Everyone tried to make something in the childhood. Not everyone succeeded, but many liked the process. The ability to do something with your own hands can bring a person joy and pleasure. A modern environmental life strategy prescribes not to throw away anything, but to use it for the manufacture of original and convenient household items. For example, making crafts out of matchboxes will help the creative principle, dormant in each of us, manifest itself and make it possible to store small things in a convenient place: buttons, beads for needlework or jewelry. On each container you can stick an icon indicating what is stored there.
To make such a craft from matchboxes, such as a multifunctional box, you will need the boxes themselves, tape, paper, a ruler, a pencil and glue. It is most convenient to work at a table.
To create crafts from matchboxes, you need to take twenty boxes and put them in four pieces in five piles. With thin tape, you need to carefully pull each of the five stacks, then put them all together and also connect, carefully leveling.
Then it is necessary to cut a strip of paper, equal in width to the length of the matchbox, and in length - to the volume of five stacks of glued from them. Now you need to stick a paper strip on a stack of boxes, attaching it to places not covered with adhesive tape. The second same strip must be glued on the opposite side.
Paper stripes can be decorated with ornaments. The pattern is best applied with gouache with a thin brush. You can decorate the box using the decoupage technique. The short sides of the sliding parts of the boxes can be equipped with sewing pins with shiny heads, then they will look like tiny drawers. It is not only beautiful, but also convenient.
To make crafts from matchboxes, you need to use new containers, the shape of which has not yet been violated by intensive use. If you intend to use the product for a long time, it is better to take thick paper, in some cases it is better to even use cardboard. Cardboard-reinforced compartments can store heavier items such as hardware or rare coins. Since the paper is afraid of moisture, it is better to store the craft in a dry place or cover it with a protective varnish.
In addition to caskets, crafts from matchboxes for children can also be made. For example, if you decide to give baby jewelry for Christmas for baby, you can put it in a matchbox decorated in the style of gift wrapping. To do this, it is enough to paste over it with colored paper with an elegant pattern and beads, and then tie a silk ribbon of a suitable color, making a beautiful bow out of it.
Crafts from matchboxes, photos of which are in the article, are not very difficult to perform. They can be made with a child. This lesson will help to develop fine motor skills of the baby’s hands, as well as provide an opportunity to train accuracy and patience. If the box or gift box turns out beautiful, the child can give it to his peer for his birthday.