Handmade cardboard crafts: flat and volumetric products in different techniques for girls and boys

An excellent alternative to store toys can be called handicrafts made of cardboard. Means are required minimal, and the benefit is difficult to overestimate.

For adults, it's always a great opportunity to spend leisure time with children. The creative process develops children's sense of proportion and spatial thinking.

Features of cardboard

The main feature of cardboard is its versatility. It is not at all difficult to work with it, since it is stronger than paper. This means that the made crafts will be durable, retaining their original shape.

Types of ornamental material:

• Colored cardboard - can be single- and double-sided;
• Printing - thick covers of fashionable advertising catalogs and magazines;
• Wrapping cardboard - boxes from under large-sized equipment;
• fluorescent, foiled cardboard - an unusual material that allows you to diversify the creative work of a child. Best suited for fairy-tale themes, glittering shades add to the handicraft fairy tale and mystery;
• uncoated cardboard is an inexpensive version with a matte rough surface;
• Corrugated cardboard is a three-dimensional material with a relief surface, optimal for crafts in combination with other materials.

You can buy cardboard at a stationery store or look for it at home.

It can be candy boxes or paper napkin sleeves.

Tools for work

To create versatile crafts from cardboard, the following materials and tools will be required:

• Scissors;
• awl for piercing holes;
• PVA glue;
• compasses;
• measuring ruler;
• wooden skewers;
• utility knife;
• a simple pencil;
• duct tape.

Flat handcrafts made of cardboard

To create flat figures fit any cardboard. Necessary blanks are cut out of packaging material and painted with paint.

House

Take a strip of red cardboard, folded in the form of a broken line. Then the child with the help of adults cut out the elements of the house: the walls, doors and roof.

A window opening is cut into the wall. To make them more realistic, a piece of polyethylene film is cut out and glued on the back side.

Daylight will fall on the toy windows, creating glare on the curtains.

Applique with an animal

The cardboard craft is made very simply.

The paws of the toy fluffy beauty are cut through with a stationery knife along a pre-drawn silhouette line.

A pink heart cut out according to the template is inserted into the slot.

Such work would be a good surprise for mothers and grandmothers on March 8. On the back side of the cardboard applique you can glue a greeting written with felt-tip pens.

Easter Eggs

For Holy Sunday, you can make a flat craft - eggs. Several ovals are drawn on coated cardboard, cut out and painted with gouache. To give a shine and richness to the colors, it is recommended to sprinkle them with hairspray.

It will be necessary to arrange the Easter eggs. Empty cassette boxes will work well for this. The children will only have to cut out the necessary number of notches.

Puppet puppets

It is interesting and very easy to make a cardboard puppet. It is enough to draw cardboard blanks of the man, cut out each in turn and connect with a thin wire or fishing line.

Cut a small piece of wire 2 cm long, put it through the holes in the blanks and make knots at the ends of the wire on the front and back.

In addition to the wire, metal rings can be used as fasteners.

Puppet puppet ready and she can play with it.

Three-dimensional crafts

From cardboard, you can create three-dimensional models, which are durable. If a piece of craft material to bend at different angles, you can get the multi-faceted figures.

Animals

A common theme for children's creativity is the world of animals. Volumetric animals seem to come to life, taking fancy shapes and bright colors:

1. Bunny. Cardboard is bent in two places, resulting in the formation of the plane of the back of the animal, the back and legs.
2. Rooster. The volumetric craft is also made by creasing the cardboard, forming the bottom and a couple of side pieces.
3. Raccoon. Just like a rooster, it has two planes of sternum and back joined at the top at the tips of the ears and tail.
4. Polar bears. Performed also by folding the two lines and forming a pair of planes. Head of the beast is cut out separately, make two folds on it. Obtained forehead and two cheeks. Then the head is inserted into the hole on the dorsal plane.
5. Swallow. Bends can be made not only along the clearly drawn lines. Allowed variant, when giving the cardboard rounded shape smoothly bend it.
6. Mouse. The simplest volumetric handicraft for a small child. It is enough to simply roll up soft cardboard in the form of a cone and glue it at the edges. Next, it is painted in gray, draw eyes and glue the tail.

If there is a cat in the house, it will be able to appreciate such a gift, pleasing the child.

Postcards

You can make original cards with your own hands on the basis of cardboard.

For the work you will need a sheet of cardboard as a base, folded in half:

1. From green colored paper cut out leaves, and from colored cardboard cut out a spectacular vase shape. It should have volume. Therefore, when cutting it leave allowances on all sides.
2. The allowances are bent and glued to the front of the card.
3. Cut flowers from colored cardboard.
4. To create a rose circle cut out and then cut it into a spiral. Roll up the resulting piece into a neat bud.
5. The stems of the flower is formed from brown paper.
6. Finished bouquet glued inside the vase.

They only need to write good wishes in the center of a three-dimensional cardboard card, made by hand.

Toys - constructors

Colorful figures from any cardboard will help children distinguish shapes and colors and learn to make different designers. For example, from a cardboard box.

1. Draw geometric shapes on a sheet of cardboard. You will need to make two identical parts for each of them. Then they are cut out and attached to the base.
2. Put PVA glue on one side of the dense parts and glue the bright pictures on top. When one side dries, similarly decorate the other side.
3. Make incisions with a box cutter so that the parts can be attached to each other. To make them stable, the thickness of the cuts should be slightly less than the thickness of the parts of the construction set.

This is one of the options for children's construction kits. There are a lot of others. For example, from paper sleeves for paper towels, from round discs.

Camera .

It takes half an hour to make a camera out of a cardboard box. All you have to do is choose the desired model and find an empty box with dimensions corresponding to the real apparatus, a paper sleeve, two buttons, colorful covers, colored paper, a piece of foam sponge and a photograph.

Such a cardboard camera will be big and bright in appearance. The child will love to press the soft button of a piece of sponge, taking off an imaginary object and check on the "screen" the resulting picture, which will be a pre-glued photo.

Cardboard craft technology for girls

Any thing that surrounds a child can be embodied in cardboard. It easily takes the desired shape, is cut, stitched and always available.

Girls can be fascinated by beautiful crafts, revealing their creativity.

Dollhouse

To create a home for your favorite doll, you will need several pieces of boxes connected to each other with glue or tape:

• Make the roof from half of the box and fix it with adhesive tape to the walls of the house.
• If the box is voluminous, it must be divided into two parts, thus building a second floor. To do this, construct horizontal partitions for the space between floors. If desired, you can make many rooms in the house with vertical partitions.
• Then proceed to the interior decoration. After that, the construction of the house is considered complete.

Furniture items for the kitchen house

A suitable option for making toy furniture will be corrugated cardboard with a thickness of 2 mm.

Cardboard crib. It will take 25-20 minutes of free time to create the furniture. All parts are attached by the grooves cut in the cardboard. The dimensions of the crib can be chosen independently.

Sofa. You will need matchboxes, which are folded into the desired shape and glued together with glue. The described technique can also be used to make tables and chairs.

Closet. It is desirable to choose such a box, which will coincide with the dimensions of the manufactured piece of furniture. Cut out the doors, draw handles and hang a mirror inside one of the doors.

Mini kitchen

There are many ideas for creating a miniature kitchen. One of them is a variant from ordinary shoe boxes:

• To build the structure, you will need 3 boxes of different capacities.
• They will become a working area located on the floor cabinets.
• To make a kitchen apron, a flat box will do.
• As the stiffeners will be the dividers.
• The opening parts are fixed with duct tape.
• In each box with a sharp knife, the doors are cut through. Next, all the boxes are tied together with duct tape, and the elongated box is placed on top and glued again with duct tape.
• In the countertop make a round or rectangular hole for the sink, which is made from a plastic cup.
• To make the hob, use black and red colored paper;
• To decorate the kitchenette, you can cover it with colored paper or pieces of wallpaper.

Sewing machine

A sewing machine will be a wonderful toy for a girl. You will need a piece of thick cardboard, from which you cut out the necessary parts.

This will be the profile of the sewing machine and the stand. You can make a three-dimensional model. To do this, cut out the second piece, similar to the first, set beside a width of 6-8 cm and glued strips of cardboard around the perimeter.

It remains to trace all the elements of this sewing machine and the craft is ready!

Phone .

Today, kids choose to play cell phones, which can be made of cardboard. Even a preschooler can cope with the work. An adult is required to be nearby to control the process of safety when using glue and scissors.

Fabrication method:

1. On cardboard, draw a rectangle of size 8×15 and cut it out. It is important that the phone is of real thickness. It is better to use corrugated cardboard.
2. From white paper draw a pair of rectangles different in size. One with a side of 6 cm, the other - 7 cm. One of them depicts the English keyboard layout with a marker, the other will symbolize the screen.

The kid will be happy to play with the toy without fear of breaking it.

Crafts for boys

A child should be taught to be industrious and diligent, especially boys. Joint studies of creativity will be a fruitful beginning of the relationship.

Castle

To create a craft for children's room will need a large box of corrugated cardboard. A child will independently draw the aisles, the teeth of the walls. Further assistance from adults is required. Sharp knife to cut out the details marked with a pencil.

The castle is ready, just paint it with felt-tip pens and invite friends.

The car .

In addition to the standard set of tools, you need to buy a box with dimensions of 600×400×400.

Step by step work:

1. The top lids of the box are glued with duct tape.
2. Using a ruler, measure the length of the container, mark on the flap 2/3 of the length.
3. Cut the lid with scissors around the edges of the box to the markings. Then the car doors are cut out from the sides.
4. The cut lid is folded in half to make a windshield.
5. With a sharp office knife carefully cut a notch for the insertion of the windshield.
6. The wheels can be drawn with a marker. Another option is to use disposable plates.
7. To imitate headlights, take plastic cups and put them on PVA glue.
8. Paint the car according to your own preferences.
9. For a comfortable ride baby inside crafts put soft compact pillows.

Machine ready, the joy of the child is guaranteed.

Airplane .

We will need a bulk cardboard container with cut out the top. If necessary, reduce the size of the box to be able to see the head of the young pilot in a seated position.

1. Cardboard scraps are used to make the tail end, wings and propeller of the airplane.
2. The blanks for the wings should have an oval shape. Make incisions in the sides of the flying apparatus along the width of the wings, lubricate with glue and insert them.
3. To create the propeller also need oval parts, but a little smaller. The blades are glued to the nose of the cardboard plane, the circle is located on top.
4. The tail is made of two rectangles connected crosswise.

In the final stage of the aircraft decorated.

Ship

To make a ship for the boy must prepare two medium-sized and one large box. The helm is held on a long screw and twists. The lifeline is placed on a plastic hook and can be removed at any time.

A carved round compass with a rotating arrow is located prominently. A child's highchair can be used as a seat for the boy. An anchor on a chain is attached to the outside of the board.

It's just a matter of planting the flag and sailing away!

Rocket

To create an interesting space craft, you need a long, thick sleeve of paper tissues. Then wrap it with silver paper. The edges are securely fastened with a stapler at the top and bottom:

• The top of the rocket is made of red cardboard. To do this, draw a circle with a compass, then cut it out and make an incision to the middle.
• Give the circle a cone shape by twisting it. Then cut out two small circles from colored paper, which will be the windows of the space rocket.
• Ready cone glued to the top of the craft, and the circles are placed in turn in the center of the rocket.
• To create the lower parts will need cardboard of a different shade. Draw three rectangular shapes, cut out and make slits in each.
• Inserted prepared blanks rocket to the base and glued.

The original craft is ready.

Knight's clothing

The costume of the hero can be suitable for a holiday or themed carnival at school. Later it can be played with friends.

Master Class:

1. Prepare a cardboard box of such size that the child could pull it over himself without discomfort.
2. The shoulder straps are made from two straps secured with hot glue. The resulting bib.
3. Using two small and hard boxes, the shoulder straps are mastered. For a firm fit, the ends should be cut on them on both sides.
4. The armor for the legs is also made from several long and narrow boxes. To allow the knight to bend his knees, it will be necessary to trim the box in several places without touching the front side.
5. From the shoe box make a helmet, cut out an oval shape for the face. To helmet could be put on his head, should remove the underside of the box.

It remains to draw on the armor coat of arms and decorations.

Dinosaur costume

Two boxes will be needed for the work. One will be the body of the dragon, and the other - the head with the mouth:

• In a larger cardboard container, cut off the bottom on both sides, and make holes for handles. Triangles are glued on the back.
• The smaller box is cut in half on three edges, glued fangs and eyes.
• Both boxes are connected by tape.
• At this point, the work is done.

Everyone has talents, but it is desirable to notice them in early childhood. Making creative handicrafts is necessary for the development of a complete personality. Develop perseverance, imagination and desire to achieve their goals.

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