Cardboard Box Theater

New Year holidays are over. Sweets are eaten, gifts are unpacked. The Christmas tree still stands dressed up in balls and garlands. From under the dense crown, Santa Claus and Snegurochka 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 festivities.
On the table lies a box of sweets, waiting in the wings - sending it to the bin. 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.
At first, it is worthwhile to carefully study the drawings to determine which part of the material we will leave for the design of the theater hall, and which for dolls (fairy tale actors). We decided to use a large box (in the form of a house) to create the theater premises. From a small cut out the details for the scenery and animal figures. Have you chosen the right drawings? Now boldly proceed to cutting out the details.
In our case, fairy tales will be about how Santa Claus got to our edges to leave tasty sweets for the kids. Different modes of transport eloquently indicate that the path was not easy.
Now we will take up the creation and decoration of the theater hall. On the front side of the larger box, we cut a rectangular hole. Thus we open the stage.
So that the bottom of the box does not puff, we stick a rectangle cut off from the front side onto it. The English-Russian dictionary will help to press the cardboard, and facilitate the gluing process.
This picture shows carved 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 characters of the play to the stage.
Diluted decorations with spruce snowdrifts and a cozy village. The windows lit evening lights. On the street we observe snow flakes. Silence.
We paste the details on the far wall of the theater. A solid canvas, of course, would have looked better, but we do not have such material. Will have to be content with what is available. In the end, the background looks great.
We continue to create. The turn of high snowdrifts has come. They are also cut out from the remnants of cardboard.
Glue the snowdrifts in the foreground. Please note that the tree on the left side of the picture is very close to the viewer.
Glue cut thin strips to each of the heroes.
So the work looks on the reverse side.
We lower the main characters to the stage through the holes cut into the roof of the theater. The animals are sitting, waiting for the appearance of Santa Claus sleigh 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 scenario.
For example, why shouldn't he wade through a snowstorm while skiing? Look, behind the traveler is a huge bag. What is there? Of course, toys.
Santa Claus distributed gifts to everyone who behaved well over the past year. Do you like the theater? And making it with the children is even more interesting. Creative success!