Lyubov Vladimirovna Yakushova

Purpose: furniture for the role-playing game "Family".

Tasks: to teach children to make toys from waste material; reinforce the ability of children to glue boxes to each other, glue them with colored paper, add small details for decoration; cultivate interest in creativity.

Material:

- matchboxes 16 pieces

Old style bobbin

colored paper

Scissors

The children became interested in crafts (a tank that Yegor made for his brother. And I told the children that from matchboxes you can do a lot of interesting things. I suggested to the girls to do for their little ones doll furniture. First, the girls and I looked at a set of pictures " Furniture". Chose pictures with objects furniture who would like to do (bed, sofa, table). I also suggested that the girls make a bedside table and a TV. Then we'll have a whole living room. Milana began to implement our plan.

First she glued together matchboxes and then glued them with colored paper.

And gradually she, like a real furniture maker, began to turn out furniture for dolls.

Here is the sofa.

Here is the bed.

Bedside table with TV.

Table. And also Milan (for beauty and comfort) made a rug.

This is the beauty we have.

Once furniture was made, the girls immediately began to play it.

One two three four

A lot of furniture in the apartment.

We'll hang a shirt in the closet,

Let's put a cup in the cupboard.

Let's sit on a chair for a while

To rest your feet.

And then me and the cat

Sat at the table

Tea with jam drank together

A lot of furniture in the apartment!

(N. Nishcheeva)

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There is no such house where several boxes of matches would not be stored. It turns out that matchboxes can be an excellent material for creativity. Together with the child, you can come up with a lot of ideas where to “attach” unnecessary boxes. We will show you a few ideas for girls along with a master class on making furniture from matchboxes.

Little toys from kinder surprises or cute baby dolls also need a cozy house. It is easy to build furniture for a house if you fold several matchboxes and glue them with colored paper. From matchboxes, you can easily and simply fold a chair, table, sofa or wardrobe. Try it and you will surely succeed!

Doll furniture from matchboxes

Perhaps the most necessary piece of furniture in a dollhouse is a bed. We suggest you make a bed with drawers, on which a small doll can comfortably sit. So, we need two matchboxes, glue, paint, 2 beads.

1. We take two matchboxes and glue them together, this will be the base of the bed. We put the boxes on a flat surface, circle them with a pencil, leave room for the ends and finish drawing the backs of any desired shape.
2. We cut out along the contours what we circled in duplicate and glue the boxes on both sides.
3. We paint the crib in any color and attach the handles to the drawers with wire.
4. The finished bed can be decorated with a mattress, blanket and pillow.

Matchbox mini chest of drawers

With school-age girls, it will be interesting to make a chest of drawers for storing jewelry and hairpins. To make a chest of drawers, we need 3 matchboxes, glue, toothpicks, wire, pieces of a rod or beads for handles.

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 is a great idea for co-creating with kids.

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

For the 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. A simple but very beautiful way is a matchbox mosaic.

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 best gift is a handmade one. To turn a matchbox into an original package, you need scrap paper and other decorative elements, 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 chic doll furniture. With a little imagination, gray matchboxes turn into exquisite nightstands and desks. A detailed master class can be found 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 the 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, make cells of different sizes, paint them or decoupage, stick photos inside, decorate 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 - a 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 the help of 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.

Crafts from matchboxes.

Hello, dear magicians :) If you use matches, then I suggest that you do not throw away empty boxes later, but see what original crafts can be made from this waste material :)

For example, dressers and many other interesting crafts that you can see on this page.

This chest of drawers is made independently, but we can easily implement it using matchboxes.

For this project you will need:

We connect two boxes together, putting them on glue.

With the help of cutting, we make paper lace, with which we will then wrap the chest of drawers.

For the legs, wooden beads are used, which we glue on a hot gun

Wooden legs will be perfectly combined with wooden buttons, which instead of handles are decorated with drawers, decorated with an oval printout.

A matching satin bow to this mini chest of drawers will decorate it additionally, giving it elegance and femininity.

as you can see, this project is made from available materials, and it looks very impressive :) If you have not purchased a cutting yet, then you can replace this step with any beautiful lace that will go well with a satin bow :)

Based on materials from the site-.thehybridchick.com/2009/11/romance-pack/

And another very interesting version of a homemade chest of drawers from matchboxes. For an additional volume of parts, foam trays were used, in which products are packaged in stores. Great idea for creating bas-relief protruding parts! get armed :)

The third version of a homemade chest of drawers. Several boxes, pre-painted in the desired tone, are glued to each other. and then wrapped in a common paper case. Buttons or any other mini decor is glued to the end of each drawer, which has a flat base for coupling with the surface to be decorated. do not forget about the legs, for which you can also use similar buttons or pick up others that fit this chest of drawers.

and another chest of drawers - as an idea for a different design.

Chest of drawer ideas using lots of boxes.

If you want to study master class of such chests of drawers then you can take a look HERE. to view the master class on creating a chest of drawers, which is displayed below:

Do you think that only chests of drawers can be made from boxes?:) in fact, this is a unique material for doll furniture!!

Very often the most interesting toys can be made using waste material. For example, we all use matches and we still have boxes. They can be perfectly used in children's creativity and create wonderful toys from them:

toy furniture, a chest of drawers, a locker, furniture for a dollhouse, chests with a mass of drawers, used to store beads, rubber bands, paper clips, you can make boxes for girls and much more for which you can make crafts from matchboxes with your own hands.

In this lesson, we will look at the great matchbox crafts paper furniture for dolls and dollhouse. We will create an interior design of the whole room for dolls.

Age of the child: from 3 to 8 years.

Master class do-it-yourself furniture for dolls

Paper furniture for dolls is very easy to create from clean cardboard boxes. Invite children to co-create!

Materials:

1. Matchboxes, any other cardboard boxes will also work
2. Cardboard on which there will be the whole structure and for the countertop
3. Gift wrapping paper or textured paper
4. paper cups
5. Scotch
6. Scissors
7. Pencil
8. Paints, volume contours
9. Cotton for filling cushions
10. Green feathers that we use instead of flowers
11. Green drinking straws
12. Sand

Subsequence:

Step 1. Living room

1. Pick up matchboxes to turn into the living room sofa and chairs in your dollhouse. Various and other boxes for creating furniture are also suitable. Matchboxes can be glued together in several pieces for the base of the purple chair and the same number for the base of the pink sofa.

Then connect the boxes for the back of the chair and the sofa so that the backs are narrower than the seat bases.

All boxes glued together should be wrapped in colored paper to give them color and a neat look. You can fasten the paper with transparent tape. The backs with the seat bases are connected with pva glue or any clerical glue.

We take thick cardboard in order to make our entire room on it.

Step 2 Carpet

Now take wrapping or textured paper, we will make a carpet out of it for the legs of the dolls that will rest in the living room. We cut out a large piece, but a little in size of our cardboard base and glue it. Glue a sofa and two chairs on top of each other.

Step 3. Coffee table and flowerpots

We take a small coffee cardboard cup and paint its outer side in a suitable and harmonious color of our room. Try to choose a beautiful shade of paint that would be interesting for the child.

We cut out a round tabletop from cardboard and connect it with a glass. It turns out a wonderful coffee table for the living room.

We paint two more cups in other colors - these will be our flowerpots for flowers. We paint, let the paint dry and fill them with sand.

Create the leaves by cutting a green paper shape sheet. We place the leaves in the sand in the first cup and the feathers in the second. We got two decorative flowerpots with flowers for decor and comfort in the dollhouse room. We can replace paper leaves with feathers.