During games, preschoolers try on various roles. They represent themselves as heroes of fairy tales, sellers and doctors, firefighters and astronauts, princesses and superheroes. Thus, the kids get the necessary life experience, learn to communicate in the framework of the given rules of behavior. Various attributes and costumes become a great help , allowing you to transform into the chosen character. Especially for these purposes, a mockery corner is also organized in kindergarten.
What it is?
Traditionally, the playing space in the group is divided into corners. Their number and subject matter depend on the imagination of the teachers, the size of the room and the age of the children. The corner of kindergarten in the kindergarten often becomes a favorite among children. Here you can find a large mirror, costumes for theatrical and role-playing games, masks, beads, handbags, various hats.
Dressing games bring children a lot of joy and benefit. Kids develop fine motor skills, buttoning buttons and tying ribbons. Self-service skills are being formed. Transforming into animals, fairy-tale heroes, representatives of various professions, children develop imagination and work out the necessary behavioral skills.
Making a corner of mummers in kindergarten
The developmental environment in the group is organized for children, therefore it should be proportionate to their growth, easily accessible. The mummers corner is a place of creativity, many educators make it bright, unusual. The space can be designed as a stylist’s office or a theater screen with masks and costumes.
Borders are indicated by furniture. Typically, racks with shelves and drawers are placed in this area, as well as a bar under the coat hanger. In the younger groups, you can nail hooks on the wall and hang outfits on them. Be sure to attach a full-length mirror or in full growth of pupils. The walls are decorated with pictures depicting clothing or fairy-tale characters. It is very convenient when a table is placed in the zone (as an option - a dressing table with a mirror) and chairs.
Teachers often combine corners of mummers and a hairdresser. Then colorful empty bottles are placed on the table, combs, hairpins, and headbands are placed. The master's apron is hung among other costumes.
DIY mummers
In kindergarten there is not always enough funding for the design of groups. Often, employees have to tinker with jewelry, didactic material, and even furniture on their own to make the room beautiful and cozy. For the manufacture of the corner of mocking you will need plywood, fasteners, a wooden handle for hangers and strong men's hands.
First, a diagram of the corner is drawn, then the details are sawn. You can give the side walls and shelves a rounded shape to prevent injury. Hangers under clothes are often made fun, styling as a fungus, nesting doll, animals. Then the details are collected, coated with stain or painted in the necessary colors. It remains to place costumes, masks and other attributes on the shelves, taking into account the age of the pupils.
Junior group
Children learn to play various scenes during the game, starting at the age of two. Often they need adult help. The teacher creates the conditions for independent creativity, helps organize a collective game, distributes roles, enriches the plot. Kids do not have abstract thinking. Therefore, it is important that the reproduced action resembles the present as much as possible. To achieve this, a corner of aspiration in the younger group of kindergarten helps.
It is recommended to have in it:
- costumes and masks for playing fairy tales "Turnip", "Teremok", "Ryaba hen", "Gingerbread man";
- clothes of a doctor, seller, driver, cook, hairdresser;
- masks of domestic and wild animals;
- attributes for changing clothes: skirts, vests, sundresses, hats, scarves, scarves, bags, glasses, etc.
At this age, it is better not to use jewelry made of small beads and elements worn around the neck (ties, butterflies).
Middle group
Children in the fifth year of life actively master a joint role-playing game. Favorite stories: daughters, mothers, a visit to the doctor, shopping in the store. The teacher expands the children's life experience and stimulates flexible role-playing behavior, introducing new characters into the game, unexpectedly changing the plot. There is an acquaintance with various professions.
An important place in this process is played by a theatrical game, during which the children reproduce a simple plot. Transforming into the heroes of a fairy tale, they are liberating, learning to create images through movements, intonations, facial expressions. To try on someone else's role, the props from the corner of aspiration in kindergarten help.
The list of game materials for him may include:
- clothes for changing clothes (skirts, raincoats, vests, caps, headscarves);
- large jewelry, including crafts of pupils;
- wraps for games in various professions (pilot, stewardess, police officer, fireman, military, conductor, etc.);
- costumes for playing two or three tales;
- masks or caps of animals, fairy-tale characters;
- folk costumes, kokoshniks, crowns.
Senior groups
Role-playing games for children 5-7 years old are more complex in plot. They are built not only on the basis of personal experience, but also based on read books, watched cartoons, and TV shows. Children get used to the role, depict not only the actions of the characters, but also their character, attitude to each other. Participating in a theatrical production, the pupils of the senior and preparatory groups feel the same emotions as the fairy-tale hero.
At this age, a large number of ready-made suits are not required. The child is able to independently create the required images using improvised means. The captain has enough of a telescope, the king the crown, the policeman the cap. You see in the photo a mockery corner in kindergarten for this age category. It looks more like a dressing room and may include:
- ready-made costumes for dramatization of 4-5 fairy tales;
- masks of fabulous and fantastic heroes;
- clothes (skirts, dresses, shawls, scarves, wraps, vests, ties, butterflies);
- hats (caps, hats, caps, helmets, crowns and kokoshniks);
- elements of dressing (wigs, beads, bracelets, glasses, bows, ears, noses);
- attributes of characters (magic wand, cardboard sword, toy wings, etc.);
- children's makeup.
We make masks
The mummers' corner in kindergarten is actively replenished throughout the year by the efforts of staff and parents. Some of the outfits are brought from home or bought in a store, others can be made with your own hands.
Cardboard masks based on ready-made templates are easily made. It remains to transfer them to thick paper, cut, paint with gouache and fix the rubber bands at the edges. You can decorate the mask with sparkles, feathers, decorative inserts.
Often, for staging fairy tales, laminated images of characters are attached to cardboard rims. Such masks are worn on the baby’s head and do not interfere during performances.
Hats
The mummers' corner in kindergarten is unthinkable without hats, caps, headscarves and other attributes that allow you to instantly transform into various characters. You can make them yourself. Surely you made a simple paper crown in childhood. It's time to remember this, only this time take a thick cardboard. Paste it with decorative paper, sprinkle with sequins, add rhinestones and beads if desired.
To make a hat, a circle is drawn on cardboard on the diameter of the children's head. Then the outer circle is drawn - these will be the headgear fields. A rectangle equal to the length of a small circle plus one centimeter is cut out of the candy box. Its width is the future height of the body. Add to it two more centimeters for cloves. We glue the rectangle, bend the upper teeth inward, the lower ones outward.
According to the dimensions of the parts, we cut the corresponding blanks from the fabric, taking into account the allowances. We connect the cardboard parts with tape. Tighten with cloth, glue. The circumference allowance is cut with scissors, bent down. The inside of the fields can also be decorated. Edges are taped. The finished hat is decorated with flowers, feathers, bows, etc.
Outfits
How to sew costumes for a corner of kindergarten? Find white shirts in your home or second-hand school shirts. Having sewed a red cross or a police badge on them, we get elements of professional clothing. From a blue shirt of a large size you will get a nurse’s robe, you just need to add a belt and characteristic attributes.
From the cheapest lining fabric, you can create great suits by choosing the right color. First we make a cloak: we cut out a rectangle, in the middle there is an opening for the head, on the sides are Velcro. From the blank of red, a firefighter's outfit will turn out, you just need to sew the numbers "01". From a dark fabric make a driver's suit, from yellow - a traffic police officer, sewing stripes and corresponding inscriptions. According to the same pattern, the uniform of the seller and hairdresser is sewn from bright fabric.
For the cook you can make an apron. Cut two squares out of your existing fabric - bigger and smaller. Sew them together, decorate with braid, pockets, appliqué on the kitchen theme. Do not forget to sew the ties on the sides and a ribbon around the neck.
The mummers' corner in kindergarten helps kids try on various roles, while mastering appropriate behaviors. When playing, preschoolers learn the world, learn to interact with other people and develop their creative abilities.