You still do not know how to make a house out of matches, to create pictures from these wooden elements? Check out the master classes illustrated with 57 photographs! This activity calms down, helps to make wonderful things out of ordinary matches: a house, a church, a painting and even a guitar. Let's start with simple examples, and after getting your hands on it, you can move on to creating more global items.
How to make a house out of matches?
To create it, you need only 3 item names:
- matches;
- plasticine;
- coin.
This structure is made by hand without the use of glue, it will be durable anyway. A great way to keep yourself busy on the road or while away the time on long autumn and winter evenings.
- Put 2 matches in parallel. Secure them to the work surface with plasticine.
- From above, perpendicular to the data, place 8 matches so that the heads and tails are peeking out from both sides of the first two matches. Lay these "beams" at home at the same distance.
- The first tier is ready. The second also consists of eight matches, we lay them perpendicular to the first layer.
- On top, along the perimeter, put 4 matches.
- In total, you need to complete 6 such fragments, consisting of 2 rows of 8 and one of four matches.
- The creation of the frame of the structure is completed by 8 matches, laid parallel to each other and 6, which you will place perpendicular to them. Here's how to help make a match a house further.
- To make the frame strong, crush its fragments from above with a coin, and from below with your hand. Holding the workpiece in this way, stick 4 matches in the corners of the house, and then around the entire perimeter.
- Put a coin inside the "logs", press on it so that the elements of the structure are tightly pressed against each other, and the heads of the vertical matches are well marked. Insert 6 matches between them, and the same number - perpendicular to the data.
- Here's how to make a match house next to form the roof. Stick 4 matches in the corners of the frame, and then 7 more pieces into the top of each wall.
- In the resulting roof box, we lay the matches horizontally so that in each subsequent row there are fewer of them than in the previous one, and a triangular roof begins to form.
- There will be 6 matches on one side and as many on the other side of the gable roof, while their heads will intersect with each other, and the reverse sides of the matches will be held on vertically set "blocks".
Here's how to make a house out of matches without glue.
Such a structure will be an original gift, and it is made of cheap material. If you liked this idea, do not stop there, see what else you can make of matches. These wooden items look great, and you can organize a home exhibition by placing them on a table or on shelves.
What can be made from matches?
Having learned the answer to this question, you can make not only a house, but also a lot of interesting things. Do you want to have a whole composition made of wood? Then see how to make a well and a fence from the same material.
To do this, you need:
- matches;
- stationery knife;
- glue for wood;
- thin brush;
- toothpick;
- board;
- thin thread.
Follow the instructions below:
- Prepare the matches first. Place one at a time on the board, cut off the heads with gray. They can not be thrown away, but used for firecrackers.
- Place 4 matches, forming a square with the ends extending beyond it. To do this, put the first one, place the second perpendicular to this one, but so that at the point of their contact, the end of the first protrudes 5 mm.
- The edge of the second will be the same and in the same way when you connect it to the third match. In this technique, fold all 4 parts, gluing the place where they meet.
- In total, you will have 9 rows of "bars" for the house for the well. In each subsequent match, the edges of the matches should come out so that they form an angle of 90 ° with these elements of the previous one.
- To make the pillars supporting the roof of the well, place 2 matches in parallel at a distance of 3 mm. Cut the third into 2 pieces, glue one to the top and the other to the bottom to connect 2 paired pieces. Make another similar column.
- Pass a toothpick into the hole formed on one and the other side, after winding a thread around it. Glue to the posts. Bend a toothpick on one side to form a rotating handle.
- We make the roof. Put 2 matches in parallel, stick on them perpendicularly, putting close to each other, 13 matches. Also create the second half of the gable roof. Connect them by threading the top of two matches into the first ramp, and the top of the other two into the second. From the bottom, glue it horizontally on both sides along a match so that the roof looks triangular from the side.
- Next to the well, place a fence made of two parallel matches, to which a few more elements in the form of a picket fence are glued perpendicularly.
If you want, sculpt a bucket out of plasticine or make it from a thimble and attach it to the bottom of the rope. You can make a cart out of matches and complement the landscape of country life with it.
To work you will need:
- matches;
- knife;
- glue;
- rag.
First you need to cut off the sulfur from all the blanks. To make a wheel, bend the match in three places, so we give it a rounded shape. Do the same with the second wooden stick.
Now we will make the axle for the wheel. The first will be the longest, this is needed to connect the structure. Place the second axis so that it is perpendicular to the given one.
Place four small pieces that will become the radii of this circle. Make the second wheel in the same way.
Glue them together with one match. Perform the second pair of wheels using the same technique.
Now you need to connect these two blanks with three crossbars.
We start making the following fragments, which will tell you how to make matches an excellent building material for home art. For each of them, take two matches, place a small fragment of this material in the center, connecting the elements with glue. The second part is identical to this one.
Now put these two blanks in parallel, connect them with three matches, as in the photo. We glue two matches to the resulting part, placing them slightly obliquely.
There is very little left, and soon you will find out that you can make such an interesting cart out of matches, which will become almost an exact copy of the real one. We glue two diagonal pieces of wood together using the third. We perform the same manipulation on the other side of the part.
Glue one match on both sides of the cart and flip it over to the other side to fill each side with three small wooden sticks.
You can hoist the top of the cart onto a wheeled piece and place a new piece of homemade woodwork next to others.
After you have done a lot of useful things, you will be left with empty boxes, but they can also be used. The child will be just happy if, together with him, you make such a train, in which you can put small toys.
Here are the items taken for this creation:
- match boxes;
- glue for cardboard;
- toothpicks - 9 pcs.;
- wine corks - 2 pcs.;
- several matches;
- threads;
- Scotch;
- cotton wool;
- thick needle.
Have an adult cut the wine corks into circles. From one you should get 8 wheels. Use a needle to make pairs of holes in the matchbox and in the center of the wheels. Match the blanks, connect them with toothpicks.
Craft other cars in the same way. Connect them with a thread and a needle.
In order for the cars to withstand the weight of the toys planted in them, take a strong thread, it is better to use yarn for this.
Now you can make a steam locomotive. To make it, glue an inverted box to the finished carriage, connect them together with another one, which must be placed on the small side.
To make a pipe that emits safe smoke, place several matches next to each other, and place a toothpick in the center. Put cotton wool on top of the pipe, rewind it all with tape to secure. Attach this finishing touch to the engine by sticking a toothpick into its cardboard surface.
Children will be interested not only in this idea. If you tell them what can be made from matches, they will gladly make a funny picture. Depending on the age of the child, it can be simpler or more complex.
How to make a portrait, a picture of matches?
If the child is small, before giving him matches for creativity, cut off the sulfur from them. After all, a baby can taste it by the mouth, and the substance is very harmful.
After the wooden sticks are ready, you can proceed. So, for such a picture you will need:
- matches without sulfur;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- pencil;
- glue;
- paint with a brush.
First, draw the outlines of the future masterpiece on cardboard. If the child wants to create such a donkey, then let him glue his body with matches, placing all of them vertically and tightly to each other. The neck of the animal is performed in the same way, but matches are taken of different lengths.
After the donkey is created, have the child paint over the background of the picture. You can glue a few small twigs, and the masterpiece is ready.
See how to make a house out of matches so that it is flat.
The walls are square, the roof is rectangular. For trees, a trunk is first made, then branches are laid out from matches.
A very interesting idea is offered for older children and adults. After reading it, you will learn how to make a portrait from matches.
You will need a lot of them and preliminary preparation is necessary, since you need to remove the sulfur. To do this, the matches are placed in a basin of water and the spraying unnecessary for further work is washed. Then they need to be dried.
Use an awl or other sharp object to make 4 holes in the box, it is important that they are at the optimal distance. If it is small, then all the matches may not fit, and if it is too large, then the formed cube will become too loose and crumble.
Further, it is necessary to make some kind of a well, the walls of which consist of seven rows of matches.
We fill the inner part of the workpiece by placing matches around the entire perimeter. We align them with a coin, after which we remove this cube from the box and very carefully so that it does not crumble, we squeeze it from all six sides.
We put this square blank on its side and fill the upper side with a horizontal row. We also make out the other three sides.
In the process of this work, do not forget to carefully squeeze the cube so that the wooden components fit snugly against each other. Now about how many matches you need. About 150 pieces will go for one cube. In total, you need to make 30 such figures. Place them next to each other so that the heads of uncleaned matches with gray are at the edges. Then they will form a beautiful frame.
It is very easy to connect the squares. Stick 4 matches along the edges of the first and second, press a little so that the two figures begin to fit tightly to each other. Thus, create the first row.
Then, also, connecting the elements with four matches, build a canvas for the picture.
To make a portrait from matches further, print the image. It can be a favorite hero, friend, or self-portrait. Print in black and white using checked paper. If this is not possible, then simply line up the photo by drawing rows with a ruler and pencil. The lines that enclose a 10 by 10 square should be clearer.
This is how the portrait on the grid should look like. For example, let's create a Paul Walker look from matches.
Looking at the linking, put the matches with the sulfur heads forward where there are dark fragments in the photo. This will select them and be able to take a portrait.
It remains to mask the joints of the cubes so that these places look more accurate, and you can put your work in the most prominent place and be rightfully proud of it!
If you still have any questions, watch the three videos. From the first plot, you will learn how to make cubes for the base.
The second shows how to connect these fragments into a whole canvas.
The third plot will teach you how to transfer the image you like to a stencil and lay it out of matches.
