Do you throw out the cardboard because it takes up a lot of space? But it can become a material for your creativity. For example, you can build a house...

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12.04.2018 00:01

Do you throw out the cardboard because it takes up a lot of space? But it can become a material for your creativity. For example, you can build a cardboard house for children or for a pet. Look for ideas for such crafts below.

Little house for dolls

Do you have a little daughter? Then make for her a house for dolls with your own hands from cardboard. Any girl will be delighted with such a present. If you have a lot of free time, then collect a home for Barbie, and if time is running out, then make a small haven for miniature toys. How to assemble a house? First of all, you need to draw a pattern. It should consist of three walls, one gable, floor, roof and partition between floors. Let's start creating. Cut out the details. There are two ways to attach blanks to each other. One of them is to glue the cardboard with a hot gun, and the other is to create grooves in the parts. You can combine two mounting methods for reliability. First connect the walls together, then attach the floor to them. After that, insert a partition between floors, and last action- this is the attachment of the roof. You can decorate the front of the house with cardboard, which will act as a pediment.

Big dollhouse

Do you want to make a stable structure and at the same time not spend a lot of time on creating crafts? Build a large open cardboard house. Before starting work, you need to draw a pattern. It will consist of two side walls combined with gables, a rectangle connecting the two parts of the future building, and three partitions between floors. We transfer the pattern to cardboard and cut out the details. In accordance with the photo attached above, cuts must be made in the blanks. They will play the role of grooves. Thanks to this fastening, the structure will stand stably, and if necessary, it will be easy to assemble it. When the grooves are made, you can start cutting windows. They can be of any shape and located in any part of the building. To make the house prettier, encircle each window with a curly frame. Use multi-colored gouache mixed with PVA glue for this purpose.

New Year's house

Children like to make similar crafts for new year holidays. A cardboard house can play the role of a candlestick or become one of decorative details rooms. How to assemble such a craft? You need to start with a sketch. Draw the house you want to design. If you rarely do layout work, then you need to start by making a one-story building of a simple design. The drawing is ready, now you should draw its scan. Contrary to popular belief, this is easy to do. If spatial thinking does not work well for you, first mold your project from plasticine. When the pattern is ready, transfer it to cardboard, and then cut it out. Glue the pieces together with a hot gun. Color the craft with gouache or immediately make a white cardboard layout. Complete the project with Christmas trees and a fence, and then powder the craft artificial snow or small foam.

tea house

It is always a pleasure to make not only beautiful, but also utilitarian products. One of them is tea house from cardboard. A master class on the manufacture of such a product is given above. The roof of this craft is removed and the base is filled with tea bags. Such a house can be put on the table or decorate one of the shelves in the kitchen with it. How to make a tea house with your own hands from cardboard? Above is a pattern, you need to print it or redraw it. Let's assemble the base first. It consists of four long rectangles and one small square. We first fasten the walls of the structure together, and then glue the floor. The cutout for the door must be done immediately. At this stage, you need to check whether the bags are removed from the hole; if necessary, the hole can be enlarged. We glue the base beautiful paper with a suitable print or paint the house by hand. Now you can assemble the roof. We glue together two rectangles, and insert a bar between them. We make gables and make a floor at the roof. You can decorate the part with rectangles bent on both sides. Cover the roof with colored paper or paint the detail.

House for children

Do you want to please your child? Make your own cardboard house for the kids. For babies best entertainment is to hide in a shelter. The cardboard house will become permanent place child's games. How to make such a gift to your child? Make a pattern. You can draw it on the wallpaper that remained after the repair. You need to design the building with a margin so that your child can enjoy his shelter not for one season, but for several years. Two side walls must be combined with gables. Long walls are rectangles. And for the stability of the structure, the roof must be made of rectangles folded with the letter "P". Such large "paper clips" will cling to the ledges that need to be created in the gable. Cut windows in the long walls of the house, and cut a door in one of the side parts. You can attach it using springs or an old door mechanism.

House for a cat

Do you have pets? Make a cat house out of cardboard. This design will be very primitive, but your pet will be able to appreciate the work. What should an animal house look like? Take 8 old cardboard boxes. The first row of the structure will consist of four boxes. Attach them together with tape or glue. Randomly cut through holes. But don't touch the floor of the house. The second row will consist of three boxes. Arrange them in the form of a corner on the first tier. Make cuts in each wall, and be sure to make several holes that will lead to the lower tier. Glue the remaining box with a third layer. Cut holes in it. The house is ready. You can decorate it in any way to make it look good in your interior.

Packing-house

Holidays are coming and you decided to give your friends sweet gifts? Then make a house out of cardboard. Such packaging can be filled with purchased sweets or sweets prepared by oneself. How to make a house? Attached is a template. You need to print the pattern and then cut out the stencil. Take colored cardboard and transfer the drawing to it. Now cut out the blank and glue it. It remains to decorate the craft. You can paint your creation or make an application from colored paper. If you're filling the box with homemade sweets, don't forget to wrap them in foil or cellophane. This is necessary so that the product is not soaked with oil and does not lose its presentable appearance.

Every little girl dreams of her own dollhouse. Nowadays, you can find a lot of them in stores, but they are all of the same type and expensive. In this article, you will learn how to make an original Dollhouse, without spending big money. Such a house will be unique, the child will be able to furnish it the way he wants. Your whole family can have a great time creating their own masterpiece.

Popular master classes

There are many different workshops for making dollhouses. At the same time, a variety of materials are taken: wood, plywood, drywall, laminate, boxes, bookshelves, folders for documents. This is not yet a complete list of the proposed materials.

The front wall of the house is either not made at all, or made in the form of an opening door. This is necessary for the convenience of the game. We suggest you choose what is right for you and get to work.

plywood, laminate

The option of making a dollhouse for girls from wood is one of the most popular. The undoubted advantages of such a house are its strength and durability. It is easy to decorate both from the outside and from inside. However, for making wooden house male help is required.

If the house is built with high quality, it will not be distinguished from the purchased one. You can make drawings for building such a house yourself, or you can use ready-made ones. You can attach wheels to such a house and then it will become mobile.

What will be needed:

• Laminate or plywood, it is better to choose a thickness of at least 7 mm;
• jigsaw;
• glue - carpentry, PVA;
• self-adhesive film, which we will paste over the floor in our house;
• wallpaper, they are useful for pasting walls in rooms;
• simple pencil;
• roulette.

Approximate drawing of a plywood house

Step-by-step instruction:

1. We cut out the walls of the house from plywood sheets, according to the dimensions in the drawing.
2. We mark where the windows and doors will be located, and cut them out.
3. Using wood glue, we assemble the structure as shown in the figure. You can use small nails for the reliability of the design.
4. Make a roof. Paste it with corrugated cardboard and paint it, imitating tiles.
5. Glue finished house on a piece of plywood, larger in size than the floors in the house. This will give it more stability. On the plywood that remains on the sides of the house, you can make a lawn.
6. Now we paste over the walls in the rooms with wallpaper, the floors with film.
7. We arrange furniture.
8. We decorate the interior with the help of textiles: curtains for windows, rugs, tablecloths for furniture.

Mastur class for making a plywood dollhouse, see the following video.

See the required drawings from the video below.

From drywall

Many of us after repair have pieces of drywall that are no longer needed. Why not use them to please your little princess? From it you can make a wonderful house for dolls.

A drywall house has a lot of advantages, including: ease of working with it, its lightness. Even if you do not paint the walls of the house after assembly, they will still look neat thanks to its white color. A significant disadvantage of such a house is its fragility. It is worth a little pressure on any part of the house, as it will immediately break.

In order to make a drywall house, you can use the diagram above, or you can simply make cruciform partitions to save space in the nursery. These partitions will divide the rooms among themselves, external walls and there will be no roof.

From large sheets drywall can be made full-fledged beautiful house. Watch the master class in the next video.

Styrofoam

If you have sheets of packing foam lying around your house, you can build a house from them. For work you will need:

• foam sheets;
• glue gun;
• toothpicks;
• wooden rulers;
• bamboo sticks;
• corrugated cardboard;
• wallpaper pieces;
• acrylic paint;
• foam sponge;
• pieces of ceiling plinths;
• necessary accessories for the interior: pieces of carpet, curtains, furniture and everything that your imagination is capable of.

Thin foam house frame

Step-by-step instruction:

1. First you need to think about what your house will be like and make a drawing. To save space in the apartment, the house can be built in height.
2. We cut the foam in accordance with the drawing. It is convenient to do this with a hot knife, so the foam does not crumble.
3. Considering where you will windows and doors, you can make a staircase between floors. Cut out the necessary openings.
4. Let's start building the house. Z we break the cleaning pieces in half. We will need them to create a more durable structure. We glue the foam sheets with glue gun, having previously connected them with the help of halves of toothpicks.
5. We use bamboo sticks to strengthen the floor and ceiling. from Chinese napkins. We glue the sticks to the foam sheets as beams. After that, the sheets intended for the floor-ceiling can be glued to the side walls.
6. We glue the interfloor stairs separately. It can be made from foam or wooden rulers. We use toothpicks as a railing. After that, we glue the finished staircase.
7. The roof can be glued with foam or corrugated cardboard. Tiles can be imitated by cutting cardboard into small pieces and gluing it, and then painting it.
8. On the outer wall you can make a balcony. We glue it from polystyrene foam, we use bamboo sticks as railings
9. Outside coloring the house acrylic paints with a regular sponge.
10. We cover the walls of the rooms with wallpaper, we cover the floors with carpet. From ceiling plinth cut out skirting boards and window sills, and glue them. We create coziness with the help of curtains on the windows.
11. We arrange furniture which can also be glued from foam, and we invite new tenants.

Design interior decoration At home, you can offer to come up with a daughter

Home decoration can be very diverse. You can use a transparent plastic box, make printouts of the underwater world and put an aquarium in your house. You can print pictures, lay tablecloths on tables, add toys to dolls. Let your imagination run wild and you will get the most wonderful dollhouse for girls.

From a bookshelf / rack

You can make a great dollhouse out of a bookshelf or shelving unit. Making it is very simple, because you already have a ready-made base. To decorate the house, use cardboard, wallpaper, self-adhesive paper, and wrapping paper is also suitable.

Include your daughter in this creative process as well. She will be able to act as a designer for her dollhouse.

If the house is located permanently against the wall, then you can make the roof of the house with black electrical tape, gluing the contours. Glue the chimney in the same way. If necessary, rearrange the house to another place, the electrical tape can be safely peeled off without damaging the wallpaper in the room. You can buy ready-made furniture for dolls or show your imagination and make it yourself.

Putting the house against the wall, it will increase free space in the nursery

From an old locker or chest of drawers

Your daughter asks for a dollhouse, but the garage is gathering dust old chest of drawers? You can breathe a second life into old, already unnecessary furniture. Treat your child by making a dollhouse out of an old locker or chest of drawers . Such houses are very convenient for those whose children play with large or tall dolls.

First of all, you need to know the height of the dolls. This is necessary so that the dolls can be placed in rooms in full height. You may have to combine 2 shelves by removing unnecessary partitions. Work carefully, trying not to break the inner walls of the cabinet or chest of drawers. In place of the partitions that we removed, a void that we do not need will appear. It can be glued with thin slats that fit in size.

After waiting for the glue to dry completely, treat the walls of the chest of drawers with putty thin layer. After that, the chest of drawers must be sanded, then it will become even and smooth. Using a jigsaw, you can cut windows.

house from old furniture will look very solid reliable

The final step will be the design of your house. The outside can be painted. You will most likely have to paint it in several layers in order to paint it over. old color dresser. The walls inside can be pasted over with wallpaper, colored, packaging or self-adhesive paper. And you can also just paint them. We arrange furniture, hang pictures and mirrors on the walls, curtains, spread carpets and invite dolls to housewarming. Now the dolls in your daughter's room will always be tidied up!

From cardboard

Budget option Making the dollhouse is corrugated cardboard. With it, you can create a wonderful toy that will delight your girl for a long time.

We will need:

• corrugated cardboard for the frame of the house;
• decorative cardboard for decorating a house;
• detail templates that will depend on the size of your future house; sweep;
• stationery: pencil, ruler, eraser, scissors;
• knife, paints, brushes, felt-tip pens;
• glue gun;
• colored, packaging and self-adhesive paper;
• the cloth;
• decorative elements - beads, rhinestones, stones, artificial flowers.

The girl can independently "make repairs" in the new house of her dolls

Let's start making a house:

1. If you have a large sheet of corrugated cardboard, then you can apply a scan on it. Choose the dimensions based on the size of the house. If there are no large sheets, then each part must be cut out separately. The front wall does not need to be done.

1. In order to make it convenient to bend the cardboard, it is necessary to make a groove at the place of the fold by drawing a ruler along it. If all the details are cut out, glue them at the joints of the cardboard.
2. Cut and paste interior partitions. In such a house, they are simply necessary. They will perform a supporting function.

The structure is assembled. You can start decorating.

It is better to paste over the walls inside decorative paper or cloth. So you hide the seams in the places of gluing. Outside, the walls can be decorated to your taste: paint, paste over. Decorate your home with beads, rhinestones, pebbles or other items of your choice. Pay attention to the fact that the decor elements hold well on the cardboard, otherwise the house will lose its attractiveness during the games.

Arrange the furniture and invite the child to play.

In a house made of cardboard, it will be possible to re-paste the wallpaper without any problems if the old ones get bored

Master classes on making a cardboard dollhouse, see below.

Out of the boxes

Very easy to make dollhouse out of boxes. For him, you will need to choose the right size boxes. The size will depend on the height of the dolls for which this house is made. The number of boxes will depend on the number of rooms you are going to make. One box, one room. Such a house can be made multi-storey by gluing the boxes one on top of the other. This will save space in the room.

It is necessary to fasten the boxes together so that its top is on its side, opening the view inner space rooms. It can be done different ways: using a stapler, glue, double-sided tape. Cut out windows. We decorate the house according to your taste. We furnish the furniture and delight the girl with a new toy, for which you spent a minimum of money and effort.

Cardboard house - one of the most simple options to please the daughter

Watch the following master class, which shows in detail the process of making a beautiful dollhouse out of a box.

A great box house is easy to make! See the following videos for more details.

From document folders

If there is very little space in the children's room, you can make a folding dollhouse.

For such a house, we need 4 folders for documents. We glue each folder inside with beautiful paper - this will be wallpaper for the walls. Decorate the clip of the folder with a cloth, making a kind of curtain out of it. Print out interior items on the printer and stick on the walls. The house is ready. It remains to open the folders and put them vertically. Add the necessary furniture.

You can make a separate room from each folder of folders.

What could be more interesting than that how to make a cardboard house with your own hands, and give it the look that you like best?

A cardboard house is a toy that every child can find a use for. Someone will use it for role playing, someone - for staging small skits and plays. But he certainly won't be idle.

Before you make a house, you need to cut a blank out of cardboard, which looks like two pairs of rectangles, from above and below which narrower rectangles are attached. Pairs of main rectangles alternate: first there is a wider rectangle, then narrower, then again wide and narrow. At the first, wide rectangle, we make an additional narrow insert on the side. We bend the joints of the rectangles.

In the second wide rectangle we cut through the window. We turn the cut cardboard into shutters.

We collect our workpiece, fix it with glue or adhesive tape. We leave the upper inserts free for now, do not bend them inward.

Now we need . We take dry hollow sticks. We cut them into two parts. We will get logs that are very similar to real ones.

We lay out the walls of our house with logs.

It is necessary to paste over each wall, if possible, fixing the logs as close to the corners as possible.

Cut out two identical rectangles and a pair of identical triangles from cardboard. We get the details of the roof.

We glue these parts to the upper inserts above the house.

Before gluing the rectangular fragments, we connect them together.

Then we take velvet long leaves.

We lay out the rectangular parts of the roof with them - like tiles or shingles.

Take a small bunch of straw.

Cut it into straws different lengths, and lay out the triangular part of the roof with them.

Lay out the edges of the sticks.

Our house takes on the appearance of a forest hut!

Glue the sticks to the edges of the shutters.

And let's start decorating. You can, for example, hang physalis on the roof - it will look like a real lantern.

Near the window we hang a bunch of leaves or herbs.

The hut is ready!

It remains only to find a suitable place for her. You can, for example, place such a house in the garden, on the veranda or between pots of flowers. Get a miniature forest.

That's all! We learned how to make a cardboard house for children not only interesting, but also unusual, giving it a resemblance to a forest hut or hut.

Cardboard house - ideas with photos

There are a huge number of options for cardboard houses. From cardboard boxes you can make very stylish multi-storey houses for playing with small figures.

This simple house is easy to glue, focusing on the schematic drawings below.

Here is a diagram of the simplest house.

Unusual and original craft- paper house It is easy to do it yourself. Involve children in the process, and such joint creativity bring you a lot of fun! Making a craft is really easy. They will help you create a house out of paper schemes that you can draw yourself or find on the Internet. For example, here are

What is required for this

• paper
• cardboard
• scissors
• paints

Print the template you like on the printer and carefully cut it out with scissors. To Entrance door could open and close freely by carving out a doorway, leave one side intact and simply fold it back. Now it remains only to glue the house and fix the roof. You can use PVA glue or glue stick. You can decorate such a house with sparkles, contour, bows. Do not forget to settle in the house of tenants!

It is easy and simple to make a house using the scrapbooking technique, while it will harmoniously look in your house and will be a great decoration

Fans of the scrapbooking technique will appreciate this house, which will become an original gift wrapping or even an independent souvenir for any holiday: Birthday or New Year.

We copy the scheme onto watercolor paper, mark the places for gluing and cut out the blank. We bend it along the lines. We cut out parts from paper with a New Year's ornament that are 2 mm smaller than the workpiece and glue it to it.

We also need two pictures with the image New Year's interior size 5.5x6 cm and 3x3 cm. By size larger picture we cut out the window frame and the door “with glass” from white paper.

We paste a picture on the wall of the house and impose a window and a door. Fasten with double sided tape. We fix the door handle-brads.

We cut out strips from watercolor paper with a border hole punch and paste them over the roof from the bottom up to make a tile. Add platbands on the sides and glue the house.

We fix the bottom. We glue the roof only on one side so that it can open. From the opening side of the lid, glue an inscription or a wish. We attach the lock. We fix the pendant on it, and to fix the lid, we wrap the end of the lace around the upper brads.

Cut out a ring from thick paper and glue the spruce paws cut out with a hole punch on it, add a lace bow, gold braid and roses. Decorate with such a wreath opposite side house.

As you can see, it is quite easy to make it. And the variety of design will depend only on your imagination.

paper doll house

A doll house is a real dream of every girl! And it is easy to implement with the help of simple tools and the help of adults. But a paper dollhouse can become a good gift not only to the child and even adult girl. In this case, it will turn into a cute souvenir, reminiscent of a carefree childhood.

What will be required to create it?

• dummy knife
• PVA glue and glue stick
• double-sided and regular tape
• corrugated cardboard, ordinary cardboard
• ruler
• simple pencil
• colored paper
• the cloth

We take a large, preferably plain, box and allocate it to the playing area. Cut out a large window on this side with a breadboard knife.

We make slopes of the roof: on the two end sides of the cover we cut off the corners, and from the remaining two we make slopes and glue them with adhesive tape.

We mark windows and doors, taking into account the premises that you plan to create. We cut out the windows with a dummy knife so that the openings are 2-3 mm larger than the platbands - in this case, the corrugated cardboard sections will be inside. We cut out the platbands: the outer ones come with bindings, the inner ones are in the form of frames.

The floor of the second floor can be glued with adhesive tape or fixed with glue if it fits snugly into the base box. Paste it right away flooring". For example, you can use felt for the bedroom carpet, and stick a piece of thin linoleum on the floor of the "kitchen". Wallpaper for the first and second floor - fabric, scrapbooking paper or napkins with a suitable pattern. We paste over the walls suitable material and then we fix the inner window trim.

We cut and install interior partitions. When creating a bathroom, pay attention to the walls - it is better to “tile” them from squares of colored paper. For the bath itself, you can use a jar of yogurt. We simply sculpt the toilet bowl from plastic or cold porcelain and fix it with glue, cut the lid and seat out of cardboard.

We make the roof from one-sided corrugated cardboard, which can be found in an office supply store. We measure the sheet of the desired size with allowances of 5 cm and stick it with PVA on a sheet of flat cardboard. We sew curtains (a cornice is a wooden skewer or a toothpick, which we paste directly into the walls, piercing holes). We arrange the furniture and the magic dollhouse made of cardboard and paper is ready! You can settle in it tenants!

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Helpful Hints

Sooner or later, everyone has cardboard boxes on the balcony, in the pantry or in the country.

Not all of these boxes should be thrown away, as many interesting and even useful crafts can be made from them.

One of these crafts playhouse for kids.

Such a house can be built and decorated 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 upper part boxes and save it - this will serve as half of the roof later.

3. Use wide tape to secure some parts of the box.

4. From another piece of cardboard cut off a piece that will be the second half of the roof.

5. Glue the halves of the roof with adhesive tape.

6. Connect the roof and the house, and fasten them with tape.

7. Make the house foldable. Place the house face down and cut through 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 places that you think are hanging out a lot.

Do-it-yourself cardboard house with a pipe and a door

You will need:

Hot glue with a glue gun

Stationery knife

Scissors

Several cardboard boxes.

A large box will be the main part of the house, and small boxes will be needed for small things like a pipe and window frames.

1. Cut off the details big box that form its cover - 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 squares for the windows using a utility knife.

4. Glue 2 pieces from 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 2 wide cardboard strips and stick them to the window. You can also cut out a few strips to create a window frame.

6. To glue the roof to the house, you must first connect the halves of the roof using small L-shaped cardboard pieces. Next, use the same details to glue the roof to the house.

7. Now we make a small roof. You will need a sheet of cardboard of the right 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 details.

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 a 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 the small box the places that need to be cut so that the pipe lies flat on the roof of the house. To make it easier to do this, lean the box against the roof exactly on the side and draw lines with a pencil. When you glue the pipe to the roof, you can cover it with a cardboard cover and glue a cardboard cylinder from toilet paper.

11. Optional: you can add a handle to the door. Use any old pen and glue it to the door. You can also make a pen out of 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 needed)

Fabric for curtains (if necessary).

1. Disassemble the box and turn it inside out so that the house is later brown and solid, and all the drawings on the boxes are hidden.

2. To make the house bigger, those parts that form the lid of the box on one side must be lifted and fixed in a vertical position with adhesive tape (adhesive tape). Place the box on its side so that the "entrance" to the house is on one side.

3. Optional: to make a diagonal roof of the house, with a clerical (or construction) knife, 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).

From the cut piece of cardboard, cut the triangular parts and tape the roof back to the house with tape.

4. lower part cut 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 turned out in step 2).

5. Now it's time stationery knife cut in cardboard house windows and doors.

If you wish, you can draw window frames, bricks and other details with a marker. You can also cut a small handle in the door (a semi-oval on the edge of the door).