How to make crafts from matchboxes. Crafts from matchboxes
Hello friends! For a long time on our resource there were no review articles on crafts. Today we will correct this defect. I have accumulated a large amount interesting materials about which interesting crafts you can create from matchboxes at home if you approach this issue with imagination and humor. Photos of crafts were found by me and a group of active readers of our resource on the World Wide Web. They were stockpiled and accumulated until they got around to writing this article. So, here is our mega review. Read and make yourself such cool things!
Crafts from matchboxes for girls
Matchboxes "are an excellent material for creating doll furniture. Armed with additional paints, glue and a brush and paper, you can make a toy desk, a dining table with chairs, various kinds of doll chests of drawers and bedside tables. Everything is limited solely by your imagination. The most interesting with my point of view, the instances I post on the site:
Here are the assembly diagrams for some pieces of doll furniture.
I also really liked the idea of making a suitcase for Barbie. Just a class, and most importantly, do it yourself in 5-10 minutes. For crafts, we additionally need colored paper.
Another one interesting idea- layout of the camera. We take a matchbox, paint it in dark color, and after drying, we glue a circle of white paper on it approximately in the middle - this will be a photographic lens, and also closer to the corner of the box we attach a small paper rectangle-viewfinder. It remains to supply our paper camera with a lace strap and that's it - original craft ready! The photo shows one of the options.
And you can collect a whole toy house from matchboxes and paper. True, a lot of material for such a craft will be required.
And you can make such a funny hut:
Crafts from matchboxes for kids
For children 3-5 years old, you can make cool souvenir toys. Involving a child in work on crafts, we will immediately receive a triple benefit: we will make a cool little thing, we will take the child’s time with useful work, we will try to instill in the child a craving for work and certain skills.
Here is my mini-gallery of the most successful ideas:
But the kid will be able to make such a craft on his own. All she needs is a light matchbox, ice cream sticks and pencils or felt-tip pens for drawing faces.
Toy transport from boxes of matches. Schemes and drawings.
And from the boxes you can make a lot of different toy vehicles, such as cars, locomotives, airplanes and boats. Take a look at the photos of some crafts.
I remember that as a child I saw in one of the youthful technical magazines that my older brother subscribed to, diagrams and drawings of cars, armored vehicles and even Katyushas were published. I will definitely look for these schemes and share the information with you.
Matchbox boxes and boxes
This is a very interesting subsection of the article for me. The fact is that matchboxes are just an ideal option for creating all kinds of caskets, cases and organizers. You can invent and create whatever you please. Stock up on colored paper, foil, thread, cardboard, stationery glue and paints and get creative!
You can make these organizer boxes with a bunch of compartments for storing various small things.
Julia Goloviznina
Target: making a volumetric craft "Car" from matchboxes.
Objectives: develop cognitive interest, encourage children to be creative, promote the development of skills manual labor development of coordination of finger movements, fine motor skills hands, cultivate perseverance, independence.
Material and tools:
6 matchboxes;
4 wheel plugs;
2 lollipop sticks;
plasticine bar;
simple pencil;
colored paper;
PVA glue;
glue brush;
Manufacturing stages.
Chassis of the car.
1. Make 2 blanks by connecting 2 boxes along the long side with an additional strip of paper.
2. Then glue the blanks, placing one above the other.
3. Make a pattern from an A4 colored sheet: circle the resulting design with a pencil.
4. Using the ruler, continue in all directions of the line.
5. Cut out the extra squares at the corners of the pattern.
6. Paste the workpiece by wrapping it on all sides.
Cabin.
1. Glue 2 boxes together (one above the other).
2. Make a pattern from an A4 colored sheet.
3. Paste the workpiece.
Windows and headlights.
1. Fold a strip of white (yellow or blue) paper 1.5x12 cm in four, round the corners on the upper side of the workpiece, cut along the fold lines.
2. Cut out the headlights.
Wheels.
Fill the corks with plasticine.
Craft decoration.
1. On top of a long workpiece, exactly in the center, stick a small cabin workpiece.
2. Decorate the cabin with windows: stick 2 on the front and back, and cut the other 2 in half and place on the sides with rounded corners to the right and left. Stick on the headlights.
3. With an awl, make through holes for the wheels in front and behind the chassis.
4. Insert lollipop sticks into the prepared holes.
5. Attach the wheel plugs with the side where the plasticine is.
If the sticks are long, they should be shortened with scissors. Over time, the plasticine will harden and the structure will become more durable.
The car is ready.
Crafts can serve as an attribute of children's games, as well as become a decoration of the interior of the group in the corner according to the traffic rules "City Street".
Related publications:
Pedagogical project Construction from matchboxes Pedagogical project MADOU " Kindergarten No. 6 "" Design from matchboxes "
For crafts, we take red cardboard, on the reverse side we draw a scan of the car. We cut the workpiece and bend along all lines.
In the year of the goat, I decided to try to make a symbol of the year. And that's how it was. We take the usual sleeve from toilet paper. Cut off unnecessary corners.
Verbal, practical and visual methods are used. Purpose: to form in children the ability to convey the shape of the machine and its parts with the help.
GCD on artistic and aesthetic development for children of the senior group "Car" Educational activities: "Artistic - aesthetic development», « cognitive development», « Physical development"," Speech development",.
Organized educational activities children TOPIC: "Making a passenger car by modeling from plasticine for children of 5 years old."
Everyone knows that "matches are not toys." What about empty matchboxes? Especially a lot of them accumulate in those houses where gas stoves are installed - but do not throw away such valuable material for crafts! Today we are getting acquainted with beautiful and simple ideas: we make toys and decorations, wall decor and a trifle useful in the household.
Mini chest of drawers
From matchboxes, you can easily make 1001 options for elegant and comfortable “mini chests of drawers” for storing various little things: jewelry, small toys, beads and ribbons for needlework, various circles / triangles / daisies for learning to count.
To do this, you need to assemble a structure from matchboxes (without boxes) on any glue and lightly press each other for the drying time. Then we insert the boxes and proceed to decorate our mini chest of drawers.
It can be pasted over with bright decorative paper or beautiful cloth, decorate with applique, sequins or rhinestones. And, of course, do not forget to glue large beads as drawer handles.
All for the party
From matchboxes, you can make cute packaging for small "symbolic" gifts with your own hands. Decorating them with tissue or suede paper, ribbons, feathers, felt hearts, we get themed "wrappers" for Valentine's Day, New Year, Birthday, etc. Sweets, cookies and some nice little things can easily fit inside such mini-packages.
Funny postcards with a surprise will turn out if you arrange a small collage of key elements in a matchbox: a background, some character and his comment (wish, unexpected question). An excellent gift will turn out if in such a tiny box there is a key to some door, behind which a real big surprise is hidden.
Garlands with gifts can be applied to winter holidays. In the West, for example, from the first of December it is customary to keep a “Christmas calendar”: every day children receive a small surprise, which in our case is packaged in a numbered matchbox suspended on a ribbon. This is how the festive atmosphere is created!
Matchbox toys
You can make real toys from matchboxes: glue the cardboard base, glue it with colored paper or paint it. Also, try using unwanted boxes as building blocks for a building block - or bricks for a dollhouse.
Matchboxes also make comfortable beds for small toys. And the boxes can be hung on threads and organize a puppet swing.
Unusual photo collage
We have a wedding theme in the photo, but this is just a sample. You can use children's and family photos, as well as just beautiful pictures or magazine clippings. We need empty matchboxes (the author used as many as 64 pieces), plain white paper, white acrylic paint, artificial flowers made of fabric or paper (you can make them yourself!), braid and lace, beads (rhinestones, sequins or other small things), Moment glue, scissors, a stationery knife and a ruler.
We glue 60 boxes without drawers together and transfer this design to a thick cardboard base. We use drawers to paste over the panels along the edges - you get something like a frame. Now, with the help of a clerical knife, we remove the walls between some matchboxes to get arbitrary “windows” different sizes. To hide the joints between the matchboxes, we glue the resulting shape with white paper.
After the finished base dries properly, we decorate some “windows” with clippings and photographs. The walls and ends of the panels are carefully painted over with white acrylic. And now you can stick all kinds of decorations: fill the empty “windows” with various trifles, and place the flowers in two opposite corners of the collage diagonally.
Volumetric mini-paintings
The same idea - but not wholesale, but retail! Each individual picture-box will fit not only photographs, pictures and stickers, but also toys from chocolate eggs. Such a bright and cheerful decor for a children's room - or a homemade gift for little friends. By and large, there is no need to explain the technology: just experiment with the child on scraps of different fabrics, kinder surprises and everything that is not a pity to put into the creative process.
Puzzles and cubes from matchboxes
For children 1, 5-2 years old, you can make puzzles: cut a large beautiful picture into several fragments, stick them on cardboard boxes - and let the child collect the image piece by piece. For older children, you can no longer use pictures, but letters, words and phrases - from them the child can easily assemble sentences, well-known proverbs and sayings.
Toddlers will also appreciate the homemade game “Pick up an outfit”. Let's say on one matchbox we have an image of a character's head. On a series of other boxes - all kinds of sweaters, jackets, t-shirts, etc. On the third boxes - skirts and trousers. So the child will be able to choose any clothes for the toy: for example, by profession (doctor, cook, pilot ...), for going out (for a dinner party, to the store, to the stadium or to the gym ...), etc. If you add several others to this set characters, it will become even more interesting to play. It’s not difficult to make such a toy: we either glue the matchboxes with white paper and draw everything ourselves with pencils and markers, or we gut old magazines, choose the right clothes and stick the cutouts on the boxes.
Convenient needle bed
And from a matchbox you get a good needle case, from which not a single needle can disappear. And all thanks to magnetic paper, which can be found in needlework stores. So, everything is simple: a strip of magnetic paper of the appropriate size is placed on the bottom of the matchbox, and on top of the needle bar you can paste over and decorate with any materials to your liking. Simple and safe!
To make this miniature suitcase in retro style, you need thick brown paper (two shades), an empty matchbox and funny pictures (these will be “badges”). We glue the boxes with paper, make a handle, “belts” and decorate with retro “badges” - the suitcase is ready.
Miniature photo album
Do you want to surprise and please your loved ones? Then give them such a miniature photo album as a gift. To do this, you will need: a matchbox, glue, paints, postcards or scrap paper, scissors, brushes and, of course, tiny photographs. Decorate the box and put in it a miniature screen of photographs. Such an album can always be carried near the heart - in a breast pocket.
Screen book
By the same principle, you can make a baby book. Print out short fairy tales, come up with illustrations, make a screen and stick it in the box. Perhaps such an unusual shape will awaken in the child an interest in reading.
You can make this cute giraffe out of 7 empty matchboxes. You just need to make a frame, glue it with paper and decorate. This great idea for joint creativity with children.
mini zoo
From matchboxes you can make not only a giraffe, but also a whole zoo. Take four boxes, paint them gray (hippo), orange (lion), light and dark brown (bear and donkey). Glue the corresponding faces on top. You will get a bright and original gift for the baby.
You can (and should!) confess your love not only on February 14, but all year round. Moreover, it is so simple: take a matchbox, glue it with beautiful paper, attach a couple of hearts - and you're done. In addition, you can (and should!) Put something tasty inside - you get a very sweet confession.
Surprise garland
On New Year, as well as any other holiday, you can make such a bright garland with surprises. Cut out stars from glossy paper and glue matchboxes with sweets, nuts and other goodies to them.
advent calendar
In America and Europe, on the eve of the New Year holidays, it is customary to make the so-called Advent calendar. This is a kind of postcard, consisting of 24 "pockets" (according to the number of days before Christmas). Inside these cases are sweets, small gifts, notes with biblical quotes or just kind words. One surprise is opened per day, thus recharging the pre-holiday mood. You can also make such a calendar. Simple but very beautiful way- a mosaic of matchboxes.
Christmas decorations
Christmas tree decorations in the form of Christmas deer and Santa Claus are matchboxes pasted over with paper, with felt faces. If you show imagination, then the Snow Maiden, Snowman and other New Year characters may also appear on your Christmas tree.
Gift wrap
In such an original box, you can give a ring, earrings or other "little things". And it is still unknown what will be more valuable - the box or its contents. After all, as you know, the most best gift- made by hand. To turn a matchbox into original packaging, you need scrap paper and other decorative items, as well as your imagination.
The boys will surely love the idea of making a plane with their own hands. To do this, you will need a box of matches and colored cardboard. You need to cut out blanks from cardboard: two wide strips, one long narrower and two narrow small ones. And then, as they say, a matter of technology.
Robot
Another “male” toy is matchbox robots. In this case, the boxes are used as parts of the designer. To get a real Iron Man, the main thing is to glue and paint correctly.
For girls, you can make a chic doll furniture. With a little imagination, gray matchboxes turn into exquisite nightstands and desks. Detailed master class you will find by clicking on the link below.
No modern lady can do without a computer, so your daughter's dollhouse simply needs a computer desk. Matchboxes will come to the rescue again. Glue them together to make a table with drawers and decorate it to your liking. "Computer", by the way, can also be made out of a box.
From matchboxes, you can make not only doll furniture, but also the dolls themselves. To do this, on the label you need to draw or make a little girl using the scrapbooking technique, while the matches sticking out of open box, will play the role of her legs.
Boxes for confetti
Arranging a holiday is easy. One of the recipes for a great party is matchboxes + confetti. Decorate the boxes brighter and fill them with confetti - it will be convenient to store and use.
If matchboxes (or rather, their “retractable” part) are glued together, cells of different sizes are made, painted or decoupaged, photographs are pasted inside, decorated with flowers and other decorative elements, you will get a very original and beautiful panel. You can find a detailed tutorial below. But remember: the point of any tutorial is not to repeat it, but to inspire your own creativity.
Print out a beautiful picture, stick it on the "canvas" of matchboxes, and then carefully cut along the contour of each box to get puzzle pieces. In this way, you can also make a photo puzzle - great gift for loved ones.
Matchboxes can serve not only an entertaining but also an educational purpose. So, if instead of labels stick images of various animals with their names, then you get a kind of "cubes". Of course, the theme can be anything - fruits, colors, professions, etc.
Another game useful for the development of the child is called “Who lives where?”. And it can also be made at home using matchboxes. To do this, you need to stick a picture on the label with the habitat of a particular animal (for example, an aquarium), and inside the box - with the animal itself (a fish). Thanks to this, the baby will quickly and easily remember who lives where.
In order for the child to quickly learn the numbers and the alphabet, try offering him such “abacuses” and “alphabets”. On matchboxes, write 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and put as many matches inside as it is written on the box; or write letters, and paste pictures with words starting with these letters inside.
Dutch illustrator Kim Velling is sure that one kind word or smile is enough to cheer up a person. But what if no one is around? Make a "box of inspiration" - says Kim. This is an ordinary matchbox, inside which is an encouraging or parting note and a cute picture. You can carry it with you and at any time, taking it out of your pocket, improve your mood.
With matchboxes and beautiful paper you can make original seating cards for guests at the wedding. All that is needed for this is to print the names of the invitees and paste over the boxes. Guests will be able to take the matches with them, such a souvenir will remind them of your celebration for a long time.
A bonbonniere is such a beautiful box in which souvenirs and small surprises are placed for guests at weddings, anniversaries, name days or other celebrations. Initially, sweets were used as filling for such boxes (even the word "bonbonniere" comes from the French "bonbon" - "candy"). But now they put anything inside: from key rings to aroma oils. Making a bonbonniere, as you can see, is simple, you can just decorate an ordinary matchbox.
Small storage box
You can't tell right away that these elegant caskets in the form of chests of drawers are made from banal matchboxes. However, it is. The technology of their creation, on the one hand, is simple, and on the other hand, it will require a lot of imagination and perseverance. But, you see, the result is worth it - beautiful and functional. In these boxes you can store jewelry, paper clips and other little things.
This time, dear friends, we will make cardboard packaging for cut soap. This topic, I think, will be of interest not only to soap makers working with soap base, but also for those enthusiasts who make soap from scratch. Although, by and large, even if you have only a consumer attitude to soap making, do not rush to close the page - new year holidays, and cardboard gift wrapping, whatever one may say, will only “grow in price”. But since I took the measurements for the boxes with soap, then we will proceed from this.
It is no secret that most often cut soap is rectangular (or close to it) bars. This means that a rectangular box will come in handy now. There can be a lot of options for its implementation. Some of them will be discussed in a series of publications dedicated to the packaging of cut soap. Let's start with the so-called matchbox. Structurally, such a box is very simple, but not without its "zest". To be honest, I like it the most as a packaging for cut soap.
Now about the sizes. The basic samples for me were pieces of soap, obtained from such a silicone mold:
From the soap cast in it, four pieces are obtained 64 mm wide, 90 mm long and about 23 mm thick (if poured completely). Soap of this size fits well into a box with parameters of 67 × 93 × 25 mm. The template for this matchbox can be downloaded here:
The pdf-file contains 2 sets of templates - with dashed lines (for printing on the wrong side of cardboard with a ready-made design) and without them (for imposing your own original design in a graphic editor and subsequent printing on the front side of the cardboard).
How to make a matchbox, consider the example of set No. 1. I believe that for those of you, friends, who have already got the hang of making square boxes, the technology is obvious. But just in case, below is a small photo instruction. As usual, for work we need:
- Printer;
- 1 sheet of A4 cardboard (I used plain white for children's creativity);
- ruler;
- stationery knife;
- creasing tool (scribbled rod from a ballpoint pen, knitting needle, nail file, goat's leg compass, etc.);
- scissors;
- double sided tape;
- a substrate on which we will cut the cardboard (I now use a self-healing rug, which I advise you to do).
Matchbox in person:
I tied it with a ribbon to match the color of the soap - it turned out almost festive:
As you may have noticed, in the main photo there is another box (the one with a green bow), which has slightly different dimensions. This is also a package from my arsenal. Perhaps its dimensions are not the most popular, but if someone fits, then download:
Well, and finally - a box specially "tuned" for soap "from scratch". I myself only dream of such a soap, but the sizes used are the most real. They were suggested to me by one wonderful craftswoman-zero.
Again, I repeat, the scope of the proposed templates is by no means limited production of cardboard packaging for soap self made. This type of box can be great gift box, and may themselves become original gift, for example, a box for storing small things. Here, the main thing is to show imagination and decorate it appropriately. But we will talk about this and how to use the templates from set No. 2 (there are little secrets there).
Thank you for attention!
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