How to make a paper house step by step. Cardboard house for children
All children dream of toy houses, which they clumsily try to build from what they have at hand. And sometimes parents don’t even realize that there is material in the house from which they can make a wonderful house for children’s games - this ordinary cardboard. Without special effort from waste material it can turn out to be a beautiful and comfortable home - favorite place for children's games.
By decorating the house, children will develop their imagination. The toy house can become a spaceship or a princess' castle for them, taking them on an amazing adventure. By tidying up their toy home, children will learn how to clean up the house. Secluded in a house, they can organize a secret society or tell each other horror stories.
Making a cardboard house with your own hands is not difficult. Children must be involved in the construction process. It's very interesting and exciting! By helping in construction, children will gain their first architectural knowledge and skills.
Materials and tools
A do-it-yourself cardboard house will not require large financial investments. Materials and tools for construction can be found in the household of any family:
- Cardboard boxes different sizes, glue gun.
- Scissors, sharp knife, pencils, felt-tip pens, markers, tape.
- Acrylic or watercolor paints, gouache, glitter and various decorations.
Operating procedure
The sequence of building a cardboard house with your own hands can be different, depending on what architectural structure you want to create. But the general algorithm can be outlined as follows:
- Find a sketch or diagram on the Internet, print it out and start acting. If you experienced master, you can draw a sketch of the house yourself.
- According to the diagram, cut out the parts and glue them in the required sequence with tape.
- Together you can have fun decorating your building.
Useful tips
- It will be great if your boxes contain corrugated cardboard.
- Cardboard cutting should only be carried out by adults.
- For the stability of the house, it is advisable to find cardboard tubes. You can ask for them in a store that sells the product in rolls. If you can't find it, make pipes out of cardboard. To do this, simply roll it up.
- Try to make the door of the house open outward so that the children have more space to play.
- Don't throw away small cardboard boxes. You can use them to make a wonderful doll castle for a princess or a garage for cars.
There are many options for handmade cardboard houses. You yourself can come up with something interesting. We offer several master classes and original ideas for making houses that you can easily build with your children.
DIY folding cardboard house - master class
We will need: a large cardboard box, scissors, a sharp knife, tape.
Step one: cut off top part big box, as shown in the diagram. We put the cut parts aside. Tape the side seams of the box with tape.
Step two: turn the box over and connect its parts in the places indicated by the yellow arrow in the diagram. We make a roof from the cut parts, connecting the parts with tape in the places indicated by the arrows. Attach the roof to the side parts.
Step three: cut the cardboard in the place indicated by the yellow dotted lines in the diagram. We connect the parts indicated by the yellow arrows.
A comfortable and functional house is ready. You can take it apart, play with it, and put it back together at any time.
Cardboard house with a door - master class
We will need: a large cardboard box, a sharp knife, tape, acrylic paints or gouache.
Operating procedure:
- We cut out the roof and side parts of the house from cardboard according to the diagram.
- We assemble the house and tape the joints of the side seams with tape.
- Glue the roof and cut out the door on three sides, as shown in the picture.
- The window can be cut out or drawn.
DIY cardboard mill - master class
We will need: a large cardboard box, a knife, tape, wooden stick, screw, rope, acrylic paints.
Operating procedure:
- Fold the box as shown in the diagram. We cut out triangular gables on the sides, and make holes for the window and pipe on the roof.
- Using the pattern we make a cardboard tube.
- We screw a screw into the tip of a wooden stick and attach it to the roof with a rope.
- According to the diagram, we make a screw and attach it to the stick together with the screw so that it rotates.
- We cut out two triangular windows at the end and attach the pipe.
- We paint the mill with bright colors.
DIY Barbie house - master class
We will need: two small cardboard boxes, a knife, tape, glue, acrylic paints, colored paper.
Operating procedure:
- We take two boxes, cut out two windows on the side and glue them together, as shown in the first picture.
- We glue the shelves, the back wall and the roof made from two pieces of cardboard.
- Cut it out beautiful windows, then paint the resulting house with paints or paste it with colored paper.
Cardboard house for a cat - master class
You can make a wonderful cat house for your pet out of cardboard with your own hands.
We will need: two not very large boxes, a knife, tape, glue.
Operating procedure:
- We make two small houses according to the size of the cat according to the diagram given in the second lesson. Only one of the houses should be without a roof; there is no need to make doors.
- We cut out the windows as shown in the diagram and glue one house to the other. We hope your kitty enjoys her new home.
Interesting ideas for DIY cardboard houses
- Cottage with starry sky can be made from cardboard boxes with skillful hands.
- Amazingly beautiful doll houses are made from cardboard if they are covered with bright fabric.
- The extraordinary architectural cardboard structures are simply amazing.
- A transformable dollhouse can be made from cardboard according to the attached diagram.
We hope that our lessons, ideas and tips will help you create wonderful toy houses. You will certainly receive a joyful mood and indescribable emotions as a result of your creativity.
Any child, just like adult uncles and aunts, fathers and mothers, needs his own personal space, his own small corner where he can play, dream and just with friends.
To do this, you can make it from suitable, environmentally friendly materials at hand, thereby fulfilling the cherished desire of your beloved child.
A necessary and practical thing with which children can realize their creative potential - coming up with many interesting activities.
This product has many advantages:
- Cardboard house will become a cozy place for the baby where he can retire,
- He will keep his childhood secrets in it.
- Will be able to invite friends to create their own “closed club”. After all, children of all times build shelters for themselves from scrap materials - tree huts, “secret headquarters” ... etc.
- After building his house, your young homeowner will have an excellent place to store toys and other small items, which are usually scattered throughout the apartment in abundance and in picturesque order.
Building a cardboard house with your own hands is a great reason to involve children in this exciting process. They are already able to discuss the design idea with their own desires in mind.
Older children will be able to participate in the creation of drawings and develop their creative skills by participating in the construction process. Both younger and older children will be equally interested in building and watching how their own place for their games and relaxation grows before their eyes.
The simplest and cheap option, but nevertheless an interesting and promising way to build a playhouse for children from cardboard. The main thing is to choose a large cardboard box made of thick cardboard - for example, from under a refrigerator or washing machine or... Well, this, I think, is not a big problem!
For construction you will need:
- Box
- Ruler
- Pencils, including colored ones for coloring
- Gouache or watercolor paint also for coloring
- PVA glue, tape - for fastening
Of course, children will be the leaders of the design and further construction!
It is better to first design the design of a future cardboard house on paper. If the child is old enough, you can and should ask him, most likely the request will not be necessary!, to help in the development of the project of his own house.
After discussing and agreeing on the design of the future house with all participants in the construction of a cardboard house, you can begin.
In the obtained box, using a stationery knife, cut openings for windows, doors... A roof, doors, windows are made from glued pieces of cardboard...
For decoration, we have prepared paints and pencils, the whole family can create fantasy drawings, you can cover the walls with old wallpaper, various colored stickers, appliqués... Inside the house you can even hang mini-curtains and lay down a rug...
Under no circumstances should electricity be supplied!
Just give the future owners a low-power flashlight as a housewarming gift!
Video lessons on designing and building a cardboard house for children
Happy construction, MASTERS RU
In the interior of any apartment you can find an original and interesting toy house made from a variety of materials.
A popular option for such a decorative element is ceramics, polymer clay and... cardboard.
Yes, despite the apparent simplicity and even junkiness of the material, products made from it can be both elegant and original.
How to make a decorative New Year's house
Preparations for the New Year and Christmas holidays begin, perhaps, from the beginning of December. Christmas decorations, artificial trees and other attributes of winter celebrations appear on the shelves. You can decorate your interior with toy houses.
To work you will need:
- Cardboard.
- Glue Moment “Crystal” or “Gel”, glue pencil.
- Non-writing pen.
- Pencil, ruler, eraser, utility knife, office clips.
- Curly scissors “fine wave”.
- Plain paper.
- Scheme, tracing paper.
- Decorative paper (for scrapbooking or with an original pattern, packaging).
- Decorative elements: cotton wool, sparkles, ribbons, stars, etc.
First stage. Transfer the diagram onto cardboard using tracing paper, drawing lines with a non-writing pen. Remove the paper with the diagram and fill in the spaces. Draw all places for future folds along a ruler.
Second stage. From beautiful paper cut out pieces corresponding to the size and shape of the walls and paste them over future house. It is better not to use PVA glue with thin stationery cardboard, as the cardboard may get wet and the product will fail. And it will no longer be possible to correct such a defect. A glue stick can also “lead” cardboard, so it’s best to use Moment glue.
Third stage. Bend along the lines and glue along the additional “wings” of the fasteners with Moment glue. For convenience, the internal parts can be additionally secured with office clips during the gluing period.
Fourth stage. Roof. Cut out a corresponding rectangle from cardboard and bend it in half, first drawing a fold line with the tip of a non-writing pen.
Fifth stage. Since the house is small, the most elegant part of it is just the top. From brown decorative paper cut strips 1-1.5 cm wide, trim the edges with curly scissors. If you have a figured edge hole punch at your disposal, then you can do the same thing with it, but then the strips of paper should be wider - it all depends on the depth to which the hole punch cuts the pattern.
Glue these strips on both sides of the fold of the roof, forming tiles. Glue cotton wool to the very bottom edge and sprinkle it with glitter. Next they go decorative elements- snowflakes, etc. The house is ready.
DIY cardboard diagrams
There are a lot of templates for toy houses, but sometimes you want to make something of your own, unique, meeting only your requirements. Making your own house diagram is not so difficult - the general principle is described in small master class. To do this you will need:
- A sheet of paper in a square.
- Pencil, ruler, scissors.
First step. Fold a sheet of paper in half. At the bottom of the sheet from the fold point, A, move 5 cm to the left (point B) - then the width of the lower part of this wall will be 10 cm. From the bottom point, A, move up 14 cm along the fold - Point B. From this point, move 8 cm to the left (point G). Draw lines (along ABC points) - you get a trapezoid figure. From point B up on the fold, place point D at a distance of 6 cm. Connect point D and point D - this is the silhouette of the future roof.
Second step. Unfold the sheet of paper and symmetrically transfer the drawing to the second part. Add “wings” to the drawn lines on each side - they will be needed when assembling the house.
Draw a rectangle 1 cm wide along the entire length of each line. You will need 2 such parts.
Third step. The side walls will be 14.5 cm in height, and the bottom part can be arbitrary in width. The roof is 24 cm long (divided in half by the fold), the width depends on the depth of the house. You will also need 2 such walls.
The scheme is ready. At the same time, it is not necessary to observe the strictness of the figure; you can cut it out right away without measurements; the walls and roof can be figured. However, in this case it is better to use thin, flexible cardboard to make it easier to fit the roof and the second part of the walls to the curves.
Cardboard version for children
Everyone in childhood built huts at home, lowered the tablecloth from the table to the floor, enclosing their children's world games from adults, entire “halabudas” were built on the street. You can also make a children's playhouse out of cardboard. A refrigerator box is best for this - at least. It's sharp stationery knife cut out windows and hatches according to the template. To the windows with inside curtains can be attached. The larger the box, the more players it will fit in and the more interesting the games will be!
Doll's house: master class
Large dollhouses made of cardboard are somewhat reminiscent of the models that everyone made at school. Such an attribute for girly games easy to do if you have thick thick cardboard, such as a TV box or microwave oven. A refrigerator box is unlikely to be suitable - large-sized equipment is packaged in thick cardboard and is considerably deformed. If suitable material not in the house, you can get them at the nearest store by simply asking for a box of alcoholic drinks.
To work you will need:
- Cardboard;
- Long ruler, pencil;
- Stationery knife;
- High-quality tape, glue Moment “Crystal”;
- Finishing paper - real wallpaper, sheets from glossy magazines, etc., pieces of fabric, glue.
First step. Determine the number of floors of the house and the height of the future inhabitants of the house. The average width of the block is 30 cm, the height is about 20 cm - so that the dolls themselves, their furniture and other small things can fit. The depth of the block is 15 cm, this distance is enough for a child’s hand.
Second step. Cut out the corresponding parts from cardboard. They will be required: 4 parts measuring 30*15 - this is the floor/ceiling; 6 parts 20*15 - side walls; 3 parts (for a three-story house) measuring 20*30 are the rear walls. In addition, you will need partitions for the rooms, their size is 19.5 * 15 cm, their location is arbitrary, as well as the number, but on average one per floor.
Third step. Roof. It will require 2 parts 15 by 21 cm and an additional part that will fix the roof arch. This could be a 15 x 4 rectangle of plain cardboard, folded along the long side. In addition, similar parts will be required to fix the roof and floor - 20 * 4, in the amount of 2 pieces, and the back of the roof - a triangle with sides 30−21−21 cm.
Fourth step. Immediately wallpaper the walls from the inside, the ceiling can be covered with white paper, and pieces of fabric imitating carpet can be glued to the floor.
Fifth step. Assembly. All parts of the blocks are glued together with Moment glue. The work is painstaking and cannot be rushed. The next stage of assembly should not be started before the glue in the previous block has dried.
Sixth step. A side porch can be attached to such a cottage. For the porch you will need a piece of cardboard 8*9 cm, and two straws for a cocktail. The porch canopy is glued to the wall of the house at an angle, it is supported by posts - straws.
Seventh step. A garage for a car - after all, the residents of such a luxurious cottage, almost a castle, cannot but have their own car. The garage is a box measuring 20*10 cm - but here the dimensions may vary depending on the size of the car.
Cardboard dollhouse: photo
Teremok with a mill
If the dolls require not a city cottage, but country house, then it’s better to limit yourself to two floors and add just a few details. For example, the house must have a stove or fireplace, and there must be a chimney on the roof. The fireplace is made from matchbox, pasted over with paper with a corresponding pattern. The chimney pipe is made from a sleeve from toilet paper or a piece of cardboard rolled into a tube. The main thing is to cut the pipe at the desired angle.
In addition, a village house will require additional surroundings - for example, a mill and benches near the house, a small shed for horses. A shed for horses is made according to the same principle as a porch, just the hitching post should be longer. The bench can be made from popsicle sticks by gluing them to the base sides.
The mill is a narrow high house, to one of the sides of which blades are attached. They can be drawn on cardboard and cut out, or made from skewers and jute.
Cat's house
Not a single representative of the cat family can resist a simple cardboard box, and this also applies to representatives of large cats. Even lions, tigers and lynxes are happy to climb into the boxes, rub, chew the edges and roll around in them. What can we say about domestic cats - as soon as you bring home a box of shoes and take out a new thing, the container is not already owned by the tailed pet, and it can be difficult to take it away.
If your cat has a weakness for all the boxes in the house, you should consider a permanent, on-duty pet box. However, in order to appearance didn’t stand out too much and didn’t catch the eye, the box needs to be refined.
- Before you start doing anything with the box, make sure your pet likes the box. Animals are primarily guided by the smell if you brought containers from washing powder or other household chemicals, be prepared that the cat will not like it.
- Do not use materials with a strong chemical odor for finishing - for example, Moment glue is absolutely not suitable; it should be replaced with hot-melt adhesive from a glue gun or masking tape.
- The inner bedding for an animal should not be tightly fixed, because periodically it needs to be removed and washed, especially if we are talking about a house for kittens.
- It is best to take cardboard of such density and thickness that it can support the weight of the animal when it is on top.
How to make a cat house with your own hands
To work you will need:
- A cardboard box of the right size and density, tested and approved by your pet.
- Upholstery fabric like jacquard or tapestry; carpet remnants are ideal.
- Glue gun and glue sticks for it.
- Ruler, pencil, sharp utility knife, scissors.
- The shape for cutting out the entrance is a round plate or rectangle.
- Internal litter.
First stage. Decide on the size of the entrance. To do this, you need to measure the width of the cat's chest and add 3-4 cm. Draw a circle on one of the sides and carefully cut it out with a sharp utility knife.
Second stage. Make a pattern on the fabric that matches the future cat house and cut it out. On the side of the box where the entrance will be, duplicate the entrance pattern from the inside out. If this is a circle, then two circles should be drawn on the wrong side - with a diameter like the one cut out in a box, and inside it a circle with a smaller diameter of 1.5-2 cm. The smaller circle is cut out, and the remaining gap is cut with fringe.
Third stage. Wrap the box in cloth and make sure everything is done correctly. Glue glue gun fabric to all sides except the one where the entrance is.
Fourth stage. Glue the side of the box with the entrance, wrapping the fringe inside the box and gluing it inside. cat house ready, all you have to do is put the bedding in it, and you can start the tenant!
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Paper is the simplest and most suitable material for a variety of creativity. Since three months, the child has been paying attention to the rustling leaves and is busy with them for a long time and with enthusiasm. As children grow older, they do not lose interest in paper and love to make things out of it. various items. They are incredibly happy when adults work with them.
And if you ask your child what he wants to do, most often it turns out that it’s a house. Moreover, both boys and girls love to create houses with their own hands. Apparently, children, albeit unconsciously, already perceive home as the main attribute of life. How to quickly and easily make a house out of paper?
Tools and materials for creating a paper house
When you decide to brighten up a family evening or a child at school gets an assignment to make such a craft, you will need a little imagination, paper, glue and just a few tools. The paper can be any: thin from colored sets, sheets of notebooks or albums, drawing paper (which, by the way, sticks together perfectly) or pieces of wallpaper. You will need scissors, a ruler and a pencil, and sometimes a glue brush.
If you have a stationery knife, it will help you quickly and accurately make slits for windows and doors. A wide variety of glue is suitable: in tubes, PVA glue, wallpaper glue, glue stick, homemade paste or paper paste in bottles, tape. The selection of items to decorate the future house depends on the scope of your imagination with your child. Paints, gouache, colored pencils, beads, cotton wool, lace and other items for applique are suitable.
You can engage in magical action at a table, on a wide windowsill or sitting on the floor. As long as the surface is smooth and resistant to glue and scratches (you can put a board or plywood on it).
Preparing a sketch of a paper house
When constructing a house, small or voluminous, simple or complex, first create a sketch. Work begins with a drawing. If you only have small sheets to make a larger house, you can cut the drawing along the dotted lines and complete each part separately.
When cutting the drawing, remember that the right side will remain without a bend for applying glue and it needs to be completed. You can add a floor to your house sketch. But is it necessary? Without it, it is more convenient for the child to place toys: dishes, furniture, “tenants” of various sizes, but not everything can fit through the door.
Connecting parts, decorating and assembling a paper house
Then they cut out parts of the house and begin “construction”, coating and gluing special bends.
It will take some time to dry the product.
The new building lacks stability - it is better to install and glue it on a cardboard frame.
The design of the house can be complicated by adding an extension, a porch, an attic, a second floor, a balcony and other elements. The stages of work remain the same: creating a sketch - cutting out parts - decor - gluing - drying.
Other options for paper houses
Houses made from paper can be very interesting. round shape.
When creating a sketch, a body of this design looks like a solid long rectangle. The craft is glued together one fold at a time. And the roof is often drawn separately in the form of a circle, then trimmed and connected to the body with glue.
But it is also possible to construct a drawing in unity with the roof. Then many cuts are made for the roof, which can then be glued together overlapping, creating a conical shape.
With great enthusiasm, children make fabulous “log” huts.
The materials used for the work are the same, but the technology for building such a house is completely different. Here they first prepare building material. Using a pencil, tubes called “logs” are made from identical long paper rectangles.
Whether it will be a small house or a voluminous house depends on the size and number of rolled tubes. Usually children compete with adults or among themselves to see who can roll or glue the most.
Then the walls are carefully folded from the finished material. There are options here: the walls are glued with gaps, where there are two logs in a row, or a continuous masonry of four tubes is glued, with them shifted to the edges in the next row. The roof of the house can be “log” or smooth.
Patterns and layouts of houses
Save the diagram to your computer and print it out.
You can make a house out of paper using origami technique
Creating origami figures, including houses, according to ready-made diagrams serves to develop the child’s logical and spatial thinking, activating his thought processes. You can practice origami anywhere, for example, in line at the doctor’s office.
Having created the first simple houses from paper, you can come up with many other unusual interesting crafts and make them more often with your beloved child.
Useful tips
Sooner or later, everyone ends up with cardboard boxes on their balcony, storage room or dacha.
Not all of these boxes should be thrown away, as you can make many interesting and even useful crafts from them.
One of these crafts is playhouse for children.
Such a house can be built and decorated together with children, who will be very interested in joining something new.
Folding cardboard house
1. Start with an empty box. Turn it on its side so that the open part is perpendicular to the floor.
2. Cut off the top of the box and save it - this will serve as half the roof later.
3. Use wide tape to secure some parts of the box.
4. Cut a piece from another cardboard that will be the second half of the roof.
5. Tape the roof halves together.
6. Connect the roof and the house and secure them with tape.
7. Make the house foldable. Place the house face down and cut down the middle of the back and bottom of the house. Also cut where the bottom and back of the house meet.
8. Add tape to the places where you made the cuts. Make sure the bottom and back of the house fold in the right direction. Secure with tape the areas that you feel are loose.
DIY cardboard house with pipe and door
You will need:
Hot glue with a glue gun
Stationery knife
Scissors
Several cardboard boxes.
The large box will be the main part of the house, and small boxes will be needed for small things such as a pipe and window frames.
1. Cut off the pieces of the large box that form the lid - these will be used to create the roof.
2. Turn the box upside down. Cut out the door by making a large "L" shaped cut.
3. Cut out the squares for the windows using a utility knife.
4. Glue together 2 parts of the cut box lid. Repeat the same with the other two parts of the lid. You will get 2 halves from which you can make the roof of the house.
5. For windows, you can cut out 2 wide cardboard strips and glue them to the window. You can also cut several strips to create a window frame.
6. To glue the roof to the house, you must first connect the roof halves using small L-shaped cardboard pieces. Next, use the same parts to glue the roof to the house.
7. Now we make a small roof. You will need a sheet of cardboard of the appropriate size. Divide it in half (or just bend it) and glue it to the house in the same way as big roof, i.e. L-shaped parts.
8. You can make a window in the door and, if desired, glue a cardboard window frame to it.
9. Optional : If you want to make a pipe for the house, you will need a small box or 4 cardboard parts of the same size, which need to be glued into a small box.
10. Mark on a small box the places that need to be cut so that the pipe will lie flat on the roof of the house. To make this easier, lean the box flat on the side of the roof and draw lines with a pencil. Once you have glued the pipe to the roof, you can cover it with a cardboard lid and glue a cardboard toilet paper cylinder.
11. Optional: you can add a handle to the door. Use any old pen and stick it to the door. You can also make a handle from cardboard.
How to make a house out of cardboard with your own hands
You will need:
Large cardboard box
Wide tape (adhesive tape)
Stationery or construction knife
Metal ruler (to make straight cuts)
Black marker
Double-sided tape (if necessary)
Fabric for curtains (if necessary).
1. Disassemble the box and turn it inside out so that the house will later be brown and plain, and all the drawings on the boxes will be hidden.
2. To make the house larger, those parts that form the lid of the box on one side must be lifted and secured in a vertical position using tape (adhesive tape). Place the box on its side so that there is an “entrance” to the house on one side.
3.Optional: to make a diagonal roof for the house, use a stationery (or construction) knife to cut diagonally (small angle) the upper part of the future house (the part that is now at the top, after you turned the box over).
Cut triangular pieces from a cut piece of cardboard and tape the roof back to the house.
4. Bottom part cut off the house (the floor opposite the roof), fasten it with tape if necessary, and attach it to the open part of the box (“entrance”, which was obtained in step 2).
5. Now it’s time to cut out the cardboard house windows and doors.
If you wish, you can use a marker to draw window frames, bricks and other details. You can also cut out a small handle in the door (a semi-oval at the edge of the door).