Irina Arkadieva
Crafts and toys from corrugated board.
Corrugated cardboard is a packaging material that is always with us. It helps to preserve or prolong life for many things. After use, we usually throw away this packaging without thinking about what corrugated cardboard is a valuable raw material for artistic creativity.
With your imagination and work corrugated cardboard can be turned into original products: various toys, caskets, vases, flowers, fruits, wall panels.
Necessary materials and tools for work with corrugated board.
It will take:packing carton-waste boxes(require prior processing) ; scissors, awl, brushes, PVA glue or Moment glue, a simple pencil.
Packaging preparation corrugated cardboard to work.
Expand and straighten the box;
Cut off damaged areas;
Spread the blanks on a flat surface;
Pour water into a container, dampen the surface with a cloth cardboard
sheet so that puddles and deflections do not form;
When the top, paper layer gets wet, carefully remove it, leaving
corrugated layer intact;
straighten cardboard, fasten it so that the sheet does not wrap and well
dry it, because all operations must be performed only with good
dried cardboard;
Basic principles work with corrugated board and creation of standard blanks.
1. Cut cardboard straws(stripes 0.5 cm wide).
2. Take a strip and spread glue on the smooth side.
3. Roll the strip.
4. Slightly push the middle so that you get a hemisphere.
5. Glue the second hemisphere.
6. Connect both blanks end-to-end and glue together with a strip corrugated board,
forms the basis for many compositions.
Crafts and toys from cardboard.
Glue the jar with ready-made strips.
Decorate with hemisphere flowers and leaves.
The apple is made according to the principle of winding threads into a ball and from two hemispheres, a toothpick stick is inserted and a leaf is glued.
Presented crafts (apples) made by children.
Baskets, boxes.
Dog, mouse, pig.
Jar vases.
We use them as napkin holders.
Master class on needlework "Vanka - vstanka"
The craft is made in the technique of volumetric quilling from corrugated cardboard.
This figure can be made by both adults and children of primary school age.
The figurine is made in such a way that Roly-Vstanka really returns to a vertical position after tilting. But for this you will have to tinker with the lower part of the body a little to achieve this effect.
For crafts you will need:
Corrugated cardboard: brown, red, yellow, green, pink.
PVA glue, scissors, ruler, pencil, eyes.
Color office paper: yellow, pink and brown.
Part preparation:
Cut the cardboard into strips 10 mm wide: brown-2 pcs, red-2 pcs, yellow-2 pcs, green-2 pcs, pink 1 pc.
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Cut office paper into strips 3 mm wide. 1 each: pink, yellow and brown.
1. For the torso, perform two basic rolls, using two red and brown stripes for the bottom, and green, pink and yellow stripes for the top.
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2. Give the upper part of the body a pear-shaped shape, and the lower part - the shape of an elongated hemisphere.
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Advice: Pulling out the volume, pay attention to the width of the colored stripes: brown - boots, red - harem pants, green - shirt, pink - face and yellow - hairstyle.
3. From the remaining brown strip, cut two pieces of 25 mm. and round off one side. These are the ears of the hat.
4. Cut off 45 mm pieces from the green strip. are the sleeves of the shirt.
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5. Cut two more pieces 35mm long. and glue them along the long side, placing a brown paper strip of the same length on the bottom. This is an accordion.
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6. From the remnants of the brown strip of corrugated cardboard, make the base roll - the top of the hat - and glue the ears under the last winding.
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7. Cut two pieces of brown paper strip for earflaps.
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8. Cut curls from a yellow paper strip, make a basic nose roll from a pink one.
9. Cut out the mouth and harmonica parts from red cardboard. From yellow, cut out the buttons of the accordion, and from pink, the palms of the figures.
Composition assembly:
1. Glue both parts of the figurine using a yellow strip of corrugated cardboard. (Photos 12,12a, 12b, 12c)
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2. Glue the curls to the inside of the earflap, then fasten it to the head of the figurine.
3. Glue the nose and eyes (if there are no ready-made eyes, then they can be made from the same paper and beads), the sleeves of the shirt and the palms of the figures to them.
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4. Collect the accordion and give it to Vanka.
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5. The last step is to glue the ties to the ears of the hat.
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Such a craft not only develops perseverance and fine motor skills of the hands, but also pleases the eye with its originality!
In everyday life, we are constantly surrounded by various things that we often do not pay much attention to. Meanwhile, some of these gizmos can be very useful, such as cardboard. In the modern world, cardboard surrounds every person: people see goods in stores packed in cardboard boxes, buy milk and eggs in cardboard packs, use paper towels and toilet paper, which are wound on special cardboard sleeves. We can safely say that cardboard is a universal thing that will not only be useful in the household, but also a material for original interior decorations.
Some cardboard crafts will not only add a touch of originality to the interior, but also significantly make life easier their owners. Do-it-yourself cardboard products will help save money on buying store-bought counterparts and add a little practicality to the room. Watch the following master classes to make some useful little things for your home with your own hands.
Charger box
People who know the problem forever tangled wires, the next craft is especially suitable. It often happens that the wires get confused with each other, and it becomes very difficult to figure out which charge a certain wire leads to. To prevent confusion, you can use the advice below and build a small box for chargers. It's very easy to make: all you need is small box, for example, from under shoes and a carrying socket, and then follow the tutorial:
- Make as many round holes in the side of the box as there are sockets on the carrier, and one on the side. The wire from the carrying will pass through this hole, and the wires from the chargers will pass through the rest. If desired, you can paste over the box with colored paper, decorate it with ribbons or other gizmos for decoration.
- Place the carrying socket inside the box, inserting the wire from it into the hole on the side.
- Insert the necessary chargers into the carrier, passing each of the wires into a separate hole. Optionally, you can sign the holes so as not to forget where the wire from a particular device is.
Gallery: voluminous cardboard crafts (25 photos)
Jewelry storage box
Women who have a lot of different jewelry at home are probably familiar with the situation when they have nowhere to put them so as not to lose them and, if necessary, immediately find the right jewelry. This problem is well solved custom jewelry stands, for which it is not necessary to spend money in stores, it is enough to find an unnecessary box and a little bit of transform her. The following tutorial will show you how to do this:
children's house
Many children dream of their own little house where they can hide, play and just have a great time. Such a house can be made independently from ordinary cardboard boxes. This will require several large boxes. See the tutorial below for more details:
In the same way, you can build a small dollhouse, as well as furniture for it.
From a sheet of cardboard can be made many different toys, in the manufacture of which the child himself can take an active part.
Volumetric figures
There are many on the Internet schemes which can be printed or transferred to cardboard independently, cut and fold into some little animal. Such voluminous crafts are especially popular among children because they look like real toys and are very easy to make. Below are a few diagrams that can be printed and assembled into a figure.
Such toys will be especially interesting for kids, but older children often pay attention and love such things. The meaning of the toy-twitch is that its parts are tied with strings, pulling which you can achieve the effect of a moving figure. The next master class will cover toy-twitch in the form of a dog:
Corrugated cardboard and crafts from it
Corrugated cardboard is widely used in the manufacture of crafts. Children like to use such cardboard more, thanks to its airiness and unusual appearance, crafts are made from it. more interesting. Corrugated cardboard crafts for children are very simple, so you can make them with a child of any age using any master class below.
One of the elementary corrugated cardboard crafts is a robot. As a basis, an ordinary toilet paper roll, glued cardboard. You can choose any colors, black and gray are used in the master class.
- The first step is to paint the top and bottom of the bushing. black paint. This will be the head and legs.
- The unpainted part is glued a piece of gray corrugated cardboard.
- From the usual black cardboard cut out two strips and fold them into an accordion. In the folded state, glue them to the body of the robot and fix rubber band to get the best effect.
- In a few minutes elastic is removed and the accordion straightens out, forming hands.
Snowman
The next craft is a small figurine of a snowman made using a special technique - corrugated board quilling. A distinctive feature of this technique is that a ribbon of cardboard is wound around a pencil, forming a circle, and various shapes are made up of these circles. Quilling from corrugated paper or cardboard looks very original, and doing it yourself is an interesting activity.
Chick
A more complex corrugated cardboard quilling craft is a chicken. Such a cute bird perfect for decorating a child's room, and the child will be interested in doing it step by step with his own hands.
There are many uses for cardboard, so don't immediately throw away the various boxes. Sheets of cardboard may be needed not only for children's crafts, but also to facilitate everyday life. Do-it-yourself corrugated cardboard crafts are very interesting to do with children.
Wondering how to surprise your little one? Do you want to introduce him to new ones? Then invite him to make crafts from corrugated cardboard. With your own hands, you can turn this material, unusual in texture and appearance, into amazing and very funny characters.
The head of a frog or a fish, which are made according to the same principle and differ only in the location of the components.
Souvenir snowman in a hat.
A funny chicken or a cute little sheep. They are made from several coils of narrow corrugated cardboard tapes.
Tank with a narrow cardboard hull.
The principle of making these is quite simple: we wind cardboard strips into coils, fix the edges with glue and give the coils the desired shape. Then we connect the skeins with each other, getting the item that we need. Fairly simple to manufacture, corrugated cardboard crafts always look quite impressive and original, so the results of labor will surely please both the child and you.