Surely the vast majority of parents and kindergarten teachers or after-school groups have thought about the question of how it is more interesting to organize the leisure time of the children whose upbringing they are engaged in. Among the popular modern children's entertainment are puppet table or, thanks to which it is possible for the company of children or together with them to arrange a fascinating theatrical performance based on some kind of folk or literary tale. A good example is the puppet theater "Three Little Pigs".
If you want to involve a child or a group of children in the independent production of fairy-tale characters or scenery that will make up the Three Little Pigs table theater, you can adopt the modeling technique available to children of different ages. This type of creativity will also be a great way to develop fine motor skills in children's hands.
How to mold heroes for the puppet theater, each of their creators can decide on their own. The work on creating fairy-tale figures can be performed:
- from plasticine;
- from plastic mastic;
- from salt dough;
- from polymer clay.
To get each piglet from plasticine, it is necessary to fashion an oblong body and a spherical head, two pairs of legs from this material of a pale pink hue, and form triangular ears and a tail resembling a spring from small fragments.
The figure of a wolf made of plasticine should be somewhat larger. Here it is advisable to combine gray and black shades of the material. Black plasticine is recommended for sculpting ears, nose, claws on paws.
Each plasticine hero can be decorated with fragments of the same material imitating clothes, shoes, and hats.
A figurine of such a hero as a wolf or a pig made of polymer clay can be molded under the guidance of adults, as it requires the addition of acrylic paints to the material. If salt dough is chosen for the manufacture of figures, the help of adults will also be needed to control the baking of molded toys in the oven.
We use f etr
Having chosen the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs", we play theater and using felt toys. For a performance based on this folk work, the characters can be made both from natural felt, and from synthetic felt that is popular today and widely represented on the needlework market.
Felt theater can be made without any frills. Figures of three piglets and a wolf made of felt can be attached, for example, to cocktail tubes for convenient play.
To make characters in this way, you will need:
- gray and pink felt;
- small contrasting felt pieces, including black, for the clothes of fairy-tale characters and the design of the muzzle of a wolf;
- colored and black threads;
- four cocktail tubes.
The torsos and heads of toys are formed from paired parts, inside of which legs are inserted. The details are connected in stages with threads selected by color, using a front overcasting seam.
Eyes and mouths are embroidered with black thread. To form the nose of the wolf, you can use a fragment of black felt.
At the end of the work, a tube is inserted into the hole left at the bottom of the body of each character. If desired, it can be fixed with silicone glue.
The bodies of each of the theater puppets can also be assembled in such a way that the holes through which the toy is controlled are at the top and bottom. Fingers can be inserted into the lower symmetrical holes, thereby imitating pig legs and allowing the doll to move during the presentation.
Finger characters
For finger theater, felt is also considered the most successful material.
Models of three little pigs and a wolf can be very different. The main condition for sewing finger toys, from which a do-it-yourself puppet theater will be created, is a cavity in the lower part of each figure, so that the toy can be put on a finger.
The felt theater "3 Little Pigs" can also be a tabletop theater. In order to create it yourself, we recommend using the step-by-step master class below.
Make it from the cardboard bases of used household rolls of food foil, film or parchment.
In addition to such a stable foundation, you will need:
- cuts of gray and pink felt;
- rectangular cuts of textiles with a print;
- toy eyes;
- beads or buttons;
- multi-colored rep ribbons;
- scissors;
- thread with a needle;
- silicone glue.
The wolf doll is made from a larger roller, which must be wrapped with gray felt. Connect the edges of the fabric with a hidden seam.
Piglets are created from smaller rollers, sheathed with textiles with a delicate print.
To decorate the muzzles and paws of each toy, we use the patterns of these parts proposed below.
At the end of the work, each piglet is tied around the neck with a rep ribbon folded in a bow.
Funny figures for the theater are ready.
Theater of toys-gloves
A glove puppet is successfully used for a theater at home or a performance with a screen in a children's institution.
You can find out how a wolf or a pig glove doll can be sewn on its own in the master class attached below.
Make a printout of the pattern shown in the photo of the pattern.
According to it, each glove puppet is sewn from paired parts made of fleece or faux fur.
Scenario.
Nuf-nuf. Brothers, the warm summer will end. Where are we going to live, to hide from the wind and cold in winter?
Naf-naf. I built myself a house out of straw. I will winter in it.
Nif- Nif. And I built a house from twigs, and made a roof from dry leaves.
Nuf-nuf. But, brothers, you will be very cold in winter! Can such fragile walls protect you from a wolf?
Naf-naf. FROM the wolf? Are you afraid of the wolf? Why, wolves only exist in fairy tales!
Nif-Nif. Haha! Our brother is afraid of the wolf! And we are not afraid! Just let him appear - we will show him!
Wolf. Where are those brave piglets who are not afraid of the wolf? Now I'll grab them and eat them!
(Piglets squeal and run to their houses and hide. The wolf approaches the house of the first piglet).
Wolf. Well, open it.
Naf-naf. I won't open anything.
Wolf. Ah well! Then I'll blow and there will be nothing left of this house!
(The wolf blows. The house falls. The first pig runs to the house of the second pig and hides there. The wolf approaches the house of the second pig.
Wolf. Well, open the doors!
Naf-Naf and Nuf-Nuf. We won't open!
Wolf. But now I’m like a dunu - only twigs will remain from your house!
(The wolf blows. The house falls. The piglets run to the house of the third piglet. The wolf chases them and almost overtakes them, but runs into the apple tree and falls. Brothers - the piglets hide in the house of the third piglet).
Wolf. Now I'll blow harder and get to you! (It blows, but the house does not fall.)
Then I'll climb into your house through the pipe! (Climbs up the pipe and falls.)
Oh, oh, how painfully I hurt myself. (She runs away.)
Nif - Nif. Come on, brothers, let's live together in this house! We are not afraid of any wolf here!
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Good day to all! I want to introduce you to working with children fairy tale table theater"Three piglet"
A very exciting activity. Children actively participated in it, made preparations for piglets from rolls of paper towels, painted and glued pig muzzle
Very realistic wolf
Very positive emotions left the joint work of children in the manufacture, playing fairy tales, characters made by them.
The work turned out to be interesting, emotional, exciting, bright and memorable, the production of characters and scenery did not take much time.
We also made a box for storing our theater which was taken from under the tea.
Theater helps children experience and accumulate emotional and sensory experience, you can say it's theatrical activity is a source of development of feelings, deep experiences and discoveries.
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Shadow theater from Lego
We present a step-by-step master class with photos on how to make a shadow theater from the Lego Duplo constructor or its analogues.
Necessary materials:
- constructor Lego Duplo (on, on)
- Green Lego Duplo building plate (on , on )
- sheet of A4 paper
- phone with a flashlight function or other light source.
How to do
Build a theater stage frame out of red blocks and adjoining turrets out of colored bricks.
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Place a white sheet of paper between the designs.
Build a stage behind the screen and build a phone stand out of blocks. Place the light source in front of the paper sheet.
Decorate the theater and prepare the actors for the performance.
Turn on the flashlight on your phone and start the show.
Shadow theater "Gruffalo" out of the box
Create your own shadow theater based on the popular book by Julia Donaldson "The Gruffalo" (,).
"The Gruffalo" is a fairy tale in verse for adults to read to children. A little mouse goes through a dense forest and, in order to escape from a fox, an owl and a snake, invents a terrible Gruffalo - a beast that loves to eat foxes, owls and snakes.
But can the resourceful little mouse outsmart all the hungry predators? After all, he knows very well that there are no Gruffalos ... Or does it happen?
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Necessary materials:
- hero templates for printing (download);
- A4 paper;
- black cardboard;
- wooden skewers;
- scotch;
- glue;
- cardboard box;
- scissors.
How to do
1. Download and print shadow theater templates. Stick on black cardboard. 
2. Cut out the figures and glue a wooden skewer to each.
3. We make a screen (screen) for the shadow theater.
Lay the box flat. On large rectangular parts of the box, draw a frame, stepping back 1.5-2 cm from the edges. Cut along the marked lines.
4. Reassemble the box in its original state, but with the colored side inward.
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5. Take a sheet of white A4 paper and cut it to fit the box. Cut out a rectangle of the same size from black cardboard.
6. Cut out trees from black cardboard and stick on a white sheet.
7. Glue the paper to the inside of the box as shown in the photo below.
8. Make a slot in the bottom of the box for the figurines.
9. Fix the screen to the edge of the table with tape.
10. Install the lamp at the back at a distance of 2-3 meters from the screen. In order for the shadows to be clear, the light must fall directly, and not from the side. Remember to warn your child to be careful with the hot lamp.
Shadow theater is ready! Turn off the lights, invite the audience and put on a shadow show.
Theater of hand shadows
Hand shadow theater is one of the simplest types of shadow art. For his equipment, you will need the most common items - a table lamp and a screen - a large sheet of white paper or cloth. If the room has light walls, a theatrical performance of light and shadow can be shown directly on the wall.
The drawings show how with the help of hands you can create silhouettes of animals, birds, people. With practice, you can bring the shadows to life and tell your own story.
- You can start introducing children to the shadow theater from 1.5-2 years old. The first classes should take place as a theatrical performance, when the roles are played by an adult, and the children act as spectators. After the child understands the rules and traditions of theatrical art, he can be included in the game as a participant in the action. Children play and voice roles, learn texts and poems. At first, trust small uncomplicated roles. Then gradually get harder.
- Cardboard figures of shadow theater actors should be black, then they will be contrasting and noticeable on the screen. For self-production of figures, use curly stencils. If you plan to reuse homemade figurines, we recommend that you laminate them.
- In order for the shadows to be clear, set the light source behind, slightly to the side of the screen. The light source will be an ordinary table lamp or a flashlight.
- The size of the shadow on the screen depends on the distance from the figurine to the lamp. If you bring the figure closer to the screen, then its shadow will become small and clear. If placed further away, the shadow will increase in size, and the contours will be blurry.
- To ensure that the scenery does not move during the performance, fasten them to the screen itself with adhesive tape or paper clips.
- Whatman paper, tracing paper or a white sheet is perfect as a screen. The smaller the screen you use, the thinner and more transparent it needs to be, and the brighter the light source you need.
- In order to create a theatrical atmosphere, you can draw a poster, tickets, and even arrange an intermission.
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