There is a box of sweets on the table, waiting in the wings - to be sent to the trash can. Don't rush to throw away colorful and bright packaging. From it you can make a wonderful children's theater with your own hands, or rather a theater with cardboard dolls.
To work you will need:
- cardboard packaging for any gifts
- PVA glue
- scissors.
First, you should carefully study the drawings in order to decide which part of the material we will leave for decorating the theater hall, and which for the dolls (fairy-tale actors). We decided to use a large box (in the shape of a house) to create a theater room. From the small one we will cut out details for decorations and animal figures. Have you chosen the appropriate drawings? Now we can safely start cutting out the parts.
In our case, the fairy tales will be about how Santa Claus reached our region to leave delicious sweets for the children.Different types of transport eloquently indicate that the path was not easy.
Now let's get down to creating and decorating the theater hall. We'll cut a rectangular hole on the front of the larger box. Thus we open the scene.
To prevent the bottom of the box from puffing up, glue a rectangle cut off from the front side onto it. The English-Russian dictionary will help you press the cardboard and facilitate the gluing process.
This picture shows cut-out decorations: a decorated Christmas tree and Santa Claus in a sleigh.
Finally, the bottom stuck, we removed the dictionary. About 20 minutes passed. We cut holes on the roof of the house through which we will lower the characters of the play onto the stage.
We diluted the scenery with spruce trees, snowdrifts and a cozy village. The evening lights came on in the windows. We see snow flakes outside. Silence.
We glue the details onto the far wall of the theater. A solid canvas, of course, would look better, but we don’t have such material. You'll have to make do with what's available. In the end, the background looks great.
Let's continue to create. It was the turn of the high snowdrifts. We also cut them out from leftover cardboard.
Glue the snowdrifts in the foreground. Please note that the tree on the left side of the picture is located very close to the viewer.
We glue cut out thin strips to each of the characters.
This is what the work looks like from the reverse side.
We lower the main characters onto the stage through holes cut in the roof of the theater. The animals are sitting, waiting for Father Frost's sleigh to appear in the starry sky.
And here he is. The long-awaited guest flies through the frost and wind on an airplane.
Or is Grandfather driving a car? In this situation, we act according to the script.
For example, why shouldn't he ski through a snowstorm? Look, there is a huge bag behind the traveler’s shoulders. What's there? Of course, toys.
Santa Claus distributed gifts to everyone who behaved well throughout the past year. Did you like the theater? And doing it with children is even more interesting. Creative success!
