Every child dreams of having his own territory, where he is the master, sovereign. That is why the kids build imitations of houses from improvised materials: they cover the chairs with blankets in the room or hide under the beds, equipping them with furniture similar to them, and on the street they build huts and wigwams from branches. This creates a mess, interferes with the measured life of the family, and can cause accidents. But it’s so easy to give your baby a safe and aesthetic house. For a child, it is not so important how much the realization of his dreams is worth. The main thing is that he has his own small world.
Houses for children: rules of choice
Adults try to make the baby’s life interesting, informative, eventful. But, equipping the play area of the baby, they should remember the main rules.
- Play houses for children should be safe. Kid is a researcher by nature. He may decide to check the strength of the roof, walls of the structure. For this turn of events should be prepared in advance.
- Do not buy too expensive a house for a child. All toys have the ability to break. If half the salary is spent on the house for games, any damage will be met with negative emotions. So a good start will bring disappointment.
- The house for the child should be bright, give him joy. Best of all, if he recalls the dwelling of the character of a fairy tale, literary work, cartoon.
- The game house, of course, should not be a real home. But it will be wonderful if they can not only admire from the outside, but also sit with guests inside or even sleep during a quiet hour, play board games, decorate it with their own hands. Girls with pleasure imagine themselves in them as caring housewives, mothers, caring for dolls. Choosing functional toys for children is another important rule for adults.
Varieties of children's houses
A play area for children will be equipped both indoors and in the yard. To do this, you can install on the street:
- plastic house for children;
- frame house tent with stretched waterproof fabric;
- a wooden hut;
- glass bottle structure;
- housing made of plastic containers.
Imitation home for kids games can be portable, team or stationary.
They also install children's houses in the apartments. To do this, use structures made of:
- plastic;
- tissue;
- paper;
- cardboard;
- bamboo curtains;
- plywood;
- tree.
You can spend money on the equipment of the gaming zone, or you can do it yourself.
Plastic houses
This option is suitable for both the street and the apartment. You can buy a prefabricated structure in specialized stores of children's toys.
Its advantages:
- easy to assemble;
- light weight;
- folds fast;
- transportable for transportation to the country, to nature, to another apartment;
- attracts by the brightness of colors;
- it is well washed;
- serve such houses for a long time.
Often complete with houses are slides, sports equipment, swimming pools.
The only disadvantage is the price, which will not please every adult who decides to please a baby. The cheapest prefabricated gaming dwellings cost about 5,000 rubles. Marketplaces offer to make a purchase of a house made of plastic for 55,000 rubles. And there are goods worth up to 520 thousand.
Tent for children
They are suitable for equipping the play area both in the yard and indoors. Tents for children are light, transportable, prefabricated. They can be removed after the game.
Fabric houses are sold in stores. Their prices are quite reasonable. But if you want, it's easy to make a tent house with your own hands. For the construction you will need a wire frame and fabric, best of all raincoat, silk, Bologna.
The bottom and top make any shape. They can be round, square, hexagonal. Between the bottom and top set spacers, from 4 pieces or more. If desired, a towering roof, gable or domed, is made over the structure. She will also need wire spacers.
Then the tent details are cut out of the fabric, sewn, the cover is pulled onto the frame. In places of contact of matter and struts, twine is sewn for tying. Thanks to them, the cover is held on the frame.
Paper house with wooden battens frame
Making such a toy house with your own hands is simple. The manufacturing principle is reminiscent of work on Chinese screens.
- The house frame is knocked out of the rails.
- The remains of the wallpaper glue the voids - form the walls and the roof.
- Carve windows and entrance.
You can make the structure folding.
- To do this, narrow rectangular frames are knocked out of the slats, several on each wall.
- The voids in these blanks are pulled with paper.
- Details fasten together door hinges.
- The upper part is also made of rectangular frames, fastened together by loops.
The screen house is installed in the corner of the room, where the game area is located. In the wall, you can make a hook with which to fix the structure. One of the frames is hinged only on one side. It serves as a door to the home.
Cardboard Game House
Remaining from large purchases of packaging do not rush to throw away. In just half an hour, you can make a simple cardboard house for children out of the boxes. To do this, you just need to find a large box. It is enough to cut out the entrance and windows in it, fold the roof from the top of the box, fasten it with tape, cut off the excess. Then it remains only to decorate the cardboard dwelling, pasted with wallpaper or painted with paints.
Creative people do not want to go the easy way. They make structures according to their own drawings. Having disassembled several cardboard boxes, the master cuts out every detail, collects the structure and glues it with adhesive tape, thick paper or fabric strips.
From above the house can be painted with paints or decorated with wallpaper under a tree, brick. With the skill of construction, you can create a magnificent miniature model of an ancient castle, royal tower or noble mansion.
The disadvantages of such toy dwellings are:
- low strength;
- hygroscopicity of the material, causing corrosion.
Because of this, cardboard houses are undesirable to be installed on the street for a long time. And in apartments they choose a place with low humidity and the absence of drafts.
Children's house from bamboo curtains
Such a construction can be made extremely quickly. It is enough to attach a metal or wooden cornice to the wall with the letter P or G, if you equip a house in the corner of the room. The ceiling can serve as a roof. Although it is allowed to fix the cornice below. Then over it from cardboard or plywood you can make a roof.
Bamboo curtains hung on a cornice will be an excellent imitation of walls, which can be easily lifted if unnecessary. Inside the house there is a children's bed, a table, a chair, shelves for toys, a lamp is hung. It’s good if there is a real window in the corner thus separated.
Bamboo curtains do not have to be bought at the store. According to this principle, it is possible to make walls twisted into rolls with a rope from narrow wooden planks or plastic ceiling borders. For strength, fabric can be used as a base. Wooden planks or pieces of plastic borders are glued onto it, leaving between them 1-2 cm gaps.
Plywood houses
Compared to cardboard, this material is more durable. And the construction, of course, will last longer. But plywood still does not like high humidity. On the street houses from her put only on clear days.
But in apartments such structures are widely used. They equip not only playing areas, but also sleeping places, building towers, palaces, village huts around the beds. If you remove bedding from the house after sleeping, children can be allowed to play inside.
Log huts and log huts
Wooden houses for children, the photos of which are presented below, are environmentally friendly and durable. They are installed both on the street and in the apartment. It all depends on the size of the structure and the area of the apartment.
To build such homes is quite difficult. It requires real skill. Any mistake the builder can cost the children health, injure the baby.
A hut or a mansion for children’s games is a miniature copy of a real residential building. It is best to install the street version on the foundation. The roof is covered with roofing material, slate, the walls are treated with refractory impregnation.
House of Glass Bottles
Today, such structures are erected even for the permanent residence of an entire family. Without a large number of bottles at hand, you can build a children's play house.
- For the construction of the building will need to make a foundation.
- Bottles are placed with the neck inside in a checkerboard pattern.
- The cementitious mortar acts as a bonding agent.
- As guides for walls use strong racks and logs.
- The ceiling and floor are made of wood.
- If desired, the walls can be plastered.
Such a house will serve not only for children's games. It is nice to have a family tea party. And in the country in the winter, when there are no children there, the construction will become a repository of tools.
House of Plastic Bottles
Accumulated trash in the garden or at the cottage can be used to good use. For example, plastic bottles will serve as walls for the original summer house. Children will be happy to play there, receive guests.
Houses made of plastic containers are made in several ways:
- pouring sand into bottles and cementing them together with cement mortar, similar to the method for building buildings from glassware described above (the foundation for such structures will not be redundant);
- pushing them onto the wire, piercing from the side;
- by sticking with tape.
In the first two options, you must first install the frame of wood or metal corners.
The house of bottles fastened with tape is not durable. But you can do it very quickly, and then just as quickly assemble and hide.
Having decided to build a playhouse for the child, each master will probably choose the most convenient option for him. And a creative person will even come up with his own, unique and creative.