How to make a cardboard house for a child

Cardboard is a natural, relatively inexpensive material that is easy to get. Many practical and decorative elements of home decoration are made from it. Such an object as a children's, puppet or cat house made of cardboard is easily created with your own hands, decorated with lighting, textiles, and all sorts of voluminous decorations.

Master class on making a big house for a child

Having built a toy house in the middle of a children's room, a little over a meter high, you can take a child for a long time or even two, aged from one to six years. The design imitates a multi-storey building, a rural hut. Perform it according to the sketches and patterns, or easier - from a large box of large household appliances. Suitable building sizes are 120 by 80 by 80 cm. Some stores sell “moving boxes”, but if you could not find such ones, corrugated cardboard sheets are bought - they will need at least two or three.

If you combine two or three or more cardboard boxes of different sizes, you get a “multi-room” game complex in which several children can play at the same time.

Materials, tools

From tools, materials you will need:

• corrugated cardboard;
• sharp scissors or office knife;
• PVA glue;
• wide scotch tape;
• long ruler;
• remnants of wallpaper or colored paper, cloth;
• markers, pencils;
• glue gun.

First you should draw a diagram, determine what the details will be.

Manufacturing process

Separate pieces of cardboard or one or two large boxes of a washing machine, a refrigerator, etc. are used for work. The design must have four walls and a double-slope roof, the ends of which are left open for air to flow. Details are connected with adhesive tape and glue. On the one hand, a door is made that size so that the child can climb into the house. The windows are tightened with tulle and transparent film; the walls are painted and pasted over with paper. A more interesting option is done on ready-made patterns, schemes downloaded from the Internet. The picture is enlarged to the required size, parts are cut out, glued onto corrugated cardboard, assembled - it turns out a house that has already been designed outside. For interior decor it is also easy to find suitable patterns.

A soft mat is placed in the playhouse so that the baby is not cold to play in it.

Construction of the cardboard lock

This "castle of the princess", made of cardboard, will not leave indifferent any girl. Boys will also like it as a complete "fortification". Cardboard here will require a lot - two or four towers with a jagged edge, connected by the same lintels-walls with teeth on top. If desired, the turrets are decorated with cone-shaped tops with flags. Small windows, the entrance of an acceptable size is also necessary. You can make a miniature table lock - it is made from the usual colored cardboard. The turrets here are any number, including round. Windows and doors are drawn with a marker. The design can be placed on the "island", provide a folding bridge-gate, equipped with ropes for a quick rise - in case of enemy attacks. Sometimes the castle is a full-fledged layout of a famous building.

Decoration, house decoration

Decorate the finished house by hand - draw each brick, glue with colored paper, dye with acrylic, ink, gouache. Children older than six or seven years old can decorate a toy house on their own. The roof is decorated with tiles - semicircular “scales” are cut out of cardboard or fabric according to a pattern, which are pasted on the side slopes step by step, from bottom to top. Each fragment is permissible to paint its own color scheme. When the interior is provided in the “building”, it is made of cloth, paper. Inside the house is sometimes painted - put the outlines of furniture, various interior items, and the mirrors are made of foil. They also make lighting inside - a nightlight with batteries, LED strip will do for this.

Instructions for making a folding cardboard house

Folding houses there are several options. The simplest, for example, a large children's room consists of a roof with side walls, in which there are slots, and two pentagonal ends with several cardboard protrusions. The tabs are inserted into the slots, and the house is assembled to disassemble it, it takes just a few movements. To create a small house layout will need a thin cardboard. The product is made in the technique of origami. How to do it step by step:

• a square with a side of 20 cm is taken, both sides of which are of a different color, for example, red and yellow,
• it is bent in half red outwards;
• then again - perpendicular to the previous bend;
• now the left and right sides are bent to the middle;
• bend back, bend the corners;
• straighten the edges in different directions;
• It turned out a house with a red roof, on it draw windows and doors. From such "constructions" it is easy to create a whole village.

Cardboard Doll House DIY

A purchase house for a Barbie doll is expensive, because it is often done independently. When "building" should take into account the growth of puppet - it should be free to pass through the door. The house will have one or several rooms, for the convenience of playing the roof or the largest wall should be removed. Also, the doll will need furniture - from the remnants of corrugated cardboard, matchboxes, boxes of tea, colored paper, a sofa, chairs, a dressing table, a wardrobe are created. A piece of linen or felt fabric is put on the floor - this will be a carpet. With pencils or felt-tip pens on the walls draw wallpaper.

The easiest house is made of two pieces of cardboard inserted into each other by criss-cross. It turns out four rooms with two open walls in each.

Cat's house

House for a cat will please the pet, creating a cozy place to sleep. For the simplest "construction" you need a box, a little more than a standard shoe - the cat should not be crowded there. When two or more cats live in an apartment, it makes sense to make a bigger house - many cats like to share a dwelling with a neighbor, especially in cold weather. The building is made out of the roof - its sides are made open. The door is made "in the size of a cat" - the beast should freely climb into it, but the completely missing wall is not desirable. Windows are also necessary - old visually impaired animals are sometimes afraid of completely enclosed spaces. A mattress is put inside the house, the outside is covered with fabric or wallpaper, so that the object fits well into the interior. More complex, costly in terms of time and materials, the structure has the form of a yurt or hive. Here it will take a lot of corrugated cardboard, but the house will come out strong, durable. For the base cut two circles or oval of a suitable size, firmly glued together. After that, three more blanks of the same size are made, but in the middle, departing from the edge of four to five cm., An oval or circular fragment is cut out. Three more parts correspond to the previous size, but are made C-shaped. Next, another 12-15 C-shaped elements are performed, gluing them together 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.

Decorative Christmas houses do it yourself

Small Christmas houses will decorate a group of kindergarten, school class, home furnishings. To decorate the holiday, both a candy box-house and a more solid construction, where the dolls dressed as Santa Claus and Snow Maiden live, will be suitable. "Construction" is constructed from:

• corrugated cardboard;
• ordinary thin cardboard;
• sleeves from toilet paper;
• old postcards;
• boxes of tea, juice, milk.

Houses of the sleeves, paper

From the sleeves of toilet paper is a house-pyramid - the details will need ten pieces. They need to stick together with each other, settle there "residents" of kinder surprises. If you wish, it will be possible to minimally decorate the interior, cutting out cardboard circles, depicting the situation on them. The outer part is pasted over with "snow" from white felt, cotton wool, sintepon or painted with silver spray paint. If there are more bushes than three, build a whole night megalopolis. To do this, the parts are painted in dark paint, leaving only the bright rectangles of the windows. Windows can also be cut out of foil or painted with shiny paint. To make a candlestick house, windows are cut through so that you can see the flame. No less interesting idea - elf town. The tops of the sleeves are bent with two fingers to make a corner, the design is slightly flattened. A bright, almost flat roof, which is put on the base of the hub, is made of a double folded square. The house is made out of the window, door, snow on the roof.

To protect the New Year's city will be the "winter" characters - Santa Claus, deer, hares, snowmen, also made of cardboard sleeves.

House of cardboard, foam

If at home there is a cylinder of foam, together 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 foundation of corrugated or plain cardboard - it is made of any convenient size;
• further, starting from the bottom up, logs of the winter hut are drawn with a foam balloon;
• each side is carried out separately, not forgetting to leave room for the door, windows;
• the roof is issued last;
• almost any paint will be suitable for decoration - the walls are partially or completely painted brown, on the white snow-covered roof they draw bluish fragments, for greater plausibility;
• Nearby, also from foam, constructing fir-trees, drifts, other elements.

Backlit houses

Making the cardboard "built" LEDs will create a real "magic" design, especially interesting such a building looks in the evening. If the structure is large, such as a children's play structure, the easiest way is to light it with a lamp on a clothes peg or LED strip inserted into the outlet. It is only important to place the device so that the probability of hitting and breaking it is minimal. The winter dollhouse is also illuminated, with light being transmitted to each room. To create the lighting used segments of the LED strip, power supply. On the back of the house there are switches that allow lighting each room separately. More interesting to build a magical city. To work will require:

• the stand is a simple thick cardboard that is put on the table, a bedside table, a window sill, any other surface where the composition will be placed;
• blanks for houses - boxes for tea, milk, juices, shoes, etc .;
• paints - acrylic, gouache, watercolor;
• paper - white and several bright colors;
• snow - it is made of foam plastic, cotton wool, padding polyester, paper napkins or buy dry imitation bags, liquid - in cylinders;
• the light itself - a ribbon of LEDs, a Christmas tree garland, individual colored light bulbs with stands, working on batteries;
• residents of the town - appropriately sized animal figures, men, snowmen, Snow Maiden, Father Frost.

In the city sometimes make lights along the tracks, luminous signs, etc.

Ways to decorate Christmas houses

New Year's house is usually painted by hand - imitates a log cabin, a brick structure. Roof make out snow from cotton wool, a 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 are drawn with white paint the contours of doors, windows, tiles. If the house is planned to make an element of the winter composition, the surrounding environment for it is molded from polymer clay, salt dough, paper. Here you can fashion or cut Christmas trees, a dog house, figures of forest dwellers. Since the “picture” is winter, white or silver paint in a can, for decorating many details it will be very helpful.

Conclusion

Puppet, children, souvenir, New Year's or cat's house is easy to make from cardboard boxes, sheets of thick paper of various sizes. Workshops for making such crafts are easy to find on the Internet, much is thought up on their own. The simplest models of the power to perform even a child of older kindergarten age.