, spruce, meadow and, of course, the tower itself. These heroes are on special stands that need to be cut along the red lines and bent along the blue ones. The result will be an almost conical Teremok theater, made with your own hands. Thanks to the stands, the figures will stand steadily on the table, so you can put on a real performance. Download the Teremok paper puppet theater here.

You can make a Teremok table theater with your own hands using the following template. This option is somewhat similar to the first. Among these heroes is also the Rooster. A forest background is proposed as scenery. Using this option, you can organize the Teremok puppet theater on the table. You can download it here

And in conclusion, we present the Teremok shadow theater. You need to cut out the shadows of the animals and the tower, glue a stick to them, organize the screen, choose the right lighting, after which you can start showing the performance.

By the way, with the help of these same characters you can make a tabletop Rukavichka theater. The only difference is that the role of the tower is played by a forgotten mitten. The Rukavichka finger theater, like Teremok, will definitely bring a lot of positive emotions to the child.

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Good afternoon guests and blog readers! Today I again want to touch on the topic of how and how to engage a child at home. This topic is very close to me, because I have two children at home. Which require attention and care.

In the previous article, I told you about educational games with your favorite characters from PAW Patrol. For those who missed this issue, read here.

Today I want to offer another option for playing 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 and developments to make such a miracle.

We will need: your desire and a little free time :)

To be honest, at home we have different variants theaters, for example this wood.


My kids love it very much, because it is 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, this is very cool, because while playing, a child 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 your own fairy tales with a funny plot and an intriguing ending, then it can actually turn out to be a real holiday for a child.


The simplest version of a do-it-yourself puppet theater is a paper one. It's easy to make it yourself. Well, or together with the child.

DIY paper finger puppet theater, patterns

Children really like this paper finger puppet theater, it attracts them and also develops fine motor skills. Look here.


The first option is a flat round finger theater. You need to make the head and upper part of the doll, put it on your finger using a paper ring or you can make cones.


Create these dolls with your child together, starting with character templates. Download them from my website by leaving me a comment below, I will be happy to send you the templates, print them and have fun playing.

After all, finger puppet theater is a whole magical art in which children learn about the world around them. Any child will enjoy being in the role of an artist, and this helps to believe in themselves and achieve success in the future. This is also good material for developing in children processes such as imagination, thinking, as well as the development of fine motor skills and much more.

The finger theater can be made from any available materials, such as paper, fabric, cardboard, corks, threads, cups, etc.

DIY tabletop paper theater, templates

I show my children this tabletop 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 outline.

3. Glue popsicle sticks onto each fairy tale character.


4. Now take the cups and make a horizontal hole at the top of each cup with a stationery knife.


5. Well, now insert the stick with the hero into the glass. Look how lovely it turned out. Very easy and simple, no worse than buying it in a store.


Ice cream sticks can be replaced with plastic forks or spoons.

If you don’t want to take illustrations from books, then you can find characters from any fairy tales on the Internet, save them, and then print them out, and then cut them out and glue them onto sticks. You can download from my website the following ready-made templates of heroes based on the following fairy tales: Kolobok, Teremok, Turnip, Hare's Hut, just write a comment or review below and I will send it to you by email.

Paper puppet theater “Walkers”

This kind of theater is very popular with young children; for such a theater you need your favorite characters and a couple of holes.


Believe me, children will happily play such games.


And if you invite friends over, it will be even more fun to play.


You will also receive samples of walkers of your favorite characters to your e-mail address.

Tabletop 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 them out, and then glue them onto corks or cubes. Everything is brilliantly simple.


What do you think of this idea? All children love Kinder Surprise, and all of them have little donations left over from them, which you can pay for in such a theater.


DIY glove puppet

In reality, there are a lot of puppet theaters that can be built. Even at almost no cost. You just need to use your wits and do it! You can sew it, for example.


Or you can learn to knit and knit these cute little characters:


Honestly, I used to knit well, but now I don’t have enough time for it all. But I never liked sewing. But, as an option, you can also create a theater for those who love 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., thread, scissors, braid, stationery knife

Stages of work:

1. Take the first glove and steam the seam thread on the cuff, it is usually red or yellow. Tuck the little finger, thumb and index finger in so that they do not come out, sew them up. You should end up with a head with ears and a hare neck. Sew the bases of the ears to prevent your fingers from getting in there.


2. Now take the next glove and hide your ring finger in it, sew up the hole. Place your middle and index fingers together and now place the hare's head on them.


3. Sew the head to the neck. To hide the seam on your neck, tie it with a bow or tie in the shape of a butterfly. Sew button eyes and embroider a muzzle, or you can draw it with a marker. You can decorate a bunny using fluff or knitted threads by gluing a cute little chupik on his head. 😯


In this way, you can make other toys, such as a dog, parsley, etc.


My son generally loves such a simple glove, he puts it on and goes around making up all sorts of stories with the characters :)


Here is a short article for today. I think any of you have small children, you will be happy to diversify their leisure time. Choose any type of theater and 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 delighted about this, and will definitely tell you: “Mommy, how I love you!” The most magic words in this world.

Well, I say goodbye to you for today. Until next time.

P.S. Do you know what is very important?! It is in the home puppet theater that you can observe your child and his behavior. Because the baby can come up with something, speak out, and we adults still need to listen to what the child is talking about, what topics he is talking about.

Natalya Abdullina

PHOTO REPORT.

Finger theater printed and glued.

We made these dolls from thick paper. They are very easy to make. Controlling such finger puppets is clear and interesting. After all, if you insert your fingers into the holes, the doll will have legs - you will get a desktop walking doll.

We had a bunch of yogurt bottles at home, so we decided to use them too and made them bottle theater.



Theater on magnets. Fairy tale "Turnip"


Fairy tale "Teremok"


Fairy tale "Kolobok"


Figures on a flannelgraph for displaying the fairy tale "Under the Mushroom".


Shadow theater– will help children get to know theater, show your imagination, develop your speech. This theater will be useful for children younger age.




We also made original and easy-to-make dolls for home use. puppet theater from disposable plastic spoons.


AND didactic game using lids. We consolidate our knowledge of the fairy tale and at the same time develop fine motor skills.


Desktop theater promotes the development of coherent speech and imagination. It has a psychotherapeutic effect, helping the child cope with worries, fears, and receive missing attention. Forms a strong interest in children theatrical activities.

Do DIY puppet theater is not so difficult as it seems at first glance. And very exciting. We plan to continue production theaters in other ways.

Learn how to create a puppet theater with your own hands. At the same time, characters can not only be sewn and molded, but also made from plastic spoons and wooden sticks.

DIY finger puppet theater

If you want to develop your baby’s fine motor skills, speech, thinking and simply be able to lift the mood of the whole family, then turn the room into a temple of art. To do this, you need to know how to make a finger puppet theater with your own hands.


For this you will need:
  • felt;
  • threads;
  • scissors.
As you can see, the characters in the fairy tale “Turnip” are cut out very simply. Each hero consists of two identical parts. But on one side you need to embroider facial features with threads. You can make them by cutting them out of dark felt and then gluing or sewing them on.

Fold 2 character blanks wrong sides together, sew along the edge using a machine or with a thread and a needle on your hands.

To make a beard for your grandfather, wrap several rows of thread around your fingers and cut them on one side. Fold these identical threads in half and sew the beard in place.


And here’s what the heroes of the fairy tale “The Ryaba Hen” might be like.


Cut out your grandfather's beard and bangs and grandmother's hair from gray felt. It will also help you create a mouse with a long tail. These are the kind of dolls you can sew for a puppet theater. If a baby will wear them, cut them so that they are the size of his fingers. If the performance will be performed for children by adults, then the fabric dolls should be slightly larger.

Check out one more interesting idea. This could be a home puppet theater for staging the fairy tale “Turnip”. IN kindergarten It's better to have larger characters so that the whole group can see them from afar. But you can do something like this by taking:

  • modeling paste (preferably Jovi, which does not need to be burned, it hardens in air);
  • yellow and green paste Jovi Patcolor;
  • acrylic paints;
  • tassels;
  • markers;
  • stacks.

  1. Let's sculpt the grandfather first. Take a piece of pasta measuring 2x3 cm, roll it into a sausage, and form a cylinder. You should end up with something like a nesting doll with a body and head, and at the bottom there will be a notch for your finger.
  2. Separately sculpt the arms and attach them to the body. But outline the facial features, beard, and mustache using a stack.
  3. Using the same principle, sculpt the grandmother, granddaughter and animals. Once these characters are dry, paint them with acrylic paints.
  4. For the turnip, roll a ball of yellow paste, pull it out a little from the top, insert green plastic tops here, and secure.


When sculpting with paste, you will find that it dries quickly in the air, so periodically wet your fingers with water.


This is how you will get a finger puppet theater; with your own hands, a child will be able to act out the fairy tale “Turnip” or come up with his own plot with some of these characters.

DIY table theater

If you want to have a tabletop theater with paper dolls, then enlarge the following image. Print it on a color printer on thick paper. If this is not possible, attach a sheet of thin paper to the screen and transfer the outlines onto it. Then place it on cardboard, draw outlines, and let the child decorate the characters with colored pencils or paints. All that remains is to cut out the images, glue each on the side and glue the top of the head to the head.


And here are some more templates that can be used to easily make theater dolls. With your own hands or by giving the blanks to your child, cut them out along the contours and glue them in pairs.


If a small rectangular sheet of colored paper is glued on the side, you get a small tube. It should be such that it fits well on your finger. Glue the ears, nose, eyes, front paws to the blank, and you will get a finger puppet theater hero.


These characters can be made from the most unexpected materials. See how to turn plastic spoons into stage plays.


To make these toys for the puppet theater, take:
  • plastic spoons;
  • colored paper;
  • scissors;
  • ready-made plastic eyes;
  • glue gun;
  • textile;
  • narrow tape, scissors.
Next follow these instructions:
  1. Using a glue gun, glue the finished eyes to the convex side of the spoon.
  2. Turn a piece of fabric tied with a ribbon into a dress. For a male character, just glue a bow tie to his neck.
  3. Cut strips of colored fringe paper on one side and glue this hair. They will also be replaced by pieces of colored cotton wool.
That's it, the children's puppet theater at home is ready. Take a large cardboard box, cover it with colored paper, and turn it over. Make slits in the bottom with a knife, insert spoons here and move the dolls along these holes, like along a path.

Other characters are controlled in the same way, to create which you will need:

  • ice cream sticks;
  • children's magazines;
  • glue;
  • scissors.
Let the child cut out pictures of people and animals from a magazine or an old book and paste them on sticks.


If you want to make another tabletop theater, then milk bottle caps will come into play. Plastic yogurt cups.


Glue paper fairy tale characters to the back of these items, and you can play out old stories with them or invent new ones. The background is created from a large sheet of cardboard, which is painted to match the theme.

How to make a screen for a puppet theater?

This is an essential attribute of puppet theater. Check out the simplest options:

  1. Cover the hole under the table with a cloth, tying its two corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the floor behind him and leads the characters at the level of the table top - just above it.
  2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Gather any of these fabrics onto a rope, tie the ends of the thread on one and the other side of the doorway. Make a rectangular cutout in the center of the top of any of these pieces. It should be at such a height that it is not visible to a child or adult sitting behind the curtain who are playing the role of puppeteers.
  3. A tabletop screen is made for the finger theater. The easiest way is to make it from cardboard. Take the box. It needs to be disassembled, covered with wallpaper or colored paper, and 2 sides bent so that a canvas of sufficient size remains in the center. There is a cutout in it through which the puppeteer shows finger toys.


Here's how to make a plywood screen. For it you will need:
  • plywood;
  • jigsaw;
  • fabric or piece of wallpaper;
  • glue;
  • small door hinges.
Manufacturing instructions:
  1. Based on the presented dimensions, cut out 3 blanks from plywood: a central one and 2 side panels. Cover them with fabric.
  2. When the canvas is dry, attach the loops to the designated areas so that you can close the puppet theater screen and fold it.


See how to make a screen out of cardboard so you can show performances with mitten, glove, and cane puppets. It should be such that the puppeteer can fit there freely, standing in full height. If the performance is performed by children of different ages, then the tall ones will kneel, placing a pillow under them.

In order to make a screen, you will need:

  • PVA glue;
  • rope or lace;
  • carton boxes;
  • wallpaper;
  • stationery knife;
  • awl;
  • roulette;
  • wide brush;
  • long ruler;
  • rag.


You can make a screen for a puppet theater with your own hands as follows:
  1. The drawing is given for teenagers or adults whose height is 1 m 65 cm. If you are making a screen for children, reduce this figure.
  2. To make it durable, make it three-layer. To do this, stick a second one on one large sheet of cardboard, then a third one on the other side. Apply PVA glue with a wide brush. This way you will make the front part - the apron.
  3. The side elements are also made in three layers, but the folds, which you then glue to the apron, should consist of one layer.
  4. Connect the parts by gluing them. When the glue has dried, sew in these places with a lace, having previously made holes in the fastening points. Attach the top arch in the same way.


All that remains is to cover the screen with wallpaper of a dim color so that it does not distract from the theatrical performance.

We make do-it-yourself glove dolls

These can be seen in a real puppet theater. Dolls put gloves on their hands. By bending your fingers, you can make the fabric character tilt its head and move its arms.


Children's puppet theater will have many characters if you use the proposed template.


But it is not necessary to create all the heroes at once. Let's start with two - bunnies and piglets. Having understood how to make such doll gloves, you will be able to sew others, thereby gradually replenishing your theater.

If you then make human dolls, you can make the hairstyle from fabric or thread.

The thickness of the character's neck should be such that the puppeteer inserts his middle and index fingers here to control the hero of the play.


Before sewing puppets for the theater, place a puppeteer's glove on the re-cut pattern to decide whether the base is suitable. If not, then increase or decrease it. You can do without a glove by placing the puppeteer’s hand on the base pattern. Please note that the character will not be static, so you need to add a little on all sides for a loose fit so that the fabric of the action hero does not stretch while controlling him.

So, here's what you need to sew a glove doll:

  • faux fur and/or plain fabric;
  • tracing paper or transparent paper or cellophane;
  • pen;
  • scissors;
  • threads;
  • buttons for eyes.
Enlarge this pattern. Attach a transparent material (cellophane, paper or tracing paper) to it and redraw it. Cut along the outline.


Place the pattern on the fabric folded in half, cut with a 7 mm seam allowance. For a bunny it is better to take gray fabric or white fur, for a pig - pink.


If you want to draw facial features, tails, hands, hooves, then do it now, before sewing both halves of each character. Take special fabric paints that do not fade when washed. If there are none, then use watercolor, gouache, but first apply a PVA solution to the fabric, after it dries, paint this place, but use a minimum of water. When the paint is dry, add another layer of PVA on top to secure it.

But it is best to embroider the nose and mouth by stretching these areas onto a hoop or sewing blanks of appropriate colors and eye buttons.

Cut out a shirtfront from white fur for the bunny glove doll, sew its triangular part to the front half, and the semicircular part, in the form of a collar, to the back half. The tail is attached to the same reverse side, and white paws with or without pink claws are attached to both parts.


When small parts are sewn on, you can sew both halves of the doll on the inside out using a machine or on the face using your hands. In the latter case, use an over-the-edge seam or take a tape of a matching color and edge the side seam with it.

Other glove dolls, for example, a pig, are also created using this technique.


When the sides are stitched on all sides, hem the bottom. The characters' ears can be stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester. Fill the pig’s nose with any of these materials, only after that sew this “patch” to the head. Applique it on his cheeks, giving them a blooming look. It remains to sew a few yellow threads between the ears, and another glove doll is ready.


Now you know how to sew characters for a puppet theater, if you want to see this too, then watch the following stories.


It just so happens today that children spend most of their time in front of the monitor.

Parents are sometimes touched by watching how skillfully a two-year-old child uses a keyboard or a ten-year-old son sits quietly at home, not getting lost in the middle of nowhere. Over time, the computer replaces books, sports and even family communication. The time has come to sound the alarm: even the most advanced construction kits and robot dolls cannot compete with the Internet.

Own puppet theater - a godsend for the family

In search of an alternative to a harmful hobby, adults often forget about such a magical art as puppet theater. After all, young and even older children are not at all indifferent to performances with dolls. They adore simple and clear performances with a funny plot, long-familiar characters and a happy ending.

Take your children to puppet theaters more often? That's not bad either. But we are talking about the child’s behavior at home. After all, it’s not at all difficult to make dolls with your family, at no cost, in a cozy, friendly home environment. And even organize most interesting performances. Here the children themselves will have to persuade their parents to play their favorite game.

Finger theater and child development

From the age of two, a child can retell a fairy tale or part of a dialogue he knows. He is very involved in the game and at the same time his speech is developed by the finger hero of the fairy tale. The child himself speaks for the bunny, for the wolf, for the fox. You can make such dolls with your own hands from paper.

Paper puppet theater

The simplest theater is a paper one. Every mother can make it with her own hands. It’s easy to do this even on the road or while walking. Creating finger puppets begins with drawing characters. This is a separate interesting process, and you can and should involve your child in it. But it’s easier and faster to create an entire puppet theater by printing ready-made doll templates, of which there are quite a lot on the Internet. And then we only need scissors and glue.

There is a flat and round finger theater, and both do not require much preparation. In the first case, these are the heads or the upper half of the pupa, which are placed on each finger using a paper tube. You don’t even have to make the doll’s head separately, but simply glue together bright tubes or even cones.

Before connecting the edges of the future tube, we create an image. To do this, we glue beaded eyes, sponges, antennae, wings, handles, clothes and other character attributes onto the blanks. The ears can be immediately planned on the pattern. Such dolls can be put on all fingers at once and create a real little show, playing with both hands.

Absolutely indispensable in long journey and in a long line to entertain the little one. And the child will not demand your iPhone, but will rather enthusiastically talk with the hero fingers or play different scenes: from life, from the same computer game or invented by him.

In the second case, the drawings have two holes for fingers and are glued to cardboard. The fingers inserted into the slots are the doll’s legs, which move and “revive” it. Only one such doll can fit on one hand, sometimes two.

Theater made of paper on wooden sticks


Puppet show can be made no less interesting if, instead of fingers, you attach the characters of the play to sticks intended for examining the throat. Popsicle sticks are also great. Fairy tale characters you can draw or cut out from old colored magazines, and then stick on cardboard. Puppets on a stick will move in the slots of the landscape prepared for the performance. This scene is very easy to make from a piece of cardboard.


We color it according to the plot: like a clearing, a river bank or something else. The river itself, for example, can be replaced by a blue scarf thrown into such a clearing. Taking a stationery knife, we make several small cuts on the bottom side of the cardboard on the left and right and also, for example, below the left one. The openings for acting out the plot must accommodate two dolls at the same time.

Paper theater on plastic spoons


Plastic spoons can serve as an excellent material for a mini puppet theater using paper. On their convex “faces” you can glue bright pictures, wrap scarves made of paper strips around the “necks” and even put on dresses made of paper - the characters are ready for the performance!

Tabletop paper theater on plastic cups, corks, cubes


Have you noticed that children sometimes just assign some cubes, corks or plastic cups to the role of dolls? Such is the power of their imagination! What if you stick appliqués depicting people or animals on such items and play a little with your child?

The cubes are interesting because each face is decorated with a paper portrait of a new hero. You will get such a multi-faceted toy. With the help of paper, cups, corks and cubes will turn into a real puppet theater, and the game itself will become much more colorful and interesting. Most children will spend a long time acting out fairy tales and scenes from life, even without our participation. The “troupe” can be replenished endlessly or easily replaced with new characters.

A tabletop theater helps develop the child’s imagination, expressive, and coherent speech. With a little imagination, every adult, and following his example, a child, will be able to come up with and make with their own hands new interesting versions of their own paper puppet theater. For example, from paper bags or papier-mâché.

In a home theater, unlike other theaters where he mainly enjoys the spectacle, the baby can speak out. And here he receives the attention of his parents. And adults should carefully listen to the conversations the dolls are having in their child’s hands.