Cardboard boxes selling juice or milk are great for children's creativity. After all, they can be used not only as pots for seedlings. Enough to show quite a bit of imagination. Crafts from juice boxes are easy to make; no special skills are required to create them. In addition, this is an ideal occasion to have fun with your child. From the boxes you can make good toys that will allow the baby to develop, or original accessories. What can be done?
Castle at hand
Girls very often dream of a castle for their dolls. You can do it yourself. For this you will need:
- Scissors.
- Several boxes of 1 liter juice.
- Several boxes of 2 liters.
- Scotch.
- Glue.
- Stickers, pencils, paints.
- White paper.
For juice boxes, carefully remove the lids. Paste 1 liter containers on all sides with white paper.
Cut two-liter boxes of juice from the larger side on the side, and then connect them. This can be done using tape. The result should be one big one. Paste it over with white paper completely. You can connect all three boxes as you like.
After that, you can cut out all the necessary windows and doors, and paint the house itself with original patterns or stick stickers on paper. From the remaining pieces, you can make various ladders and crossbars. To make the product more like a castle, decorate the tops of the towers with strips of white paper with cut out cloves. Even a child can make such crafts from boxes with his own hands.
Bird feeders
You can make more interesting crafts from the boxes, for example, bird feeders. You can make a similar product with your child. To make the simplest feeder, you need a box of juice, a rope, scissors. To begin, wash the container thoroughly and dry. And then carefully cut the cardboard on one side, while leaving a small side. To secure the feeder, thread the rope from above. Such crafts from juice boxes allow you to teach your child to take care of the world around him.
If you wish, you can decorate the feeder by pasting it, for example, with white paper, and painting it.
Tea Bag House
DIY crafts made from boxes can become not just a decoration, but also a very useful accessory. To complete the tea house, you will need:
- Box of 1 liter juice.
- Colored cardboard or paper. You can use self-adhesive tape.
- Stickers or pictures for decoration.
- Adhesive tape, glue and scissors.
Crafts from boxes of juice, it is advisable to do with the child. This will allow you to spend time together and work creatively. So, to make a house for tea bags, you need to thoroughly wash the box and dry it. After that, it is necessary to make a hole in the container through which you can easily take out the tea bag. Better to make it at the very bottom. You also need to cut off the top of the box and make it open.
Glue the juice container carefully with paper. You can use pure white or color. That's it, new box crafts are ready! Pictures can be used to decorate a tea house. This will make it even more original.
So that the product stands firmly and does not wrinkle, you can glue it with tape.
Cubes
From boxes of juice, you can make cubes that can replace your child with a store designer. To make them, take containers from the drink and wash them thoroughly. When the boxes dry out, cut off all the excess edges and flatten the top. Glue the top with glue or tape.
Your cubes are almost ready. It remains to glue them with colored paper or self-adhesive tape. To keep them in shape, wrap them with tape. For decoration, you can use stickers and a variety of pictures, for example, numbers and letters. It is worth noting that such cubes are ideal for construction.
Where to store pencils?
Crafts from juice boxes can replace some accessories even for a desk. If you still care about the question of where it is better to store children's pencils, then the answer is simple. Make a pencil box from improvised means. To make such an accessory you will need:
- Box of 1 liter juice.
- Colored paper in gray, white and pink, cardboard.
- Red fabric ribbons.
- Pencils, glue, adhesive tape.
- Lace ribbon.
How to make a pencil box
We begin to create original crafts from the boxes. Animals in this case are just perfect for a pencil box. Therefore, we will make a beautiful cat out of an ordinary box, which will become a keeper of pencils.
To start, wash the juice container thoroughly and dry it. Then glue the box on the outside and inside with gray paper. From a cardboard of the corresponding color, cut an even circle. This will be the face of the cat. Cut the ears out of the same cardboard. Stick them on top of the circle. In the center of each eyelet, stick white paper parts that are similar in outline to the ears, only smaller in size.
In the middle of the muzzle, stick the nose of the cat. It can be made in the shape of a heart. Make eyes over the nose. They can also be cut out of paper or replaced with ordinary buttons. Do not forget about the cheeks. Cut two small circles of pale pink paper and glue them so that the nose is located between them. It’s hard to imagine a cat without a mustache. From the tip of the nose to the cheeks, stick on a white rope so that each of them forms an arc. Hole holes in several places over each thread and thread the wire. This will be the antennae. Glue the top edge of the box from the juice with a lace cloth. Fasten the face on the front so that most of it is above the upper edge of the container.
From the white paper, cut out two front legs and two back legs. These details will make the cat more attractive. Stick the front ones to the front at the very bottom, and the rear ones to the sides of the box. After that, decorate the cat with red bows. They can be fixed on the sides, as well as in front under the face.
That's all, the pencil holder is ready. To make the craft more attractive, it is better to use textiles instead of paper. This will make the cat more alive.
Finally
Children's crafts from boxes can be a real decoration. Children very often see the beautiful in what adults and adults do not even notice it. Creativity allows the baby to realize his ideas and make dreams come true. Parents can help their child find exactly the activity that he likes. At the same time, remember that the child must develop not only physically, but also emotionally. Experts have proved that children who began to engage in creativity early in the future react to what is happening around them more clearly than others. And the joint work of parents and kids makes the connection between them even stronger.