Very soon you will learn how to make cardboard figures, volumetric and flat letters, a house and much more. You can make a lot of interesting things out of cardboard. They will help you decorate your home, please your child and will be an excellent present.
We make a house out of cardboard with our own hands
This is how the house will turn out to be fabulous. Make it with your child, teaching your favorite child to craft from various materials. Take:
- cardboard;
- hot gun;
- stationery knife;
- glue Moment;
- ruler;
- dish sponge;
- pencil;
- for decoration: beads, cotton wool.
On the back of the cardboard, draw a spread-out sketch of your future home. Create a roof and a pipe.
If this is the first time you are doing this kind of work, then it is better to first draw a template for the parts of the house on paper, and then cut out this pattern and apply it to the cardboard. Outline the cardboard blanks and cut them out with a clerical knife.
Where you need to bend, draw along the marking with a knife, without pressing hard on the blade, just to cut a layer of cardboard on top and then break it here.
Now, using a hot glue gun, glue the walls of the house, glue the roof and pipe to them.
Place the house on a piece of cardboard and cut out the bottom. Glue this blank to the bottom of the building. Cut strips from the remains of cardboard and glue them to the house in random order. They will act as boards.
Take an acrylic paste and use a coarse brush to apply strokes to the surface of the house.
Now dry this layer and start painting the house. First, cover the roof with the desired tone so that at this time you can comfortably hold the structure behind the walls.
Paint the door, but the child himself will be happy to do this part of the work. And the next one is better for you. Since you need to tint the roof and walls with a thin brush with a darker shade, and draw bricks on the pipe.
Paint the windows and doors white, and now paint the frame pink and tint the door with the same color.
Cut a strip from the sponge so that you can take white paint with this blank and cover the raised areas with it with pokes. Then they will become light, and deeper ones - dark.
When the acrylic dries up, you can decorate a house made of cardboard, which you will make with your own hands for children or will create with them. Squeeze out the Moment glue from a thin tube, apply it to the surface of the house and attach cotton wool here. And you can fix bugles on the walls, white beads will look beautiful below.
Here is such a wonderful fairy-tale house made of cardboard. For crafts, you can use unnecessary beads and packing boxes. You can make the house to your liking. See how wonderful the snow on the roof looks, made from white satin ribbons.
See how to craft a different type of building.
How to make a house out of cardboard and paper?
To make such a village hut, you will need:
- paper;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- glue;
- pencil;
- elements for decoration.
A master class and step-by-step photos show how to make such a structure. First, you will need to cut an A4 sheet across into rectangles. Now each piece is wrapped around a pencil. Make straws by gluing their loose ends. Now you need to assemble a house from these elements. First, put 4 straws of paper so that they form a square, but at the corners the ends of these logs will protrude slightly.
Glue the elements together to create a base. Now add four more straws, starting on the small sides. In this way, complete the entire box for the house. Fold a piece of cardboard in half and glue it to the roof. Close the gables with triangles of cardboard on both sides.
Cut out the windows from paper, color them and glue them in place. If a small child does such work, then you can not close the triangular roof elements on both sides, but simply glue it. The child will be happy to attach pictures from his favorite cartoons to such a village hut.
It is very interesting to craft from waste materials. After all, the next hut is made of toilet paper rolls. Show your child how to make this cardboard house. Let him create such a small masterpiece with his own hands.
To do this, the child will need:
- toilet paper rolls;
- white paper;
- black felt-tip pen;
- colored paper;
- PVA glue;
- sequins;
- scissors.
Some bushings are cut in half, while others are cut in two short and two long pieces. Then the houses will be of different sizes.
Now let the child cut white paper into strips 15 cm long. The width of these blanks should be such that it is 3 cm higher than the height of each cardboard blank. The kid will be happy to cut windows out of colored paper, draw frames on them, and on the other hand make doors. These elements are glued to the center of each paper strip.
Now you need to glue the cardboard sleeves with paper, bending it over their edges.
To make a cardboard house further, let the child cut triangles out of colored paper with his own hands and roll each into a cylinder. Free edges must be fixed with PVA or glue stick.
To decorate triangular houses, you need to cover them with rows of glue, and then sprinkle glitter here.
See what wonderful cardboard and paper houses are obtained.
Prepare:
- toilet paper rolls;
- glue;
- felt;
- paints;
- scissors;
- brush.
The cylinders need to be painted, and then, when the coating dries, cut out a rectangular entrance for the gnome.
An isosceles triangle should be cut out of felt, its opposite two sides should be glued to form a cone.
Use a glue gun or stapler for this. Now these triangular roofs are glued to the top of each house, and the gnome's dwelling is ready.
See what other cardboard house you can make with your own hands. This project will be very interesting for children.
Do-it-yourself Santa Claus hut made of cardboard
Here's what you will get to work:
- cardboard box;
- scissors;
- stationery knife;
- sandpaper;
- paints;
- Scotch;
- brushes;
- polyurethane foam.
Lift the top two pieces of the cardboard box and tape them together. The two sidewalls must also be lifted, but cut out to form triangular pediments.
Cut out the entrance to the house in the sidewall. Now patch the middle of the roof and sidewall with the entrance. Cover the outside of the entire house with polyurethane foam.
Take a rectangle of cardboard that is larger than the base of the house. This element needs to be decorated with polyurethane foam, at the same time making snowdrifts.
If you do not have foam, then use cotton wool, attach it with PVA glue. You can finely chop white paper, turn it into snowflakes. If you used foam, then after it dries, you need to trim off the excess, and then sand these parts with sandpaper.
It remains to paint the house. On the white roof, paint a few strokes of blue paint to show the highlights in the snow.
See what else you can do with cardboard. You will also make inscriptions from this material with your own hands.
How to make letters out of cardboard?
They can be flat and voluminous. Cut out the letters from this material, from which you will lay out the word.
You will need:
- pattern letters or not a ruler;
- pencil;
- sheets of cardboard;
- scissors;
- shiny braid;
- glue;
- metallized cord or strong beautiful rope.
Reprint the templates of the letters you want, or draw them yourself using a ruler and pencil.
Attach these samples to cardboard and cut out the letters with scissors and a utility knife. Now apply the first strokes of hot silicone glue to the workpiece and glue the braid or such a beautiful glitter tape to it.
After completing one row, decorate with a second strip. Thus, you need to decorate all the letters.
Now glue the cord to them on the back.
When the glue has cooled and hardened, you can decorate the wall with such an inscription in the room in which a significant event will be celebrated.
Volumetric letters made of cardboard look beautiful. They can be decorated in a variety of ways.
If you wish, glue the same letter from the ceiling panel on which there are three-dimensional drawings on top of the finished letter.
And you can make them using a sealant or contour. When these materials are dry, you will need to paint the top with a bronze paint, and you will get such an antique letter.
Sometimes there are cardboard sleeves from the tape. Usually they are thrown away, but if you fasten them together in a certain order using hot glue, then you can get such an original strong shelf.
The kids will be delighted with the next gift.
How to make a game dome?
In such a house, children can play aliens, the inhabitants of the North, or come up with their own entertainment. Take:
- cardboard;
- pencil;
- hot glue gun;
- ruler;
- primer;
- spray for metallic paint;
- metal powder;
- white glue;
- acrylic paint;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- ruler.
Such a cardboard house will consist of two types of triangles. The first type of triangles has sides of 26 cm. The second - 30 cm. For the first type you will need 30 triangles, for the second - 10 triangles. On each of them, draw these flaps that will allow you to better glue the pieces of the product.
Attach a ruler to one side of the triangle and draw the flaps. Do the same with the following blanks.
Now lubricate these folds with a hot glue gun and glue 2 pieces together. Attach 5 triangles in total. Your roof will consist of them.
Glue 5 blanks out of five triangles. Connect them together using smaller triangles. Also secure using cardboard strips.
The lower walls are made of squares. You will need 10 and glue them in pairs to keep this part of the house strong. Also fix them with cardboard squares and rectangles.
From the same material, you will need to cut a strip of cardboard to strengthen the entrance with it. Glue this element at the bottom in front of the entrance.
Now you will need to paint the dome. If you have a primer, first run it over the outer walls of the structure. If not, then immediately cover with a layer of paint from a spray can.
When dry, paint over with white acrylic paint. When it dries up, then mark the joints and corners with black paint, which is in the spray bottle.
Using the template, draw these circles on the surface of the house. To do this, mix glue with metal powder, or just use paint of this shade.
You can paint the house as you like. It will turn out to be interesting and fun.
If you wish, then you can not paint the house out of cardboard, but glue it with strips of a contrasting color. An interesting structure will turn out.
How to make cardboard figures with your own hands?
If you need to introduce children to animals, make images of animals out of cardboard. The workshop and templates will help you with this.
Here is such a funny kitty made of pressed paper. Translate templates.
Place them on cardboard and cut them out.
Divide the ice cream sticks in half lengthways with a cutter, and then fold the leg blanks diagonally and glue to the bottom of the sticks.
Using glue, connect the parts, make a tail out of a small strip of cardboard.
Let the kid color the cat at his own discretion.
So, to create this figurine from cardboard, you used:
- cardboard;
- ice cream sticks;
- paints;
- brush;
- cutter;
- glue;
- templates.
For the next one you will need:
- colored cardboard;
- stationery knife;
- scissors;
- pencil.
This horse consists of three parts. The first is the head along with the torso and tail, and the other two are the front and hind legs.
Cut out the body and legs from cardboard, and where the photo shows the image of the slots, you will also need to make them. Now put the legs in these cuts, and the figurine is made of cardboard.
The dinosaur from this material turns out to be very authentic.
Tell your child what parts the dinosaur consists of and cut them out with him. As you can see, this is the torso with the tail and the head, 2 parts of the front and hind legs and spikes that will need to be placed on the back.
Cut these pieces out of cardboard and make the necessary cuts to connect the individual pieces.
Now they will need to be put together, and so that the legs are stable, the legs are folded down below and put the figure on them.
The kid will be happy to play with such a dinosaur, and if he wants, he will color it at his own discretion. The same applies to other animals.
These cardboard figures are made from toilet paper rolls.
- At the bottom of the blanks, you need to cut out the notches to make the legs of the lions. For a lion cub, a half is suitable, so the sleeve must first be cut off.
- Cut out the muzzles with ears from the remaining half or from sheets of cardboard. Glue on store-bought toy eyes or use a blister of pills and black peppercorns.
- Daddy the lion needs to glue the brown mane. It will remain with a felt-tip pen of the same color to draw noses and mouths for these animals, after which you can play with them.
A cardboard elephant can be made quickly too, especially if you also use a toilet paper roll for it. Complete it with a trunk, ears and eyes. Let the child paint the elephant's nails with a white felt-tip pen or paint, and you can replenish such a home zoo with another character.
The following fun cardboard figurines are made from a strip of pressed paper. It is necessary to cut several of these and roll them into a spiral, using an oval-shaped blank for this. I paint the strips first, then it remains only to glue the eyes to them, and cut the ends of the tongue in such a way that a double sting is obtained.
Here are some interesting cardboard figures we recommend to make. If you want to know what else you can create from this fertile material, then open the video player.
The first story tells how to make a laptop out of cardboard. The kid will really like this toy, he will get the first skills in handling this technique.
The second plot is no less interesting. From it you will learn how to make virtual glasses out of cardboard.
