Have you decided to please your kid and arrange a puppet theater at home? Several glove dolls can of course be purchased at a toy store, but it is much more interesting to create your own individual characters and act out whole performances with them. Sewing such a glove doll is not difficult at all.
It is necessary
- - a head for a doll from an old toy;
- - fabric for the glove;
- - decoration elements (eyes, nose, sequins, braid, etc.);
- - sewing machine, threads.
Instructions
Step 1
Create a pattern for the glove. To do this, put your hand (or the hand of a child) on the paper as if you were holding the doll (the index and middle fingers will fall on the head, the rest are spread out to the sides - these are the doll's handles). Draw a pencil around the hand with seam allowances. Remember, the glove should be loose enough.
Step 2
Choose a soft, dense cloth for your glove. The main condition is that the hand should not show through the fabric. It's good if the color of the material matches the character (pink for a pig, white for a goat). However, your hero can be in a colorful dress or in a black magician costume, so the choice of fabric is your creative opinion.
Step 3
Lay the pattern out on the fabric. Cut out two identical parts: front and back. Fold right sides in and sew. Turn out the finished glove. Children love to dress up dolls and theater actors are no exception. Make beads, scarves, aprons, shirts, or raincoats for your character. The child will surely appreciate the doll's wardrobe.
Step 4
Make the doll's head. The simplest thing is to use a ready-made head from a broken toy, but sometimes it's more interesting to make a character yourself. Take plasticine and sculpt the head of the doll with the neck. Work well the eyes, nose, lips. Once the plasticine head is ready, freeze it slightly until it solidifies. Cut the hard workpiece into two parts with a knife: the face and the back of the head. Using the papier-mâché technique, make two halves of the head. Take out the plasticine, join the two parts and dry well.
Step 5
Color the head. Paint the doll's head in layers with gouache or acrylic paints. Draw in the eyes, mouth, cheeks, beard, or moles. Use fur, thread or yarn to create a hairstyle. Decorate the finished head with earrings, braid, beads, wire (depending on the intended character).
Step 6
Connect the two pieces of the glove doll. The easiest way is to secure the glove by tightly tightening it with a cord or thread around the doll's neck, but you can also glue the glove with special glue. The hero of the puppet theater is ready!
