How to do hand shadows? What are the basic movements?

Playing hand shadow games does not require complicated equipment, as long as the lights and even a bright moon can be ingenious, through the change of gestures, to create the image of various things.

Because hand shadows are mainly made for children, children love animals, so rabbits, dogs, cats, ducks, elephants, etc. have become the main objects of hand shadows.

Hand Shadow Basic Movements:

1. Old wolf: <>

2. Rabbit: <>

3. Eagle: <>

4. Goat: <>

5. Elephant: <>

6. Dog head: <>

7. Pig's head: <>

8. Duck: <>

9. Head: <>

10. Dog: <>

Place your hands with your backs to your back, then hook your little finger first, then your index finger, and the remaining middle and ring fingers as your ears and legs.

Hand shadow principle: On the macroscopic scale, light travels in a straight line, so the part of the hand that blocks the light is black, and the rest of the place is bright, so a shadow is formed. If you use transparent glass to block the light, then the shadow will not form, or the shadow will be shallow because the light can pass through.

Hand shadow practices for other animals.

1. Deer. The hand shadow of a deer requires two hands, one hand for the ears and horns of the deer, and the other hand for the mouth of the deer (deer: shaking on the branches, wearing a flower-skin jacket, raising the neck and howling, eating grass by the river).

2. Snails. Two hands and a disc to make a hand shadow, pay attention to the size of the disc, and let the snail's antennae move slowly during the performance (snail: It is said that it is a cow that does not eat grass and runs around with the house on its back. Don't go out on sunny days, stretch your horns on rainy days).

In addition to bringing the thumbs together and stretching out the hands to make a pigeon;

You can also hold one hand together, grab the hand together with the other, and move the little thumb of the hand together up and down, which is a dog.

Hangzhou folk traditional children's games. Hand shadow games are very simple and have a long history. "Capital Jisheng" records that there is a "hand shadow play" in the "miscellaneous crafts" of Hangzhou Vashe.

Hand shadow play do not need complicated equipment, as long as a candle or a lamp, or even a bright moon, you can be ingenious, through the change of gestures, to create the image of all kinds of things, because the hand shadow is mainly for children to see, children love animals, so rabbits, dogs, cats, etc. have become the main objects of hand shadow. "Like not, three points like". Through the similar hand shadow play, children's associative thinking can be inspired.

The thumb wants to lean, the hand is stretched outward, this is the pigeon.