Do-it-yourself puppet theater creative project. Do-it-yourself puppet theater from fabric to kindergarten with photo and video Do-it-yourself theater on the table out of the box

Unpacked. The tree still stands dressed up in balls and garlands. From under the dense canopy, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden are watching what is happening in the family circle. Soon, their parents will hide them in a box and put them in a closet until the next New Year's festivities.
There is a box of sweets on the table, waiting in the wings - to be sent to the trash can. Take your time to throw away colorful and vibrant packaging. You can make a wonderful children's theater out of it with your own hands, or rather a theater with cardboard dolls.
For work you will need:
- cardboard packaging for any gifts
- PVA glue
- scissors.

First, you should carefully study the drawings in order to determine which part of the material we will leave for the decoration of the theater hall, and which - for the dolls (fairy tale actors). We decided to use a large box (in the form of a house) to create the theater premises. From the small one we will cut out details for the scenery and animal figurines. Have you chosen the appropriate drawings? Now we feel free to start cutting out the details.

In our case, fairy tales will be about how Santa Claus got to our edges to leave delicious sweets for the kids. Different types of transport eloquently indicate that the path was not easy.

Now let's get down to creating and decorating the theater hall. On the front side of the larger box, we will cut a rectangular hole. This opens the scene.

To prevent the bottom of the box from puffing up, glue the rectangle cut from the front side to it. The English-Russian dictionary will help to press the cardboard and make the gluing process easier.

This picture shows the cut out decorations: a decorated Christmas tree and Santa Claus in a sleigh.

Finally, the bottom stuck, we removed the dictionary. It took about 20 minutes. On the roof of the house, we cut holes through which we will lower the heroes of the play onto the stage.

We diluted the decorations with fir trees with snowdrifts and a cozy village. Evening lights lit up in the windows. On the street we observe snow flakes. Silence.

We glue the details on the back wall of the theater. A solid canvas, of course, would have looked better, but we do not have such material. We'll have to be content with what is available. Ultimately, the background looks great.

We continue to create. It was the turn of the tall snowdrifts. We also cut them out from the remains of the cardboard.

We glue the drifts in the foreground. Notice that the tree on the left side of the picture is very close to the viewer.

We glue the cut thin strips to each of the heroes.

This is how the work looks from the other side.

We lower the main characters onto the stage through the holes cut in the roof of the theater. The animals are sitting, waiting for Santa Claus's sleigh to appear in the starry sky.

Winter is the best time for crafts with children. Today we will tell you how to make a wonderful home puppet theater out of the box with your own hands. This original educational toy is sure to please any child. Most importantly, it is useful to play it, because role-playing representations "feed" the brain.

Our craft will be quite simple, you will cope with its manufacture in literally half an hour. Of course, it is better to do it with your child - at least he will help you choose the pictures. A little time - and you will already be playing mini home theater together!

What do we need?

• cardboard box of any size
• culinary skewers
• small led string
• small beads with a large hole
• colored paper
• small images of your favorite fairy tale characters

How to do it?

It is best to take an elongated and low box. If not, take any (shoe is perfect). Remove the front edge of the box completely. Cut the back so that about 2-3 cm remains at the edges. Make cuts at the top at regular intervals with a cutter.

Make a small pallet from the cut pieces of the boxes. You need to make exactly the same holes in it. We insert culinary skewers into them (can be replaced with sushi chopsticks or tightly twisted newspaper tubes). Place a bead at the end of each skewer and secure it with glue if necessary. This will make it easier to move the dolls.

You need to attach pictures to the skewers. If you don't have ready-made images, just draw them: penguins, snowmen, Santa Claus - any characters you need for a fairy tale and theatrical performance.

The lid of the box needs to be pasted over with colored paper, we will install it behind the main part of the craft - it will be something like a screen. Using blue, blue and white paper, you can simulate snowdrifts and the sea. Separately glue both small elements and side edges for the future homemade theater.

Place them directly in the box - you don't need to glue them.

Just put the garland on top. To prevent it from slipping, secure it with tape.

Of course, in a puppet theater, screens and puppets are primarily important, but the role of decorations should not be underestimated either. Without decorations, it is difficult for spectators to determine the place where the action takes place, all events turn out to be, as it were, torn out of reality and suspended in the air, and the whole performance looks deliberately simple, as if it was whipped up, even if you spent a whole month on rehearsals. Personally, the empty black "pit" of the stage makes me feel melancholy. On the other hand, even a simple scene, played out in beautiful scenery, looks advantageous and makes a much stronger impression. Therefore, my advice to you, take a little time and decorate your performance with decorations appropriate to the scene, the audience will definitely appreciate it.

Making decorations with your own hands is not at all difficult. This illustrated workshop focuses on flat cardboard house decorations. The action of many fairy tales and fables takes place in the house or in the immediate vicinity of it, so the decorations for the chorus, huts, shacks and other houses will come in handy for every home puppet theater.

Before starting work, I want to draw your attention to several important points that must be taken into account when making decorations for any home:

Dolls near the house should not seem too big or too small, unless, of course, this is part of the plot of the fairy tale. Therefore, if it is not a bear near the house, not an elephant near the house of a mouse, and not a godfather Pumpkin near his kennel, then the house should be higher than the characters living in it. The decorations of this master class are designed for ordinary glove dolls with rubber heads, familiar to all of us from childhood, which rise 20 centimeters above the bed. Therefore, the decoration of the house for such dolls should be 25-30 cm high. For a small stage, make an ordinary house higher impractical. The other extreme, when the house is huge compared to the hero, if it is not a giant's castle next to Puss in Boots, should also be avoided. On stage, you create a miniature fairy-tale world in which everything should fit together as best as possible.

The decoration of the house is usually in the foreground and acts as a right or left curtain. That is, the doll must be able to completely hide behind the decoration (enter the house), which means that the decoration itself must be at least 15 cm wide and not shine through. In this case, the hero can get out of her unexpectedly and will be seen by the audience not earlier than required by the plot. But such a narrow house is suitable only if it does not have a slotted window through which the doll must look out during the action. Such a window should be large enough so that the doll can effortlessly, without wobbling the decoration, stick its head through the hole. For ordinary dolls with rubber heads, the optimal size of the slotted window is 10x10 cm. Accordingly, the width of the house with the slotted window increases to 20-30 cm, and if the house still has a canopy or porch, then up to 35-40 cm.

If you are depicting an asymmetrical house with a porch or a passage, then you must take into account that the backstage hut can be right or left, depending on which side of the stage it is located. Therefore, before making the scenery, you need to think over the very action of the performance and decide on which side it is more convenient to place the house on the stage and where, in accordance with the location of the house, the porch should be on the stage.

Try to make the outline of the decoration as simple and smooth as possible, so that later it will be convenient to cut it out of cardboard, and small protrusions do not come off and do not get loose.

Now take a regular sheet of A3 or A2 paper and, following the rules described above, draw on it a house for your performance.

		If you are drawing a house of a merchant or a well-to-do peasant, then emphasize the wealth of the owner by depicting the house as a new one, folded from solid light logs, cover the roof with elegant tiles and decorate the platbands with carvings or bright paintings. Of course, not only human heroes can live in such a house, but also animal heroes, for example, the Cat and the Rooster from the fairy tale "The Cat, the Rooster and the Fox".
		If you are drawing a poor man's shack, then, on the contrary, depict the house as dark, buried in the ground, overgrown with moss, covered with old straw. The same hut can become a suitable home for a forest Bear or other forest animal.

If, however, you did not succeed in portraying houses so beautifully, like the wonderful artist from Astrakhan Elena Davydova, do not be discouraged. You can download her drawings to your computer in good resolution right now, and then print them on a color inkjet printer. Since the house does not fit on one A4 sheet, it is divided into two parts in the file. The houses are large, so do not forget to set the maximum print area in the printer settings.

To download a file with ready-made pictures, right-click on the desired link, select "Save object as ..." or "Save by link as ..." and save the file to disk; you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it.

After you have drawn or printed a drawing, you need to cut out the base for decoration from plain paper. After all, it has not only an upper part visible to viewers, but also a hidden one, located below the level of the garden. From a sheet of white paper, cut a strip 4-5 cm longer than the bottom of the picture and 5 cm wide. The strip may not be solid, but composite, because it will still be glued onto cardboard anyway. The base of the decoration will not be visible to the audience, so there is no need to paint it.

Now you need to glue all parts of the decoration onto the cardboard. For these purposes, corrugated cardboard from ordinary packing boxes with a thickness of 2-3 mm is perfect. If you use thicker corrugated cardboard, then it will be difficult for you to cut out the finished decoration from it, and it will not be so convenient to attach it to the screen. Our decoration should keep its shape well and not bend under its own weight, therefore, it is impractical to use whatman paper or thin coated cardboard instead of corrugated cardboard.

Using a utility knife, cut the box into separate sheets without folds.

		Lubricate the reverse side of the drawing (half of the upper part of the decoration) with glue (for more reliable gluing, it is better to use not glue sticks, but PVA glue), and then glue it to a sheet of cardboard so that at least 5 cm remains between the edge of the sheet and the bottom of the drawing for gluing the base. Then glue the second half of the house back to back. Try to match the details of the drawing on both halves of the decoration as accurately as possible.
		Now grease the prepared strip of paper with glue, which will serve as the base of the decoration, and glue it along the bottom border of the picture with a shift in the desired direction. If it is a left wing, as in our case, then its base should have a protrusion on the right, and if it is a right wing, then the protrusion should be on the left. Everything above the base will be visible to the audience, so make sure that there are no shaded areas.
		To prevent the cardboard from drifting and warping when the glue dries, leave the decoration to dry under a press (put several thick books on top). When the glue is dry, use a utility knife to carefully cut the outline of the house along with the base. It is better not to use scissors, otherwise all the cardboard will be in ugly creases. But if there is no clerical knife at hand, then try not to guide the scissors along the contour, as when cutting out of thin flexible paper, but free the contour from excess cardboard by cutting it off in small pieces. Cut out the window especially carefully.
		In the same way, we will turn into a blank for decoration and a drawing of a poor shack.
		We will fix the decoration of the house on the screen with the help of two clothespins. For this purpose, any plastic or wooden clothespins with flat sides without protruding parts are suitable. Plastic clothespins are more convenient than wooden ones because they open wider.
		One of the clothespin will hold the decoration on the ledge of the base, and for the second clothespin we need a hole. To cut through it, attach the clothespin to the decoration so that the metal spring bracket is flush with the line of the "bed", and draw a pencil around the part of the clothespin that is above the base of the decoration.

Using a utility knife, carefully cut a rectangular hole in the decoration and make sure the clothespin can be easily inserted and removed. Expand the hole slightly if necessary.

But it is too early to declare our houses ready. If we now fix any of them on the screen, then through the window it will shine through - the background behind the house and all the movements of the dolls inside the house will be visible to the audience. This is not very pretty, so we will give our house a false volume by attaching an additional curtain made of a light, monochromatic fabric in a dark color to the back of the house. The curtain will make the decoration of the house opaque, hide the movements of the dolls inside the house from the audience, and the doll will be able to look out the window by diving under this curtain. At the same time, behind the doll's head there will be a contrasting background that favorably sets off its background, on which it will look good. Choose a fabric for the curtain that is not thick. During the performance, the stage is usually brightly lit from the side of the auditorium, from this, from the side of the actors, the curtain will become translucent, which will make it easier to control the doll looking out of the window. Also, do not take shiny fabric so that it does not glare from bright light.

Flip the decoration of the house over, place the fabric so that it covers the entire window and use a pencil to mark the top side of the rectangle. Remove the fabric, apply a strip of Moment universal glue to the marked line, gently attach the fabric and press it against the cardboard.

Lay the decoration horizontally with the glued cloth facing up in a well-ventilated area and let the glue dry.

And now, so that the clothespins with which we will fix the house do not spoil the view of the stage, we will decorate them too. Read how to do this in the master class:

If you did not draw the scenery yourself, but used the wonderful drawings by Elena Davydova, then the files you downloaded on the fourth page contain ready-made pictures for decorating clothespins.

Cut out the images along the contour, turn them over with the pictures down, and then using universal glue, glue a clothespin on the back of each picture so that the clothespin is not visible from the front side.

After the glue dries, you get these cute sets of decorative clothespins:

But that's not all. Each house, if there are not two of them on the stage (left and right), needs a pair of wings to it, which will take the opposite side of the stage, balance the composition and allow dolls approaching the house not to appear “out of the ground” in front of the audience ... If the action of the play takes place in the courtyard, then it is logical to use a fence suitable for the house as a pair backstage, behind which fruit trees can be located.

		If the house is rich, then the fence must be drawn to match it - strong and solid.
		And opposite the poor shack, the fence should be depicted as old, flimsy and rickety.

Since the fence is also a curtain, it must be opaque and of sufficient size so that the doll can come out from behind it (15-20 cm wide and 25-30 cm high.) Paired decorations for fences to houses from this MK you can print from the page 3 matching files.

The decorations themselves are made in the same way as the decorations for huts, only the ledge of the base of the decorations should be located on the opposite side of the ledge of the decorations of the house, because they will be on opposite sides of the stage.

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Preschoolers are very impressionable and lend themselves well to emotional influences, therefore, the bright colorful puppet theater is perceived as a real fairy tale revived. Playing with dolls, the child abstracts from the environment, which helps him express all his problems and fears. If there are any conflict situations in a family or kindergarten, child psychologists recommend playing them in a puppet theater, giving the child the role of different participants in the conflict. The participation of children in the puppet theater helps them develop coherent speech, train memory and attention.

Buying a puppet theater is not a problem now, but good toys are expensive and not affordable for the average family. That is why many parents are interested in the question of how to make a puppet theater with their own hands for a kindergarten?

VIDEO INSTRUCTION

Making dolls

VIDEO DESCRIPTION

Homemade puppet theater toys have the highest educational value. Making theater puppets develops creativity, imagination, thinking. And a good kindergarten will definitely use this kind of aids.

Toys can be made from any material: foam rubber, fabric, paper, wire, cardboard, etc. Consider the manufacturing technology of the most common theatrical puppets.

• Flat dolls

The character is drawn on cardboard and cut out. The finished figurine is placed on a second sheet of cardboard, outlined and cut out. Images are colored with paints, pencils or felt-tip pens. Both parts are glued by inserting a stick between them (glued paper tube, ice cream stick, etc.). The resulting figures can be installed on a stand (spools of thread or plastic corks).

• Cylindrical (cone-shaped) dolls

Using a stencil or compass, circles of different diameters are cut out, cut in half and glued in the form of a cone - this is the character's body. The head is made of newsprint, which breaks into small pieces and is filled with water. When the paper is soaked, drain the excess water, add flour in a 3: 1 ratio (3 parts newsprint, 1 part flour) and knead the dough. Balls are rolled from the dough, put on a cone and sculpted into a head. The heads should dry on the cone. After the heads have dried, they are removed, and the cone is decorated with lace, braid, various fabrics, beads, etc., depending on the character. All decorative elements are glued with PVA glue. You can make slots on the cones and insert handles, legs or tails. When the body is ready, the doll's head is glued to the cone.

• Foam dolls

First of all, the pieces of foam rubber need to be dyed. This is done with aniline dyes dissolved in water. The foam rubber must be dipped into the dye solution several times, squeezing it out each time. After drying, the foam rubber is given the shape necessary for the doll: cuts, constrictions are made, some parts can be sewn.

The process of making such dolls completely depends on the imagination of the master, we will consider only a few examples. We sew a stocking or a piece of tights to the glove, to the heel of which we glue or sew beads (eyes) - we get a snake. The snake can crawl and talk thanks to the movement of the hand.

The animal can be sewn from two gloves, for this, in one glove we connect the middle finger with the index finger, and the ring finger with the little finger. We fold the glove and hide the extra parts inside, cut off the thumb. We pull back the ears (the end of the ring and middle fingers) and sew the details. So we got the head of the animal, we sew it to the middle finger of the second glove. On the second glove we sew the thumb of the first - this is the tail of the animal. It remains only to sew on the eyes and nose (beads), change the shape of the head and tail. If you put the doll on your hand, then all its parts (head, tail and legs) will be movable.

The mitten can represent the whole doll, in this case the thumb can be the tail, or just the head of the doll, then the thumb is the nose.

VIDEO

Making decorations

Interested in how to make a puppet theater with their own hands for a kindergarten, parents and educators often mean making puppets, but forget about such an important theatrical element as scenery. The simplest decorations are made of cardboard boxes, which are painted, pasted over with colored paper, and additional elements are attached.

To ensure a quick change of scenery, they need to be glued onto sheets of cardboard bound in the form of a book. Such a book can be placed behind a screen. Another option for changing the scenery can be to mount them on a turntable, which is a thick wire driven into a round wooden base. On the reverse side of the turntable there is a screen consisting of 3 stretchers covered with fabric.

Learn how to create a do-it-yourself puppet theater. In this case, characters can not only be sewn, dazzled, but also made from plastic spoons, wooden sticks.

DIY finger puppet theater

If you want to develop the 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 your own finger puppet theater.

For this you will need:

• felt;
• threads;
• scissors.

As you can see, the characters of the Turnip fairy tale 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 on.

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

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

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

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

• modeling paste (better than Jovi, which does not need to be fired, it hardens in air);
• yellow and green Jovi Patcolor paste;
• acrylic paints;
• brushes;
• felt-tip pens;
• stacks.

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

When sculpting with paste, you will see 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 can play the tale "Turnip" or come up with his own story 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, transfer the outlines to it. Then place on cardboard, draw outlines, have the child decorate the characters with crayons or paints. All that remains is 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 by which puppets for the theater are easily made. With your own hands or, giving the blanks to the child, cut them along the contours, glue them in pairs.

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

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

To make these toys for a puppet show, take:

• plastic spoons;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• ready-made plastic eyes;
• glue gun;
• the cloth;
• narrow tape, scissors.

Then 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, it is enough to glue a bow tie around his neck.
3. Cut strips of colored paper with a fringe on one side, glue this hair. They will also be replaced by pieces of colored cotton wool.

Everything, the children's puppet theater at home is ready. Take a large cardboard box, cover it with colored paper, turn it over. Make a slot 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 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 can be used. Plastic cups for yogurt.

Glue paper fairy tale characters to the back of these items, and you can act out old plots 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 simplest options:

1. Cover the hole under the table with a cloth by tying its two corners to the top of one and the other leg. The child sits on the back of the floor and leads the characters to the level of the table top - just above it.
2. Take an old curtain or sheet. Gather 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 cutout in the center at the top of any of these sheets. It should be at such a height that the child or adult sitting behind the curtain, who is playing the role of puppeteers, cannot be seen.
3. A desktop screen is made for the finger theater. The easiest way is to make it out of cardboard. The box is taken. It must 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.

Here's how to make a plywood screen. For her you will need:

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

Manufacturing instruction:

1. Based on the dimensions shown, cut 3 blanks from plywood: a central one and 2 sidewalls. Cover them with a cloth.
2. When the canvas is dry, attach the loops to the designated areas so that you can close the screen for the puppet theater and fold it.

See how to make a cardboard screen in order to be able to show performances with mittens, gloves, 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 down, placing a pillow under them.

In order to make a screen, you will need:

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

A do-it-yourself screen for a puppet theater is made as follows:

1. The drawing is given for adolescents 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 layers. To do this, glue the second on one large sheet of cardboard, then on the other side - the third. Apply PVA glue with a wide brush. Thus, you will make the frontal part - the apron.
3. The side elements are also made in three layers, but the folds, which you then glue to the apron, must consist of one layer.
4. Connect the parts by gluing them together. When the glue is dry, 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 cover the screen with wallpaper of a dull color so that they do not distract from the theatrical performance.

We make doll gloves with our own hands

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

Children's puppet theater on hand 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 a pig. Having understood how to make such gloves dolls, you can sew others, thereby gradually replenishing your theater.

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

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

Before sewing theater puppets, put a puppeteer glove on the repetitive pattern to decide if the base fits. 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 free 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:

• faux fur and / or plain fabric;
• tracing paper or transparent paper or cellophane;
• pen;
• scissors;
• threads;
• buttons for the eyes.

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

Place the piece on a folded fabric, cut 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 stitching both halves of each character. Use fabric dyes that won't fade when washed. If there are none, then use watercolor, gouache, but first apply a PVA solution to the fabric, paint this place after it dries, but use a minimum of water. When the paint is dry, lay another layer of PVA on top to secure it.

But it is best to embroider the nose, mouth, pulling these sections over the hoop or stitching blanks of the corresponding colors and buttons-eyes.

Cut out a white fur shirt-front for the doll's bunny gloves, sew its triangular part to the front half, and a semicircular one, in the form of a collar, to the back. A tail is stitched to the same back side, and white legs 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 the hands. In the latter case, use an over-the-edge seam or take a translucent tape and wrap around the side seam.

In this technique, other dolls and gloves are created, for example, a piglet.

When the sides have been sewn 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 then sew this "patch" to the head. Make an applique on his cheeks, giving them a blooming look. It remains to sew a few yellow threads between the ears, and another doll glove is ready.

Now you know how to sew characters for a puppet theater, if you want to see it also, then check out the following stories.