Need an unusual gift wrap? Need crafts in the form of an architectural structure? If you like to be creative with children, you can make a cardboard house together. Implementation technologies will be similar, but choose the size and design in accordance with your individual idea.
Beautiful houses: options and ideas
A cardboard house can be made in the following options:
- A game structure for children of such a size that you can go inside (an alternative to expensive plastic complexes).
- A small architectural form for dolls with a removable or missing front wall and a room interior designed to the smallest detail.
- Craft on New Year's theme, for example, the house of Santa Claus.
- Gift box of an unusual shape.
As you can see, there are several possibilities. Choose the right option. Make the game of children more interesting and developing with affordable means.
What is required
To make a cardboard house with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:
- Cardboard (corrugated for the frame, decorative for decoration).
- Parts templates, diagrams, and reamers.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Eraser.
- Scissors.
- Knife.
- Glue or thermal gun.
- Decorative paper for decoration.
- The cloth.
- Paints.
- Brushes.
- Felt-tip pens.
- Suitable decoration elements (pebbles, flowers, beads, beads).
The set and quantity of materials will depend on which one and for what purpose you will make the house. For a growth design, you need a strong frame, and thin cardboard or thick paper is also suitable for packaging. Packaging design can be fully developed on a computer or print a ready-made template. A large house will have to be crafted manually.
How to make a circuit
If you want to make a small house out of cardboard with your own hands, it is better to use a ready-made template that can be printed directly on the sheet for the product. On thick cardboard it is better to draw a blank. A small house is easy to build like a box from a whole sheet of cardboard with the implementation of folding lines.
If you are going to make a large growth house for children, it is better to cut out all the details separately, although if the dimensions of the material allow, it is easy to make a blank in the form of a scan, as for a box. As a sample, the scheme of a small house is quite suitable. It is enough to increase the sizes of the constituent elements proportionally. If there is a large box of suitable size, it is good to use it. Then you just need to cut out the doors, windows, perhaps strengthen the structure, build a roof on top (more convenient gable) and, of course, decorate the frame.
Manufacturing technology
This section contains the general sequence of steps. In each case there will be its own nuances. So, to make a house of cardboard with your own hands, work as follows:
- Prepare the base material and draw on it a diagram of the house or its component parts.
- Cut out the elements.
- If there are fold lines on the blanks, swipe them with a corner of a ruler or other similar object. So, you will make grooves that will help to smoothly and neatly fold thick cardboard strictly along the line.
- Perform folds.
- Glue the seams.
- If interior partitions are supposed to be inside the house, glue them with a heat gun (hot glue can be applied to the ends of cardboard blanks) or ordinary glue. In the second case, it is better to use additional docking parts in the form of strips bent in half. One edge of such a paper tape will go to the right adjoining wall, the other to the left.
When the whole structure is assembled, proceed to decorate. It is better to cover the inner walls, especially if the docking elements are visible, with decorative paper or cloth. The outer walls of the house is enough to paint.
Although it is possible to lay out the bottom part from pebbles or applique elements (paper parts). In a word, arrange the whole decor at your discretion. The main thing is that it turns out to be appropriate, and it is important to secure it securely, so that during the game the house does not immediately lose its attractive appearance.
Cardboard dollhouse
The technology for manufacturing the frame will be similar to that already described. The only difference is that the facade wall is either not executed at all, or is made to open, like a door with hinges. This can be done on tapes, cardboard strips. When creating a playhouse for dolls, it is important to make it in proportions suitable for the dolls commensurate with them so that they fit and feel comfortable (sitting, standing).
Particular attention is paid to the organization and design of the internal space. Be sure to perform several partition walls between the rooms. They will also serve as a supporting structure. It is important to make furniture (or place the purchased dollhouse). Pay attention to the wall decoration. If everything is properly thought out, the house will turn out to be very realistic, and the process of registration will turn into an interesting lesson for young craftswomen.
New Year's houses from cardboard
This option will have some features. If you are creating just a craft for a competition or interior decoration, it is enough to make it on the basis of a cardboard box. Such a product may not open, and the design (windows, doors) will be drawn or made in the form of an application.
If you want to make gift wrapping, like a house made of cardboard, the product layout should be such that there is an opening part. It should be convenient to get the contents of the gift, while the packaging should not be deformed. At the box-house, the roof can be removed, one of the roof slopes can be opened, the base can be removed or shifted.
So, you can make a beautiful house out of cardboard with your own hands both for gaming purposes in a natural size, comfortable for the child, and as a gift souvenir (packaging or doll's dwelling).