A house made of a cardboard box will delight a child. This material can be used to make a car, a doll palace, a spaceship and much, much more. Any child will look in with interest and begin to play in a cardboard house, which was made especially for him. This also applies to our four-legged friends.
How to make a cat house out of the box?
Probably, many cat owners have noticed that it is worth buying something new into the house in a cardboard box, as a furry pet, having sniffed it, will definitely climb inside. You can use this predilection of an animal by making it a cozy home according to an individual project. Purchased houses for cats are not cheap, but you won't spend a single ruble on one. In addition, such housing can be made at least every week, fortunately, there is enough material for this.
There are a lot of options here. You can build a housing for a pet from a cardboard base, then glue it over with colored paper, draw patterns. This kind of work is to the liking of children, so you can decorate a house for a cat or a cat yourself, or with the assistance of a little assistant. To make the structure stand longer, it is constructed from corrugated cardboard or pasted over with felt on the outside.
You will make such a spacious dwelling in 30-60 minutes. To create it, you should have at hand:
- large cardboard box;
- pencil;
- clerical or construction knife;
- white paper and glue.
Cut the top off the box. Where there will be an entrance or a window, draw a round hole with a pencil. For a template, you can use a large plate, platter, or draw a figure with a compass. Now cut a hole along the markings.
To make a house for a cat or for a cat durable, have a beautiful look, glue the corners of its corners with wide white tape or paper.
Cut out a rectangle from the remains of the cardboard, also strengthen it and put it on top of the structure as a roof.
To make the cat house like the animals, it was cozy, lay a rug or a piece of carpet on the floor. It is better if the materials are natural and can be taken out and cleaned or washed at any time. By creating such housing for animals, if the area allows, you can make a whole system, when a cat will get from one house to another. In one house for a cat, she will eat. Then you need to place containers for food and water here. Another spacious housing will become a place for games, put your favorite animal toys, a scratching post there.
When decorating a do-it-yourself cardboard house, avoid decorating it with small or sharp objects so that the cat does not swallow them and get hurt. Speaking about how to make a house for a cat, it should be noted that the windows in it may look like real ones.
As you can see in the photo, you first need to draw a window consisting of 4 sections, then cut it out. Make the entrance according to the principle of a regular door for a person or a double door for an animal, as shown in the photo on the right. The roof, in this case, was constructed from blue garbage bags held together with duct tape.
Here's how to make a cat house out of junk material. Cardboard gives many more ideas that will help make a home for a doll, a springboard for a child's games, interesting toys with their own hands.
House from a cardboard box for children
With time, material, imagination, the packaging will turn into a real palace, an Indian wigwam, an old castle.
In such a spacious home, the child will play with pleasure. To make such a house for children with your own hands, you should have:
- large cardboard box;
- masking tape;
- scissors and a stationery knife;
- ruler;
- pencil.
First, mark the location where the door will be located. It should be of such a size that the child can pass unhindered. A ruler will help to draw it evenly, draw a horizontal and vertical strip with a pencil, cut along these lines.
To prevent the cardboard from tearing, where the door will bend when opening and closing, strengthen it with masking tape. Further, creating a children's house with your own hands, outline the outlines of the windows, cut them through. On the second floor, make the attic window semicircular on one side, the other windows will protrude outward.
The roof is made up of 4 opening parts of the top, they need to be slightly trimmed and fastened with tape. Let the middle of the roof be open for air access. You can decorate your home with accessories from the same material, for this you need to make beads from cardboard or a garland on which the swallows are located, as shown in the photo.
Home for a princess
It's even easier to create such a medieval castle. For this, you need a tall cardboard box, for example, from under the refrigerator. Its top is removed, and small rectangles need to be cut out in the same place to frame the top of the walls in the desired style.
Further, a paper lock is made as follows. A rectangle is cut in place of the door so that the lower part stays in place. A dense rope is attached to its top, one end of which is passed through the right, and the other through the upper left corner. Now the rope needs to be fixed in the house itself, passing it inside through the doorway.
In such a house, you can play a fairy tale, the girl will like to be a princess who is waiting for a noble knight to free her. There are many plots, it is good if several people are involved in a home performance.
Big house for dolls out of the box
Housing for toys is also made from cardboard. For him, you just need:
- box or sheets of cardboard;
- wrapping or colored paper;
- felt-tip pens;
- scissors.
An amazing house can be created with your daughter. The base consists of three rectangular cardboard sheets. They are fastened together with colored tape. But first you need to draw the holes for the windows, cut them out, glue the inside of the walls. The outside can be decorated, as shown in the photo, using strips of colored paper.
To make floor slabs, cut out 3 sheets of cardboard. Their width should be equal to the width of the walls to which the floor will be attached, and their length should be slightly more than the distance between two opposite walls, so that this sheet can be folded on both sides and glued to the inner parts of the house.
Before attaching intermediate floors, glue a sheet of wrapping or colored paper, you can also use fabric for this. This doll house looks very stylish.
For the roof, a rectangular sheet of cardboard is taken, pre-decorated with colored paper or fabric. It needs to be bent in half and taped to the top of the walls.
The child will be happy to play with the new building, it is interesting for him to arrange doll furniture there at his own discretion. Such skills will certainly come in handy for children in life.
Small dollhouse out of the box or storage container
See what other house for dolls you can make with your own hands. It is created out of a small box. Holes for windows and doors are cut in it, then the inner and outer parts are pasted over with cloth or colored paper.
The next master class clearly shows how to do this, so that as a result you get such a nice box. From it you can make not only a house for dolls, but also a box for storing things, all the little things.
For needlework you will need:
- cardboard shoe box or other;
- bright fabric;
- glue;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- tape measure;
- pencil.
If you are making a container for storing things, then you need to take such a box so that it fits in the closet. Usually, the height of its sides does not exceed 10 cm. To make such boxes for storing things or for dolls strong, measure 10 cm in height, bend the edges inward, glue them. If the container is already tight, then cut off the excess according to the markings.
The size of the canvas should be such that, bending it inward, one goes to the bottom by 2 cm.
To glue the container with a cloth, lay the canvas on a flat surface, and place the box on top. Apply glue to one side first, as shown in the photo, glue.
Then decorate the other 3 sides of the cardboard box in the same way.
Here's what you got at this stage.
So that the bottom of the box for storing things, made with your own hands, is also decorative, you need to mark it and cut a piece of cardboard according to these measurements. Now it is put on the fabric and pasted over on one side and then on the other.
As a result, you will get such a nice little thing in which every little thing will be in its place. If you are planning to make a house for dolls and toys out of it, then glue the cardboard cover with cloth or colored paper too, then cut through the windows and the door.
Empty containers will give you many other interesting ideas.
Tepee for children from cardboard boxes
Making it together with you, the child will broaden his horizons, as he will know in which house the Indians live.
It is very simple to make a wigwam for children. The cardboard box needs to be disassembled, cut from the side, then cut diagonally. The resulting triangle must be pasted over inside and outside with white paper. If you have light cardboard, then you do not need to do this, go straight to the next step.
The wigwams need to be folded 2 times to show two side and one back wall, and then paint them on the outside with zigzag stripes. The top one is yellow, the middle one is blue, the bottom one is blue. To do this, use markers or colored pencils.
There are many other interesting ideas that will tell you what can be made of cardboard, for example:
- kitchen stove;
- space rocket;
- ship;
- automobile;
- airfield and much more.
The toy stove looks like a real one. To do it, place the box on its side. Tape the opening part with tape, place the stove so that this part is at the back. Strengthen the folds with dark strips of elastic tape or paper. Cut out the circles for the burner from cardboard, glue them with brown paper. Make the gas switch from yellow.
Cut a hole on the front panel for the oven, glue the door with paper.
Having cut out a circle in a rectangular sheet of cardboard, glue a red triangle on top, and two of the same figures on the sides, pasting them with blue paper. These are the stages of an interplanetary ship. It remains to connect the hose from the old vacuum cleaner and you can go on a virtual flight in a spaceship.
You can also make a racing car out of cardboard. The front and rear walls of the car are straight, the side walls are rounded at the top. The wheels are made from round pieces of cardboard. The car has no bottom, so by holding it, you can run a race.
These crafts made of paper and cardboard can be made with your own hands, attracting children:
