Cardboard is a natural, relatively inexpensive material that is easy to obtain. Many practical and decorative elements of home decoration are made from it. Such an object as a children's, doll or cat house made of cardboard is easily created with your own hands, made out with backlight, textiles, all kinds of volumetric decorations.
Having built a toy house in the middle of the nursery, a little more than a meter high, you can take a child or two for a long time, from the age of one to six years. The design imitates a multi-story building, a village hut. Perform it according to sketches and patterns, or more simply - from a large box from large-sized household appliances. The appropriate size of the structure is 120 by 80 by 80 cm. Some stores sell “moving boxes”, but if they could not be found, sheets of corrugated cardboard are bought - they will need at least two or three.
If you connect two or three or more cardboard boxes of different sizes, you will get a “multi-room” game complex in which several children can play at the same time.
Materials, tools
Of the tools, materials you will need:
corrugated cardboard;
sharp scissors or a clerical knife;
PVA glue;
wide adhesive tape;
long ruler;
the remains of wallpaper or colored paper, fabric;
markers, pencils;
glue gun.
First you need to draw a diagram, determine what the details will be.
Manufacturing process
For work, separate pieces of cardboard are used, or one or two large boxes from a washing machine, refrigerator, etc. The design should have four walls and a gable roof, the ends of which are left open so that air can enter. Details are connected by adhesive tape and glue. On the one hand, a door is made so large that the child can climb into the house. The windows are tightened with tulle, transparent film, the walls are painted, glued with paper. A more interesting option is done according to ready-made patterns-schemes downloaded from the Internet. The picture is enlarged to the desired size, the details are cut out, glued to the corrugated cardboard, assembled - it turns out the house already decorated on the outside. It’s also easy to find suitable patterns for your home decor.
A soft rug is placed in the playhouse so that the baby is not cold to play in it.
Cardboard Castle Construction
The real "princess castle" made of cardboard will not leave indifferent any girl. Boys will also like it as a full-fledged “defensive structure”. It will take a lot of cardboard here - two or four towers with a serrated edge, connected by the same jumper walls with battlements on top. If desired, the turrets are decorated with cone-shaped tops with flags. Small windows, an acceptable size entrance are also needed. You can make a miniature desktop lock - it is made of ordinary color cardboard. Any number of turrets is made here, including round ones. Windows and doors are drawn with a marker. It is permissible to place the structure on the “island”, to equip it with a folding bridge-gate equipped with ropes for quick ascent in case of an attack by enemies. Sometimes a castle is a full-fledged model of some famous building.
Decoration, house decoration
Decorate the finished house manually - draw each brick, paste over with colored paper, paint with acrylic, ink, gouache. Children over six to seven years old can decorate the toy house on their own. The roof is decorated with tiles - semicircular “scales” are cut out of cardboard or fabric according to the pattern, which are gradually glued from the bottom up to the side slopes. Each fragment can be painted with its own color. When the "building" provides for interior decoration, it is made of fabric, paper. Inside, the house is sometimes painted - the outlines of furniture and various interior items are applied, and the mirrors are made of foil. They also make lighting inside - a battery-powered night light, LED strip, are suitable for this.
Instructions for the manufacture of a folding house made of cardboard
There are several options for folding houses. The simplest, for example, a large nursery consists of a roof with side walls in which there are slots, and two pentagonal ends with several cardboard protrusions.The ledges are inserted into the slots, and the house is assembled to disassemble it, it takes only a few movements. To create a small layout house you will need thin cardboard. The product is made in origami technique. How to do it step by step:
a square with a side of 20 cm is taken, both sides of which are of different colors, for example, red and yellow,
it is bent in half red outward;
then again - perpendicular to the previous fold;
now the left and right sides are bent towards the middle;
bend back, bend corners;
straighten the edges in different directions;
it turned out to be a house with a red roof, windows and doors are painted on it. From such "structures" it is easy to create a whole village.
DIY cardboard dollhouse
Buying a house for a Barbie doll is expensive, because it is often made independently. When “building”, puppet growth should be taken into account - it should pass freely at the door. The house will have one or several rooms, for the convenience of the game, the roof or the largest wall should be removed. The doll will also need furniture - from the remnants of the corrugated cardboard, matchboxes, tea boxes, colored paper, a sofa, chairs, a dressing table, a wardrobe are created. A piece of linen or felt is placed on the floor - this will be a carpet. Pencils or felt-tip pens on the walls paint the wallpaper.
The simplest house is made of two pieces of cardboard inserted into each other crosswise. It turns out four rooms with two open walls in each.
Cat's house
The house for the cat will please the pet, creating a cozy place for him to sleep. For the simplest “construction”, a box will be needed, a little more than a standard shoe box - the cat should not be there closely. When two or more cats live in an apartment, it makes sense to make a bigger house - many cats love to share a house with a neighbor, especially in the cold season. The building is decorated with a roof - its side walls are made open.The door is made "the size of a cat" - the beast must climb freely into it, but a completely missing wall is not desirable. Windows are also needed - old visually impaired animals are sometimes afraid of completely enclosed spaces. They put a mattress inside the house, outside they paste over with cloth or wallpaper so that the object fits well into the interior. A more complex construction, costly in terms of time and materials, takes the form of a yurt or a hive. Corrugated cardboard here will require a lot, but the house will come out strong, durable. For the base, two circles or ovals of a suitable size are cut out, firmly glued together. After that, three more blanks of the same size are made, but in the middle, stepping back from the edge four to five cm, an oval or round fragment is cut out. Three more details correspond to the previous ones in size, but are made C-shaped. Then, another 12-15 C-shaped elements are carried out, gluing them in layers, but after every two layers the parts are reduced by five to seven mm. At the very end, two layers of the roof are made, the product is dried and ready for use.
Do-it-yourself decorative Christmas houses
Small New Year's houses will decorate a group of kindergarten, school class, home decor. To decorate the holiday, both a candy box-house and a more solid building where dolls dressed as Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden live are suitable. "Construction" is built from:
corrugated board;
ordinary thin cardboard;
bushings for toilet paper;
old postcards;
boxes of tea, juice, milk.
Houses made of sleeves, paper
A pyramid house is made from toilet paper bushings - ten pieces are needed. They need to be glued to each other, to put there "residents" from kinder surprises. If you wish, it will be possible to minimize the interior design by cutting cardboard circles, depicting the decor on them. The outer part is covered with “snow” from white felt, cotton wool, sintepon or painted with a silver spray-paint.If there are more than three bushes, they build a whole night metropolis. To do this, the details are painted with dark paint, leaving only the light rectangles of the windows. Windows can also be cut out of foil or painted with shiny paint. To make a candlestick house, the windows are cut through so that the flame can be seen. An equally interesting idea is an elven town. The upper parts of the bushings are bent with two fingers to get an angle, the structure is slightly flattened. From a square doubled in half, a bright, almost flat roof is made, which is worn on the base of the sleeve. The house is decorated with a window, door, snow on the roof.
The “winter” characters - Santa Claus, deers, hares, snowmen, also made of cardboard sleeves, will protect the New Year’s city.
House of cardboard, polyurethane foam
If at home there is a cylinder of mounting foam, along with cardboard, it will be an excellent material for creating a New Year's house-hut. How it's done:
First you need to build a solid base from corrugated or ordinary cardboard - it is made of any convenient size;
further, starting from the bottom up, the logs of the winter hut are "drawn" with a balloon of foam;
each side is performed separately, not forgetting to leave room for a door, window;
the roof is made last;
almost any paint is suitable for decoration - the walls are partially or completely painted brown, bluish fragments are drawn on the white snowy roof, for greater credibility;
nearby, also from foam, they build fir-trees, snowdrifts, other elements.
Backlit houses
Designing a cardboard “building” with LEDs will create a real “magical” design, it looks especially interesting in the evening. If the structure is large, such as a children's game structure, it is easiest to light it with a lamp on a clothespin or LED strip inserted into a socket.It is only important to place the device so that the probability of touching and breaking it is minimal. The winter dollhouse is also illuminated, with light being sent to each room. To create lighting, segments of an LED strip and a power supply are used. On the rear wall of the house are switches that allow you to illuminate each room separately. It’s even more interesting to build a whole magical city. To work, you will need:
stand is a simple dense cardboard, which is placed on the table, bedside table, window sill, any other surface where the composition will be placed;
blanks for houses - boxes of tea, milk, juice, shoes, etc .;
paints - acrylic, gouache, watercolor;
paper - white and several bright colors;
snow - it is made of polystyrene foam, cotton wool, padding polyester, paper napkins or they buy dry imitation in bags, liquid imitation in cylinders;
the illumination itself is a ribbon of LEDs, a Christmas tree garland, individual colored bulbs with stands, running on batteries;
residents of the town - the corresponding size of the figures of animals, men, snowmen, Snow Maiden, Santa Claus.
Sometimes lanterns along the paths, luminous signs, etc. are made in the city.
Ways to decorate New Year's houses
A New Year’s house is usually painted by hand - it imitates a log cabin, a brick structure. The roof is decorated with snow made of cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, white felt. The substrate glade on which the house stands is made of the same material. It looks interesting house from a simple corrugated cardboard, on the roof of which the contours of doors, windows, tiles are painted with white paint. If the house is planned to be made an element of the winter composition, the environment for it is molded from polymer clay, salt dough, paper. Here you can sculpt or cut Christmas trees, a doghouse, figures of forest residents. Since the "picture" is winter, white or silver paint in a spray can, for decorating many details will be very helpful.
Conclusion
Doll, children, souvenir, New Year's or cat's house is easy to make from cardboard boxes, sheets of thick paper of various sizes. Workshops on the manufacture of such crafts are easy to find on the Internet, a lot is thought up independently. The simplest models can be performed even by a child of an older kindergarten age.
Cardboard is a natural, relatively inexpensive material that is easy to obtain. Many practical and decorative elements of home decoration are made from it. Such an object as a children's, doll or cat house made of cardboard is easily created with your own hands, made out with backlight, textiles, all kinds of volumetric decorations.
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Master class on making a big house for a child
Having built a toy house in the middle of the nursery, a little more than a meter high, you can take a child or two for a long time, from the age of one to six years. The design imitates a multi-story building, a village hut. Perform it according to sketches and patterns, or more simply - from a large box from large-sized household appliances. The appropriate size of the structure is 120 by 80 by 80 cm. Some stores sell “moving boxes”, but if they could not be found, sheets of corrugated cardboard are bought - they will need at least two or three.
Materials, tools
Of the tools, materials you will need:
Manufacturing process
For work, separate pieces of cardboard are used, or one or two large boxes from a washing machine, refrigerator, etc. The design should have four walls and a gable roof, the ends of which are left open so that air can enter. Details are connected by adhesive tape and glue. On the one hand, a door is made so large that the child can climb into the house. The windows are tightened with tulle, transparent film, the walls are painted, glued with paper. A more interesting option is done according to ready-made patterns-schemes downloaded from the Internet. The picture is enlarged to the desired size, the details are cut out, glued to the corrugated cardboard, assembled - it turns out the house already decorated on the outside. It’s also easy to find suitable patterns for your home decor.
Cardboard Castle Construction
The real "princess castle" made of cardboard will not leave indifferent any girl. Boys will also like it as a full-fledged “defensive structure”. It will take a lot of cardboard here - two or four towers with a serrated edge, connected by the same jumper walls with battlements on top. If desired, the turrets are decorated with cone-shaped tops with flags. Small windows, an acceptable size entrance are also needed. You can make a miniature desktop lock - it is made of ordinary color cardboard. Any number of turrets is made here, including round ones. Windows and doors are drawn with a marker. It is permissible to place the structure on the “island”, to equip it with a folding bridge-gate equipped with ropes for quick ascent in case of an attack by enemies. Sometimes a castle is a full-fledged model of some famous building.
Decoration, house decoration
Decorate the finished house manually - draw each brick, paste over with colored paper, paint with acrylic, ink, gouache. Children over six to seven years old can decorate the toy house on their own. The roof is decorated with tiles - semicircular “scales” are cut out of cardboard or fabric according to the pattern, which are gradually glued from the bottom up to the side slopes. Each fragment can be painted with its own color. When the "building" provides for interior decoration, it is made of fabric, paper. Inside, the house is sometimes painted - the outlines of furniture and various interior items are applied, and the mirrors are made of foil. They also make lighting inside - a battery-powered night light, LED strip, are suitable for this.
Instructions for the manufacture of a folding house made of cardboard
There are several options for folding houses. The simplest, for example, a large nursery consists of a roof with side walls in which there are slots, and two pentagonal ends with several cardboard protrusions.The ledges are inserted into the slots, and the house is assembled to disassemble it, it takes only a few movements. To create a small layout house you will need thin cardboard. The product is made in origami technique. How to do it step by step:
DIY cardboard dollhouse
Buying a house for a Barbie doll is expensive, because it is often made independently. When “building”, puppet growth should be taken into account - it should pass freely at the door. The house will have one or several rooms, for the convenience of the game, the roof or the largest wall should be removed. The doll will also need furniture - from the remnants of the corrugated cardboard, matchboxes, tea boxes, colored paper, a sofa, chairs, a dressing table, a wardrobe are created. A piece of linen or felt is placed on the floor - this will be a carpet. Pencils or felt-tip pens on the walls paint the wallpaper.
Cat's house
The house for the cat will please the pet, creating a cozy place for him to sleep. For the simplest “construction”, a box will be needed, a little more than a standard shoe box - the cat should not be there closely. When two or more cats live in an apartment, it makes sense to make a bigger house - many cats love to share a house with a neighbor, especially in the cold season. The building is decorated with a roof - its side walls are made open.The door is made "the size of a cat" - the beast must climb freely into it, but a completely missing wall is not desirable. Windows are also needed - old visually impaired animals are sometimes afraid of completely enclosed spaces. They put a mattress inside the house, outside they paste over with cloth or wallpaper so that the object fits well into the interior. A more complex construction, costly in terms of time and materials, takes the form of a yurt or a hive. Corrugated cardboard here will require a lot, but the house will come out strong, durable. For the base, two circles or ovals of a suitable size are cut out, firmly glued together. After that, three more blanks of the same size are made, but in the middle, stepping back from the edge four to five cm, an oval or round fragment is cut out. Three more details correspond to the previous ones in size, but are made C-shaped. Then, another 12-15 C-shaped elements are carried out, gluing them in layers, but after every two layers the parts are reduced by five to seven mm. At the very end, two layers of the roof are made, the product is dried and ready for use.
Do-it-yourself decorative Christmas houses
Small New Year's houses will decorate a group of kindergarten, school class, home decor. To decorate the holiday, both a candy box-house and a more solid building where dolls dressed as Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden live are suitable. "Construction" is built from:
Houses made of sleeves, paper
A pyramid house is made from toilet paper bushings - ten pieces are needed. They need to be glued to each other, to put there "residents" from kinder surprises. If you wish, it will be possible to minimize the interior design by cutting cardboard circles, depicting the decor on them. The outer part is covered with “snow” from white felt, cotton wool, sintepon or painted with a silver spray-paint.If there are more than three bushes, they build a whole night metropolis. To do this, the details are painted with dark paint, leaving only the light rectangles of the windows. Windows can also be cut out of foil or painted with shiny paint. To make a candlestick house, the windows are cut through so that the flame can be seen. An equally interesting idea is an elven town. The upper parts of the bushings are bent with two fingers to get an angle, the structure is slightly flattened. From a square doubled in half, a bright, almost flat roof is made, which is worn on the base of the sleeve. The house is decorated with a window, door, snow on the roof.
House of cardboard, polyurethane foam
If at home there is a cylinder of mounting foam, along with cardboard, it will be an excellent material for creating a New Year's house-hut. How it's done:
Backlit houses
Designing a cardboard “building” with LEDs will create a real “magical” design, it looks especially interesting in the evening. If the structure is large, such as a children's game structure, it is easiest to light it with a lamp on a clothespin or LED strip inserted into a socket.It is only important to place the device so that the probability of touching and breaking it is minimal. The winter dollhouse is also illuminated, with light being sent to each room. To create lighting, segments of an LED strip and a power supply are used. On the rear wall of the house are switches that allow you to illuminate each room separately. It’s even more interesting to build a whole magical city. To work, you will need:
Ways to decorate New Year's houses
A New Year’s house is usually painted by hand - it imitates a log cabin, a brick structure. The roof is decorated with snow made of cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, white felt. The substrate glade on which the house stands is made of the same material. It looks interesting house from a simple corrugated cardboard, on the roof of which the contours of doors, windows, tiles are painted with white paint. If the house is planned to be made an element of the winter composition, the environment for it is molded from polymer clay, salt dough, paper. Here you can sculpt or cut Christmas trees, a doghouse, figures of forest residents. Since the "picture" is winter, white or silver paint in a spray can, for decorating many details will be very helpful.
Conclusion
Doll, children, souvenir, New Year's or cat's house is easy to make from cardboard boxes, sheets of thick paper of various sizes. Workshops on the manufacture of such crafts are easy to find on the Internet, a lot is thought up independently. The simplest models can be performed even by a child of an older kindergarten age.