Make a cardboard house with your own hands for children. How to make a house with your own hands

A house made of cardboard is original and interesting, and most importantly, stylish for unusual interior.

A house made of cardboard with your own hands can play certain functions, for example, be a real home for an animal - a cat, a dog, and sometimes even other pets.

In addition, a house can be made for a baby - children love to play in a place where they can hide, be alone with toys, and most importantly, feel like the real and only owner.

Decorative cardboard house

In order to decorate your apartment with cute houses that can imitate settlements, it is enough to stock up on the following materials:

• cardboard of different colors. You can buy a pack of plain cardboard, and then simply paint it in different colors;
• paints. Even if you decide to buy colorful sheets cardboard and paints will definitely come in handy. You can take watercolors, they are found in almost every home, at least where there are children;
• scissors;
• colored paper, you can also use cardboard;
• glue.

How to make a cardboard house

The actions will be as follows:

• First, we take paper and make a box out of it for a cardboard house. It is better if the house is small, since you will need to make several of these. When cutting out a pattern for a future craft, it is better to pay special attention to the recesses that will be smeared with glue to fix the walls to each other;
• We remove the top of the box, which will serve as the base for the cardboard house, and install a roof in its place. It also needs to be attached to the recesses so that the product does not fall apart. If you plan to decorate the house with something else, you can make fastenings using a stapler, but glue will look better and will not allow the cardboard to delaminate and create gaps;
• You need to install a cardboard house with your own hands on a base of prepared paper. It should be dense so that it does not wrinkle quickly. Depending on how many houses you will have, you need to take a sheet of paper. You can select one large one, or you can stop at cut small ones. We glue the house to the base;
• we make all the other houses, after which we attach them to the base material. The colors of the houses should be arranged in the same way as the lamps of the garland (for example, if the first lamp is blue, and then red and yellow, we place the houses in the same way). However, it is important to remember that garlands most often contain lamps that fit too tightly together, so this rule may not be relevant;
• in each house, depending on the size of the lamps and cord, we make holes (if there is a large hole punch, this will become the best option);
• we thread the garland into each of the holes through the houses.

That's all, now you can install the houses made from cardboard in a semicircular row and plug the garland into a power outlet.

There will be a very beautiful glow inside. Of course, the number of windows and doors in such houses may vary, but it is better to make them multi-window - the glow effect will be enhanced.

Is there enough space? Of course that's enough!

And if you take, say, a box from a refrigerator, TV and microwave, the price will not be that of such a cardboard house for a child.

So, it will be possible to use the tallest box to create a kind of tower, in which a passage into the TV box will be cut out using a stationery knife.

The baby will be given a lot of space, and most importantly, he will feel as if he is in a whole castle. A microwave box is suitable for creating a roof. What did you think?

The top of the TV box needs to be removed and an L-shaped roof installed in its place. And the height of the “ceilings” will be higher, and there will be more space, and the view will be more original.

By the way, finishing the roof of a cardboard house can be done using natural material, what are they suitable for? But the walls can be covered with small branches - such a house will take on the appearance of a timber structure, or some kind of toy forest structure.

It is better to fasten all the elements using a large stapler, since glue does not always help in the construction of such serious structures that are actively used by children, and, as you know, children rarely remember that their “toy” can break.

Inner part It is better to either decorate the house or paste it with posters, pictures, stickers. And they will look great where doors and windows are decorated.

A large and impressive craft, but what can’t you do for your beloved children!

Materials:

• cardboard,
• glue “Moment crystal”,
• acrylic paints,
• acrylic lacquer,
• padding polyester,
• pieces of fabric,
• braid,
• beads,
• wooden sticks,
• tassels,
• modeling mass,
• scissors,
• wire,
• beads,
• mirror,
• bead pendants,
• pieces of wallpaper,
• pencil,
• ruler,
• disposable containers,
• fantasy.

Operating procedure:

It so happened that one of my daughters fell ill with chickenpox, and I needed to keep them occupied with something at home. We decided to make everything together house for our dolls. They made it according to the principle: I made it out of what I had. We didn’t have a ready-made box, but we did have a fairly large piece of cardboard and many small pieces of various thicknesses and textures. I thought that our house would be a small one consisting of two rooms, but that was not the case: 2 young designers had their own thoughts about our house.

As a result, we began to do Dollhouse 3 floors with 5 rooms(later the upper floor was divided into 2 parts and there were 6 rooms).

Layout

I cut out 1 piece from a large piece of cardboard - this back wall our house and 2 side ones (see photo 1).

Next, I bent down 2 side walls and began gluing the floor and ceiling (photo 2).

The house has dimensions: height - 74 cm, width - 50 cm, depth - 30 cm.

I covered the blank of our house with pieces of wallpaper and suitable paper (see photo 3).

The outside of the house is covered with wallpaper, the roof is strips of cardboard measuring 3 cm by 31 cm, glued overlapping.

The frames are glued together from strips of cardboard.

Our house needed a variety of puppet, which we tried to make with our own hands from scrap materials. I glued everything by eye without preliminary drawings or patterns. I simply cut a cardboard rectangle and glued the necessary pieces to it. All furniture is painted acrylic paint and covered acrylic varnish.

Bedroom

So, room No. 1 - bedroom. There is a lot of furniture in it, and the first thing we’ll start with is this. It is quite easy to glue it together, just look at photo 4.

I covered the cardboard blank with acrylic paint, after the paint had dried, I varnished it, glued on a soft mattress, added several soft pillows and a blanket.

The next pieces of furniture are a chest of drawers and a nightstand (photos 5 and 6).

The principle of their manufacture is the same - a small cardboard box to which false drawers are glued. There was a place in the bedroom and comfortable rocking chair(photo 7).

A large and spacious closet also found its place (photo 8).

In photo 9 the whole room is in color.

You can also watch how to make a bed for dolls (and other furniture) on the “Homemade” channel:

common room

Room number 2 - common room to watch TV. The TV in our house is flat - a large cardboard rectangle was covered with black acrylic paint, after drying, a suitable picture was glued and the whole thing was covered with acrylic varnish.

The main place in this room is occupied by a spacious one, which houses a large family of dolls.

The base of the sofa is a cardboard blank (photo 10).

The back and armrests are covered with paint and varnish, and the base is glued with padding polyester and fabric. My daughters already had a table - it was a wooden construction set, onto which we glued a piece of cardboard and painted it all together.
We see room No. 2 in photo 11.

Video on how to make a cabinet:

On the second floor of our house there is a music room and a kitchen.

Living room

IN music room there is a fireplace (photo 12).

It, unlike all our furniture, is covered with cracks. At the beginning it was covered with white acrylic paint. After it dries, a layer of craquelure medium is applied. After this layer has dried, a layer of black acrylic paint is applied. After drying, the entire product is coated with matte acrylic varnish.

Since our living room is musical, then from 6 matchboxes the piano was glued together (photo 13). It was immediately covered with colored paper, but the paper turned out to be of poor quality, and later it was painted, like all the furniture in the house. In addition, I glued 2 square beads to it - these are pedals.

The piano stool (photo 14) is glued together from cardboard, painted and decorated with a velvet cushion.

Sofa (photo 15) and armchair (photo 16). I glued them together from cardboard and decided not to cover them with fabric, but simply paint them with paint; my daughters were happy to help me with this. After applying varnish, they are very similar to leather.

The entire music room after painting the furniture (photo 17).

Kitchen

Room No. 4 is the kitchen, it is small but roomy. Kitchen set- this is a large cabinet in the shape of the letter L (photo 18).

The sink is a small plastic jam container, the faucet is made from modeling clay, and there is a small hanging cabinet:

The stove is electric with 4 burners (photo 20), its door opens.

In the kitchen we have 2 chairs (photo 21) and a table (photo 22).

Dishes were also made from small items (photo 23).

Photo 24 shows our kitchen after applying paint and varnish.

On the top floor we accommodated children's and toilet room.

Children's room

IN children's The main place is occupied by a bunk bed (photo 25).

She has soft mattresses and pillows. In the room there is small table(photo 26) and chair photo 27.

There is also a cabinet for toys (photo 28).

In this room I did not cut a window, but simply glued a cardboard one to the side wall. The room is decorated with a colorful alphabet (cut from paper packaging from a children's toy). Photo 29 shows a children's room in color.

Almost all the chandeliers in our house are glued together from disposable containers, beads, cockerel sticks and braid.

Only one, which is in the music room, is made of beads, wire and bead fittings.

I also glued a ladder to the house, but we have it attached for now, because I am afraid that if it is glued, it will interfere with two children playing at the same time.

Bathroom and toilet

For toilet room we needed a toilet, sink and bathtub. They needed to be made quickly and easily.

And I decided to just sculpt them from modeling material. Which is what we subsequently did with our daughters (photo 30).

They may not be ideal, but they were made together.
Our works took about a day to dry. Next, we painted them with white acrylic paint and coated them with glossy acrylic varnish. After drying, the tank turned out to be quite heavy, then I replaced it with a lighter one (cut it out of cork and painted it). To keep the sink stable on the wall, I glued a nightstand underneath it. The bedside table was painted like all the furniture in the house. Next, I glued the bedside table to the wall and floor of the house, and then glued the sink. A tap (made from modeling clay) and beads are glued to the sink. There was no ready-made mirror, and ours is also made of cardboard.

The toilet is made of several parts - the base, cockerel sticks, a tank (made of cork), chains and beads.
This entire structure is complemented by a seat - cut out of cardboard and covered with plain fabric.
In photo 32 the entire toilet room is in color.

So quickly and cheerfully, together with our daughters, we built from scrap materials our dollhouse. Such crafts always bring joy to children.

It may be quite simple for now, but my daughters are quite happy with it and enjoy playing together.

And another video on how to make a house for dolls with your own hands from plywood:

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If you think about it a little, you can make great things from the simplest and most ordinary materials that are often at hand. with my own hands.

One such example is wooden house made of paper.

But as for the ideas that arise to create such a miracle, they appear for a variety of reasons. Sometimes inspiration just comes and that’s not bad at all.

For this we need
Cocktail straws
A4 paper
Multi-colored cardboard
Glue
Scissors

Step 1

The first thing you need to do is take paper, preferably A4 format, without cells or rulers. The paper should be white. Next, you need to twist it into tubes.

Step 2

For more convenient work, the paper must be divided into several equal parts, and only then rolled. First, do it on the sides, and only then in the middle.

You can never calculate how many of these tubes are needed in the exact quantity. That's why, do them as you go. It will be easier this way.

Step 3

As for the foundation, in order to build it, you need to select fairly thick cardboard. Remember, the “life” of your house will depend on it. You will need to glue paper tubes to the side parts. Several need to be made shorter.

Step 4

After you complete the process of laying out the tubes in three rows, make a small mark where the doors and windows will be. Remember, in order for your house to look more symmetrical, you need to place both windows and doors at the same height.

Step 5

For bright effect, in the middle of the windows you can make curtains from colored paper. By the way, in order for all fastenings to be stronger, you can use transparent tape. But this is all optional, of course.

Step 6

Next, don’t forget about the roof. But initially, you need to build several supports so that it does not collapse. The roof can be cut from cardboard. Moreover, the shape of the cuts can be very different. It all depends on your own imagination.

It is advisable to glue the roof with a simple, colorless glue so that it all looks more realistic.

Step 7

After you complete all the steps listed, decorate the windows with the simplest self-adhesive. And in the same way, decorate the doors. As for stairs, you can make them out of them, or you can not make them out of them. And if you still prefer a house with stairs, then you can build them from the tubes that you made. If necessary, do more. It is advisable to cover the steps with “wooden” self-adhesive tape.

Step 8

And the final stage will be making the railings. And they are also made from tubes, having previously pasted them in Brown color. And now, your house is finished. All that remains is to decorate it. Here, you can dream up. For example, put up a variety of figures, animals, a fence, or even a vegetable garden, as if it were a real village. In any case, it will turn out just great!

Useful tips

Sooner or later, everyone ends up with cardboard boxes on their balcony, storage room or dacha.

Not all of these boxes should be thrown away, as you can make many interesting and even useful crafts from them.

One of these crafts is playhouse for children.

Such a house can be built and decorated together with children, who will be very interested in joining something new.

Folding cardboard house

1. Start with an empty box. Turn it on its side so that the open part is perpendicular to the floor.

2. Cut top part boxes and save it - this will later serve as half of the roof.

3. Use wide tape to secure some parts of the box.

4. Cut a piece from another cardboard that will be the second half of the roof.

5. Tape the roof halves together.

6. Connect the roof and the house and secure them with tape.

7. Make the house foldable. Place the house face down and cut down the middle of the back and bottom of the house. Also cut where the bottom and back of the house meet.

8. Add tape to the places where you made the cuts. Make sure the bottom and back of the house fold in the right direction. Secure with tape the areas that you feel are loose.

DIY cardboard house with pipe and door

You will need:

Hot glue with a glue gun

Stationery knife

Scissors

Several cardboard boxes.

The large box will be the main part of the house, and small boxes will be needed for small things such as a pipe and window frames.

1. Cut the parts big box, which form its cover - they will be used to create the roof.

2. Turn the box upside down. Cut out the door by making a large "L" shaped cut.

3. Cut out the squares for the windows using a utility knife.

4. Glue together 2 parts of the cut box lid. Repeat the same with the other two parts of the lid. You will get 2 halves from which you can make the roof of the house.

5. For windows, you can cut out 2 wide cardboard strips and glue them to the window. You can also cut several strips to create a window frame.

6. To glue the roof to the house, you must first connect the roof halves using small L-shaped cardboard pieces. Next, use the same parts to glue the roof to the house.

7. Now we make a small roof. You will need a sheet of cardboard of the appropriate size. Divide it in half (or just bend it) and glue it to the house in the same way as a large roof, i.e. L-shaped parts.

8. You can make a window in the door and, if desired, glue a cardboard window frame to it.

9. Optional : If you want to make a pipe for a house, you will need a small box or 4 cardboard pieces of the same size, which you need to glue into a small box.

10. Mark on a small box the places that need to be cut so that the pipe will lie flat on the roof of the house. To make this easier, lean the box against the roof exactly on the side and draw lines with a pencil. Once you have glued the pipe to the roof, you can cover it with a cardboard lid and glue a cardboard toilet paper cylinder.

11. Optional: you can add a handle to the door. Use any old handle and glue it to the door. You can also make a handle from cardboard.

How to make a house out of cardboard with your own hands

You will need:

Large cardboard box

Wide tape (adhesive tape)

Stationery or construction knife

Metal ruler (to make straight cuts)

Black marker

Double-sided tape (if necessary)

Fabric for curtains (if necessary).

1. Disassemble the box and turn it inside out so that the house will later be brown and plain, and all the drawings on the boxes will be hidden.

2. To make the house larger, those parts that form the lid of the box on one side must be lifted and secured in a vertical position using tape (adhesive tape). Place the box on its side so that there is an “entrance” to the house on one side.

3.Optional: to make a diagonal roof for the house, use a stationery (or construction) knife to cut diagonally (small angle) the upper part of the future house (the part that is now at the top, after you turned the box over).

Cut triangular pieces from a cut piece of cardboard and tape the roof back to the house.

4. Bottom part cut off the house (the floor opposite the roof), fasten it with tape if necessary, and attach it to the open part of the box (“entrance”, which was obtained in step 2).

5. Now it’s time to cut out windows and doors in the cardboard house with a stationery knife.

If you wish, you can use a marker to draw window frames, bricks and other details. You can also cut out a small handle in the door (a semi-oval at the edge of the door).

Do it yourself - in the material you will find templates and simple step-by-step instructions with photos.

Even super-cool store-bought toys never outshine those made by mother’s caring hands. In addition, you can also involve children in the work - then it will be even more fun and creative! Make a dollhouse with your own hands from cardboard, and to keep it from being empty, place it in it.

To make a toy house out of cardboard with your own hands you will need:

• cardboard
• cotton fabric
• glue/glue gun

How to make a toy house out of cardboard for children with your own hands. Step-by-step instructions with photos

To get started, print or draw and cut out the parts according to the template. Two walls with a projection for the roof, two walls without, two parts for the roof and one door.

Then trace the details onto the fabric. Leaving an allowance of 1-1.5 centimeters. Cut out the pieces. Cut the corners as shown in the photo.

Fold the fabric around the perimeter and glue it to the cardboard parts.

To make windows in a cardboard house, cut the fabric with the letter X where the windows are located on the cardboard piece, wrap the resulting scraps inside and glue them.

When all the parts of the cardboard house are completely ready, glue them together, as shown in the photo.