You can build a cardboard house with your own hands, without much effort. Designs can be different - this is a dollhouse, and a garage or parking for toy cars. Children will be delighted to participate in joint creativity. After all, the process of making crafts in the form of a hut is fascinating.
At the same time, you can create a cozy cardboard nest in which a little fidget can fit.
How to make a craft with your own hands
Taking a little time to work with children and giving free rein to imagination, you can build many original designs. And how to do this, we will tell you further.
New Year's hut
When making crafts, you need to focus on the diagrams and templates of cardboard houses. After you have chosen the most suitable option, you should transfer the pegging to the workpiece. Well, then there is nothing complicated:
Cut out the parts from a white sheet of paper according to the template and glue them in the prescribed sequence onto the cardboard. You can use glue or double-sided tape.
All cardboard pieces are neatly cut. To arrange windows and doors, you should use a clerical knife.
Adhering to the traced folds, bend the workpiece and glue the structure. For durability, a primer can be applied to the house.
The hut should be painted and decorated, for example, the roof is often sprinkled with sparkles. Having attached a rope to the structure, the hut is used as a Christmas tree decoration.
House made of cardboard and foam
This option is more time consuming. But our instructions on how to make a house out of cardboard will help you quickly cope with the design.
An ordinary cardboard box is taken. The size is selected individually. A house is being built from it - you need to cut the necessary parts and glue them. After the window and door openings are drawn on the structure, they should be cut out with a clerical knife.
The hut can be painted or pasted over with colored paper. But decoration with polyurethane foam will look more original. It is applied in strips, leaving 3-4 mm gaps between them for swelling. The foam will dry out in 30-40 minutes.
In the meantime, you can build a stand:
- Cut out a rectangular piece of cardboard slightly larger than the base of the house;
- glue the support to the building frame;
- simulate snow using foam or cotton wool glued with PVA to the stand.
Excess foam from the craft is cut off with a knife, and then the structural elements are painted in the selected color scheme.
Dwelling for gnomes
The task can be simplified by using already existing blanks, for example, cylinders from rolls of toilet paper. For the composition to be original and attractive, as in the photo of a cardboard house, you need to be patient. You can take 2-3 cylinders and cut into two parts so that parts of different lengths are obtained.
Then the paper strips should be cut. Their length will be about 150 mm, and their width is 15-30 mm more than the height of the cylinder used as a house. Windows and doors are cut out of colored paper and glued to a white strip.
The cardboard cylinder should be wrapped in paper with windows, having previously applied an adhesive mass to the surface. The edges of the paper that extend beyond the cardboard are wrapped inward. Cones should be made of colored paper, which will serve as a roof. They are attached with glue to the cylinders. The gnome village is ready.
House with the hands of a child
Many are interested in how to make a house out of cardboard with their own hands. Even your little one can handle the proposed technology. Paint your house markings onto white cardboard, or print a template from the internet. The kid himself will be able to cut the entire structure along clear lines.
For the manufacture of a roof, you should take a rectangle of cardboard suitable for the slopes of length and width. This sheet is folded in half and attached to the assembled frame of the house.
Dollhouse made of cardboard
If your child asked to make a dollhouse, then you should not immediately run into the garage and start sawing boards.
Everything can be done much easier - just use our instructions for making a house for beginners step by step:
Take a cardboard box of the correct size. For example, it can be packaging for parcels or household appliances. Open it up and down.
The two small side pieces are trimmed at the top to form triangles on both sides with the top pointing up. The top triangles are aligned vertically, and the longitudinal long lid elements are attached to them with glue or tape, forming the lower part of the roof slope.
It will not always be possible to completely form the roof - its top (ridge) will remain open. You can solve this problem by cutting off the lids from the bottom of the box. Longitudinal elements are attached to each other in the form of a hut and fixed to the already constructed part of the roof. As a result, the roof ridge will be built. The main thing here is to make all measurements and fasten, observing the joints.
Windows and a door appear on the walls of the house, which are then cut through with a knife. The roof can be tiled and the walls can be painted in your preferred color.
Cozy house for children
You can make a structure in which a child can fit from an ordinary cardboard box from under household large-sized household appliances.
It is desirable that the height of the walls be at least 1-1.5 m for a comfortable stay of the child. If it is difficult for you to choose such an option, then a cardboard house for children can be made from two boxes connected with adhesive tape.
Close the top cover tightly and fix the joints with tape. A sheet of thick boxboard is placed on top to strengthen the structure. A roof can be made in several ways:
Having fastened two rectangles of cardboard - this is how the roof slopes are obtained. If you make them with a small start outside the walls of the house, you will get a more durable mount.
Rafters are mounted on top. They are made from two crossed small diameter plastic pipes. They are attached to the house at the corners of the structure. In the middle, you should put a piece of wide pipe so that the rafters do not bend. A light blanket or blanket is laid on top of the rafters.
It is quite easy to build a house for dolls, decorate a Christmas tree or have a fun pastime for a child. This requires the use of available material. The participation of the child in the design will help you to show your imagination to the maximum together and keep the baby busy with exciting work.
Photo of cardboard houses
Before starting the construction of a country house, it will not be superfluous to make its layout in order to visually assess the advantages and disadvantages of the future structure. However, you can even make a miniature model of the house without a specific purpose, just for the collection. The main thing is that you can make it yourself from handy materials.
House design
The first step is to create individual structural elements in a reduced form. For convenience, it is recommended to use figures at a scale of 1:50. On a blank sheet of paper or thick landscape cardboard, it is necessary to draw the interior details of the house, including furniture and household appliances, to make it easier to navigate in space. Particular attention should be paid to the elements of the roof.
In order for the work to progress quickly and strictly according to the planned plan, it is necessary to prepare in advance a home set of tools for creativity, which includes:
- ruler;
- pencil;
- PVA glue;
- brush;
It is better to use real drawings as a basis, which provide for window and door openings, as well as building communications and chimneys. Consider the fact that the ventilation ducts must be located in the "body" of the load-bearing wall. There is nothing difficult in how to make a layout of a house with your own hands, if you adhere to a clear sequence of actions and approach this issue extremely responsibly.
Instructions for use
A house model can be built from any materials that are at hand: paper, cardboard, wood (plywood) or foam. In this regard, there are absolutely no restrictions. As practice shows, the most durable and geometrically correct models are obtained precisely from plywood with a thickness of 6-8 mm. But for effective work you will need an additional tool: a drill and a jigsaw.
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The frame of the house itself, the inner walls and the pitched roof of the desired configuration are made from a sheet of plywood. Places of cuts and joints, it is imperative to go through fine grinding in order to smooth out possible irregularities. The foundation is made of wide wooden slats that are glued to the bottom of the building's frame. Other structural elements are made from individual bars: porch, stairs, etc.
It is important to immediately determine what goal you set for yourself. If you need a regular layout that will allow you to appreciate the convenience of the layout, then you just need to make a frame and a roof. Do you want a beautiful model of the house? Get ready to insert front doors, miniature windows, trims, and other decorative work. The architectural image should be complete and not cause controversy. A photo of your home can get on the internet, so it's worth trying.
Subtleties of technology
The pitched roof is made strictly according to the geometric dimensions of the drawing you have taken - so it will turn out to avoid gross flaws. Stove chimneys and ventilation ducts can be made from individual pieces of wood. The lower part must be cut at an angle so that the base of the part coincides with the slope of the roof, and glued. Downpipes can be easily soldered from ordinary thin sheet metal. If you want the built house to differ from a simple layout, you can additionally glue the tiles - it will be beautiful and original.
Now we will consider the topic of how to create templates for a kindergarten, multi-storey or private house, as well as a school and a future class in it from paper.
It is difficult to learn how to create really complex projects, but it is in your power and interests to assemble a decorative model of a building on a scale of 1:50, having made outlines of parts and facades of structures, as well as the entire roof and frame, on a piece of paper in advance. You can print templates and layouts of structures yourself.
How to make or build a voluminous house, apartments and rooms in it? The technology itself is not complicated, but for the first time it may seem difficult, especially for children, so we share step by step how to do it. To make a model of a house with your own hands, you will need six mm plywood, as well as materials for creating facades, partitions and a roof. We will make the frame of the house out of plywood and lay it out on a smooth surface..
Gallery: paper house construction model (25 photos)
We create a scan for the layout of the house with our own hands
Conventional flat pattern creation process no less interesting than working with ready-made samples. To do this, you need a graphics program installed on your PC. It is best to take CorelDraw or a similar program for processing vector images.
In it, with an increase or decrease in the size of the picture, the sizes of the lines and the textures themselves change in the same ratio. This helps you get real images.... And the very library of textures included in its shell is huge.
By filling the flat pattern with the texture, you can get a ready-made visual view of the main details of the layout. ... The whole process, including the pouring of the sweep particles a certain texture, the imposition of certain effects and architectural details, as well as inserting pictures from the library of symbols, it will take from ten minutes to half an hour, if the structure is not complicated. Let's make a scan on our printer, and start prototyping.
Creation of complex paper products
The process of creating complex, huge house layouts is not much different from the one described earlier. It's just that such sweeps are made for individual parts of composite layouts.... A group photo of the entire assembly of such a layout shows its individual parts and an assembly diagram.
One of the most challenging design and modeling tasks is the creation of flat patterns for 3D products. For the development of design thinking, it is important to be able to make a drawing of this or that craft yourself. As in the manufacture of other toys, when starting to design, first of all, it is necessary to find a pattern in the construction of the product.
When building sweeps of houses, you first need to find the place from which the countdown will begin. Any corner can serve as such a place near the houses. Since all houses have walls, there will be a straight line at the base of the sweep, on which the dimensions of the walls are marked. Then determine the height of the wall and draw a second line parallel to the base. Then the gables and valves for gluing are drawn. After making the sweep, a roof and a stand are made.
The simplest layout of the house is shown in Figure 87. It consists of a sweep, a roof and a stand. Windows and doors are made of colored paper using the application method. Finish small details.
For layouts, thick paper or thin cardboard is used.
To change the appearance of the house (Fig. 88), that is, its architecture, it is enough to increase (or decrease) the gables. The principle of building a sweep in this version is no different from the previous model. The left wall with the pediment was taken as the starting point. After assembling the layout, they begin to finish it.
If the house has any architectural additions, such as a veranda, then there is no need to make it separately. This only complicates the process of making the craft.
Figure 89 shows a scan of a house with a veranda. The back wall is taken as a reference point. To acquire skills in building unfolding, you can invite students to take any reference point as a basis. Architecturally, the house will not change, only the scan will be built differently.
In life, there are a variety of structures: this is an interesting material for making models. First, you need to make a sketch of the house you like from nature, then perform a scan from the sketch. For a start, you can offer to make a layout of your apartment building or school.
Figure 90 shows an example of a house with three gables and a complicated roof. It is performed in two parts. The starting point is the left wall with a pediment. The stand is made 10-20 mm. wider than the walls of the house.
For staining sawdust, ultramarine blue is taken, diluted in hot water, where wood powder is immersed, staining before our eyes to the degree of the desired color. Once removed from the paint, it is wrung out and placed in a thin layer on a baking sheet to dry.
Powder wood can be used to cover mock-ups instead of paint, but for this it is prepared in a wide variety of colors, dried and stacked in jars. The best paint for this is aniline, sold in cotton sachets. The powder is applied in a thin layer on hot wood glue and pressed down. Excess of it, upon drying, is poured into a jar and stored for the next work.
The snow surface is done as follows: the desired part is lubricated with glue and sprinkled with brown with an admixture of boric acid to give shine. You can also make the surface of cotton wool (absorbent), which is spread in an even and thin layer over white paper. Cotton wool is sprinkled with boric acid on top.
When the glued parts are dry, they are covered with a putty made from chalk (tooth powder) and glue. Depending on the color that the primer should have, a different paint is added to the chalk. The putty is applied in a thin layer, and in those places where it is required, it takes the forms of the necessary bulges, relief, protrusions, banks, etc.
Covering with putty has the goal of holding the layout together, smoothing out irregularities or creating them, making it dense and monolithic. Pebbles, roots imitating one or another object may be interspersed into the putty when it is applied.
The background of the layout can be painted with brown paint or sprinkled with wood powder on glue, or pasted over with dark paper. After finishing the entire layout, while it is raw, sprinkle with diamond mounds, from which it comes to life, especially in the evening light.
The inscriptions are made on drawing paper in ink and placed under glass like labels, and the layout is ready.
Let's turn to the manufacture of some details of the models.
The forest and bushes conventionally depict green deciduous mosses. They are going ahead. You need to choose the greenest, brightest and not very juicy, dry them in a draft, but not in the sun. Very dense bouquets are tied from mosses, which are inserted into the holes made in the model with an awl.
Grass layout
The grassy surface on the models can also be depicted with moss. The surface is covered with matte green paper or painted with green paint. The green background is smeared with glue and sprinkled with finely cut moss. You can replace the moss with small sawdust stained green. If you want to represent a part of the vegetation in its natural form, then you have to take real plants or parts of them, dried in the sand.
Surface irregularities, pits, small rises, etc. do this: moisten a lump of thin paper in liquid carpentry glue of the required size and stick it on the surface of the stand. Soak another piece of colored paper in glue. When it becomes soft, lay on the lump and press the edges around the lump to the surface of the stand. Coat the irregularities made with glue and sprinkle with clipped moss or earth.
Imitation of the surface of the earth. The easiest way is to arrange a flat soil surface. It is enough to grease a piece of cardboard and sprinkle with earth or sand. The cardboard must be painted in the same color as the prepared soil.
"Earth" is done like this. Take thin cardboard and black matte paper. Cut out a piece of cardboard of the required size, cover it with matte black paper, the back of the cardboard must be pasted over with paper right now, otherwise it will warp. In the absence of paper, cardboard can be painted with soot on glue with complete success. Apply wood glue to the black side of the cardboard, cover it with earth in an even layer, let it dry for half an hour and only then shake off the excess soil.
Dry soil is not black, but gray, and therefore, in order for it to remain black, it must be painted. This is done prior to the sticker. Take black mineral paint, dissolve it on a silver platter and pour earth into it. Dry the soil soaked in paint in the sun or in an oven.
The sandy surface is done in exactly the same way, you just need to take yellow, best of all, ordinary wrapping paper instead of black paper. Occasionally it is necessary to paint the background with watercolor paint if the prepared "breed" has a shade of a different color.
Artificial sand is prepared for sandy landscapes. It is composed of 20% natural sand and 80% ocher. The mixture is thoroughly mixed.
From natural stones, it is best to use stones obtained from a stream, as well as small gravel. In order to attach pebbles, sticks or any objects to the cardboard, they are greased with very thick wood glue and lowered to their intended places. When boiling leu, a little granulated sugar is added for strength.
Stream layout
The brook is made out with paints, and its bed is covered with a specially applied blue putty with the powder of a blue embankment, which emits shine, and the shore - with earth and pebbles.
Animals to enliven the landscape can be cut from plywood, painted and attached in the appropriate places on the layout. Also the plants of the foreground. The stones must be prepared from paper pulp and then painted. You can also use the corresponding drawings for this purpose by cutting and pasting them on cardboard, and then attaching them to the layout.
High slopes and bluffs. A box of the required size is bent and glued from cardboard. It is glued upside down on a piece of cardboard. This will be the skeleton of the mountain. On all or some sides, you can glue a sheet of thick paper so that with one edge it is attached to the edge of the bottom of the box, and the other to the cardboard, you get a slope of the desired steepness. The paper is taken in the appropriate color, depending on whether it will be an earthen, sandy or grassy slope. When the model is finished, this slope is smeared with glue and sprinkled with sand, earth or clipped moss.
To break off, take a thin gray wrapping paper. Cut off the desired piece, soak it in liquid wood glue and apply the same way as the "slope", but of course, lower it much steeper. The glue will dry out soon, and you can easily collect the paper in any folds and wrinkles. When the glue dries and the paper hardens, coat it again with glue and, holding the "cliff" upwards, sprinkle with sand. Then the folds and folds will resemble potholes washed with water on the slope of a ravine. You can sprinkle the "cliff" not only with sand. After picking up multi-colored clays, sprinkle them on the glue in horizontal stripes and visually depict the layering of the earth's crust.
Such models of mountains, cliffs, shores and even ravines can be easily made from nature if you have drawings and maps of the area.
If you are assembling a rock collection from a cliff, then an accurate, proportional cliff model made (sprinkled with glue) from genuine locally sourced materials will tremendously increase the value of your collection.
Building models of dwellings or villages fosters resourcefulness and creativity in students. And made such models will serve as valuable aids for the geographical office. Pictures, drawings, etc., as well as descriptions in magazines and books can be used for guidance. For example, let's give a description of one layout.
A man sits by the fire in front of the cave entrance. All the inhabitants of the cave went hunting. The rest must guard the dwelling and maintain the "eternal flame".
A well-executed model of a primitive man's cave will help you imagine the life of our ancient ancestors. The size of the model holder is 40 X 40 cm. The height of the back wall is 40 cm. Sculpt a model of a mountain with a cave out of clay. Cover the model with layers of paper. Pre-tear the paper into pieces of 150 × 150 mm. You will have a papier-mâché cast of the mountain. Sew the mount to the baseboard and to the back of the breadboard.
Cover the area around the mountain with earth and green sawdust. Paint the mountain so that it looks like it is made of stone. Animal hides are made well from bits of old shaggy towel. Color in the "skins" and glue them inside the cave. There are stone tools in the cave. Sculpt the stone parts of the ax and spear from plasticine or other material. Make a fire with red and yellow tissue paper. For the primitive figure, make a frame of soft thin wire, then apply plasticine to it. Dress the person with a piece of animal hide.
