Necessary materials: construction knife, ruler, pencil and eraser, PVA glue, double-sided and regular tape, glue stick, different thickness and colors of corrugated cardboard, ordinary cardboard, colored paper, fabrics.
First you need to find a box that is spacious enough, without defects, and preferably without pictures. A clean box can be left unpainted, or tinted with watercolors. If there are pictures, then your item number 1 - paint over all the details.
item number 2
Outline the game side and draw a large window on it, with indents from the edge 3-5 cm. Cut a hole.
item number 3 - 4
Roof slopes. For this we use 4 sides of the lid of our box. We cut off the corners on the two end faces, from the remaining two we make ramps and glue them with tape.
We mark out the windows and doors, taking into account the premises that you want to place.
item number 5 - 6
Cut out windows by assembled box... Window openings can be made a couple of millimeters larger than on the platbands, then the corrugated cardboard sections will be inside.
We cut out the platbands, the outer ones come with bindings, the inner ones are simply in the form of frames.
item number 7
We glue the outer platbands to the box.
item number 8 - 9
We proceed to the floor of the second floor. It can be glued with tape, or you can put it on glue if it fits tightly enough into the box. If needed flooring (for example, felt), we glue it immediately, before gluing the floor into the house.
We paste over the walls of the first and second floor with wallpaper - you can use thin paper for scrapbooking or fabric, like in my living room.
item number 10 - 11
After pasting the walls, glue the inner platbands.
Cut out and insert interior partitions.
item No. 12
We clean up the bathroom, use as a bathroom plastic container from under the oil, and the walls can be pasted over with colored paper tiles. Now a real mosaic tile is on sale, but it eats up space a lot, so if the bathroom is planned to be small, it is better to make a false tile out of paper.
item No. 13
The toilet can be molded from plastic, the lid and seat can be cut out of cardboard. Tanks and taps are not worth doing, just a plumbing detail.
item number 14 - 15
We make the roof from one-sided corrugated cardboard, which can be bought in shops for artists. From the inside it is smooth, and from the face it is corrugated. We cut out a sheet with an allowance of 3-5 cm, glue it from the seamy side to a sheet of flat cardboard, dry it under a press so that it does not warp, after drying we bend it with a ruler. Finished roof glue to the slopes with double-sided tape.
We sew and hang curtains. Use wooden skewers as cornices.
In the house where the cat lives, reigns special atmosphere... Pets can have a different character, but they all add variety to the old measured life.
Often, cats become attached to one place, spending a lot of time there. Accordingly, they leave scraps of wool, sharpen claws, play. In such cases, the question arises of creating a separate sleeping place, own house.
You can buy one at a pet store. In this case, you will have to spend money. Or you can make a house for a cat yourself from a cardboard box.
Varieties of cat houses
Here is a gallery of ideas from DIYers:
You can explore the range of cat houses on the market and choose the optimal design for your pet.
Most often, cat owners choose the following models:
- Various beds. Suitable for calm animals that most time is spent in observation.
- House-booth. Suitable for pets who like to spend time in solitude. It's easy to make from a cardboard box.
- Hammock bed. It can be located in any free space - under a chair, stairs, etc.
- Game complexes. Suitable for families with two or more cats. They can consist of several houses, walkways, scratching posts and hammocks. Their parameters and content depend on the desire and capabilities of the owner.
Create a house for the cat. What do you need to know?
Dimensions. Cardboard houses must correspond to the parameters of the animals. For a pet of medium parameters, a cubic design is suitable, the width of which will be about 40 centimeters. For the entrance, a hole 15 - 20 centimeters wide is enough. If the entrance is very wide, the animal will feel unprotected. The basic rule is that the pet should fit freely in the house, lying on its side.
Important! Siamese and Bengal cats love to sit on their hind legs. It's better for them to do cardboard house do it yourself in the form of a wigwam. Its height should be at least 60 - 70 centimeters.
The benefits of a self-made cardboard house:
- Cost savings.
- A self-created product will be in harmony with the interior of the room.
- An additional reason to please your pet.
- Minimal investment of time and effort.
- Empty boxes don't have to be thrown away.
- Cut out rectangles from a cardboard box, measuring 50 x 40 centimeters. For Siamese and Bengal cats, cut out pieces measuring 50 x 60 cm. In total, three rectangles are needed. This will be the base and the two side pieces.
- From the inside and outside, we glue the rectangles with upholstery furniture fabric.
- We connect the two parts together at an angle of 60 degrees. We attach the third part to them. We fasten the entire structure with PVA glue. We get a house in the form of a triangular prism.
- We cover the bottom of the house with a padding polyester or other soft bedding.
- We set up a house near the battery to keep the cat warm and comfortable.
We decorate self-made dwellings for pets as follows:
- We trim it with fabric, which we select in accordance with the general style of the interior.
- We paste over with paper white... Then we paint to our liking.
- We paste over with wallpaper, in accordance with the walls of the apartment.
- We decorate the house with soft toys in the form of mice, birds, other animals and insects.
You can install a scratching post next to the house so that your pet can sharpen its claws. Thus, you will protect your furniture from damage.
Precautionary measures:
- It is forbidden to use the stapler as a fixing material. Cats sometimes gnaw on cardboard. A stapler paper clip can be accidentally swallowed by a pet, or it can injure mucous membranes.
- Do not use adhesives with a strong odor. The best is PVA glue. It does not emit strong odors and dries quickly.
- It is forbidden to use boxes found on the street. Stray cats and dogs could live in them. There is no guarantee that they were healthy.
- You cannot use tight boxes. The cat will want to stay awake in a place where it is uncomfortable.
- It is forbidden to hang a cardboard house for a cat. The product may fall and the animal may be injured.
A self-built cardboard house for a cat will save the family budget and the nerves of the owners. After all, a pet will not look for a place to lie in the wrong place.
Such a craft does not take much time and materials, and for the child this activity will be very useful
nym. When working with paper and volumetric figures, spatial thinking develops, imagination and ingenuity work. Among other things, this is just an exciting activity for both adults and children.
Every girl dreams that her beloved doll will live in a house. Is it worth spending huge sums of money to purchase a doll house if you can easily make it yourself? In addition, the child will treat the toy more carefully when he himself takes part in its creation.
To do beautiful house from cardboard boxes, you need very little materials and most importantly - imagination!
You'll need:
- Sturdy cardboard boxes of various sizes;
- Paints;
- Colored paper;
- Knife and scissors;
- Glue gun;
- Scotch;
- Pencils or markers.
Any house can be made - large or small, with a removable roof or stationary, with separate rooms or one large one. To get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat the house will look like, take a look approximate schemes and sketches on the Internet (each comes with instructions). Based on them, you can draw your own plan of the dollhouse.
Do-it-yourself large cardboard house for children
It is quite simple to interest the kid. Build him a house! If you live in an apartment, making drywall housing at home will be very difficult due to lack of free space. But there is a way out, because surely each of you at home on the mezzanine or in the garage have large boxes from under household appliances - TV, refrigerator or gas stove... Unless you are planning a big move, these boxes are unlikely to come in handy. But they can be used to make an excellent terem house for your child. It will be interesting for the kid to play in such a spacious house.
To make a children's house with your own hands, you need:
- A large cardboard box or two medium ones;
- Glue;
- Scotch;
- Colored paper or wallpaper;
- Ruler;
- Stationery knife.
Place the box so that the opening parts are at the top. Cut a piece of cardboard from an unnecessary box to make a quadrangular roof. Fasten all bends with tape.
You can leave the top of the roof empty for better air flow.
Figure out where the door will be located. The hole should be large enough for the baby to crawl inside the house. Draw a door and cut it out with a clerical knife. We do the same with windows. Finished holes can be decorated with old tulle, this will make the home cozy.
You can lay on the floor warm blanket, so the baby will not freeze, even if he sits inside the house for hours.
The homemade house is ready and waiting for its owner!
DIY cardboard houses: schemes and construction nuances
To create a house, first of all, you need to draw a sketch. Finished drawing at home, you can download it on the Internet or try to draw it yourself, based on the child's requests. If you wish, you can make a layout of the house out of plain paper.
House project:
- According to the drawing, cut out sketches of the future toy house from a cardboard box.
- Cut through windows and doors. Remove unnecessary pieces of cardboard.
- The joints must be glued with tape.
- If you glue the folds correctly, the house can fold, and in this form it will take up very little space.
- The roof of the house is made from the end parts of the box. They are fastened together with adhesive tape, the roof can be pasted over with colored paper on top.
- To make the second floor, you need to install interior partition... Put a sheet of cardboard on top and fix it firmly along the edges with the walls of the house.
- The stairs between floors are also cut out of cardboard.
Now the house can be decorated doll furniture or make it yourself from cardboard.
Helpful Crafting Tips:
- The door of the house should open outward;
- To make the house stable, cardboard pipes need to be installed in the corners;
- For safety reasons, only adults should cut cardboard.
How to make a house out of cardboard with your own hands: step by step with pictures
A beautiful and original house for Barbie can be made not only from boxes, but also from ordinary colored cardboard sheets. Let your daughter help you create the house, make the layout and think over the decor.
For work, you will need sheets of thick cardboard, colored tape, felt-tip pens and a stationery knife.
Getting started:
- Our house will not have a front wall - so it is more convenient for a child to play with a doll if the dwelling is supposed to have several tiers.
- The house is based on four standard sheet cardboard, which are fastened together with colored tape.
- Before joining the sheets, you need to cut out the window of the future house.
- Having fastened the sheets, we make the second floor. To do this, you need to connect 3-4 sheets together so that the overlap is more durable.
- Along the entire perimeter, glue the sheets to the walls of the house with tape.
- The walls of the house can be pasted over with wrapping paper, imitating wallpaper, and thin felt can be laid on the floor - like a warm carpet.
It will be very interesting for the child to play with a new acquisition, to equip the house. These skills will definitely be useful in adulthood.
If a child is already attending school, he can take his creation to an exhibition or just show off to classmates.
DIY cardboard house: how to decorate a doll house
Dollhouse like ordinary apartment, requires comfort. To make your home more comfortable, you need to glue wallpaper on the walls - from colored paper, packaging wrapper or simple glossy magazines. You can hang curtains on the windows, for sure you have a piece of unnecessary fabric. Use push pins or a stapler to attach them.
Like any apartment, the house should not be empty. Your favorite doll also needs furniture. From boxes you can build a voluminous sofa, wardrobe or whatnot, table and chairs. They can be painted with watercolors or pasted over with applications.
The floor can be covered with felt, which is attached to the box with glue gun... Now the Barbie doll can walk barefoot on the floor.
To make it light and cozy in the house, you can hang an LED garland along the walls.
You can place around the house decorative flowers in pots and build a fence from plastic bottles... However, this option is acceptable if space in the nursery allows.
Let the child decorate the house himself, because your tastes may differ. Entrust this work to the kid, let him develop his imagination!
Step-by-step master class: how to make a cardboard house for a cat
If you have a tailed, mustachioed animal at home, you know how cats like to hide - they jump into a stroller, climb into boxes or on a rack. You can make a house out of the box and your pet will have a personal apartment for which no one will claim.
Cardboard box for cats - original and interesting idea, but, alas, such a house will quickly deteriorate. Cardboard is afraid of water, so it cannot be washed. If your pet confuses a house with a litter box, the cat's apartment will have to be thrown away.
In addition, cats love to sharpen their claws, and this will also harm the house.
Despite the disadvantages, this option is the cheapest and fastest to implement.
Building a cat house:
- You need to choose a box in which your cat will not be cramped. Cats love space and love to see, so don't put the box in the farthest corner of the room.
- Lay a rug or pillow on the floor.
- You can paste over the outside of the house with old wallpaper so that the cat's dwelling does not interfere with the interior of the "human" room.
When the house is ready, invite the cat to examine it. Let him get used to the new thing, study it. There is no need to force the cat to climb inside right away, this can only scare him away.
How to make a house out of cardboard (video)
If you have a fantasy and love to craft, you can do toy house made of cardboard. This gift will appeal to both kids and older children. Even adult girl will appreciate such a gift, because very often you want to return to a carefree childhood and play with Barbie dolls again.
Small children are giants of engineering, because only they can build themselves an excellent hut for games from chairs, tables, blankets and pillows in a few minutes. What is left for the parents? Just be surprised at their resourcefulness and disassemble halabudas? No: the most creative moms and dads can compete with the little fidget and build for him the perfect play space - a house made of cardboard boxes.
Is it hard for you to compete with your kid's hectic imagination? It is for these parents that we have created a selection best ideas... Little ones will definitely like his new personal mansion made of cardboard boxes.
Cozy house
A small door and windows, a red facade and a tiled roof - such a house would look great in a small European village or in your baby's playroom. You will need one large base box and several sheets of cardboard to cut out the decor. Use paints, scissors and your imagination for decoration. It will turn out very nice!
How without a hallway
Dad or mom are engineers? Then you just have to "finish building" your baby to the cardboard house small hallway or several rooms. Have you really learned the strength of materials in vain? This is how a play hut for a child of engineering parents should look like.
House with opening windows
The sun can wake up the little owner of the cardboard house and interfere with his carefree games. Consider this: shutters or curtains on cardboard windows are a great way out. And cheerful decor performed by the kid will not hurt.
Here today and there tomorrow
A good option for small apartments is a cardboard transforming house. After the games, you can easily fold such a hut and hide it so that it does not take up extra space. Simple and functional!
House with interior
Is the house built and empty? Disorder! We take the remains of cardboard and other unnecessary cardboard boxes, remember childhood, turn on our imagination and create. Shelves, cabinets, kitchen set - the necessary furniture in the hut for the child. Games in such a house will be even more interesting!
Vzhuh - and flew
And if the planet Earth gets bored, the cardboard house can turn into a fast space shuttle. Add a few necessary parts from cardboard to the base - and forward to the stars to surf the vastness of space.
Houses from a fairy tale
A city made of cardboard boxes with tall castles and small cozy hovels is a cool idea to play with your child. In this kingdom, you can settle doll princesses, and arrange races for cars on its streets.
Mansion for dolls
Oh, all of us girls in childhood just dreamed of a house for Barbie. After all, your beloved doll should be comfortable. Three floors and a bedroom in the attic - not bad, huh? And the boys can use a three-story car garage. The little oligarch needs somewhere to keep his car fleet?
Don't rush to throw away cardboard boxes if you have children in your home. Such a thing, unnecessary at first glance, will serve as an excellent house for dolls, toys, or even for the child himself. How to make a house out of cardboard, we will tell you in this article.
How to make a cardboard house for dolls
You can make a house for a doll from a small cardboard box. To create such a product, you need to stock up on:
- cardboard boxes suitable size;
- glue, tape;
- scissors and a sharp stationery knife;
- watercolors and brushes;
- colored paper;
- any finishing materials, for which there is enough imagination.
Multi-storey cardboard dollhouse is done as follows:
- The boxes from which the floors are supposed to be built must be reinforced with tape around all edges so that the house does not fall apart during the game.
- Then you need to cut windows in them. To begin with, it is better to draw them exactly with a pencil, and then cut out with a clerical knife along the outlined lines.
- To create a multi-storey house, boxes must be placed on top of each other and glued together.
- Now you need to make the roof. To do this, take two cardboard sheets of a suitable size and fasten them at an angle of 45 °. The roof is installed on the top box.
- So that there are separate rooms in the house, partitions must be made. Like everything else, they are made of cardboard and installed inside boxes.
- In principle, the dollhouse is almost ready, the most interesting thing remains - to decorate it. You can decorate such a toy structure as you like, for example, paste over it with colored paper or cloth, decorate with ribbons, lace, beads, buttons or something else. If you want to involve a child in the process, then paste over the walls of the house with plain white paper, and let the child paint them at his discretion.
- As well as outside, the inside of the house also needs to be decorated. Unnecessary leftovers of wallpaper, fabrics, oilcloths will come in handy here.
How to make a cardboard house for a child
It's no secret that kids just love to build small impromptu dwellings for themselves from everything that comes to hand. You can help the child and make a cardboard house for him from big boxleft over, for example, from a refrigerator or washing machine... The process of creating such a craft is similar to the previous one:
- The cardboard house must be strong, so glue all its joints and corners with tape from the inside.
- Draw the windows with a pencil, cut out with a clerical knife. Make the doors the same way.
- If the box is too small for a child, the top can be cut off and an L-shaped roof can be attached in its place.
- You can decorate such a house with any materials at hand. Can be pasted over with paper or wallpaper, just paint or paint. Can be used natural materials for decoration: cones, branches, leaves.
All details children's house it is better to fasten it with tape or a stapler, since the glue will not give the desired result and the house will disintegrate.
