From unnecessary packaging cardboard boxes, you can easily make various crafts. These are cars, planes, dolls, various logic games, cards, books. Boxes from under shoes, household appliances, products and others will be used. The result is low-cost entertainment for children.
The process of co-creation itself, when the crafts are made by children together with adults, provides an opportunity for additional communication, training and the acquisition of useful skills. In children, the manufacture of crafts develops patience, perseverance, attention, imagination, fine and large hand motor skills.
To make crafts from boxes with your own hands, you will need the boxes themselves, scissors, glue, paints, a stationery knife and other additional tools and elements, depending on the design of the product. Everyone has everything they need at home.
Boys will like making
crafts from cardboard boxes such as cars, trains, airplanes, various military equipment, in short - transport. Consider the sequence of actions in the manufacture of the tractor. Before proceeding with the implementation of any toy, you need to have a good idea of how it looks in reality, or find detailed step-by-step instructions in various sources of information. So, to make a tractor, you need to cut out a cabin with a pipe, wheels from cardboard. Everything else can be drawn. You will also need matches or toothpicks to connect the wheels to the cab. These will be the so-called axes.
The cut-out parts will need to be painted, lights, windows and other elements added to give the cardboard tractor a resemblance to the present. Everything, the toy is ready.
Crafts from juice boxes are very interesting. Usually these are bird feeders, as the package size is small. All you need to do is cut a hole for the bird and attach a mount.
Crafts from boxes in the form of small dolls, as well as housing for them, will be entertaining for girls. Let's try to make a cardboard house. It can be of any size and shape, depending on the size of the package and the imagination of the creator. From a cardboard box, you can make housing for a doll or a large
playhouse for a child. Here you will need a large packaging: from the refrigerator, dishwasher or washing machine, TV.
We will make a small dollhouse out of cardboard. One whole box is a part of the house with walls and floor. Another box is the roof. In the first part of the craft, we cut out the windows, cut out and bend the doors. Inside, you can paste over the house with “wallpaper”, which will be the old magazines. Also made of cardboard are chairs, tables, sofas. To make the roof, we cut off a suitable part from the box, bend it at an angle and glue it to the first part of the toy. With paints we draw the “facade” of the house. It can be both monophonic and with various intricate patterns.
For children, the process of making crafts from boxes is very important, as is the subsequent game. Children will see that a toy can be made out of an unremarkable and seemingly unnecessary thing. Playing with such crafts, children learn behavior in the adult world. The creative process develops the imagination and imagination of children.