How to make a theater manual. Glove puppets for the theater

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

DIY finger puppet theater

If you want to develop your baby's fine motor skills, speech, thinking, and just be able to cheer up 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 of 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 and cut them out of dark felt, and then glue or sew.

Fold 2 blanks of the character with the wrong sides, sew along the edge on a typewriter or with a thread with a needle in your hands.

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

But what can be the heroes of the fairy tale "Rocked Hen".

Cut out the beard and bangs of the grandfather, the hair of the grandmother from gray felt. It will also help create a mouse with a long tail. These puppets for the puppet theater can be sewn. If the baby will wear them, cut them out so that they are the size of his fingers. If the performance will be shown to children by adults, then cloth puppets should be slightly larger.

Check out another interesting idea. This can be a home puppet theater for staging the fairy tale "Turnip". In kindergarten, it is better to have larger characters so that the whole group can see them from afar. But you can also do this by taking:

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

1. Let's sculpt the grandfather first. Take a piece of pasta measuring 2x3 cm, roll a sausage out of it, form a cylinder. You should get a kind of nesting doll with a torso and head, and at the bottom there will be a notch for a finger.
2. Separately fashion the handles, attach them to the body. But mark the facial features, beard, mustache with the help of a stack.
3. By the same principle, fashion a grandmother, granddaughter and animals. When these characters are dry, paint them with acrylic paints.
4. For a turnip, roll a ball of yellow paste, pull it out a little from above, insert green plastic tops here, fix it.

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

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

Table theater do it yourself

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

And here are some more templates, according to which puppets for the theater are easily made. With your own hands or, having given the blanks to the child, cut them out along the contours, 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 sits well on the finger. Glue the ears, nose, eyes, front paws to the blank, and you get the hero of the finger puppet theater.

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

To make such toys for the puppet theater, take:

• plastic spoons;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• finished plastic eyes;
• glue gun;
• textile;
• narrow tape, scissors.

Then follow these instructions:

1. Use a glue gun to 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, it is enough to glue a bow tie around the neck.
3. Cut strips of colored paper with a fringe on one side, glue this hair. Pieces of colored cotton wool will also replace them.

Everything, the children's puppet theater at home is ready. Take a large cardboard box, cover it with colored paper, turn it over. Make slits in the bottom with a knife, insert spoons here and lead the dolls along these holes, as if along a path.

Other characters are controlled in the same way, for the creation of which you will need:

• ice cream sticks;
• children's magazines;
• glue;
• scissors.

Let the child cut out pictures of people, animals from a magazine or from an old book, stick them on sticks.

If you want to make another tabletop theater, then milk bottle caps will come in handy. Plastic cups for yogurt.

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

How to make a screen for a puppet theater?

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

1. Close the opening under the table with a cloth, tying two of its corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the floor behind and leads the characters at the level of the table top - just above it.
2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Collect any of these canvases on a rope, tie the ends of the thread on one and the other side of the doorway. Make a rectangular cut in the center at the top of any of these canvases. It should be at such a height that no child or adult sitting behind the curtain can be seen, who play the role of puppeteers.
3. For the finger theater, a table screen is made. The easiest way to make it out of cardboard. The box is taken. It needs to be disassembled, pasted over with wallpaper or colored paper, bend 2 sidewalls so that a canvas of sufficient size remains in the center. A cutout is made in it, through which the puppeteer shows finger toys.

And here's how to make a screen out of plywood. For her you will need:

• plywood;
• jigsaw;
• fabric or piece of wallpaper;
• glue;
• small door hinges.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. Based on the dimensions presented, cut out 3 blanks from plywood: the central and 2 sidewalls. Cover them with fabric.
2. When the canvas is dry, attach the loops to the marked areas so that you can close the puppet theater screen and fold it.

See how to make a cardboard screen to be able to show performances with mitten, glove, cane puppets. It should be such that the puppeteer fits there freely, standing up to his full height. If the performance is shown 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 line;
• rag.

A do-it-yourself screen for a puppet theater is made 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 strong, 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. Thus, you will make a frontal part - an 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 dries, sew in these places with a cord, having previously made holes in the attachment points. Attach the top arch in the same way.

It remains to paste over the screen with wallpaper of a soft color so that they do not distract from the theatrical performance.

We make do-it-yourself doll gloves

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

A children's puppet theater at hand will have many characters if you use the suggested template.

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

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

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

Before sewing puppets for the theater, place a puppeteer's glove on the recut pattern to decide if the base is suitable. If not, then increase or decrease it. You can do without a glove by putting the puppeteer's hand on the base pattern. Keep in mind 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 hero of the action does not stretch while controlling him.

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

• artificial fur and / or plain fabric;
• tracing paper or transparent paper or cellophane;
• pen;
• scissors;
• threads;
• eye buttons.

Enlarge this pattern. Attach a transparent material to it (cellophane, paper or tracing paper), redraw. Cut along the outline.

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

If you want to draw facial features, ponytails, palms, hooves, then do it now before sewing both halves of each character. Take special fabric dyes 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 dries, put another layer of PVA on top to fix it.

But it is best to embroider the nose, mouth, pulling these sections on the hoop or sew on blanks of the appropriate colors and buttons-eyes.

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

When small details are sewn, you can grind both halves of the doll on the wrong side on a typewriter or on the face - on your hands. In the latter case, use a seam "over the edge" or take an inlay of a passing color, turn around the side seam with it.

In this technique, other glove dolls are also created, for example, a pig.

When the sides are stitched on all sides, hem the bottom. The ears of the characters can be stuffed with cotton wool or padding polyester. Fill the nose of the piglet with any of these materials, only after that sew this “patch” to the head. Make an applique on his cheeks, giving them a blooming look. It remains to sew some 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 it too, then watch the following stories.

In this article, we will talk about home puppet theater not in terms of entertaining our own offspring, but about a promising business idea.

If you are a creative person and think creatively, then this idea should come to your taste. Especially since today entertainment industry goes with the population with a bang, the people are ready to invest in something to have fun at the glory.

Now it is fashionable to arrange fun celebrations by inviting animators to your house. Spider-Man, Thumbelina, Chip and Dale can entertain the little birthday boy and his guests. But two or three years of such "entertainment" - and the child will want something new. And yes, age is getting closer. a different perception of interesting leisure than games, contests and dances.

Although one does not interfere with the other, of course. So, puppet theater at home as a business idea is this. At the appointed “X” hour, a mini-troupe arrives at the birthday man’s house (this may be another celebration), which will show the kids and their parents a performance, say, a fairy tale.

From businessmen - the availability of all the necessary equipment and talent, from the owners - the provision of an impromptu theater hall (chairs, sofas, pouffes) and discipline (be sure to have an educational conversation with the audience even before the start of the performance!).

Equipment for puppet theater at home

For this, slats, pieces of thick cardboard, and even sewer pipes that dock with each other, which are sold in hardware stores, are suitable.

You should choose your "curtain" option considering the following factors:

• how fast will it expand
• in what style it will look (to be combined with various fairy tales)
• how durable and convenient it will be in work (so that it does not fold in half at the most crucial moment).
• ease of transportation (so that the elevator enters the trunk of the car).

So, the folding screen and the curtain are ready for it - great! The next item will be the "heroes" of all representations - dolls. This is for a real puppet theater they are sewn to order, masters, puppeteers.

Of course, you can also order, although at first, while there are no first profits, you can also use purchased dolls. On the Internet and in local stores, you will find a hero for absolutely any fairy tale.

You will also need to stock up other inventory for performances: toy furniture, clothes for heroes, some items for the performance (a magic wand, for example).

The last thing on the "equipment" list is musical accompaniment your action. Whether it will be only music or a “reading” pre-recorded at home with the voices of dolls is up to you. A music center with speakers or a laptop that will be behind the scenes - here are ideas for you on how to make a home puppet theater.

actors

Undoubtedly, if you want to successfully develop such a business idea, then the presence of at least the slightest acting ability in you or your assistants can be considered an important point. If you hire people from the outside, then most of the profits will go to the side.

If you still decide to show such performances yourself for money, then perhaps your household can help you. for example, teenagers do a great job with the role, if before that they rehearse a lot and do not forget to promise them their own salary.

Fairy tales for home puppet theater

On the Internet and books in your home library, you can easily find a lot of scripts for puppet theater at home. You need to choose from them to your taste, adapt to your conditions, assign roles and start rehearsing!

Here is an excellent resource that contains the most popular and adapted scenarios of fairy tales for performances: http://www.olesya-emelyanova.ru/

Experience has shown that two people can play four characters at the same time. Another one can turn music on and off or play some sounds (knocking, ringing, etc.). And even be a storyteller and a kind of entertainer, speaking in front of the auditorium.

Price

How to determine how much to charge for a performance? find out prices for the services of one animator in our city, sum by the number of your people. so you can calculate the approximate cost of the "ticket".

Grow your business, create groups on social networks, advertise yourself to relatives and friends, speak for free, for the sake of promotion. Go with performances as volunteers to children's hospitals and orphanages, give the kids joy! And the practice will be good, and "word of mouth" can work - thousands of people will learn about you.

And one more thing: only a truly enthusiastic person can succeed. It’s not worth starting this business just for the sake of money - it’s better to get a point on the market then.

Finally, let us recall, as theater-goers say: the viewer will feel everything. The strictest judge is a person (whether it be an adult or a child) who has come to you for pleasure.

For most children, home theater is a significant event, because it is much more exciting than traditional games. You can act out funny scenes together, introduce the baby to a fairy tale and its characters, and introduce an element of fantasy. Believe me, the child himself will not notice how he will become the main participant and director of the fairy tale.

Try everything together with your child and become his best friend and helper. By creating a home theater, you learn to make puppets together, sew costumes, draw scenery, write a script, design a stage and, of course, show the play itself.

Home puppet theater for the little ones

For the little ones, puppet theater is ideal, as they are not yet ready to learn the roles and go on stage in front of their parents or relatives. Puppet theater is very similar to the usual game with toys. For kids, familiar folk tales are suitable.

Do not forget to fantasize: introduce new characters, add funny episodes, or redo the ending.

It is equally interesting to compose and play your own story. To begin with, it will be better if you act out the performance yourself. And over time, the kid will join the game by choosing his favorite character. You can buy a puppet theater, or create your own hands, it's up to you.

Separately, it is worth mentioning magnetic theaters, as a wonderful way to develop figurative and creative thinking in preschoolers. Magnetic kits allow preschool children to create their own fairy tales and stories on their own.

Costumes and scenery for home theater

A little older kids can go from puppet theater to the "real" with roles, costumes and scenery.

• When preparing costumes, old dresses, shreds of fabrics, scarves will be used.

• For makeup, donate the contents of your cosmetic bag, for sure there will be a lot of unnecessary cosmetics there.

• Music is what brings the story to life. To make the performance more cheerful and bright, you can choose musical accompaniment. Record to a disc and play music at a low volume during the performance.

• Pull the rope and hang a large piece of canvas or curtains on it - that's how the screen turned out. You can decorate the screen with flowers cut out of paper, birds, stars or snowflakes, depending on your imagination and the theme of the performance.

• What is a theater without scenery? Preparing them at home can take time. Make the scenery so that they can be used in other performances. For example, trees can be painted green on one side and yellow on the other to represent autumn and summer. You can pull a thread and hang on it, carved from cardboard, the sun and clouds. Create together with the baby, think together what else can be done.

The child will be happy to take part in the design of the scene. It does not matter if something is cut out and painted inaccurately, it is important that the child did it with pleasure. Create with the baby, invent with him.

For yourself, leave the role of the narrator - someone must lead the story: “Once upon a time there was a grandfather and a woman ...” and manage the whole process: follow the output of small artists, suggest words if someone gets excited.

The main thing to remember is that children are not actors. They don't have the patience to learn their parts by heart, so don't try to get them to act like they're in perfect harmony. So you can easily discourage interest in your exciting undertaking.

Do not spare time for home productions - the result will be worth it, because for the kids this is a real holiday.

You can arrange a real holiday with a performance. Give theater tickets specially drawn for the occasion to relatives, neighbors or loved ones. Also, do not forget to arrange an intermission with sweets and drinks.

Benefits of home theater

Home theater will help teach a child to conduct a dialogue correctly, look for a way out of difficult situations, develop memory and independent thinking, and enrich vocabulary. And children's memory will keep vivid impressions of your exciting time spent together.

Theatrical games develop expressive speech and creativity in children. And although the hobby for home theater, as a rule, ends with childhood, communication skills, improvisation, fantasy, and most importantly, conversational skills remain. Any performances liberate the child and help overcome shyness.

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Make a puppet theater, stage and theater props with your child at home. You will have something to surprise guests and please relatives with quiet family evenings. Fairy-tale characters will help feed, lull, cheer, and educate the baby. Home theater is a great way of speech, emotional, creative development. And most importantly, it is a joint activity that unites all family members. Enough roles for everyone!

The organization of a home theater does not require large financial costs, much can be made from improvised materials with your own hands. Just be prepared to donate your time. But it's worth it, trust me! The burning eyes of a child, a storm of emotions, invaluable experience, funny photos in the family archive, applause from the audience - this is not the whole list of future "dividends".

Hiding behind dolls, getting used to the images of heroes, children often say things that they would not say in ordinary life. Playing in the theater, the child plays what worries him at the moment, on behalf of the fairy-tale character tells his own problems, experiences, fears. Staging performances helps to improve communication skills, develops expressiveness of speech and the ability to formulate one's thoughts.

Let's look at what a home theater can be like, from what and how puppets can be made.

How to make theater puppets

There are a lot of all kinds of finger puppets, glove puppets on sale. We will talk about dolls that you can easily make yourself at home. Sometimes you don't even need to know how to sew.

You don't need to make many dolls. A gray wolf, a fox, a bear, a hare and other "running" heroes can participate in a huge number of fairy tales.

Finger puppets for home theater

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Children can be introduced to theater from an early age. The roles of the main actors will be played by our fingers. They just need to be tweaked a bit. Over time, the little one himself will play short scenes.

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Dolls for home theater can be tied with a key.

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Finger puppets can be sewn from scraps of fleece, felt or bright cotton and knitted fabrics.

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Finger puppets can be made from paper using the origami technique.

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Special sweeps allow you to make the figures more complicated.

stomp dolls

Interesting and easy to make stomp dolls. Thick cardboard will do. It turns out a real walking doll!

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Any flat picture with two holes for the index and middle fingers will become a talented actor in your home theater in a matter of minutes, it will be able to walk, jump and run funny.

Glove puppets for the theater

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Lost gloves, socks without a pair, mittens, remnants of fabric, felt, yarn, etc. will be used.

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The sock can turn into anyone if you sew on eyes, a forelock and other missing details of the image.

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If the doll is made in such a way that it can open its mouth, that's great! A character who speaks and moves his lips (mouth) believably is capable of much.

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A simple pattern in the form of a potholder. On the front side, draw the characters.

Knitted dolls in the form of a mitten.

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Glove puppets can be made from broken toys. It is enough to attach the head to the glove case. Heads from rubber toys are great.

A hand puppet can not only be sewn, but also made of wool.

Puppets

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You need to learn how to control a puppet. Coordination and dexterity are important here.

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You can make a doll from balls, large beads, a piece of fabric. Be sure to cross and fishing line.

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Dolls on a stick

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Dolls from disposable spoons. Fast and comfortable to hold!

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Wooden skewers or ice cream sticks can be used as holders.

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Dolls on stands

You can cut out heroes for home theater from magazines or make figures yourself. Be sure to stick on thick cardboard and make coasters.

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Shadow play

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It is not difficult to arrange a home shadow theater - a white sheet is suitable as a screen, and instead of a projector, you can take an ordinary table lamp.

You can also invent and show characters with the help of your hands.

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flannelgraph

Making a flannelgraph is simple - a piece of plywood or a plank is covered with a plain flannel. The characters are glued onto thick cardboard (you can cut out pictures from magazines or download from the Internet). On the reverse side, velvet paper or sewing Velcro is glued.

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Let the fairy tale come to life!

Dear readers! Do you have experience organizing home theater? Perhaps you were present at the productions that your familiar moms and dads organized with their children? Maybe you know how to make scenery and puppets for the theater? Tell us about it in the comments.

Do you and your baby like fairy tales and interesting stories? How about getting together and spending time with the whole family? Do you want to arrange a small holiday for yourself in the middle of everyday life? Then it's time for home theater! Organizing a performance is not so difficult and can become an exciting game in itself. Today we'll walk you through how to do it in detail and offer you some great ideas to get you inspired.

The day of the performance is very exciting and filled with pleasant chores for the whole family. It will be interesting for everyone from young to old to participate in the preparation: dad can be entrusted with designing the scene, and older children will probably want to draw a poster and get some kind of role.

It is very cool to play in the theater on a cloudy and rainy day, when you don’t want to go outside and want to spend time at home in a fun, interesting and useful way. Although on a fine day in the country, you can arrange a performance in the fresh air. And this is a great entertainment during the holidays, when other families with children come to visit you.

Choose together which performance you will stage. It is better to choose stories that are simple, well-known and interesting to the baby. For example, folk tales ("Kolobok", "Teremok", "Turnip"), stories and poems from the child's favorite books are well suited.

A very important and exciting part of the preparation, which in itself can become an educational game, is drawing posters and tickets. Tickets are just small pieces of paper that say "Ticket". Instruct the child to deliver the tickets to the audience, for him it will be an honorable duty. You can draw a small poster on an A4 sheet, or on a larger paper, then the main part is drawn by adults and older children. Be sure to write the name in capital letters. You can draw characters or a scene from a fairy tale, indicate the names of the actors.

Actors, meanwhile, can prepare, remember a fairy tale, and adults will come to their aid. How to help the baby memorize simple poems, we have already written before.

Decorating the scene

Preparing a stage for a home theater with your own hands is a very responsible and creative task that will take time, and it is better to plan it for one of the days before the performance. All your efforts will certainly be justified, because a beautiful and made with soul scene will come in handy for you to play more than once.

You can make a stage out of a box - both a large one from under household appliances, and a small one, for example, from under dishes or toys, then you will get a mini-theater. Decorate the stage to your taste with the baby, build a curtain. You can prepare a backdrop and scenery specifically for the performance. Here are some ideas on how to do this.

An even simpler option is a curtain in the doorway, especially if you know how to sew.

Or you can just cover a couple of chairs or a table with a blanket - and the stage is ready!

Making puppet actors

Another interesting and very simple idea is to draw faces or muzzles on plastic spoons.

Many kids love finger puppets. While playing with them, we also train fine motor skills. Craftswomen mothers can sew or knit such dolls. And you can cut them out of ordinary household gloves in a couple of minutes or just draw faces on your fingers.

Home shadow theater

A shadow theater performance is always a special sacrament. Meanwhile, adding a little magic to your life is not so difficult. First we need to make a screen. To do this, a lid from a box (for example, a shoe box) is useful, in the wall of which we cut a window and glue a sheet of paper (ordinary office paper or tracing paper) on top. In addition, you can use a white cloth in a doorway as a screen. Figures for the theater of shadows are cut out of cardboard. You can draw them yourself, print templates from the Internet or buy ready-made ones. The cardboard figure will need to be attached to a stick, for example, from Chupa-Chups.

Also, the shadows of animals can be obtained with the help of hands. On a sunny day or in a dark room with a table lamp on, show your baby how to do it. And this is also a great way to stretch your fingers.

Well, that's all, the preparations are over, the guests are on the ground, the lights go out, and the stage is illuminated by a table lamp. Support the little puppeteer, because he is very worried at this moment. And be prepared to take on most of the performance. If a child stumbles somewhere, help, pick it up. The performance itself can be quite short, for a few minutes. In any case, relatives will be delighted and will not stint on praise and applause, because everyone did a great job!

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