Cardboard crafts: making easy children's crafts from traditional and colored cardboard

Cardboard has excellent qualities that allow needleworkers to create a variety of products. There are many wonderful crafts from colored cardboard, you can also use a simple material that is used for packaging.

Materials and tools

Cardboard is good for making crafts so that it is quite accessible, anyone who knows how to handle scissors can work with it. In addition to scissors, you may need:

glue;
a pencil;
ruler;
office knife;
colored cardboard;
paints;
various available materials.

Master classes for creating handicrafts

It is possible to make a wide variety of products from cardboard. The most common ones are:

ground, air and space transport;
a variety of animals;
houses;
miniature furniture;
boxes;
Christmas tree accessories;
frames;
coasters and bookmarks,
games, and much more.

There are some serious ideas that are suitable for adults, but most take cardboard crafts for children.

Constructors .

Such handmade crafts are very easy to make. Then together with a child to assemble from different cardboard parts with slots in various designs. They can be developed on their own, and you can find ready-made schemes.

Puzzles .

Such crafts from cardboard with their own hands to make very easy. You need to translate some colorful drawing on a sheet of cardboard, then cut the sheet into pieces of various shapes. A child will be interested in collecting pieces of cardboard into a single picture.

House

A large box, for example, from household appliances, is ideal for building a small house or castle, where the child can do their business in privacy. Such a dwelling can be equipped with windows, doors, a roof and other architectural elements.

Inside you can show your imagination, for example, the windows can be curtained, bring lighting in the form of lanterns, glue wallpaper, etc. The baby will be happy to spend free time in their own "home".

Dolls

It is easy enough to make a doll with movable limbs. You need to draw the parts of the character on a cardboard sheet, cut them out and connect them using: mini pins, thin wire, metal rings. The easiest of all options:

make holes in the right places;
Cut off a piece of wire about 2 cm;
To put the wire through the holes and close the ends.

You can also connect the body parts with a thread.

Finger puppets

These dolls are made quite simply:

roll up a tube of cardboard to the diameter of the finger and draw it;
separately draw the head on the cardboard and cut it out;
glue the head to the tube, put it on your finger and you can play, but first make some more characters.

Transport

All kinds of transport, made of cardboard with their own hands, will be a great toy for the child, especially if you involve him in the process of making, which is not complicated at all. You need to make the body, depending on the type of transport, and then cut out the wheels, wings, nozzles and other details inherent in the chosen object. Next, all the elements are attached to their places at the hull.

Mini kitchen

From suitable cardboard boxes you can equip a doll's kitchen. It is quite simple to make: a refrigerator, a hob, a kitchen set. If desired, you can accommodate and washing machine.

In the same way, you can equip any room for the doll by making a crib, sofa, chair, TV, etc.

Bookmarks for books

For this purpose it is desirable to use not very thick cardboard. It is better to take a more colorful material, cut it into strips and paste it with transparent tape, so the bookmarks will last longer.

Aquarium with fishes

Such a composition is made as follows, you need:

cut off the top from the box of cardboard;
Paint the inside in blue shades;
Decorate the "aquarium" with different decorations: plasticine, sequins, colored paper, etc;
make a few holes along the perimeter of the top;
pass the threads through the holes;
cut out of thin colored cardboard fishes and tie them to the threads.

Of course for children's favorite holiday - New Year, for such an event you can make plenty of souvenirs from cardboard.

Dimensional snowflakes

Decorate the Christmas tree better volumetric figures, for this you will need:

glue;
white and pink thin cardboard;
a small circle of thick cardboard;
sequins.

Work process:

Cut cardboard into squares;
From the pink cardboard roll up eight elements and smear the edges with glue. Do the same with the white cardboard, only half the number of balls;
glue first the pink and then the white elements to the cardboard circle;
glue sequins on a small circle of white material and place it in the middle of the snowflake;
The ends of the snowflakes can be decorated with beautiful elements.

Christmas tree toys

Here it is desirable to use colored cardboard. If you do not have it on hand, you can take for crafts from the packaging of candy, tea or other products, postcards, etc.. Due to the volume they will look beautiful. To create Christmas tree decorations, you need to do the following:

From cardboard cut out stars and circles. One toy will consist of four identical elements. The toy is more interesting when made of parts of different colors;
Bend all parts in half;
Connect the sides of the elements one by one;
In the middle pass the thread and connect the rest of the parts;
Fix the bottom of the thread with beads;
Add a few beads on top as well.

Thus you can make several three-dimensional toys and decorate them with a Christmas tree.

Ideas for cardboard crafts are infinite, you only need to be imaginative and have a desire.