How to make a beautiful house of cardboard

Need an unusual gift wrapping? Need an odd job in the form of an architectural structure? If you like to work with children, you can make a house of cardboard together. The execution technologies will be similar, but the size and design choose according to their individual idea.

Beautiful houses: options and ideas

A cardboard house can be made in the following variants:

The game design for children of this size, so you can go inside (an alternative to expensive plastic complexes).
A small architectural form for dolls with a removable or missing front wall and elaborate interior of rooms.
An odd job on a New Year theme, for example, Santa's house.
Gift box of unusual shape.

As you can see, there are several possibilities. Choose the appropriate option. Make the game of children more interesting and developing available means.

What will be required

To make a house of cardboard with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:

Cardboard (corrugated for frame, decorative for decoration).
Patterns of parts, diagrams and sweeps.
Pencil.
Ruler.
Eraser.
Scissors.
Knife.
Glue or thermo gun.
Decorative paper for decoration.
The cloth.
Paints.
Brushes.
Felt-tip pens.
Suitable decoration elements (pebbles, flowers, beads, beads).

The number and amount of materials will depend on thewhich one and for what purpose you will make a house. For the growth design, you need a strong frame, and thin cardboard or thick paper is suitable for packing. Packaging can be fully developed on a computer or print a ready-made template. A big house will have to be hand-made.

How to make a scheme

If you want to make a small house out ofcardboard with their own hands, it is better to use a ready-made template that can be printed directly on the product sheet. On a thick cardboard it will be better to draw a workpiece. A small house is easy to construct by the type of a box from a whole sheet of cardboard with the execution of fold lines.

If you are going to make a large growthhouse for kiddies, it is better to cut all the details separately, although if the dimensions of the material allow, it is easy to make the workpiece also in the form of a sweep, both for the box. As a model, the scheme of a small house is quite suitable. It is enough to increase the size of the constituent elements proportionally. If there is a large box of suitable size, it's good to use it. Then you just need to cut the doors, the windows, perhaps, to strengthen the structure, from above to build a roof (more convenient gable) and, of course, decorate the frame.

Manufacturing technology

This section contains the general sequence of steps. In each case will have its own nuances. So, to make a house of cardboard with your own hands, work as follows:

Prepare the base material and draw a diagram of the house or its component parts on it.
Cut out the elements.
If there are bending lines on the blanks,swipe over them with a ruler or other similar object. So, you will make grooves that will help to fold evenly and accurately the cardboard strictly along the line.
Execute the folds.
Seal the seams.
If within the house interior interiors are supposedpartitions, paste them with a thermo-gun (hot glue can be applied to the ends of cardboard blanks) or conventional glue. In the second case, it is better to use additional docking parts in the form of strips bent in half. One edge of such a paper tape will go to the right junction wall, the other to the left.

When the whole construction is assembled, proceed to thedecoration. Internal walls, especially if visible docking elements, it is better to cover with decorative paper or cloth. Exterior walls of the house are enough to paint.

Although it is possible to lay out of pebbles or elementsapplications (paper parts). In a word, arrange all the decor on your own. The main thing is that it turns out to be appropriate, and it's important to secure it securely so that during the game the house does not immediately lose its attractive appearance.

Dollhouse of cardboard

The technology of making the frame will be similaralready described. The only difference is that the wall of the facade is either not executed at all, or is made opening, like a door on hinges. This can be done on tapes, cardboard strips. When creating a game house for dolls, it is important to make it in proportions suitable for puppets that are commensurate with them, so that they fit there and feel comfortable (they sat and stood).

Particular attention is paid to the organization andthe design of the internal space. It is obligatory to execute several wall-partitions between rooms. They will also serve as a supporting structure. It is important to make furniture (or place a bought doll). Pay attention to the decoration of the walls. If everything is properly thought out, the house will turn out to be very realistic, and the design process itself will turn into an interesting activity for young craftsmen.

New Year's houses made of cardboard

This option will have some features. If you create a simple craft for a contest or decorating an interior, it's enough to do it on the basis of a cardboard box. Such a product may not be opening, and the decoration (windows, doors) will be painted or made in the form of an applique.

If you want to make a gift wrap, howa cardboard house, the product layout must be such that the opening part is present. To get the contents of the gift should be convenient, while the packaging should not be deformed. The box-house can remove the roof, open one of the roof slopes, remove or move the base.

So, to make a beautiful house of cardboard with your own hands, you can, both for gaming purposes, in a natural, comfortable for the child value, and as a souvenir gift (a package or a dollhouse).