How many things can be done with a child from an ordinary cardboard box! A simple cardboard box can turn into a boat, a rocket, an airplane, a gas stove, a toy bed. And with the help of boxes, you can build a whole cardboard city, with roads, houses and trees from cones and plasticine. The baby has at hand the material with which he can "do" what he wants! The child has a fantasy. And it's hard to imagine what it will lead to. For a clear example, let's take a cardboard box from a vacuum cleaner and see what can be built from it.

2. Capacity for throwing balls and small toys.
3. A musical instrument as a drum, if you sharply stick a sharpened pencil into it, a sound comes out - clap, which fascinates with sound.
4. On the box, you can first draw with pencils and felt-tip pens, then paint with paint.
5. If you cut out windows, make doors and build turrets, you will get a castle for toys.
6. With the help of a stapler, scissors and children's imagination, you can build a knight's armor from the same box. Cut out a crown from a sheet of cardboard, color it and decorate it with an appliqué from glossy brochures. Adjust the size of the crown to fit the baby's head and connect with a stapler. From another sheet, make a shield and a sword. The armor of the young warrior is ready. From the remains of the box, you can cut masks and targets for javelin throwing.
7. When the box is no longer interesting in the above hypostases, it can be cut into strips, connected with a rope, you get a snake, if the other end of the rope is wrapped around the belt, then the dragon's tail will come out, which wriggles while running and beats noisily on the walls and doorways .
8. Corrugated wrapping paper makes wonderful voluminous applications. First you need to draw a drawing with a pencil on a sheet of colored paper or cardboard, and then stick strips of corrugated paper along the lines.
9. It's nice to just tear the cardboard into pieces. Kids love to do this. Older children cut out cribs, high chairs from the packaging, glue lockers for dolls.

In order to create a house, you can use a large sheet of cardboard, a cardboard box or a pizza box. So, we need:

1.Carton or carton box
2. PVA glue
3. ruler
4. Pencil
5. Scissors or paper cutter.
6. Any available materials for decorating the house. Felt-tip pens, pencils, paints, sparkles, stickers, pieces of colored paper, scraps of newspapers and napkins are suitable (while mom cuts out the house, the baby can pick pieces of napkin or cut pieces of paper), in general, everything that can be found on the farm.

Let's draw by hand, observing the basic proportions, a sketch of our house. The shape of the house can be any - square or rectangular, depending on the idea and imagination. For grandparents from the finger theater, my son and I made a square house. We made a couple more of these houses for our son's other small toys. But for a large residential area, a long narrow house with many windows and painted balconies is also suitable.

Mom will still have to do the main work on creating a fairy-tale kingdom from cardboard - draw cardboard, cut along the contour, make doors and windows and bend the blank along the fold lines. But then the child can smear the necessary parts of the house with glue and help mom fasten the walls with a stapler (it is especially good to fasten thick cardboard sheets in this way, for example, from pizza boxes). That's all, the house is ready, it remains to paint the walls, glue the tiles on the roof and populate the little residents.

As a road, you can use a ready-made road made of cardboard puzzles or educational soft puzzles with letters. You can also draw a landscape with roads and paths on a piece of paper. The houses can be placed around the railway and travel to friends by train. Trees are easy to create from cones. And you can cut trees out of paper and use a piece of tape, a skewer and a piece of plasticine to give them stability. To create a pasture next to the house, my son and I used a set of small pets.

These puzzles are perfect for a "cardboard town"!

Big floor puzzle "Road", Orchard, art. 286,

Puzzle giant "Farm" Djeco, art. 07160,

ECO large floor puzzle "Animal Habitat" with figures of animals, Hape, art. 702884,

Puzzle giant "Road" Djeco, art. 07161,

Animals from Schleich will fit perfectly into the urban and rural environment!

More options for houses that you can make for kids!

Curtains look cute)) In such a house you can relax and prepare treats for your toys!

Home Sweet Home))

Cafe for lovely mademoiselles!

Fortress for knights!

Castle for a beautiful princess.

What can be done besides houses? Yes, whatever your heart desires! Wonderful sorter for kids.

You can invent your own shark cartoons and show them on your own TV))

A fun wheelchair.

Castle and gas station.

Miracle rollerdrome for your favorite cars.

Family mailbox.

Doll bed.

Train. By the way, it’s a good idea to decorate the yard for a children’s birthday like this!

Bridge with a steam locomotive.

Tree house.

Personal car.

Thus, you can make the heroes of your favorite fairy tales!

A little interesting from the life of people who are fond of!

Chris Gilmour was born in Stockport, UK in 1973 but now calls Udine and Italy itself home. Using only cardboard and glue, Chris creates incredible sculptures without any additional wood or metal frames. Everything you see is 100% cardboard. The material that Gilmour has chosen for his sculptures is easy to obtain, cheap and light. Guido Bartorelli says this about Gilmour's work: “Gilmour's works not only represent life-size objects accurately, they are not rough and do not look like the usual repetition of something, like models or scenery. They are like real objects that we all once touched: a typewriter, a car, a bicycle or a stroller.

Australian artist Daniel Agdag is working on his massive art project called "Sets for a Film I'll Never Make". From ordinary cardboard used to make boxes, he makes amazing sculptures of buildings, strange devices and mechanisms, as if preparing the scenery for sci-fi films.Daniel Egdag's genius is multifaceted, and manifests itself not only in sculpture and painting.The artist is also a director of short animated films, where he often uses scenery similar to those included in a series of cardboard sculptures.That is why she and is called “A selection for films that I will never make.” Which is not surprising, because the sculptures that the artist creates from packaging cardboard are reminiscent of steampunk, sci-fi novels and adventure films in the spirit of science fiction from the beginning of the last century.

Surely many people remember how in children's magazines, and later in special editions of magazines for girls, they printed paper or cardboard dolls with paper outfits for them. All this had to be cut out from the page, and then buy a wardrobe for the dolls in the newsstands with newspapers and magazines, or draw fashionable outfits yourself. The Italian artist Christian Tagliavini has long grown out of this age, but the passion for paper outfits has remained. True, now he dresses living people in them, and all this is called the Dame Di Cartone art project. In the wardrobe of the models of this art project, you will not find outfits for club parties or beach sundresses, tracksuits or cocktail dresses. Here are models in retro style, for which renaissance costumes were created from cardboard. This is no longer just a game, says Christian Tagliavini. This is a costume ball, a theatrical performance in which he is a man-orchestra, combining the author, director, photographer, and, of course, the costume designer.

Looking at the paper works of the Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus, childhood impressions involuntarily pop up in my memory - the delight and feeling of a real miracle, when you open an ordinary-looking book, you see voluminous cities unfolding in front of you, ancient castles and whole fairy-tale episodes with many details that you can not only to see, but also to touch. In addition to abstract patterned sculptures in the spirit of Escher's engravings, Ingrid Siliakus creates real architectural objects - in her paper installations, the outlines of New York skyscrapers, London buildings and even modern sports complexes are clearly discernible. However, according to the artist herself, most of all in her work she is inspired by the architectural heritage of the great Spaniard Antonio Gaudí and the famous Dutchman Hendrik Berlage.

Photographer Andy Rudak created models of buildings located in London, New York, Mumbai, Paris and Tokyo. The series is called Cardboard Towns.

The Wonderful Toys Shop offers to beautifully decorate cardboard creations with drawings, prints and stickers! Perfect for this:

Stencil set Djeco

Set of stamps "Farm" art. 08809, "Princess" art. 08810 , "Knights" art. 08811, "Elves" art. 08813 Djeco.

The 9 stamps included in the set will help you create a fun world with just one touch! It remains only to color all the elements as you wish, and you're done!

Contents: 9 stamps, 1 ink pad, sketchbook.

Gouache paint hard, 36 colors. art.08873.

Watercolor pencils, 12 pcs. Djeco, art. 08824

Soft watercolor pencils, 12 colors.

An ordinary pencil drawing easily turns into a beautiful watercolor! Just slightly dampen the brush with water and draw along the contours of the drawing, slightly "blurring" them.

Gouache 12 colors,

Amazing quality gouache! Lies evenly, pure beautiful colors.

-- Classic colors art.08807

Markers Gouache (6 pcs) art.08876.

Painting with gouache! Very nice and neat!

Djeco finger paints, art. 08878.

A set of magnificent first paints, with their help the baby will create his first masterpieces!
Paints are absolutely safe! Perfectly washed off from the child, clothes and the whole house)) just with water

Two-sided felt-tip pens, 8 pcs. art.08875.

Easily washable! No detergents, just water or a damp cloth!

Included: 8 felt-tip pens (16 colors).

Finger paints 6 Djeco colors, art. 08860,

The paints are non-toxic, specially designed for hand painting. Easily washed off with just water.

Included: 6 tubes of classic colors of 75 ml each, a palette mat for ease of drawing (so that kids do not mix all the paints in jars)))

That's all! Here are some unique things you can do with and for children from ordinary cardboard! Nastya was with you!

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13 cool ways to make a track, track, parking lot, slides, car wash, garage, road for kids with your own hands. All this can be done from ordinary materials that almost everyone has at home. Let's take a look at these creations.

1. Do-it-yourself foam (cardboard) track for children's cars.

Track for cars, which can be done with children and for children. Fast, clean, easy and economical. All we need is:

• white foam, if it is not there, then you can use a large cardboard, having previously painted it;
• decorative tape;
• scissors;
• wooden cubes, if they are not available, then you can use any building blocks that you have at home;
• brushes.

We paint wooden cubes with acrylic paint. Colors can be any, we have pastel colors of yellow, carrot, blue. We mark the route with a simple pencil, then paste over it with decorative tape. That's all, the track is ready. You can play with it at home, on the street. Easy to store it is flat, you can hide it under the bed or behind the closet.

2. Do-it-yourself car wash for cars from a cardboard box.

Cool idea for summer time. With such a car wash, you can play on the street, in the country, since you can really wash children's cars there. Children just love to play with water. And here you can spray cars from a spray bottle.

To make a children's toy, we need:

• cardboard box;
• cellophane to paste over the walls and floor of the car wash;
• felt;
• wooden bushings, and two toilet paper bushings;
• scissors, hot glue.

We start by cutting off the roof, one sidewall of the cardboard box, and on the opposite side we do something like a door. Next, let's start painting. It is necessary to paint over all the outer walls and the bottom of the box, so we will protect it from moisture.

After the box dries, glue the cellophane to the inside. You probably guessed that this will save the box from moisture and it will last longer.
We cut the felt and glue it to wooden bushings (you can also sticks), to toilet paper bushings. We attach everything to our car wash. Kids can play with this for hours.

3. Do-it-yourself children's road.

Very simple road from a cardboard box. All you need is time, desire and creativity. But seriously, cardboard, pencil, scissors, paint, brush.

From the box we cut out with trees, houses, and then color it all. Children will color everything with pleasure, and at the same time we stimulate the development of creativity and fine motor skills in our little ones.

4. Racing track for children's cars.

Racing track for the descent of four cars at once. It is easy to make it with your own hands, and children will love it very much, because four cars can move along it at the same time. Both boys and girls will be able to figure out which car goes faster.

To make the track, we need:

• cardboard box;
• hot glue;
• paint, brushes.

Just lift the cardboard and the cars will rush down quickly. This is a great toy for home when it's bad outside. Older children will especially like it, because they love speed and movement.

Below is a slide made of a wooden board, more durable, large. You can't do without a dad. Stock up on material and call dad.

Detailed instructions with lots of photos in .

Children's fun for creative kids and parents. Everything is very simple, but very interesting. With such entertainment, it is advisable to take water-based paints to make it easier to wash soiled clothes.

5. Do-it-yourself parking for children's cars from shoe boxes.

A simple parking lot (garage) made from shoe box lids, toilet paper rolls and cardboard.

6. Large multi-level parking with a cardboard city.

Over such a structure it will be necessary to puff a little. The work is painstaking, but what a wonderful city for cars it turns out. There are trails, slides, multi-level parking. In a word, great!

Another very interesting version of cardboard crafts is a parking garage. These are the houses for cars you can make yourself, but also play with them. For those who decide to make such parking garages - a link to a site with a description and photos.

Other do-it-yourself car parks and garages made of cardboard, ideas for inspiration.

7. Do-it-yourself wooden parking for children's cars.

Cool parking for small children's cars. It is made of wood so it will last a long time. The safety of the child is also thought out - there are no sharp corners in it, they are all beveled. For those who decide to make such a parking, see the instructions and description.

8. Do-it-yourself road for cars.

This is perhaps the easiest way to make a children's track for small cars. You only need special tape and scissors. If desired, you can add plastic figures of a traffic light, a house, trees, in general, what you have at home.

Children's track, even the whole city. You can see a detailed description
Here, a children's road made of adhesive tape was glued to cardboard, thanks to which it can be moved around the house and even taken outside.
And here they glued adhesive tape in the form of a road directly to the floor.

And here we went even further, gluing adhesive tape directly to the sofa and carpet. Interestingly, many parents agree to this. But how fun and comfortable for children. If you do not have a special adhesive tape with an image of an asphalt road, then you can use colored tape or ordinary electrical tape. If desired, it can be marked.

9. Road for cars on an old wooden table.

If you have an unnecessary or old wooden table, then it can be turned into a track for children's cars. Mark the table with paper tape before painting. After painting, wait until it is completely dry. The road for children is ready.

Slide, parking, gas station on a wooden table with your own hands.

Large and wonderful table with game zones. How to make such a toy for children yourself, see

This version of the road for children's cars is convenient because you can draw it as you like and as much as you like. To do this, you need a piece of chalk and your or a child's imagination. To make such a game table for cars, you need to cover the tabletop of the old table with a special paint for chalkboards, on which you can draw with chalk. That's all the table for children's cars is ready!

10. Height meter in the form of a race track.

For little car lovers, parents can make such a bright stadiometer in the form of a race track. We mark the growth of the child with a typewriter, which is attached according to the Velcro principle. The road can be made of any width, with the number of lanes equal to the number of children. The photo shows that there are two children in the family. If you are interested in a stadiometer, then a full description of its manufacture can be viewed

11. Road for children's cars on the wall.

The road for cars can be made right on the wall in the children's room. Thus, we get an interesting design and play space for the child. The road itself can be made magnetic or made of felt, and magnets or Velcro can be attached to the cars, respectively.

12. Do-it-yourself carpet for cars made of fabric.

Rug-road made of felt with a surprise. He has a garage for three cars, these are pockets at the bottom. It is great that such a rug can be folded and it does not take up much space. It can be made of any size with any applications - mountains, trees, houses, hospitals, towers, skyscrapers, roads, slides, parking lots, various markings and all possible road signs. See this site for ideas and instructions with lots of photos.

13. Children's street track for small cars.

In the manufacture of such children's tracks for cars, you will need cement. You dig a shallow trench in the ground, fill it with cement, paint it with black paint, and decorate the entire site. This is an ideal playground for private houses and summer cottages.

Here are a few more options for outdoor play areas for boys from improvised material.

Children's town on the sand with a road for cars.

In conclusion, I would like to offer the most fun and funny way for a children's road for small cars. Children will not be bored, but dad or mom will get a wonderful massage and a portion of relaxation.

Thank you for reading our article to the end! Merry and happy day to you and your children!

Helpful Hints

Some parents like not only to buy various toys for their children, but also to make interesting toys with their own hands.

Very often, a do-it-yourself toy is simpler and more interesting than factory ones. In addition, these toys are safer, as they are usually made from paper, cardboard and wood, which is much safer than plastic.

Here are the most interesting ones:

Homemade toys (photo)

Smart board with keys, phone, locks, wheels, key chains and letters on magnets.

Many people know that children can play with any thing that interests them. It can be beads or a smartphone - everything that can be studied.

A jack-of-all-trades crafted this wooden truck for his kids.

Read also:DIY soft toys

And here is a board in the shape of a ship, on which you can find a calculator, locks, a string and much more.

One parent decided to improve their child's playhouse by decorating the walls with light switches, doorknobs and thread.

See also: Children's drawings that turned into real soft toys

DIY toys at home

Children like to build a railway, so parents made such a colorful railway with toy cars and trains for their child.

Almost anything can be made from cardboard. And if you add adhesive tape and felt-tip pens or paints (gouache or acrylic paints) to cardboard, you can create houses, car parks, tunnels and palaces.

DIY cardboard toys

The child has accumulated a lot of cars, and the parents decided to make him an excellent convenient parking lot out of cardboard and acrylic paints.

A dollhouse based on the popular video game Super Mario.

It all starts at the top of the structure, where the princess is surrounded by cotton wool clouds.

Then you can choose one of two directions through the pipes: to the world of mushrooms or to the very bottom to the main villain.

DIY toys (photo)

Ball constructor

Parents spray-painted the necessary parts (pipes and fixtures) and then attached them to the fence so that they could shoot small balls and beads through the pipes.

Homemade toys for children

Experiments with liquids and sand

The parents attached several tubes to the perforated fibreboard, and a funnel was attached to the upper end of each tube so that liquid could be easily poured or sand would be poured down through the tubes.

To better see the water flowing through the transparent tubes, you can pour it into several containers and add food coloring. So for each pipe there will be water of a certain color.

DIY toys from improvised materials

Cardboard labyrinth

To make this toy you will need:

Cardboard box

Scissors or utility knife

A set of sticks for children's needlework (can be replaced with cardboard)

Paints or stickers (to decorate the maze)

Hot glue (with glue gun)

Medium or large coin or plastic bottle cap

Pencil.

1. Take a suitable box and, if necessary, cut off one side so that you can build a maze inside it.

2. Prepare a set of sticks for children's needlework or just cut the cardboard into strips. As you create the maze, you will cut these strips with scissors.

3. Before starting the construction of the labyrinth, it is better to draw it with a simple pencil, and then glue strips of cardboard or wooden sticks to the drawn lines.

4. Begin hot glue the cardboard strips or sticks edgewise to the drawn lines, trimming them where necessary.

5. To make "traps", circle the coin with a pencil and use a clerical knife to cut a circle into which a ball, bead or ball can fit. Cut out the traps so that the bead or ball can get past them.

If you want to keep the bead from falling to the floor, bend (and trim if necessary) the sides of the box, and insert it inside another box (see image).

How to make a toy with your own hands

A toy car park made from a box and toilet paper rolls

You will need:

box or crate

Toilet paper rolls

PVA glue or hot glue

Scissors

Acrylic paints (optional).

You need to glue the cardboard sleeves inside the box.

If necessary, cut each sleeve in half and then carefully glue.

From above you can make a helipad.

Decorate the craft however you like. You can use acrylic paints and stickers.

How to make a toy with your own hands (video)

Master class for making a game layout "City Street"

Norkina Oksana Sergeevna
Teacher MADOU kindergarten No. 21 "Rosinka" of the combined type of the urban district of the city of Kumertau of the Republic of Bashkortostan
The master class is designed for educators, but parents can also come in handy.
Purpose: training in game modeling, the formation of safe behavior on the roadway.
Target: making a model for game modeling in work with children of senior preschool age.
Tasks:
- to acquaint children with the rules of the road, the purpose and signals of traffic lights, with road signs, to expand knowledge about the rules for the safe behavior of children on the street;
- to activate children for independent activity in the corner of traffic rules,
The game layout can be used for the development of fine motor skills, visual perception, social orientation, orientation in space.

Description:
Stage I - the basis for the layout To make the basis of the “City Street” game layout, we need: 2 pieces from an MDF panel (I have them 53 cm each), a piano hinge, screws and nuts for fastening.

We drill holes in the MDF panels with a drill in the selected places, fasten the piano hinge with screws and nuts.

In order for our layout to stand at an angle of 90 degrees and not fall back, on one side we fasten the corner limiter (I have this part of the attachment from the old curtain), paint over the lower part of our layout with black paint.

Now we will draw up the upper vertical part of the layout. To design it, we take 2 pictures with the image of houses (I arranged these for myself).

We print the pictures in duplicate, laminate, if there is no laminator, then you can simply paste over with tape. The picture becomes brighter and it is easier to take care of the layout - to wipe the dust, for example.
We paste one copy of our laminated pictures, joining to the layout, that's what we should get.

Now we will give the card volume. To do this, we cut out the buildings at our discretion from the second copies, and paste them on pre-prepared blanks from the ceiling tiles - single background and double foreground, in my work I used the adhesive for ceiling tiles "Master"

Cut out buildings with a utility knife

We stick (I use the same “Master”) on the layout, our street has “depth”.

We turn to the design of the roadway. We take construction tape, highlight the pedestrian crossing, the dividing strip, that is, what we will paint over with white, close everything else.

In my work I use ordinary aerosol paints in a spray can, they are sold at any hardware store, they dry quickly, they are easy to use. Highlighted all the lines in white - remove the adhesive tape. The roadway and the crossing are ready.

Stage II - Paper machines. Now it prints templates for paper machines, there are a lot of them on the Internet, for example, let's take these.

The image is scaled down. Click to see original.

We laminate the printed templates (1 sheet of laminated film - 2 sheets of templates with cars), fold the sheets with the white sides inward. We laminate in order to make the cars more rigid, bright and make it possible to wipe them. When the sheet is laminated, we cut it along the contour and we get 2 sheets laminated along the colored side, the second side remains unlaminated (paper) - the paper sticks together better, and the laminated cars shine. This is what a laminated sheet with templates cut from 3 sides looks like.

Cut out car templates, glue.

Stage III - road signs. Now we turn to the manufacture of road signs.
Materials: it took me 2 sheets of ordinary white office paper, ceiling tiles (better washable), stationery knife, toothpicks, glue master, mosaic of 3 colors (red, yellow, green), laminated sheet with sign blanks, I used this one.

The image is scaled down. Click to see original.

We cut and paste 1 copy on the tile, cut it out with a clerical knife along the contour, on the other hand we paste 2 copies (if you wish, you can not stick the second part of the sign. We make a stand for our signs. Birch a sheet of white paper and cut strips of 4-5 mm along the long side sheet. For one sign, you need 5 strips.. Take one strip and wind it on a toothpick forming a tight "roll" - this is the upper part of the stand. Glue 4 strips into a long strip, twist into a "roll". On a large roll, put a small one on top, We dip the edge of the toothpick in glue, pierce our "rolls", pierce the blank with the road sign with the other edge of the toothpick. All our sign is ready.

To make the traffic light more voluminous, add a small mosaic of the corresponding colors to the lights, pierce the holes with an awl, insert the mosaic.

Our fleet

Our signs

Thank you all for your attention!