Craft at home from matchboxes. Crafts from matchboxes: gifts, furniture, toys

Hi 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 considerable amount of interesting materials about what interesting matchbox crafts you can create 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 interesting idea is a camera layout. We take a matchbox, paint it in a dark color, and after drying, 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 ribbon strap and that's it - the original craft is 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 get a triple benefit: we will make a cool little thing, we will take the child’s time with a useful thing, 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 items.

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 a "canvas" of matchboxes, and then carefully cut along the contour of each box to make 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.

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 convenient “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 a beautiful fabric, decorated with applique, sequins or rhinestones. And, of course, do not forget to glue large beads as drawer handles.

Everything 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 saved for the 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 will 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 trifles), Moment glue, scissors, stationery knife and 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" of 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 separate picture-box will fit not only photographs, pictures and stickers, but also toys made of 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, paste them on cardboard boxes - and let the child assemble 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 paste matchboxes with white paper and draw everything ourselves with pencils and markers, or gut old magazines, choose suitable clothes and stick 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!

Irina Valerievna Kashina

The master class was prepared by Irina Valerievna Kashina, teacher of the Kindergarten No. 49, Perm Territory, Berezniki.

I think the master class will be of interest to preschool teachers, teachers of additional education, primary school teachers and parents who like to make something.

Target: To interest and encourage creative people to make crafts from matchboxes.

Tasks: Learn how to make crafts from matchboxes, glue them with colored paper, decorate crafts aesthetically with appliqué, draw small details with a felt-tip pen;

Develop visual abilities in the process of making crafts from waste material.

Materials and tools:

1. Colored paper

2. Matchboxes-2pcs

3. PVA glue

4. Glue brush

5. White cardboard

6. Markers

7. Scissors

8. Napkin for glue

9. Q-tip

10. Simple pencil

Work algorithm:

1. Draw a matchbox on the white side of the colored paper with a simple pencil (I used white paper for the face, but you can use pink, light yellow and paper of other shades).

2. Cut out.

3. We glue the matchbox on the sides with small rectangles.

4. We glue it with a large rectangle in front and behind, stroking all the “ribs” of the matchbox with our fingers.

5. Glue the second matchbox in the same way.

6. We glue the matchboxes so that the white box is located on top, horizontally, in the middle of the yellow one.

7. Cut the cotton swab in half.

8. Apply glue to the cotton end of the stick and glue it in the resulting corners between the yellow and white boxes.

9. Draw the legs on white cardboard and cut them out.

10. Glue the legs to the base of the yellow box.

11. From brown paper (you can use a different color: black, orange, etc.), cut out the hair the width of a white matchbox, increasing the width of the hair to the bottom. We cut the hair from above and below.

12. We glue the hair, stroking all the “ribs” with our fingers.

13. Cut out the nose, buttons, collar, bow from colored paper (I made the buttons and nose with a hole punch).

14. Glue the nose, buttons, collar and bow.

15. With felt-tip pens we finish the mouth, eyes.

This is the kind of person you will be.

She offered to make such little men for her pupils (children of the preparatory group for school). They really liked to make things, and they called their little men "Eyes".

I wish you success, thanks for your attention.

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Pedagogical project Construction from matchboxes Pedagogical project MADOU "Kindergarten No. 6" "Construction from matchboxes"

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