What can you do with cardboard and paper with your own hands?

The question of what can be done from cardboard and paper, appears quite often. There are several reasons for this. First, these materials are available. It should be noted that it is not just paper and cardboard that can be bought in the shops of the office, but also newspapers, magazines, boxes and boxes in every house. Secondly, these materials are easy to work with, so that even the smallest craftsmen can use them to make various crafts. Thirdly, despite the numerous products sold in modern stores, I want the house to have original and unique things, and their full uniqueness can be claimed only if the object is made by own hands.

How to get "designer" from ordinary cardboard and why is it needed?

If we start to list what can be done from cardboard with our own hands, then there may not be enough pages. First of all, these are interesting things, among which there can be as decorations for the house (garlands, lanterns, toys, etc.), and useful objects (caskets, vases, furniture for dolls, etc.). However, it will be much more interesting to look at each of these crafts in the event that it will not be just white, but differ in interesting design, which, by the way, is not difficult to get at all.

For the manufacture of design cardboard will need sheets of cardboard, kitchen three-layer napkins of interesting colors (actually only the upper decorative layer will be used), food film, scissors, gauze and iron. First you need to iron the napkin well, there should not be any wrinkles, then separate the top layer from it. Next, put cardboard on the ironing surface, which is covered over the entire area with food film, then with a napkin, and then gauze. After that, all layers are smoothed to the maximum temperature with an iron, and special attention should be paid to the edges. Then the cardboard must be turned, cut the edges of the napkin and film to the level with the sheet and iron it from the wrong side, and then again with the front. The result of the work will be a beautiful blank. But what can be done from cardboard of this kind, it will not be difficult to think up.

Festive hood made of cardboard

Neither adults nor children can imagine their life without a holiday. This is a new year, and a birthday, and anniversary, and many others. And what a holiday without special attributes? One of the most popular items associated with the holidays are caps, especially for children, although adults often do not refuse these peculiar headgear, especially if they are decorated in the theme of the holiday. But first things first.

People who decided to give their holiday more brightness, the question of what can be done from cardboard and paper with their own hands, does not arise, but in its place appears another - how to make a cardboard cap? For work you will need thick paper or cardboard, glue, scissors and an elastic band or a narrow band. These materials for the manufacture of the hood is quite enough, but for the decoration will be needed and others, depending on the theme and age category of people present at the celebration.

Sheet of paper or cardboard with a size of 30x45 cm roll up in the form of a cone, cut off excess paper, and glue the edges together. In order to keep the product better on the head, it is necessary to attach a tape or elastic band to it, breaking the hole on both sides at the bottom of the cone. Decorate at your discretion can be a corrugated paper, rhinestones or various figures carved from colored paper.

Casket of cardboard

In every house there are a lot of little things that are often in disarray, because there is not enough for them all individual boxes. However, everything changes after a child or an adult learns that it is possible to make an original casket from cardboard. To do this, you will need cardboard, a pencil, scissors, adhesive tape, glue and cloth.

First it is necessary, using a pencil and ruler, to draw a quadrilateral on the cardboard, which will be the bottom of the future casket. Then each side of the square continues as far as the finished product should be. The same size to draw on the cardboard cover for the future box, except that the sides continuing the quadrilateral should have 2 cm. Cut both circuits. And also to draw and cut out four rectangles that would have the same width as the sides of the future box, but were 2 cm taller. Next, you need to bend the sides of the drawn square and fix them together with an adhesive tape, and do the same with the lid. Both articles, as well as 4 rectangles, should be covered with a cloth. After that, insert the last ones inside the box along its perimeter and fix it with glue, after that the box can be closed with a lid. To decorate the product, you can use various applications, crystals, lace and other decorative materials.

Applications from paper circles

Of course, making caskets, hats and many other useful things can be difficult for the child. Therefore, parents often wonder about what can be done from cardboard and paper so that the baby was able to. A very interesting activity can be the making of appliqués from circles. So, you need to stock up with cardboard, standard white sheets, colored paper, scissors, glue and a compass or objects that can be put on a sheet, traced and get circles of various sizes. To start, you need to draw and cut from different paper circles of different diameters, and then, taking a sheet of cardboard, give vent to fantasy and create all kinds of pictures and whole figures or their halves.

For example, if you fold the halves in a circle and paste to the cardboard, and in the middle attach a small circle, you can get a flower. The leaves of this plant can serve as the same figures, only green. Stems can also be made from very small circles or halves, and as a pot, use half of a large circle, gluing it upwards with a cut.

Sofa from a cardboard for a doll Monster High

Dolls Monster High today are some of the most favorite toys of many girls. They can play with them for hours without interruption. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that children are wondering what can be done from Monster High cardboard. An excellent addition to this toy will be homemade furniture for her, for example, a sofa.

To make this kind of furniture you need a cover from a small cardboard box, glue, cardboard, scissors, cloth, sponges for washing dishes and sponge napkins. The surface of the cover from the box must be covered with a cloth. Then glue together all the sponges necessary to cover the area of the box and also cover with a cloth. Then "mattress" is attached to the "frame". From the cardboard, cut out the back and sides of the required height and "coat" with spongy napkins using glue, and then with a cloth, after which the back and sides are glued to the base of the future sofa (lid with sponges). At the discretion of each owner of the Monster High doll, a sofa for her can be decorated in the desired way, for example beads, pawns or embroidery.

Frame for photo or picture from paper and cardboard

To decorate the room modern people often use photographs or paintings. The latter can be embroidered, made of beads or painted, but in order to hang them on a wall or put on a table, you need a frame. I'm glad that you can make a very original frame from cardboard and paper with your own hands. So, you need a cardboard, glue, pages of a glossy magazine.

First a sheet of cardboard - the basis of the future framework - must be pasted with magazine pages. While the base will dry, you can start making pipes for her ornaments. To do this, a sheet of glossy paper with a pencil must be twisted into a tube and glued so that it does not unfold. Next, you should glue the finished tubes to the edge of the base along the perimeter, cutting their edges at the joint at 45 degrees. Similarly, it is necessary to paste the following series. There should be so many rows until they cover the entire surface, except for the part where the picture or photo will be placed. The ready frame can be covered with acrylic paints if desired.

Snowman made of paper and cardboard

Almost every child likes to sculpt a snowman in the winter, but very few people know that you can make an equally beautiful figure from cardboard and paper, and this is possible not only when snow lies on the street.

For the manufacture of crafts you will need cardboard, standard white paper, glue and scissors. First, from white paper, you need to cut three strips of the same width and glue them into a ring, with each circle slightly decreasing in diameter compared to the previous one. Next, cut out a cardboard box of a slightly larger size than the largest cylinder - it will be a stand for the future snowman. Then attach the biggest paper ring to the cardboard, turning it to the horizontal position, from the top to glue a little smaller and to the very top - the smallest - the head of the snowman. Hands can serve as thin twigs, which must be attached to the middle cylinder. Eyes, mouth, nose and buttons can be drawn with a felt-tip pen. Now the child will know what can be done from cardboard with their own hands. Photo of the finished snowman can be seen a little lower.

"Paper" sun - an interesting hand-craft for children

Interesting and easy to make is a handmade "paper" sun. It will be an excellent choice for those who have long been thinking what can be done from cardboard and colored paper with their own hands. So, you need glue, yellow colored paper, thread, scissors and cardboard, preferably yellow, if it is white, then it should be pasted with colored paper or painted.

To begin with, it is necessary to cut out two identical circles from a cardboard, with a diameter of 6-7 centimeters. Then from the yellow paper cut 20-25 strips in length of 12-14 cm and a width of 1 cm. Each strip is bent in half and glued together the ends. The resulting elements should be volumetric, rather than flat, that is, at the top point, the strip does not need to be bent twice by smoothing. The workpieces must be pasted along the entire length of the circle next to each other - these will be the rays, and the top will be covered with a second circle. A felt-tip pen can paint the sun with a mouth and eyes or decorate in any other way. For one of the beams fix the thread and hang the hand-made article in the desired place.