Relevance, purpose and objectives of theatrical activities in preschool education.

Relevance, purpose and objectives of theatrical activities in preschool education.

Theatrical activity is a source of development of feelings, deep experiences of the child, and introduces him to spiritual values. It is equally important that theatrical games develop the emotional sphere and make one sympathize with the characters. Theatrical activities permeate all routine and educational moments.

The basis of this work lies in the use of nursery rhymes, sayings, jokes, and lullabies. Oral folk art, presented in the form of skits and dramatization games, creates an atmosphere of warmth, kindness, attention, and contributes to the formation of an emotionally positive attitude of children to the world around them and their cognitive development.

Theatrical activities develop the child’s personality, instill a sustainable interest in literature and theater, improve children’s artistic skills in terms of experiencing and embodying an image, and encourage them to create new images.

Thanks to this form of work, communication with children becomes more interesting and meaningful. It is no secret that young children perceive speech addressed to them better if it is supported by visual objects (pictures, toys).

During development, changes occur in the emotional sphere of the child. His views on the world and relationships with others change. The child's ability to recognize and control his emotions increases. But the emotional sphere itself does not develop qualitatively. It needs to be developed.

Being confined to televisions and computers, children began to communicate less with adults and peers, but communication greatly enriches the sensory sphere. Children today have become less responsive to the feelings of others

Theatrical activities in kindergarten can organizationally permeate all routine moments: be included in all classes, in the joint activities of children and adults in their free time, and carried out in children’s independent activities. Theatrical activities can be organically included in the work of various studios and clubs; products of theatrical activities (stage plays, dramatizations, performances, concerts, etc.) can be included in the content of holidays and entertainment.

Thus, theatrical activity is the most important means of developing in children the ability to recognize a person’s emotional state by facial expressions, gestures, intonation, the ability to put oneself in his place in various situations, and find adequate ways to help. Theatrical activities make it possible to develop the experience of social behavioral skills due to the fact that every literary work or fairy tale for preschool children always has a moral orientation (friendship, kindness, honesty, courage, and others). Theatrical activities are a source of development of feelings, deep experiences and discoveries of the child, introducing him to spiritual values. Theater reveals the spiritual and creative potential of the child and provides a real opportunity to adapt to the social environment.

From puppet theater in kindergarten to understanding oneself in the world around us

Bibliographic description:

Chekanova, O. L. From puppet theater in kindergarten to knowing oneself in the world around us / O. L. Chekanova.
— Text: direct // Theory and practice of education in the modern world: materials of the I International. scientific conf. (St. Petersburg, February 2012). - T. 1. - St. Petersburg: Renome, 2012. - P. 136-137. — URL: https://moluch.ru/conf/ped/archive/21/1514/ (date of access: 01/03/2022). Puppet theater is the most common form of organizing children's leisure in kindergarten. Puppet shows enjoy the well-deserved love of children and bring great pleasure to the organizers of the productions. The doll itself is very close to children’s perception, because they have been familiar with this toy since early childhood, and therefore perceive it as a close friend. And if this hitherto silent friend unexpectedly comes to life before their eyes, tells stories, sings, laughs and cries - this spectacle turns into a real holiday for them.

However, puppet theater cannot be considered only as entertainment. Its educational and cognitive significance is very important. During the preschool period, the child begins to develop an attitude towards the environment, character, and interests. It is at this age that it is very useful to show children examples of friendship, kindness, truthfulness, and hard work.

Puppet theater is a synthetic art; it influences young spectators with a whole range of artistic means. When showing puppet theater performances, both the artistic word and a visual image - a doll, and picturesque and decorative design, and music - a song, musical accompaniment are used. The skillful use of puppet theater provides great assistance in the daily work of a kindergarten in the mental, moral, and aesthetic education of preschoolers.

The role of puppet theater in the development of a preschool child cannot be overestimated. First of all, a doll helps to establish contact with a child if he is “enslaved,” emotionally “stressed,” or afraid of strangers. A small doll causes less fear and apprehension, and a child, especially a younger one, makes contact with it faster than with an adult. Children who avoid touching are more likely to give a hand and say hello to a doll than to a teacher. By actively interacting with the doll, the child gradually becomes more open and courageous in direct contacts with the outside world, with people. This allows a preschool child to most painlessly go through the period of adaptation to school, new teachers, curriculum, and often to a new children's team.

Familiarization with playing dolls begins at an early age. Putting a doll on his hand - a kitten, a dog, a parsley, the adult sings (melodic sounds attract the baby's attention) a nursery rhyme, a song, a joke, imitates the voices of different animals, evokes a positive emotional reaction in the child, which in turn contributes to the early formation of aesthetic taste in the child, emotional creative needs.

In younger groups, poems, fairy tales, and songs familiar to children are acted out using a table theater. The fairy tale "Turnip", for example, is illustrated using plane dolls. And with the cheerful Petrushka, who is not even hiding behind a screen, the children willingly shake hands and answer his questions.

With children of the third and fourth year of life, they act out the simplest plots of familiar fairy tales, using elements of costumes and hats with silhouettes of characters. The children willingly join in the dramatization of the fairy tale using a flannelgraph, tabletop and finger theater.

Children of the fifth and sixth year of life, as a rule, already know and love puppet theater and participate with great desire in performances. The teacher is faced with the task of encouraging preschoolers to engage in independent theatrical games and to dramatize familiar literary works. Children of this age can already be taught to drive dolls - parsleys and puppets.

By mediating interaction with other people with dolls, timid children begin to understand the process of communicating with peers. By playing the roles of characters with different personalities, children “try on” different models of social behavior. By playing the role of a Wolf or a Bear, a child can express aggression, by playing the role of a Bunny - caution, by playing the role of a Cockerel - determination and courage. This experience allows the child to subsequently show tolerance, perseverance, and kindness in various life situations.

For a child, a puppet theater character is, first of all, a toy. The child sees how performances are performed with the help of dolls and begins to understand that they were created in order to “retell” the content of the fairy tale. Around middle preschool age, the child himself, without the help of dolls, tries to repeat and act out a familiar fairy tale. Active children always enjoy playing roles: putting on costumes, speaking and acting. But for many children, getting on stage is a serious test. It’s often the first time a child dares to speak words from the stage on behalf of a doll. He psychologically hides behind the doll.

In the hands of an adult, a doll is an assistant in solving many pedagogical problems. With the help of a doll, you can create playful motivation for the productive activities of children, give an adequate assessment on behalf of the doll of the product of the child’s activity without the risk of causing his resentment or resistance. This use of characters is most effective when working with children of middle and primary preschool age.

Both adults and children can participate in the puppet show. Such activities enrich children with new impressions, knowledge and skills, develop interest in literature, music, theatrical art, and form aesthetic taste. This is a great opportunity for teachers to carry out various educational, educational, and moral tasks not in an edifying way, but directly, unnoticeably for children, who, as a rule, are captivated by theatrical performances.

Music in puppet shows sounds during the plot, when the characters sing, dance or simply listen to the playing of the violin, piano, harmonica, pipe, etc. Music is introduced to create a certain mood, as a musical setting. However, in a puppet show it is not always of an auxiliary nature. Music often plays a very important role. How long will the attention of a preschool child last if he sits motionless on a chair during a theatrical performance? No more than 10 minutes. What if he takes an active part in the performance, for example, performing as a spectator some piece of music that is especially important for the successful continuation of the performance? This number doubles (sometimes triples)! At the same time, children’s emotional responsiveness, choral singing and children’s performance skills are formed (it’s one thing to sing for the audience, and quite another for the artists themselves!).

The musical repertoire for such performances is prepared with the children in advance during music classes, and the children do not necessarily know where they will use it. This will help maintain the moment of surprise.

The saturation of the performances with emotional and entertaining moments also increases the interest of children. The collective empathy of children forms in them the rudiments of social feelings and relationships.

Performances involving a puppet theater will occupy a certain place in the kindergarten system, provided:

— the presence and development of children’s ideas and interest in various types of theater;

— children mastering the rules and techniques of theatrical activities;

- a serious, sincere, emotionally positive attitude of the teacher towards children’s theater games.

Staging a puppet show with the participation of children is a very labor-intensive task, requiring great emotional investment and creative energy of both the directors and the actors themselves - the children. It is very important to take into account several psychological factors. The process of identifying, detecting the emotions of some children, when it occurs in the presence of the whole group, is necessary not only for the teacher, who uses it as a condition for changing the inappropriate position of the child; This process helps preschoolers understand each other, focus on the strengths and weaknesses of their peers’ character, and understand their experiences. An atmosphere of deep mutual understanding is a fertile ground for eliminating unethical, selfish tendencies in children, cultivating responsiveness, sensitivity to good and intransigence to evil. The means of influencing children’s feelings are: purposeful interaction with morally contradictory characters, the sincere, emotionally expressed attitude of the teacher himself to all moments of a fairy tale or role-playing game, and, finally, the active position of sensitive, responsive children, of whom there are always many in the group.

At first, it is very difficult for a teacher to organize such performances; the ability to quickly and creatively respond to the emotional responses of both actors and spectators, to clearly navigate difficult moments and to direct the entire performance absolutely imperceptibly does not immediately develop. But when this skill comes, working on staging the play gives great pleasure not only to the children, but also to the adults participating in it.

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Significance of the work

Theatrical activities according to the Federal State Educational Standard in preschool educational institutions help the teacher to raise active and bright personalities. Children learn to see unusual details in the world around them and create artistic images based on them.

Theatrical activities according to the Federal State Educational Standard in preschool educational institutions contribute to the formation of associative thinking in children. By trying themselves in different roles, children overcome shyness and self-doubt, become more relaxed and open to communication with peers.

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The world of theater is a path to the inner feelings of a child, his soul. L.S. Wygodsky

What is theater?

This is the best, according to K.S. Stanislavsky, a means for communication between people, for understanding their innermost feelings. This miracle is capable of developing creative inclinations in a child, stimulating the development of mental processes, improving bodily plasticity, and forming creative activity; help reduce the spiritual gap between adults and children

Theater is a collective theatrical activity, and it is aimed at a holistic impact on the child’s personality. The child becomes liberated, begins to create independently, through the theater the child gets to know himself and begins to grow as a person. Theater creates conditions for the socialization of a child in society, strengthens adaptive abilities, corrects communication skills, and helps to realize a sense of satisfaction, joy, and success.

The prosperity and development of theatrical activities in kindergarten is not possible without the use of puppet theater. It is the main link in the development and improvement of children’s knowledge in the field of theatrical art. Puppet theater is one of the most favorite shows for children. It attracts with its brightness, colorfulness, and dynamics. In the puppet theater, children see toys that are familiar and close to them, which come to life and move, speak and become even more attractive and interesting. Puppet theater brings a lot of pleasure and joy. It is one of the most accessible forms of art for children.

Types of puppet theaters

1. Tabletop puppet theater.
2. Stand theater.
3. Theater on hand.
4. Horse dolls.
5. Floor dolls.
6. Living puppet theater.
7. Tabletop puppet theater. Toys for a tabletop theater can be made of paper, foam rubber, boxes, wire, natural materials, etc.

• Theater on a flat picture
• Theater on circles
• Conical
• Toy Theater
• Flat toys

Draw two sides of the character on the cardboard and cut them out; at the bottom you need to leave a small part of the cardboard on both halves. Then bend these parts and glue a circle to them - a stand. You can also use the following as a stand: caps from plastic bottles, halves of Kinder eggs, etc.

• theater on a flat picture
• Theater on circles
• Cut out a picture of the character and stick it on a mug or glass.
• Cone Theater

Toys made from cones and cylinders.

To get a cone, you need to cut out a circle, fold it in half and cut along the fold line. Glue cones from semicircles, turning them into figures, and glue the parts.

To get a cylinder, glue them together from rectangular sheets of thick paper. Decorate with applique by gluing character details

Toy theater

Ready-made and homemade from different materials: kinder eggs, flour salt, plasticine, etc.

Tabletop theater

Tabletop theater may also include: theaters of knitted toys, theaters from boxes, on disks, on cubes and many others.

2. Stand theater

• Flannelograph
• Shadow play
• Magnetic
• Stand book

Flannelograph Draw figures on thin cardboard, cut them out, and stick pieces of flannel on the reverse sides. Screen – thick cardboard or plywood covered with a piece of flannel

Shadow theater

1. Finger.

Cut out the character's head from cardboard and glue a paper tube to it for the performer's index finger. The performer's hand is the character's torso, and the middle and thumb are the legs.

2. Theater of “live” hand shadows.

Using the fingers, various animals, birds, objects, etc. are depicted.

3. . Cut out silhouettes.

Cut out different silhouettes from cardboard and stick them on long sticks. During the show, the silhouette must be held by the stick and moved as necessary.

Shadow screen device.

The screen is made from any translucent material (fabric, tracing paper), stretched over a frame made of plywood, cardboard, installed like an ordinary screen, and a light source - a lamp - is installed behind it.

The theatrical performance is also shown from the reverse side. Only the silhouettes of the characters are visible in front

Magnetic Theater

Glue a piece of magnet onto the cardboard with the image of the character on the back side. The theater is ready for use

Stand – book

3. Theater on hand

The characters are placed on the hand of a child or an adult; when the fingers move, the impression of the character’s movement is created.

• Finger
• Mittens
• Glove
• Theater on hand

1Finger

Characters for finger theater can be made from different materials: knitted from threads, sewn from fabric, from foam rubber, etc.

22. Mitten Theater.

Characters are sewn from

fabrics in the form of mittens. It can represent a doll's head, with the thumb serving as the character's nose. It can also be turned into a whole animal, then the thumb will be the tail, and the mitten itself will be the body, the head and other details are sewn to it. You can use old unnecessary mittens.

3 Glove.

The head, clothes, and necessary details of the character are sewn onto the glove.

4. Horse dolls

Puppets that are necessary when showing theatrical action using a screen.

On spoons

Bibabo

Cane puppets

1 Theater on spoons - The oval or round part of the spoon is shaped like a head (thread hair, eyes, mouth, etc.), then the body is attached to the head in the form of a dress, a shirt - a piece of fabric.

2 cane dolls - Cane dolls can be made in the form of a toy on a stick - a cane or in the form of a cardboard toy, which is also glued to a stick.

3Bibabo -The doll's head is placed on the index finger, and the thumb and middle finger serve as hands. Dresses are sewn for them, decorated with details (pocket, apron, belt). The heads can be made of foam rubber, fabric, papier-mâché. For the head, you need to make a circle from any fabric, gather it around the perimeter with a thread, and stuff it with cotton wool. Sew on nose, hair, etc.

5Floor dolls

Puppets.

Puppet theater characters are also made from different materials. The parts can be sewn according to the principle of making a soft toy using a template - a pattern, which is applied to the fabric, outlined with chalk, cut out, and simple parts are sewn together. The principle of operation of such toys is thanks to a fishing line tied to the cross.

6 Living Puppet Theater

• Puppets
• People dolls
• Masque

Puppet theater is a wonderful journey into the land of a fairy tale come to life! Not only every child, but also an adult who has retained a living perception of life in their hearts, crosses the theater threshold with a justified expectation of miracles and magic! It is here, seeing the heroes of books and fairy tales come to life, that the child begins to learn the joy of co-creation, empathy, and love of art in the broadest sense of the word!

I wish everyone creative success in mastering theatrical art.

Theatrical and gaming activities

The spiritual life of a child is complete only when he lives in the world of fairy tales, creativity, imagination, fantasy, and without this he is a dried flower.

V. Sukhomlinsky

The relevance of theatrical and gaming activities at the present stage is obvious: pedagogy from “didactic becomes developmental”, which means the use of elements of theatricalization and improvisation in the process of teaching and raising children is becoming more and more noticeable, representing one of the promising directions of pedagogical thought. Getting acquainted with modern ideas of developmental education, we understood their essence for ourselves, trying to adhere to its main principles of development, creativity, and play. We support those pedagogical ideas and the essence of which boils down to a single concept: the development of a child can be understood as an active process of self-awareness, the active creation of a biography by a little person. And adults must help him - teachers in this case - We, musical directors, connected with him by common ties of assistance and cooperation.

In our activities, we rely on the works of such authors as Vygotsky A. S. “Imagination and creativity in childhood” - M., Prosveshchenie, 1991., Voronova V. Ya. “Creative games of older preschoolers” - M., Prosveshchenie, 1971., Fesyukova L. B. “Education with a fairy tale” - Enlightenment, 1990., Kazakova T. G. “Develop creativity in preschoolers” - M., Education, 1985., Sinitsyna K. S. “Clever fairy tales” - M. , Education, 1997., program “Musical Masterpieces” Radynova O., “Musical Development of Children” Radynova O., Antipina A. E. “Theatrical Activities in Kindergarten”, Burenina A., “Theater of All Possible”.

We use the total pedagogical ideas of these authors in the following context. The path to becoming a creative personality is difficult and complex. From the first spark of independent thought to the need to think, think, reason, there is a long way to go. The pace of this journey is different for each child. It is important to be patient, not to rush, not to rush, not to rush to give ready-made solutions, not to “feed” the child with chewed “spiritual food”. Everyone knows the truth: “Coercion is the enemy of creativity.” Creative development is possible only if the child has positive motivation. Therefore, an important point in the process of organizing developmental activities in kindergarten is the creation of motivation, which is based on the basic needs of preschool children.

Psychologists note that it is in play that a preschooler’s need to act independently as an adult is realized.

Theatrical games provide great scope for the child’s creative expression. They develop children’s creative independence, encourage improvisation in composing short stories and fairy tales, and support children’s desire to independently seek expressive means to create an image, using movements, posture, facial expressions, different intonation and gesture. In order for a child to show creativity, it is necessary to enrich his life experience with vivid artistic impressions and give him the necessary skills and knowledge. The richer the child’s experience, the brighter the creative manifestations in various activities. Therefore, it is very important to introduce a child to music and theater from a very early age. To captivate children with art and teach them to understand beauty is the main mission of a music director. It is art (theater) that awakens in a child the ability to think about the world, about himself, about responsibility for his actions.

In our opinion, theatrical and play activities are a vivid emotional means that shapes the aesthetic taste of children. Theater influences the child’s imagination through various means: words, actions, visual arts, music.

First of all, in our kindergarten, the teachers created conditions for the theatrical and playful activities of children: they purchased a puppet theater, together with the teachers they made shadow and finger theaters, and made a screen with a curtain for changing the scenery during the performance.

We constantly replenish the set of musical instruments: metallophones, xylophones, tambourines, triangles, harps, rattles, etc. With the help of our parents, we prepare costumes for fairy tales.

We involve children in theatrical and play activities, starting from early preschool age. Thus, in the younger group, together with children from the preparatory school group, they staged a musical performance based on the Russian folk tale “Zayushkina’s Hut.” Kids are spectators, but at the same time they are also performers of individual numbers (girls perform the flower dance, boys perform the hare dance). Throughout the musical performance, child actors conduct a dialogue with the children-spectators. For example, Lisa asks the children: “Whose hut was it?” The audience answers: “Zayushkin.” And so on.

In the middle group we continue to enrich children's experiences and develop their gaming skills. It was a successful evening of fairy tales and riddles, in which children from the secondary and preparatory school groups took part. Children in their fifth year of life played independently in the orchestra and behaved more freely in the hall. In the script for matinees and evenings of entertainment for the older group, we include short fairy tales and dramatizations. Most often the action takes place in the forest, and the characters are children. For example, the script for the New Year's matinee included the staging of "The Magic Boot", and the script for the matinee dedicated to International Women's Day on March 8 included the staging of "Snowdrops". Such creative activity of children at entertainment evenings and matinees leads them to stage children's operas in the preparatory group for school.

Older preschoolers will remember a visit to the theater for a long time. After watching the performance, the actors talked with the children, showed them techniques for working with dolls, and answered numerous questions from the children: “How do they make dolls for the theater?”, “Who can become an artist?” and so on.

After such excursions to the theater, children’s games become noticeably livelier, becoming more varied and emotional.

For the production of children's operas, the choice of literary work that forms the basis of the libretto is of great importance. We choose a literary work together with teachers, taking into account the knowledge and interests of the children.

Together with the teachers, we think in advance about how best to convey the content of the text and music to the children. We try to ensure that every child becomes interested in the fairy tale and expresses a desire to play one or another role in it. After reading the fairy tale, we suggest listening to it in audio recording. Then we have a conversation with the guys, with the help of which we teach them to delve into the essence of the characters’ behavior.

Next, we invite children to listen to the music to which each character acts. The children are transported to a fairy-tale world and experience various emotions and experiences. Then the teacher learns the text with the children, paying special attention to the expressiveness of speech.

In addition, we give the kids small tasks. For example, when preparing for an opera

We suggest running “Turnip” like a Bug or a Cat; pronounce the words in a thin voice, like a Mouse, or in a cheerful, ringing voice, like a Granddaughter. Many movements of individual and group dances, for example the dance of the Fly and the Mosquito in the opera “The Fly-Tsokotukha”, the dance of the snowdrops in “The Twelve Months”, were invented by the children.

When assigning roles, we take into account the individual abilities of children and their capabilities. We were worried about the question: what to do if not everyone who wants can get the role? We decided to appoint an understudy for each role. This gives inactive children the opportunity to overcome their shyness, take a closer look at their friend, and create a fairy-tale image in their own way. We give children in the pre-school group the opportunity to assign roles themselves. Usually the candidates nominated by children for the main roles coincide with our choice. But this skill did not come immediately, of course. Children were gradually taught to notice the abilities of their comrades: the ability to transform, to convey the characteristic abilities of literary characters in dramatizations.

Dramatization games for older preschoolers often become performances, and the spectators are children from other groups.

The kindergarten does a lot of work with parents: they set up a stand “Artistic creativity of children with color photographs, where you can see how children participate in artistic activities. We provide consultations for parents on the topics “Development of theatrical and play activities in children”, “Creating conditions for independent artistic creativity”, “The influence of theater on the formation of artistic taste in children”, etc.

The value and benefits of theatrical activities are obvious, since they are closely related to other types of activities - singing, moving to music, listening, etc.

In the process of work, children literally transform before our eyes, become free, liberated, and if they skillfully pose questions, they learn to think, analyze, and propose their own ideas. Our task as a teacher is to practice encouraging the child to “see, be surprised, tell.”

By working on the expressiveness of characters’ remarks and their own statements, children’s vocabulary is activated and the sound culture of speech is improved.

We believe that children's theatrical activities help us solve many pedagogical problems related to the formation of the expressiveness of a child's speech, intellectual and artistic-aesthetic education. Any fairy tale or theatrical play is an inexhaustible source of development of feelings, experiences and emotional discoveries, a way of becoming familiar with spiritual wealth.

It is very important for us as teachers that in a world saturated with information and new technologies, a child does not lose the ability to understand the world with his mind and heart, expressing his attitude towards good and evil, and can experience the joy associated with overcoming communication difficulties and self-doubt. The need for contact and systematization in a single pedagogical process is obvious.

Culture and technique of speech

These elements must be included by the teacher in his plan. Theatrical activities in preschool educational institutions in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard are aimed specifically at the development of correct articulation and speech breathing. Children acquire clear diction, learn to independently compose short fairy tales and stories, select poetic rhymes, pronounce tongue twisters, and read poetry with intonation. Involving preschoolers in theatrical activities helps to replenish their vocabulary and improve their communication skills.

An analysis of theatrical activities in preschool educational institutions according to the Federal State Educational Standard involves a comparison of initial skills and abilities with those that a child acquires (develops) with the help of art.

Rhythmoplasty

This element is necessarily included in the program for theatrical activities in the preschool educational institution Federal State Educational Standard. The essence of rhythmoplasty is a set of musical, rhythmic, plastic exercises and games that are designed to develop the natural psychomotor abilities of preschoolers. Thanks to such exercises, theatrical activities within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard become bright and rich.

Children acquire the skills of expressive body movements and feel harmony with the world around them.

The main goal of introducing rhythmoplasty into preschool educational institutions is to develop the skill of voluntary response to musical sounds and the teacher’s signal. Gradually, children develop coordination of movements, remember certain poses, and learn to convey them using images and facial expressions.

“Puppets and puppet theater as a means of professional activity of a teacher - psychologist of a preschool educational institution.”

Author: Kasimova Elena Mikhailovna

“Puppets and puppet theater as a means of professional activity of a teacher - psychologist of a preschool educational institution.”

Play is the leading type of activity for preschool children. When playing with dolls, a child can tell more accurately than with words what is happening in his life, what he feels, how he treats others, while the doll is responsible for everything said, and not he himself. A child's play is his language, and his toys are his words.

Currently, various types of play therapy are widely used in preschool institutions. Having worked as a teacher-psychologist for several years, I have become convinced in practice that playing with various types of dolls in kindergarten is very helpful in working with children with various psycho-emotional problems. A professional psychologist or teacher working with children cannot help but use a doll as one of the effective means of their activities.

The doll can be:

1 – a means of facilitating communication;

2 – a means of diagnosing mental and personal characteristics;

3 – a means of psychological support, development, correction and therapy.

All of the above methods of using the toy are really interconnected. They act in the work of a psychologist as an attractive form of active interaction for a child with the toy itself and with adults, being a unique means of professional activity of a practitioner.

Playing with dolls, which will not leave anyone indifferent, can help your child cope with problems that have arisen in a timely manner. The sooner you start doing puppet theater with children, the fewer people you will have to subsequently get out of a deadlock situation. After all, it’s no secret that problems that arise in childhood often haunt a person throughout his life.

There are many types of puppets for use with children: puppets, cane puppets, tablet puppets, glove puppets and even finger puppets. In my practice, I use puppet therapy techniques in group developmental classes, as well as in individual correctional and developmental classes and individual consultations with children and parents.

And also in my work I actively use playing with dolls in the sand (sand therapy).

I work in a sanatorium kindergarten with frequently ill children. Children come to our kindergarten every three months. Therefore, in my work as a teacher-psychologist in kindergarten, a higher priority is the fastest and most painless adaptation of children to kindergarten.

One of the tasks of the adaptation period is to help the child get used to the new situation as quickly and painlessly as possible, to feel more confident and in control of the situation.

A doll in the hands of a teacher is an indispensable assistant in raising and teaching children. It is the toy that creates an atmosphere of cordiality, warmth, kindness, mutual understanding, and gives positive emotions. Receiving a positive charge, the body opens to goodness and beauty.

My arrival in the group is accompanied by an emotional “anchor”: I always bring a “guest” - a bright soft toy or a puppet doll. Most kids instantly show interest and a desire to see and touch everything. The first emotional contact has been established. On behalf of the toy, I enter into dialogue with children.

Psychologists have proven that preschoolers are very impressionable, quickly succumb to emotional influence, actively get involved in the action, answer the characters’ questions, willingly carry out their instructions, give advice, and warn of danger. An emotionally experienced performance helps determine children’s attitude towards the characters and their actions, and evokes a desire to imitate positive characters and be different from negative ones.

The sandbox is an excellent mediator for establishing contact with a child. Playing with sand is a manifestation of a child’s natural activity. Children's first contacts with each other occur in the sandbox.

I have more than 50 dolls in my arsenal: mice, hares, fox, bear, girls, grandfathers, grandmothers and many others. At the beginning of classes, I simply suggest choosing the doll that you like best and tell something about yourself. Question” “About whom, about yourself: about a doll or about yourself as a boy or a girl?” occurs very rarely, the child begins to say something and tell episodes of his life.

Who are you? Where do you live? What do you like to do? If an animal is selected: Is there anyone scary in your forest? What do you eat? Are they chasing you? Is anyone protecting you? Do you have a kindergarten in the forest? And if you didn’t have to go, would you go to kindergarten? Do you have any friends? What are you playing? Who usually wins? What would you ask a wizard?

By the will of the child, with the help of his imagination, the doll “behaves” as the owner needs at the moment. And if the child still speaks poorly and cannot tell an adult about his experiences, then playing with sand everything becomes possible. The value of a child playing in a psychological sandbox is that, along with the development of tactile-kinesthetic sensitivity and fine motor skills, we teach the child to talk about his feelings, develop speech, voluntary attention and memory. The formation of such personality traits as initiative, independence, and the ability to solve a “problem” in a game occurs. By acting out a magical situation with the help of small figures, creating a picture out of sand, the child is freed from tension and anxiety. Playing with sand can easily solve problems such as developing communication skills and the ability to communicate normally. The psychologist gets the opportunity to see the child’s inner world at the moment.

I widely use puppet theater in my work. “Puppet therapy” is a type of role-playing game, a way of correcting children’s problems through puppet theater. The theme and content of the theatrical game determine the moral orientation (friendship, responsiveness, kindness, honesty, courage, etc.). The active participation of children in mini-productions contributes to the development of their speech - it complements it with figurative comparisons, making it more emotional and expressive. In the conditions of the game, the ability to interact with people and find a way out in various situations is formed. By participating in theatrical games, children get acquainted with the world around them. The large and diverse influence of theatrical games on a child’s personality allows them to be used as a strong, but unobtrusive pedagogical tool.

Children act out small scenes with dolls on specially selected topics that reflect the individual difficulties of a particular child. This method is used as the main method of psychocorrective influence on a doll, as an intermediate object of interaction between a child and an adult.

When working with preschoolers, a psychologist is often faced with the task of correcting the child’s behavior. Sometimes children who find themselves in a group from a greenhouse or not-so-hothouse home environment begin to “play tricks ”: make faces, fight, constantly attract attention to themselves, stealthily cause harm, and disobey the teacher. Due to their age, educational conversations have little effect on children, so when working with them, you can use the game of finger puppets.

Finger theater is an excellent material for developing children's imagination, thinking and speech. Finger theater also promotes the development of fine motor skills. You can first put the doll on your finger and “bring it to life” with your voice and finger movement - this will immediately captivate the child, then you can offer him another character and start a humorous dialogue. During games, children, repeating the movements of adults, activate hand motor skills. With the help of this, dexterity is developed, the ability to control one’s movements, and concentrate attention on one type of activity.

It is still not known exactly how and when the idea of ​​a puppet theater appeared, and who performed the first puppet show in history. In any case, puppet theater has a surprising, almost magical effect on a person, especially a child.

For a modern child, a doll is, first of all, a cute toy that can be turned into a kind of symbolic play partner. An adult teaches a child to perceive a doll as an object for emotional communication. By playing with a doll, the baby learns reflection and emotional identification. The doll is of particular importance for the emotional and moral development of children.

Indeed, dolls can do a lot, but we must not forget that it is not dolls, but people who teach and treat, and therefore a lot depends on whose hands they find themselves in.
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Costume play is a phenomenon with deep historical roots. Currently, it has become an independent type of activity characteristic of humans.

Theatrical activities according to the Federal State Educational Standard in preschool educational institutions contribute to solving the following tasks:

• teaching preschoolers spatial orientation skills;
• building a dialogue on a specific topic;
• voluntary tension and relaxation of individual muscle groups;
• memorizing texts (auditory and visual memory);
• observation;
• figurative thinking.

There are several techniques that help instill in preschoolers an interest in the performing arts.