DIY matchstick house and other crafts

“Matches for children are not toys” - we have heard this phrase since childhood, but it is matches that can be an excellent tool for the creativity of children and parents. Such classes help children develop fine motor skills and accuracy, adults - it is interesting to spend time with the child. In this article, we will consider how to make a house out of matches with your own hands, and other crafts.

Matching Materials

The fantasy of man is multifaceted, so you can endlessly create and delight loved ones with special gifts. How to make crafts from matches with their own hands few know. The easiest way to make applications for which you will need:

• matchboxes;
• cardboard sheets;
• scissors, knife;
• glue "Moment";
• cotton threads;
• Scotch;
• paints, brushes.

Creating a match applique

A creative event begins with the following stages:

1. On a white sheet of cardboard, on color it will be even more interesting to draw a template - the outline of an animal, bird or any object.
2. Let the child learn to lay out figures from matches along the contour.
3. Then these figures can be fixed with glue.
4. To make the pictures more beautiful, you can matchsticks from which the picture was laid out, painted with paint.
5. After that, an adult can help arrange the work in a frame, which can also be laid out with an ornament of matches.
6. This craft will be a great design decision in the design of the nursery, kitchen and other rooms, depending on the subject. In addition, such an unusual gift made by the hands of a child will be dear to grandparents and parents.

Flat match figures: material

A home made from matches can be made flat. This technique is the simplest and does not require special skills. But you have to prepare the following materials:

• several boxes of matches;
• set of color cardboard;
• glue "Moment";
• knife;
• pencil.

Execution of work: flat figures from matches

Stage of work:

1. On the sheet of cardboard, draw images of the objects that you want to lay out of the matches.
2. This can be, for example, a fence and a sunflower, flowers in a vase, a beetle with open elytra.
3. Teach your child to lay a fence out of matches, this technique will be the basis of many voluminous figures from matches.
4. Proceed to the sunflower. The middle of the flower can be filled by laying out matches with a trellis. In order to make it round, the extreme matches need to be slightly shortened with a knife. This work must be done by an adult.
5. Sunflower petals are very simple to make. To do this, stick each match obliquely, tightly to each other, until a rhombus forms.
6. Thus, filling the space of the picture with matches, you can make a vase, a beetle, and more. Where the figures have rounded outlines, the extreme rows of matches need to be gradually shortened. You can also create a house from matches with your own hands in a flat form.

Matchhouse

Tools:

• matchstick packaging;
• round, flat object up to 25 mm in diameter (coin or button);
• stand.

Completing of the work:

1. Inspect the matches, remove all the curves and damaged ones, they will not work.
2. “Build” a house from matches with your own hands, like a real one, we begin with laying the foundation. To do this, on a stand a pair of matches should be located in parallel.
3. Put a row of eight matches on them so that they form a square. The distances between matches should be the same.
4. On the resulting base, lay another row in eight matches, only they with the first row should form a perpendicular.
5. On the foundation, lay out a square of four matches, forming a kind of well.
6. Next, we supplement this well with six of the same rows as the previous one. The main nuance is that match heads on each corner of the house form flat columns.
7. On this blank for the walls you need to lay out matches in the same way as for the foundation, with one exception: the second row should not consist of eight matches, but six. This layer will be the basis for the roof. Cover it with a coin.
8. Insert one match at the corners of the house, threading through. At the same time, the foundation must be controlled so that it does not fall apart.
9. Insert matches along the length of all the walls of the house so that the sulfur heads are at the top, forming an even row.
10. Level the matches with a coin, they need to be moved as close as possible, so you compact the entire structure. Then the coin can be removed.
11. Already without a coin, once again with your hands you should "squeeze" the whole house.
12. Matches to align. In order to strengthen the walls, you need to install a number of matches on all sides. Matches need to be inserted vertically and upside down.
13. We fill the horizontal layers the way the well was laid, but the sulfur heads are directed in one direction or the other.
14. Before installing the roof, you need to pull out the matches installed in stage 8 from the corners, and half raise the vertical layer.
15. From the matches, set the perpendicular to the base of the roof and form the roof. The heads should be centered. This is what the house looks like. Matches (crafts made from matches can be different) provide an opportunity to show imagination.

Not only buildings are made of them, it can be all kinds of animals, tiny furniture, as well as amazingly beautiful paintings. The main thing is your imagination. After studying the master classes, you can make sure that with such material you can spend time safely and interestingly. Now you know how to make a house of matches with your own hands, and that it is not difficult.