It is pleasant and useful to create together with children. You will learn how to make a cardboard doll house, bird feeder, angels from egg trays. The sooner you start showing your child how to do this or that thing, to interest the kid, the more creative he will grow up. Show your daughter how to make a house for your favorite doll. The girl will surely enjoy tinkering with you, and the whole process of work will be interesting.
How to make a house for a doll - photo and master class
To make such a beautiful thing, you first need to take:
- corrugated cardboard;
- the remains of wallpaper;
- pieces of leatherette;
- toilet paper;
- PVA glue;
- toothpicks;
- any paints;
- hot glue gun;
- self-solidifying mass;
- stationery knife;
- brushes.
You will also need various small items for decorating the house, such as: buttons, beads, shells, pebbles, artificial flowers. The house will be quite reliable so that it not only decorates the space, but also the child can put furniture inside here, play with his dolls. Therefore, you need to make a structure with open back walls. First, take corrugated cardboard, ordinary boxes that remain from some purchases will do.
Go over the sides of the box with the back of the scissors to make the folds.
With a pencil, using a ruler, draw two parallel lines and divide them into equal parts. In the resulting fragments, depict semicircular windows on top.
Use a utility knife or scalpel to cut out these recesses. Since some windows will have vertical partitions, glue toothpicks here with PVA glue.
Now you need to paste over the walls from the inside with wallpaper to decorate the elements of the house. Lubricate the lower cut of the wall with a heat gun and glue it to the base. You can additionally fix these parts with tape.
Fasten all the walls in the same way, leaving an opening in the back.
Place tracing paper or a piece of white paper over the window opening and sketch it out. Using this template, cut out leatherette window frames. Glue them on the inside.
Measure the perimeter of the top of the walls to make a ceiling for that size. Cut it out of cardboard as well and glue it in place. Keep the doll house high. To do this, make the second floor according to the principle of the first, but with a different number of windows. Attach it to the first one with a glue gun and tape. Now you need to cut the ceiling out of the cardboard and also attach it in place.
To make the doll's house further, show your daughter how to draw the ends for the roof. One will be inside with a triangular cut, and the second has this part semicircular at the top.
Wallpaper the inside of the drywall rectangle and attach the triangular pieces here with a glue gun on one side and the other. On the one inside with a semicircular cutout, you need to glue a rectangular balcony.
You can make a small extension next to the house that touches the side of the house. The roof is semicircular. Attach this piece to the main glue gun.
Now you need to glue the toilet paper outside with PVA diluted in water.
When the glue and parts are completely dry, paint the outside of the house with blue gouache, and the area in front of it with green.
Draw shingles on the template and cut out a few of these. Now, starting at the edge of the roof, glue it, placing one on top of the other.
When the glue is dry, you will need to paint the shingles brown. Let the coating dry, and at this time, from the self-hardening mass, make casters for the balcony and windows, bricks.
If you do not have such polymer clay, then you can cut out bricks from cardboard, then paint them in the desired color. Now you need to wait until the mass has completely solidified and the paint has dried, to give the dollhouse a touch of antiquity. To do this, take a beige paint with an almost dry brush, apply strokes with it. Then do the same with green and white paint.
Decorate the house with artificial flowers, buttons, shells, pebbles. These materials are glued with a hot gun or transparent titanium glue.
Your daughter will certainly be delighted with such a gift, especially if she makes it with you.
Explain to your child how you can make from junk materials, make angels with him that you can decorate a Christmas tree, a room, or just give.
It’s hard to believe that egg trays were the starting material for this work.
Here is a list of the essentials:
- egg cartons;
- braid;
- lace;
- wooden beads;
- small buttons;
- strong thread or rope;
- scissors;
- glue;
- felt-tip pens.
Cut out the bulging and rounded parts from the egg carton. Continue tinkering with your children.
For each angel, cut off the threads or strings 30 cm long and fold them in half. Thread the ends through the hole at the top of the protruding part. At the bottom, fix the ends of the threads with a button.
Glue the bead on top, and remove the string from this side through the hole.
To make such children's crafts further, let the child color the angel's wings to his liking.
Then you need to glue lace to the dresses, make hair from threads that stick to the head.
Make bandages from the pieces of tape, also attach them with glue. Glue the wings, after which you can hang such wonderful angels on a Christmas tree or on a wall. If the child wants, he can draw facial features with a felt-tip pen. But you can leave these pupae in this form.
Girls are great women of fashion. They will love making beads so they can flaunt them later.
For such crafts for children you will need:
- paper napkins or tea towels;
- PVA glue;
- brush;
- toothpick;
- acrylic paints;
- plastic cutting board.
Show your child how to cut napkins into squares or triangles. Now you need to dip the workpiece in PVA glue and wrap it around a toothpick.
Remove a piece of paper from a wooden skewer and shape a bead with your fingers. Make as many round balls as you want for your piece. Now, within 1 or 2 days, these blanks should dry completely. After that, you can start decorating them. First coat the bead with blue paint and wait for this layer to dry.
Now you need to dip a dry brush in blue paint and select the embossed places of the workpiece with it.
When this color dries, then lightly paint the protruding parts of the bead with bronze paint. Thus, they are all decorated.
Wait for the paint to dry and string the beads onto a tight rope. You can wear a necklace and flaunt in such a new thing.
What girl doesn't want to feel like a real princess? Show the young lady how to make a crown that matches the color of the beads you have already made. Such a blue color, nautical style will remind you of a trip to warm countries.
To instill in children a love for animals, make a bird feeder together with your beloved child. Feathered dining rooms can be made from a wide variety of materials.
Kids crafts - bird feeders
This can be a Christmas wreath that will delight the birds in a cold winter. But they will not refuse such a treat at any time of the year. Such an edible ring looks very nice and will decorate a natural corner.
Here's what it takes to make such a wreath:
- vegetable oil;
- 120 g flour;
- 3 tbsp. l. corn syrup;
- 200 g of water;
- 15 g gelatin;
- four cups of seeds intended for birds;
- suitable shape;
- ribbon.
Soak gelatin in water, keeping it here for as long as it is written on the packaging for this product. At this time, you will oil the bottom and edges of the container.
Now dissolve the gelatin by heating it over a fire, then pour into a bowl, add the corn syrup and stir. Add flour here and stir again. Now add the grain to this bowl and let the child knead everything well with you with a wooden spoon, and then with his hands.
Children like to act this way. Don't take away from them the pleasure of transferring the prepared seeds into an oiled form.
And nothing if your hands get dirty. They can be quickly washed, but how much joy such creativity will bring to the baby.
Leave this feeder on overnight so that all the ingredients bond well together. Then tie a ribbon to the wreath and hang it on the street where the birds could feast on such a treat. You can place a wreath right outside the window so that the children have the opportunity to see how the birds like their children's crafts. After all, they will fly in and peck delicious grain with pleasure.
Show your beloved child how else you can make a feeder of this type so that it not only feeds the birds, but also becomes a warm house for them.
First you will need to make it from suitable materials that are safe for birds. Now prepare a mass of seeds and gum according to the recipe described above.
Coat the outside of the roof and walls with this mass, and you can attach several spikelets for decoration. Hang up the house using wire or strong thread and wait for the arrival of the invited guests.
Titmouses are very fond of nuts. You can split them into halves and then glue them onto a wooden board. Drill two holes at the top, through which pass the lace. Together with the child, hang the feeder on a tree branch and rejoice when tits flock here.
You can use a variety of shapes to make this kind of feeder. For example, take an apple or an orange. When the orange is eaten, fill the rind halves of the fruit with grain bird food with your child. Make a hole on the side and attach a tape here, for which you can hang such a feeder. You can use apple halves in the same way.
Children's crafts will be very interesting for children if you help them make a real fairy tale. To make such a feeder, you will need:
- an empty tin can with an opening lid;
- wooden spoon;
- artificial or natural moss;
- plastic mushrooms;
- bird-friendly glue;
- bird food;
- awl;
- ribbon.
Wrap the box with moss, sticking it to the jar, and plastic mushrooms to it. In the same way, attach an upside-down wooden spoon to the inside.
Secure the spoon with the curved side up to prevent water from accumulating here when it rains. On the side of the can, make two holes with an awl through which you pass the tape. Tie the ends. Pour grains, which birds love, inside the container.
You can create another fabulous house, but use an old basket for this. Cut a hole in it on the side so that the birds can take refuge here in bad weather. Place this container on a circle from a log, fix it with self-tapping screws. In the same way, attach two sticks with branches that will turn into the toes of chicken legs. Also create the roof of the hut from sticks.
Place this feeder where there are no cats or dogs to chase birds. Therefore, it is better to make a feeder out of sticks and at the same time a house that can be fixed higher on a tree or on top of an outer wall.
Such a house also looks like a fabulous one and the child will surely like it.
Crafts for children can even be made from trash. You will be convinced of this now.
To make such a bird house and at the same time a feeder, you will need to take:
- a large plastic bottle;
- sash from pistachios;
- hot glue gun;
- tree branches;
- saw;
- twine;
- scissors.
Cut holes in one side of the bottle. Glue pieces of string to the outside of it. They will not only close the plastic, thereby decorating the bottle and turning it into a fairy house, but also help the birds to cling to their claws.
Saw off several thin branches, glue two perpendicularly to them - above and below. Using a hot gun, attach the pistachio seeds to the top of the bottle so that they become the roof of the building. Tie a ribbon on top or hang the bottle from a plastic handle. Enjoy such a children's craft with your child.
If you have accumulated ice cream sticks, show the children how to use them. Arrange the sticks as shown in the photo, glue them with a hot gun. Then tie a rope and hang it from a tree branch. Don't forget to add some delicious bird treats here.
You can make the building more global, you can also make a roof from ice cream sticks.
If you have a lot of such material, make other crafts from ice cream sticks with your child. For example, here's a mini greenhouse.
Cover it with cellophane, then the beloved child will know how such a structure is being erected and, perhaps, will fall in love with summer cottage work and rest. Then you can show him how to make a pergola by placing the ice cream sticks diagonally to one side and the other. They are attached to a base of 4 sticks, which must be positioned vertically and horizontally.
Also, you can make another miniature decoration for a summer cottage from wooden sticks. To do this, you don't even need to paint them, the main thing is to glue them with a hot gun. But you will take on this part of the work, since children are absolutely not allowed to use such things.
The child will be happy to play in the house, which is decorated with stones, and the site looks like a real one. There is also a small lake, chairs, grass, the role of which is played by artificial moss.
Having started a conversation about children's crafts with how to make a house for a doll, you can end with this topic. Show your child how to create such a house using a regular plastic flower pot. You will need to glue stones, branches, moss to it in order to create such a creation.
How else you can make a house for dolls, the following video will teach you.
Since this is a children's craft, a child - a girl Dasha, tells about the process of creating such a house.
In the second plot, the video blogger will share with you the intricacies of how to make children's crafts. Mom and daughter will show what can be made from apples.
