DIY matchbox crafts for children are a kind of magic that is gaining more and more popularity.

With a little imagination, relatives and close friends in an exclusive accessory hardly recognize a dense container for storing matches.

After use, a household item in skillful hands acquires a second wind.

If the child attends specialized courses, then the teacher will definitely inform the parents of the necessary items that are needed for classes.

If adults decide to develop the baby on their own, then you should purchase stationery glue, a brush, colored paper, cardboard, scissors and paints.

Depending on the craft being created, threads, buttons, ribbons, plasticine, toothpicks, pebbles and other additional accessories may be required.

What are matchbox crafts for?

The modern scourge of all children is satiety with blessings.

A large number of toys not only hinders the development of the child and interferes with harmonious entertainment, but also does not allow the child to participate in the very process of creating the "tools" of the game.

Crafts from matchboxes give children the most important thing - the opportunity to fantasize and experiment. The flight of children's imagination is guaranteed. The kid turns into a kind of scientist, researcher and master who will create evidence of the transformation of unnecessary gizmos into fairy-tale characters, miniature accessories and interesting details.

What can you invent from matchboxes?

There would be a desire, and the rest will follow.

doll furniture

Girls will be interested in creating and decorating a room for a small doll on their own.

First you need to prepare sketches of furniture assembly on paper: an armchair, a sofa, a chest of drawers, a desk and a dining table.

For crafts, you will need 10 matchboxes.

After assembly, you need to pay attention to the decoration of furniture: the surface of the parts is neatly decorated with colored paper.

Camera

The matchbox is pasted over with silver or black paper. A small paper circle and a rectangle act as a photo lens and a video finder. The missing detail is a bright braid that replaces the device's strap.

Military equipment

Before proceeding with the creation of armored personnel carriers, military vehicles and a rocket launcher, detailed schemes for assembling equipment should be drawn.

Cars from boxes

Similarly, you can create an ambulance, taxi, bus, fire and other types of vehicles.

Photo album

A great addition to the previous craft is an album for existing miniature photo cards, which you can not part with.

For crafts, the boxes (lid and inner container) should be cut into two parts and glued in horizontal and vertical forms in the form of books. Album sheets are decorated with scrap paper and decorated with a small screen for the pictures themselves.

mini zoo

African animals (giraffe, lion, tiger and other little animals), as well as a frog, a cockerel, a chicken, and even a native Cheburashka are easily created in children's hands.

Animal toys from boxes

Cribs

For cute animals and homemade dolls, bedroom sets are no less important. All that is required is to open a matchbox, previously pasted over with colored paper. Pieces of felt, cotton wool or colored synthetic winterizer look great as pillows..

A blanket is a decorated surface of boxes: they are decorated with fringe, ribbons, pebbles and other interesting details.

Furniture for dolls

Miniature models can be placed in the manner of adult beds (next to each other), or they can be placed sideways up (in the manner of floors).

birdhouses

The outer box, the side (on which the ignition grater is usually located), cut off in the shape of a triangle, and the birdhouse is ready. The rest is up to the small: with the help of scissors, a circle is cut out in the middle of the birdhouse. The thread, folded in half, will become a string for hanging crafts on the wall, and instead of the lower thread, you can sew multi-colored yarn and decorate it with beads.

Puzzles

It is one thing to collect ready-made parts and quite another to invent and create educational puzzle games. Themes can be absolutely anything: characters from your favorite cartoons, animals, birds, objects, and landscapes. The main goal is that all puzzles should be bright, colorful and interesting.

Assembly: the finished drawing is cut into numerous rectangular fragments, which are glued individually to the surface of each box.

The standard length of all match containers is 5 cm. The complexity of the composition depends on the level of training and the age of the child.

Creating puzzles is one of the simplest processes, taking a few minutes. The child needs to choose a suitable picture, arm himself with scissors and come up with a name for the folding mosaic.

Similarly to puzzles, you can create panels with cells of various sizes and configurations with happy moments of childhood, pictures or three-dimensional figures.

Valentines

Valentine's Day is remembered for cute trinkets. The matchbox is pasted over with textured paper, decorated with hearts. And the gift is ready!

Inside you can put declarations of love, small cards in the form of hearts, invigorating inscriptions, other spiritual messages or small sweets.

Folding book

The little book is an unforgettable souvenir. Paper in a matchbox format should be folded like an accordion and decorated with pictures or the required text. If desired, you can prepare a printout on the printer.

book from boxes

The matchbox is decorated in advance to match the style of the future book. The first sheet is glued to the inside of the box.

A book with fairy tales and colorful images does not leave any child indifferent.

Counting and alphabet

It is not superfluous for children who are preparing to enter school to prepare for arithmetic operations on their own. Numbers are indicated on matchboxes, the corresponding number of matches is put inside.

The alphabet is created in the same way. Only instead of numbers letters of the alphabet are written and images of objects whose names begin with the letter indicated above are placed inside.

Airplane

A paper propeller is glued on the front.

All details can be decorated in a boyish or girly style.

Creating crafts from matchboxes does not take much time: the whole process takes an average of 5 - 10 - 15 minutes.

And children receive emotional satisfaction when the mental prototype is embodied in reality.

Every child, with the help of an adult, can start creating their own masterpiece at any moment.

Every parent tries to give the baby the best: interesting educational toys designed specifically for children's needs. And the kids will definitely love it!

But is the finished toy always beneficial to the child? Many of us have observed how modern children have a moment of “satiation” with blessings. Then they simply lose interest in toys: there are too many of them. Often, when meeting, children do not come up with joint games, but simply engage in “sorting out” toys - they only have time to get acquainted with the toys at a party, but not to play.

And parents only shrug their hands: we would have such toys in our childhood! What did we play, remember? We made furniture for dolls from matchboxes, cardboard houses; grass and fruits in the yard were the most varied food: yellow dandelions - eggs, dandelion leaves - cucumbers, acorns - zucchini, chestnuts - pumpkins, "helicopter noses" - bananas, leaves were banknotes. Yes, and the houses themselves, the store, the hospital, we sometimes arranged on a tree. Was it interesting? Certainly!!! After all, we ourselves invented all this, and in the country of children's fantasies, attributes are not so important. No wonder they say that before, to become a princess, it was enough just to put tights on your head. But with our children, for some reason, we go the other way, taking away the opportunity to experiment and invent.

The fact is that the mass of ready-made toys interferes with the flight of children's imagination. Who can prove that beautiful plastic vegetables and fruits are better than our children's dandelions? For children, the process of playing and inventing is important, and not the result - a specific object - a toy.

The Maternity.ru portal offers to plunge into the world of forgotten crafts from matchboxes. We will show you how you can build military equipment, furniture for dolls, fairy-tale characters and animals, interesting details from them.

Military equipment

See what theater of war your son or grandson can play. With the independent production of such toys, the child perfectly develops fine motor skills of the hands, perseverance and the desire to achieve the goal, the child has interest and motivation, he gains self-confidence from the fact that he himself can do all this. Let's not deprive our children of this, shall we?

Special equipment

With such crafts, you can participate in various competitions.

Heroes of fairy tales, animals

Wonderful African animals and our native Cheburashka are also made from matchboxes.

Young children love small toys and interesting attributes to them. Inside a matchbox, a whole house for an unusual animal may well be located. You can put it in your pocket and take it everywhere with you.

Educational games from matchboxes

It can be an association game, learning letters and numbers, and so on. Make thematic images: who lives where; who eats what.

Matchbox toy furniture

You can decorate furniture in your own way: with colored paper, fabric, toothpicks, wallpaper and self-adhesive film, using decoupage technique.

With the help of matchboxes, you can also make unusual interior items: a TV, a washing machine, a piano, a suitcase, a frame for photographs or paintings in a doll house.

Once again, we emphasize that everything ingenious is quite simple. And the interesting new is the well-forgotten old. Now you will most likely not throw out matchboxes and miss out on the material for a wide variety of creative designs!

Sources of diagrams and photos:

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 comfortable “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!

Matchboxes, it would seem, are the same household item that is thrown away as soon as its useful contents run out. However, in fact, many original and unusual little things can be made from such containers, giving them a second life. Below we will talk about matchsticks.

Suitcase

To create such an unusual suitcase in retro style, you will need thick brown paper in two shades, various original pictures and an empty matchbox. It is pasted over with paper, a handle and straps are attached to it, the surface is decorated with pictures, badges and, voila, the suitcase is ready!

Photo album for mini memories

An unusual and amazing gift for loved ones and relatives - a miniature photo album. To make it, you will need glue, paints, a matchbox, scrap paper or postcards, brushes, scissors, small photographs. The container is decorated to your taste, a small screen is inserted into it for taking pictures. Such an album can always be carried with you: for example, in a breast pocket.

Screen book

In a similar way, you can create a baby book. Short fairy tales are printed on small sheets of paper, illustrations are created for them. The box contains a screen. The original and unusual form of the book can arouse in a small child an interest in reading.

Giraffe

Would you like to create a cute and cute giraffe? To do this, you need 7 empty matchboxes. To create such an animal, you need to make a frame, paste over it with paper and decorate. It is ideal to do this together with the baby, to develop the skills of joint creativity.

mini zoo

What can be made from matchboxes? The company of an already made giraffe is a real mini-zoo. Four boxes are taken, one of which is painted gray, the second is orange, the third is light brown, the fourth is dark brown. In such a simple way, a hippopotamus, a lion, a donkey and a bear are obtained. It remains only to glue the appropriate faces and arrange visits to the zoo for the little ones. Children will be delighted.

valentine

For declarations of love, there is not only one day a year, but all 365. It is very simple to do this: you need to take a matchbox, decorate it with beautiful paper and hearts - and you are ready. You can put something tasty inside - you get a sweet confession of tender feelings.

Surprise garland

For any holiday, you can make a bright and unusual garland with a surprise. Stars are cut out of glossy paper, to which matchboxes are glued. Sweets, nuts and other tasty little things are placed inside the containers.

advent calendar

Before the New Year holidays, so-called Christmas calendars are created in many countries. They are a postcard consisting of 24 pockets according to the number of days until Christmas. Inside such compartments are stored sweets, small gifts, notes with pleasant words, wishes or quotes from the Bible. Every day, one pocket is opened, thereby maintaining a pleasant pre-holiday mood. You can make such a calendar with your own hands. The easiest way is a matchbox mosaic.

Christmas tree toys

Christmas tree decorations - what can be made from matchboxes. The simplest toys are figurines of deer and Santa Claus, pasted over with paper, and felt horns. With a little imagination, you can make a Snowman, Snow Maiden, Santa Claus and a toy house for them.

Gift wrap

Such an original box will serve as an excellent package for jewelry and other small things. Such a gift is valuable in itself. After all, the best present is the one that is made by hand. You can turn a matchbox into original packaging using scrap paper, decorative elements and imagination.

Airplane

For little men, the best option for what can be made from matchboxes with your own hands is an airplane. To do this, stock up on the necessary containers and colored cardboard. The latter goes to the creation of blanks: two small narrow ones, two wide ones and one long narrow one. They are necessary for the formation of wings and tail. Everything else is a matter of technique and imagination of the baby.

Robot

Julia Goloviznina

Target: making a volumetric craft "Car" from matchboxes.

Tasks: to develop cognitive interest, to encourage children to be creative, to promote the development of manual labor skills, the development of coordination of finger movements, fine motor skills of the hands, to cultivate perseverance, independence.

Material and tools:

6 matchboxes;

4 wheel plugs;

2 lollipop sticks;

plasticine bar;

simple pencil;

colored paper;

PVA glue;

glue brush;

Manufacturing stages.

Chassis of the car.

1. Make 2 blanks by connecting 2 boxes along the long side with an additional strip of paper.

2. Then glue the blanks, placing one above the other.

3. Make a pattern from an A4 colored sheet: circle the resulting design with a pencil.

4. Using the ruler, continue in all directions of the line.

5. Cut out the extra squares at the corners of the pattern.

6. Paste the workpiece by wrapping it on all sides.

Cabin.

1. Glue 2 boxes together (one above the other).

2. Make a pattern from an A4 colored sheet.

3. Paste the workpiece.

Windows and headlights.

1. Fold a strip of white (yellow or blue) paper 1.5x12 cm in four, round the corners on the upper side of the workpiece, cut along the fold lines.

2. Cut out the headlights.

Wheels.

Fill the corks with plasticine.

Craft decoration.

1. On top of a long workpiece, exactly in the center, stick a small cabin workpiece.

2. Decorate the cabin with windows: stick 2 on the front and back, and cut the other 2 in half and place on the sides with rounded corners to the right and left. Stick on the headlights.

3. With an awl, make through holes for the wheels in front and behind the chassis.

4. Insert lollipop sticks into the prepared holes.

5. Attach the wheel plugs with the side where the plasticine is.

If the sticks are long, they should be shortened with scissors. Over time, the plasticine will harden and the structure will become more durable.

The car is ready.

Crafts can serve as an attribute of children's games, as well as become a decoration of the interior of the group in the corner according to the traffic rules "City Street".

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