Every child needs toys for his full development. You don't have to buy them in the store. It is enough to know how to properly make the same house with your own hands in order to please your baby with a new toy with which he will tinker and not make noise for a long time.

Most available material for production - cardboard, paper, plasticine. But you can also make a house from pumpkins, chestnuts, zucchini, eggplants, clothespins and various boxes from under shoes, household appliances and equipment.

What kind of house can you make?

You can see many photos on the theme of “House” crafts. The following wonderful toys are made for your child from improvised materials:

• Hut on Chicken Legs - made of clothespins;
• Old Man-Lesovich's hut;
• A hut in a clearing, decorated with chestnuts;
• Forester's hut made of natural materials;
• Build a pumpkin house;
• Using twigs, weave a tower.

There are a lot of ideas and all kinds of instructions for making houses, your imagination is limitless. A little skill and patience - and the craft will be ready!

Let's look at the most popular models and try to make them together.

By understanding what these toys can be made from and how to begin this simple process, you can create a work of art. Let the house be far from perfect the first time, but every time it will turn out better and better!

Hut on Chicken Legs

Children love fairy tale characters. And they will be happy to help in making a house for the beloved Baba Yaga. For this craft we will need the following components:

• Dried moss;
• Opened spruce or pine cones;
• Pre-prepared (ironed) leaves;
• Dry berries;
• Clothes pins;
• Plasticine;
• Glue.

Making a Hut on Chicken Legs with your own hands

Let's show a simple diagram by which you can assemble this beautiful house for Baba Yaga. You can use other templates, but this one is the simplest and will not cause any difficulties in making for either an adult or a child.

So, step by step instructions:

• We take apart the wood chips and glue the house together. It is best to use “liquid nails” for this;
• Place the assembled Baba Yaga's Hut on a piece of cardboard and cover the space around it with moss;
• We glue the leaves of the berries onto the roof. We also place the remains of the moss there;
• We paint the cones in green, glue them also to the cardboard. These will be our Christmas trees;
• We sculpt various animals - bunnies, squirrels from plasticine.

The scenery and creation of the atmosphere of a fairy-tale forest are important here, because we are creating Baba Yaga’s hut, which, according to the fairy tale, is located in a place inaccessible to outsiders.

Old Man-Lesovich's hut

Making such a house together with your child may take several days. Spending time together like this brings parents and their children closer together. So what can you make such a craft from?

Let's list the main components that we need and get started with the process:

• You will need pastry packaging for a cake or cookies. We decorate it with the remnants of old wallpaper, creating an autumn forest background. With the help of matches, acorns, cones, we make forest inhabitants - Lesovich himself and his friend the hedgehog.
• We make the house from a kefir box, and cover the walls themselves with large dill sticks to create the effect of logs. The hedgehog will live under stumps, which can be made from cutting branches.
• We make a path leading from the house to the pond using colored semolina and bean grains. We create the effect of water using colored paper, and pebbles using plum seeds.
• We decorate the forest and clearing with pieces of moss, dry twigs and leaves.

Hut in the clearing

We will hold another master class on crafts on the theme “House”. This time the design will be more complicated, and the pleasure can be extended for a long time.

For this we need:

• Scotch;
• Cardboard box;
• A couple of kilograms of chestnuts;
• Dry branches;
• Glue;
• Berries;
• Pen;
• Multi-colored fallen leaves;
• Scissors;
• Needles;
• Wire.

Hut in the clearing: making it step by step

Let’s start making another craft together with our child, instilling in him useful skills and curiosity.

We assemble this toy in the following sequence:

We are making the foundation on which our house will stand. To do this, use a cardboard box. We prepare a square 400x400 mm. We cut out the elements of the house from cardboard and connect them with tape. We attach it to the base.

We cut out windows and doors from pieces of snow-white paper. Glue it. We draw curtains with a pen. We decorate all the walls with chestnuts. We design the roof and ground around the house using colorful leaves, pine needles and berries.

Thus, you can make a house from almost any material by connecting the necessary components into one whole using tape and glue. Or - cut from pumpkin, watermelon, zucchini, eggplant.

There are many manuals and master classes on this topic on the Internet. Many lessons are accompanied by excellent explanations of what and how to do correctly in order to assemble a good and high-quality toy.

The new time spent together will delight the child, and he will enthusiastically help in collecting it for a long time. And then – have fun playing!

Photos of crafts houses

Children's crafts not only delight the eye with their brightness and beauty, the process of creating them is a special pleasure for a child, because it is so nice to give an original thing to someone close to you! And when mom joins in the creativity, things get doubly fun. If your baby has already learned to work with scissors, invite him to make a “real” paper house together: printable templates, step-by-step instructions and interesting ideas in our article.

Working with Templates

To make a paper house, use ready-made templates for printing: this is much easier than drawing out the required dimensions manually. If possible, print out a color template for the first time; it will be easier to assemble:

1. Print your favorite house model;
2. Carefully cut out the parts (or the entire diagram);
3. Fold the paper along the marked lines using a ruler;
4. Using a small brush, apply glue to the joints of the elements, press them to glue them.

Your first paper house is ready. Now you can complicate the task by choosing a black and white template for printing. Prepare brushes, paints, sheets of cardboard or whatman paper in advance. For coloring a paper house by texture, gouache or acrylic is best.

So let's get started:

In general, it is better to think through the design in advance, based on the purpose of the house. If it becomes a decoration for the Christmas tree, use traditional New Year's colors- red with gold, blue with silver, white. If you are planning to create an entire city out of paper, choose more restrained shades.

Practice shows that no matter how simple the template for printing, there is always a risk of ruining the craft. Little tricks will help you avoid incidents when creating a paper house:

• Not all children preschool age are able to cope with cutting out small parts from thick paper - at best, the edge of the element will turn out uneven, at worst, you will have to re-print the template, and the child’s mood will be ruined. Therefore, cut the workpiece yourself;
• When creating fold lines, do not forget about the doors and shutters on the windows; they need to be bent in advance, before gluing. When the craft is completely assembled, it is difficult to bend these parts evenly, much less carefully cut through them;
• Using paper with a pattern (wallpaper) for the base, it is important to make sure that after gluing on all parts of the house the pattern will be on the wrong side;
• The last element of assembling a paper house is always the roof; after gluing it together, it is almost impossible to correct the flaws;
• Sometimes when the glue dries, the edges of the paper move apart. The fault is one of two things: there was not enough glue or the template parts need to be pressed down better. For better fixation, connect the elements with paper clips and leave them until the adhesive has completely dried.

Paper house - application ideas

With a little imagination, you can expand the scope of application of paper houses. Here are three popular simple ideas:

Surely your child has already come up with a lot of ideas for using and decorating paper houses: let our printable templates help him realize his creative desires.

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. appear on the shelves Christmas decorations, artificial Christmas trees and other attributes of winter celebrations. 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, since 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 bottom part the width can be arbitrary. 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 immediately 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, height - 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

No member 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 smell 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 it 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 some bedding in it, and you can start the tenant!

Attention, TODAY only!

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 paper 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

Having marked the locations of the windows and doors, make slits (conveniently using a stationery knife) and remove the paper from them. One side of the door is left uncut, and it will remain slightly open for now.

Now it’s better to start decorating the product; after gluing it will be more difficult. The child will be happy to paint the house or cover it with suitable colored paper. You can help him attach a latch to the door. To do this, glue a cardboard rectangle to the edge of the door and provide a slot on the jamb - the house will immediately look more comfortable and reliable. The roof can be decorated with tiles by cutting “tiles” from suitable paper.

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 the 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.

Don't rush to throw away cardboard boxes if you have children in your home. Such a thing, unnecessary at first glance, will serve as an excellent house for dolls, toys, or even for the child himself. We will tell you how to make a cardboard house in this article.

How to make a cardboard house for dolls

You can make a house for a doll from a small cardboard box. To create such a product, you need to stock up on:

• cardboard boxes of suitable size;
• glue, tape;
• scissors and a sharp stationery knife;
• watercolor paints and brushes;
• colored paper;
• any finishing materials, for which there is enough imagination.

Multi-story cardboard dollhouse done as follows:

• The boxes from which the floors are supposed to be built must be secured with tape along all edges so that the house does not fall apart during the game.
• Then you need to cut out windows in them. To begin with, it is better to draw them evenly with a pencil, and then cut them out with a stationery knife along the intended lines.
• To create a multi-story house, the boxes need to be placed on top of each other and glued together.
• Now you need to make the roof. To do this, take two cardboard sheets of suitable size and fasten them at an angle of 45°. The roof is installed on the top box.
• In order for the house to have separate rooms, it is necessary to make partitions. Like everything else, they are made from cardboard and installed inside boxes.
• In principle, the dollhouse is almost ready, the most interesting thing left is to decorate it. You can decorate such a toy structure in any way you like, for example, cover it with colored paper or fabric, decorate it with ribbons, lace, beads, buttons or something else. If you want to involve your child in the process, then cover the walls of the house with plain white paper, and let the child paint them at his own discretion.
• Just like the outside, the inside of the house also needs to be decorated. Unnecessary remnants of wallpaper, fabric, oilcloth will come in handy here.

How to make a cardboard house for a child

It's no secret that kids simply love to build small makeshift homes for themselves from everything they can get their hands on. You can help your child and do for him cardboard house from big box, what is left, for example, from a refrigerator or washing machine. The process of creating such a craft is similar to the previous one:

• The cardboard house must be durable, so tape all its joints and corners from the inside with tape.
• Draw the windows with a pencil and cut them out with a utility knife. Make the doors in the same way.
• If the box is too low for a child, the top can be cut off and an L-shaped roof can be attached in its place.
• You can decorate such a house with any available materials. You can cover it with paper or wallpaper, simply paint or paint it. Can be used natural materials for decoration: cones, branches, leaves.

All details children's house It is better to fasten with tape or a stapler, since glue will not work desired result and the house will fall apart.