From large boxes with your own hands for children. Cardboard crafts

March 20th, 2013

You don’t need much to come up with a new toy or make a simple craft with your child. Usually a little free time and our imagination are enough. What to make it from? - will be at hand. My son and I already have a whole flotilla of yogurt jars, and our best ships are made from viola jars and soft butter. We will devote this review to toys and crafts that you can make with your child from all sorts of “garbage” - boxes and boxes, cardboard, plastic bottles and much more.

1. Cardboard boxes and boxes

Let's start, perhaps, with crafts made from boxes and smaller boxes. Boxes of different sizes regularly appear in each of us (especially during the holidays), but we usually try to get rid of this “happiness” as soon as possible, since storing them is completely inconvenient. But you can immediately put them into action

Big boxes.

Large boxes make absolutely amazing toys for children.

Or a plane

Mill house. Detailed master class at the link

Pirate treasure chest. Description

Car parking.

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Or a more complex option

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And another option for a castle

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From smaller boxes

Or these dinosaur feet

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Monster storage boxes

Great storage idea from boxes and cardboard rolls

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Small stove

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Catapult game

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Train with carriages

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Aliens

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More ideas from cardboard sheets

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Or like this

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And here is the castle of the knight and princess

If you cover it with decorative paper and decorate it, then why not gift wrapping for all sorts of sweets, for example

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Lamp

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You can also make such an aquarium with your children

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Boxes and cardboard are a real space for creativity, if you wish, you can do whatever you want, I think we will return to this topic in the near future, we have something interesting in store

2. Cardboard rolls of toilet paper and paper towels

Easy crafts you can do with your kids

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monsters

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octopus

twitchers

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A lot of different animals with patterns can be viewed at the link

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Binoculars for children or a spyglass made from a towel roll

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Or make princess crowns for a children's party

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Here's a great idea on how to make firecrackers for the holiday. Description

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Racing cars

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3. Disposable tableware - paper and plastic plates and glasses

You can also find original uses for disposable tableware

Paper plates are very convenient for painting

And from deep plates you can make such jellyfish

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Or even make a garland decoration for the holiday

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A plate and a glass make such a cute house

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Spider glasses

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Dragon made from cups

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It's very simple and fun to turn ordinary cups into weirdos. Great idea for children's parties

Here's an idea for an advent calendar

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And even a New Year's garland can be made from cups

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4. Plastic bottles and containers

Feeder

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For children on holiday

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From bottles and spoons

If it’s raining outside or you have guests with children and you need something to do - home bowling

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And it's fun to sprout grass in little bottles. Just in time for Easter

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And the bottles turn into...... a rocket, or rather into the main attribute

Planes and ships made from shampoo containers

5. Wooden ice cream sticks and medical spatulas

These very simple and cute crafts can be made from ordinary wooden ice cream sticks

People for puppet theater

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Ship-raft

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It’s also easy to make an original puzzle game.

Can you make a whole house?

Chests of medical spatulas. Description

6. Cocktail straws

With the help of such tubes you can draw very interesting bubbles

And the tubes are also great as masts for boats.

You can come up with many different games with these straws. For example, you can arrange “air” football. Roll a small ball out of paper and use a straw to chase the “ball.” Using the same principle, you can play to see who gets the ball farther away or who gets to the finish line faster. These kinds of games are very useful; they are a kind of breathing exercises.

7. Sponges

Even the most ordinary sponge can turn into...

garden bed (it’s fun to germinate seeds in a large-pored sponge)

Or make stamps for painting or just paint with a sponge (rainbows work especially well)

To make it more convenient to draw with such stamps, you can glue them, for example, onto a wine cork, like here

You can also make heads for robots from sponges, for example.

8. Wine corks

On the Internet you can find a huge variety of photographs on the topic of crafts made from corks, but we will limit ourselves only to stamps

9. Tin cans

for flowers

By the way, if you have paint buckets left at your dacha, don’t rush to throw them away

storage

lamps-candlesticks

monster

game like old towns

Airplane

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Jar with wishes or Smile box

This is a jar or box filled with small pieces of paper with various wishes, pleasant phrases, anecdotes, encouraging mottos or declarations of love.
Have a jar like this in your home. This is a real generator of daily good mood.

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A snowstorm or, as correctly, a snow globe, but in this case it’s more like a glitter jar. Description

And in the summer, for street parties, jars can be used for drinks. They look very unusual and stylish

And finally, a very original craft from an old light bulb

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When compiling this collection, we also used materials from the Kokokokids blog

Send us your interesting finds of crafts from what is at hand, and also share with us what you have made! This topic is inexhaustible and I think we will return to it more than once

Nowadays, paper is the cheapest and most accessible material. What can you make from paper with your own hands? The first thing that comes to mind is, of course, a postcard.

DIY gift

Creative with love

A postcard has long ago become a companion to any gift for a celebration, and in some cases a wonderful stand-alone gift. A striking example is valentines. Thick paper or cardboard, various colors, scissors, glue - this is the minimum set of tools that is needed. The simplest option is to fold the sheet in half and decorate with applique. Any decorative material can be used: pieces of fabric, lace, ribbons, buttons, and so on. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination. If you have a child, involve him in this activity, he will be delighted. With a little patience, you can get great original work.

You can make a three-dimensional postcard from two layers of paper. To do this, a pattern is applied to the inner layer and cut along the contour in a certain way. Using the game of two colors, you can get such wonderful cards.

Postcards made by you will leave the brightest memories of you

Scrapbooking technique

Postcard decorating techniques are widely used in another type of paper craft - scrapbooking.

– this is the production of family or personal photo albums dedicated to any event: wedding, birthday, travel, any event that can be told about using a photo collage. Scrapbooking has long gone beyond photo albums, and today many things are decorated with this technique: boxes, packaging, pictures, calendars.

Children's photo album

Despite the fact that the necessary materials for this exciting activity can be bought in specialized stores, there are many recipes online on how to make special paper or decorations for scrapbooking yourself. In particular, paper is made from newspapers, wrapping paper, perfume boxes or even egg boxes, with the addition of grass, thread, glitter or confetti.

Like postcards, scrapbooking uses half beads, ribbons, braid and lace for decorations. In addition, paper decorations made using the technique parchment And quilling

Pergamano technique

– embossing technique on parchment paper. A professional tool can be successfully replaced with a regular pin with a round tip or a crochet hook. Nail clips and the same pin will be useful for making holes. And an old computer mat will serve as a backing. Patience and imagination will help you create works of art.

Pergamano was invented in Europe by nuns during the Middle Ages. This is how they designed the pages of Holy Scripture.
It is believed that they were the first to use another technique - quilling: this is the art of making appliques from rolled thin strips of paper. The nuns wound thin paper strips with gold edges onto bird feathers and used the resulting spirals to decorate books, medallions, and frame icons. Today, quilling masters widely use it in decoration and interior design.

Pergamano “Happy Newborn!”

Even a child of primary school age can master the simplest elements of quilling. This activity will help develop creativity and imagination in your children.

Various paper applications

Sweet home

Origami - paper crafts

Origami is called the art of a whole sheet, because the classical technique forbade not only cutting the sheet, but even tearing it. Children enjoy folding paper figures; this activity will help instill in your child hard work, perseverance and creativity. With the help of origami you can not only have fun, but also create an amazing item for, for example, a children's room.

White paper butterflies

Large colored butterflies fan out

You can decorate a chandelier on the ceiling with paper products

Paper decorations for any celebration

You can make fan decorations from gift or colored paper

Paper flowers

We draw, cut and round.

You can make not only cute trinkets from paper with your own hands, but also very useful things in everyday life. Everyone has a stack of old newspapers and magazines in their house. We move the growing pile from place to place, to the closet, to the balcony, to the garage, until we finally decide to take all this stuff to the trash. In the meantime, you can create such miracles from old newspapers and magazines.

Products made from newspaper tubes, twisted in a special way and painted with acrylic paint, cannot be distinguished from wicker products made from wicker.

Cardboard furniture

House for children

Cardboard creative

Try to do something with your child, and warm memories of this event will remain in his soul forever.

Useful tips

Cardboard is a universal material from which you can make not only boxes, but also various crafts, as well as quite useful things in everyday life.

This environmentally friendly material is not difficult to find and is also quite easy to work with.

Here we have collected the most interesting and useful things that you can make from cardboard at home or in the country.

How to make a cable/cord/wire organizer out of cardboard

You will need:

Cardboard toilet paper rolls

Cardboard box (ideal for shoes)

Tape or glue to hold the bushings together (optional)

*The number of bushings depends on the number of cables and space in the box.

*You can fill the box completely or halfway with grommets to leave room for larger items.

* To ensure that the bushings do not dangle in the box and fit tightly to each other, you can fasten them with tape or glue.

Cardboard crafts: laptop stand

You can make a convenient laptop stand out of an ordinary pizza box. This stand was created by Russian designer Ilya Andreev. He cleverly used the folds on the cardboard to create a folding stand.

Another option for a cardboard laptop stand

You will need:

Stationery knife

Ruler (preferably metal)

A place where you can cut (a board or a special mat)

Glue (PVA or hot).

* Please select part sizes according to the size of your computer.

* Make cuts on the parts about 6 cm.

* This stand was designed for 13 and 15-inch laptops.

* Use glue to secure all parts, starting with the bottom ones.

*Allow the glue to dry before testing the stand.

Triangular shoe rack made from cardboard boxes

You will need:

Scissors or utility knife

Ruler and pencil

Wide tape.

*Each module in this shelf is a triangular tube. Its size depends on the shoe size.

First you should make one module.

1. First, cut the cardboard, divide it into 3 parts with a pencil and a ruler, bend it into a triangle and secure with wide tape.

2. Create some more modules in this way.

3. Each row of triangular modules must be glued to a sheet of cardboard for stability.

4. You can put another cardboard on top.

Cardboard organizer (diagram). Option 1: for papers and documents.

You will need:

Cereal boxes

Scissors

Colored tape or colored paper for decoration (optional)

PVA glue.

1. Glue the boxes together.

2. Wrap the boxes with colored cardboard or colored wide tape.

DIY cardboard organizer (diagram). Option 2: for papers and magazines

Cardboard organizer for stationery (photo)

You will need:

Cereal boxes

Scissors

Colored tape or colored paper

PVA glue

Cardboard rolls for toilet paper or paper towels.

DIY cardboard shelves (photo)

1. Prepare cardboard. If you have boxes, straighten them.

2. Now you need to make a hexagon from a sheet of cardboard. To do this, you need to make additional folds, one on each of the two largest sides of the cardboard.

3. Place the box flat and make a couple of cuts (see image) so that the top parts of the shape can be folded towards the center.

Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that are feasible for children. For the 2017 craft season - it turned out decent photo collection of ideas which a child can make from paper with his own hands. These paper crafts can be used for activities in kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be some easy crafts here for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years) – for the younger, middle and older groups. There will also be more complex crafts that require more long school session(for 45 minutes) – suitable for labor lessons for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 4. And also leaders of creative circles “Skillful Hands” in kindergarten or school they will find many useful ideas for paper crafts.

• We will do flat crafts-appliques.
• Volumetric crafts made from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
• Crafts toys made of cardboard or thick paper.
• Crafts using various techniques(half-discs, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).

At the moment, we already have thematic articles on our website with paper crafts,

And also many ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:

And in this article, we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.

So let's see what paper crafts I collected in this piggy bank.

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Using the HALF-DISC technique.

Crafts made from colored paper that we see in kindergarten and school most often look like appliqués. I really like it myself applications with effect 3D. There are quite a few ways to create bulges on an applique.

In this article I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphics - these are crafts from round paper discs. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded paper rounds.

This mosaic applique of round parts is suitable for children 3-4 years old. It just suits them for the pedagogical tasks of this age, when children do not yet know how to work with scissors, but are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.

Such applique crafts look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL GLUEING of the modules - we place only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out in a fold.

And from circles or ovals bent in half you can make not only flat applications, but also paper crafts and toys. Here's one for inspiration caterpillar made of ovals bent in half– children from 3 years old cope with this task if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold ovals themselves, and even cut out several of them. And children 5 years old need to be given colored rectangles, they themselves will cut the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves will bend them in half and fold them into a caterpillar.

Be smart and think about WHAT ELSE you can construct from paper semicircles or semi-ovals. Surely you can make a frog, panda, giraffe, hippopotamus, penguin from such round or oval half-discs.

VOLUMETRIC applique

Made from paper blades.

Here is another technology for convex paper appliqués. When the parts are glued together in advance into BLADES, and then such a bladed paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.

Blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.

For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists of from three paper circles. We cut out three circles and folded them in half. First, glue the halves bent in half on the left and right. And then the third round piece lies like a book on the protruding halves of the glued round pieces.

The Ladybug craft is suitable for children 3 years old. And the “Balloon” craft with a large number of blades is suitable for children 4-5 years old.

Any paper shape can be turned into a bladed part; the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your volumetric gluing.

In the same way, you can make paper crafts with your own hands in three-dimensional form (in the form of objects) - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the older group of kindergarten.

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ON SPRINGS.

Here's another paper craft with a convex effect. Here the volume of the applique is conveyed by gluing in relief a strip of colored paper folded into three folds. This autumn applique is easy to make with your own hands - suitable for middle and older children (5, 6 years old).

In the center of the upper fold we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. So that the owl hangs at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, you need to stick a paper spring on the back of the owl. How to make a spring You will now understand using the example of the following paper craft with a volumetric effect.

Here below we see a paper craft of a BEAR. The bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the paws and the body is achieved by gluing paper springs. Everyone made these spring worms when they were kids. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the entire craft as a whole.

The BEAR craft is suitable for children 3 - 4 years old (if all the parts have already been cut out and the springs have been folded). Children 4 - 5 years old You can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs ourselves (and The lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out some of the silhouettes - in the second we finish cutting and putting everything together.

You can do any craft in the same way. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But with the same success you can do a bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers made of paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.

You can highlight any details of paper crafts with a voluminous spring - bird wings, tiers of hedgehog spines (photo below).

Or hares in the thick grass (spring craft in the photo below).

You can also make such a paper craft, using spring stands inside. It turns out to be a beautiful effect. Also, stand legs for multi-layered applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased thick double-sided tape. They sell this kind of puffy tape - it has a thick, foam-like tape and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between layers of crafts..

From such springs you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and beat it with other paper parts. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws at the bottom and a long stripe-tail - and now it all starts to look like a paper mouse.

But here are paper penguin crafts based on the same spring. Or bug crafts. In kindergarten there is always unused black paper in a set of colored paper - you always don’t know what to make from it - but here you have black bugs, penguins and little crows.

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WITH A FAN.

A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape of a part. Most often, a glued fan is used as a tail for paper birds (or as wings).

The spread fan blades may remind you of the wings of a bat. Children's craft for middle age (4-5 years).

The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp - which means it will make an excellent DIY lamp craft (craft for children over 3 years old)

The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - penguin friends or northern bears (craft for children aged 5-7 years).

If we fold the fan in half - and bend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the meeting semicircles with glue, then we get a ROUND FAN.

From such a blank you can make many paper children's crafts. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, eye and beak).

Ready-made round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years. And at the age 5 years The child is already given the task of creating such a round fan himself from colored paper.

By adding various details to a paper fan, we can get the image of any paper animal (a black cat, or a red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).

All you have to do is teach your children how to make a fan with their own hands and practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves into two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw up more and more new ideas for crafts, turning a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid’s bra, into a round red nose of a clown.

And if we make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on wire, then we can get a three-dimensional spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, pumpkin, snowman, sheep, white rabbit and any other children's character.

Children's crafts

on an accordion stand.

There is another original way to make paper crafts for children. Below we see the principle of creating such a craft. We roll up a regular accordion from cardboard. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's craft below we see how the accordion turned into a cake craft. Each row of the accordion is a tier of a cake with candles.

Note, it is not necessary to make the high side part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are).

In the same way, according to this principle, we can use rows of accordion trees like rows of fir trees in a forest. And between them put a deer or a snowman, or hide a bunny.
Rows of pots can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded from blue paper and designed like SEA WAVES, and then all that remains is to stick dolphins or rows of boats on them. Or peeping sharks.

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on a flat cardboard template.

And now we’ll look at crafts for children, where all the elements are glued on a silhouette cut out of thick cardboard.

For example, we take cardboard and draw the silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old already learns to cut with scissors - he cuts out the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crookedly, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette..

When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round piece of white paper - the child’s task is to cut it into teeth (simply scribble the triangles obliquely with scissors, and then bend each tooth so that it protrudes inside the general circle. And this mouth made of paper remains to be glued onto the silhouette of the shark. And we will get awesome craft for children 4-7 years old. Sharks make great crafts for boys. Little brave souls will be happy to tame this dangerous sea predator.

The appliqué parts do not have to be made of colored paper. For example, the scarf on the polar bear below was cut from a cover of colored paper (the cover was checkered). And the carrot on the hare craft is white cardboard, which was first painted with gouache (yellow-orange-red stripes were painted).

You can see ideas for appliqués on a cardboard silhouette in children's cartoons, or in children's coloring books.

Such paper crafts for 5-year-old children can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick on the back of each craft long handle made of thin wooden slats(can be bought in the construction department of the store) - or the handle can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and tightly wrapped with tape for density.
Children, hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks, can perform plays entertaining parents and grandparents with homemade reprises of famous fairy tales.

You can also cut round holes in this craft for children’s fingers - then you can act out scenes from the TABLE THEATER. In the photo below we see a sheep and a hare made of paper with such slots for fingers.

And your paper characters can also have a special FOOT GRIP, and you can insert candy or a pencil and a small gift into this grip for someone.

By the way, here's a good idea - you can stick such a character on a postcard and give him the rolled up one in his paws 100 dollar bill– you will get a gift card with money for a friend’s birthday.

Such crafts made from flat cardboard can be supplemented with FOLD elements (as on the bunny in the photo below), or TWIST elements (as on the snail below). Or additional ENTOURAGE elements (as with the cat below).

Children's crafts

with paper stripes.

You can also make the applique three-dimensional if you use PAPER STRIP LOOPS. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. Such curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest daisy.

Or such paper loops can serve plumage of a swan– left photo below. This craft is suitable for children aged 4 years and older. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.

But the peacock (in the right photo above) is already craft for older children. For grades 1-2 - because in a kindergarten class, children will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish in 25 minutes. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will cope with this task.

Please note that the peacock is made from paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow stripe is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and is also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue stripe.

Thus we get EIGHT TRI-COLOR LOOPS for the peacock tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the joints of their gluing we attach peacock spots. Then we attach to the back cardboard silhouette of a peacock. Great creative craft.

Below we see how a flower craft is created using the same principle. We make the tail for our peacock in the photo above in the same way.

Or a paper craft for girls - SANDAL SHOES - here the stripes serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper flip-flops.

And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid from them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the center of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.

Or it could be a tasty apple bitten off from the side (left photo below). You can also put a worm made from a paper spring inside such an apple (see the method with a spring above).

If we glue the strips crosswise in the center... and pierce holes at the ends with a hole punch... and lift these ends with holes up... and collect them on a thread, then we will get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).

And if take NOT INDIVIDUAL strips - and cut a sheet of paper into strips WITHOUT CUTTING TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then decorate this long strip fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.

Using a similar principle, beautiful crafts are made from paper in the form cages with birds. This craft seems complicated only at first glance. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a 3-year-old child can do it with the help of an adult who will show him where to apply glue and where to stick it.

Below we see this cell in the blank (photo master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of base. Then we wrap the base into a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into an arch, each relative to each other. A quick and easy craft. All that remains is to make a bird out of paper and hang it on a string under this paper roof.

That is, such a craft is easy to make with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.

You can also make paper children’s crafts from strips BASED ON A BALL. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you can’t give a needle to children, you can go the other way and use a hole punch to make holes in three places on each strip in advance - along the center and at two edges.

The strips are folded crosswise onto the central hole - a thread with a bead hanging from below is threaded into it. A large bead at the bottom prevents the strips from slipping off the thread. Next, several more beads are strung on the thread (look carefully inside the sheep, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded through all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS HOW YOU GET A BALL. If anyone doesn’t understand, there is a photo master class in

You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them either into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your own hands and your imagination you can make a wide variety of animals.

Craftswoman Tatyana made these chickens and a hen. What characters will you come up with? Such crafts from stripes can be carried out in 1st, 2nd, 4th grades of school. And it is also suitable for diligent children 5-6 years old.

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using the QUILING technique.

You can also wrap paper strips in a tight roll. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or leaf and make paper flower appliqués with such twists. The technique is quite well known, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.

Below we see how an ordinary round twist is given different shapes (pressed with a finger from the desired sides) and the twist becomes teardrop-shaped or cup-shaped or triangular. And from such twisted modules we make a quilling applique.

Below we see children's crafts made from colored paper using this technique. You see, the paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a handmade postcard. The child will be pleased to give his mother a handmade card.

Within a school or kindergarten, the time for doing such crafts is limited - and we can make only a few such modules. The process is labor-intensive for children's fingers and takes time. You can divide the craft into 2 lessons - in the first we do modules, in the second we form the craft.

Girls really like this children's craft in the form of a cupcake.

Cupcake and bird is a very quick craft because it doesn’t require a lot of twisting. Children in grades 1 and 2 can make this craft - slowly, carefully twisting and gluing the tails of the twist.

But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5, this level of complexity of DIY crafts is just right.

Using the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. Folding the sheet thickly will allow you to get large twisted parts and from them you can make a large applique - for example, this penguin or an owl from paper.

And large twisted crafts are made from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such corton forms wide three-dimensional parts and can be used to make 3D paper toys. Craft for the older group of kindergarten or for school (grades 1,2,3,4).

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based on CONE.

A paper cone is also a good base for children's craft ideas. We all made our own Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten. And now we can make any character out of paper in the form of a cone craft.

To ensure that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow, its layout (flat pattern) should make an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.

For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we will need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees will be enough).

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folded in half.

But here are children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was folded in half and the silhouette cut out - in the end we got a double-sided craft with identical symmetrical sides.

And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below) we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkin. And in the fold of the top part of the bird we make a slot and insert a fan there.

For animal crafts, elephant ears can be inserted into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion’s mane made of cardboard or thick paper.

To such FLEXED CRAFTS you can attach not only wings, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's craft “Black Cat” made from paper.

The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the wings-fan of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely you will see that the head has also folded, which divides the head into 2 planes (back and front).

THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued-on eyes and whiskers of the cat.

A slot is made in the back of the cat (like the bird above for the wings) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slot. And the front plane simply hangs in front and does not fit into the slot.

A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grades 1-2 it’s also a great DIY project.

It is possible to provide crafts for such a scheme belly addition– like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional branches of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after bending the silhouette, WRAP IN A ROLL and fasten with a stapler or glue.

You can slightly modify this principle of the craft - leaving the UPPER BACK AREA between the two halves-sides. That is, at the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.

These cardboard (or thick paper) bears have just such a back.

And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this platform, we were able to provide the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).

Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a paper template, then this template can be traced on a sheet of cardboard by drawing in advance the internal fold lines (those that go along the back). And the child’s task is to embed the silhouette of the template and bend it along the internal lines. That is, the craft is accessible to children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and older groups of kindergarten and for school lessons on creativity and labor.

Origami

SIMPLE ORIGAMI.

For small children, it is difficult to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore, it is better to start with simple diagrams, which are then supplemented with cut-out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. This way we will get some easy crafts.

You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a piece of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folded piece of paper might look like... what if there are ears here, eyes here, and a nose here... wow, this looks like it could make a great MOUSE.

Here’s another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines that makes it possible to get a fold for the “Ladybug” craft. The spots and face can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.

The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a piece of paper into two folds and get base blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.

This children's craft is suitable for classes in paper construction in kindergarten. It requires double-sided colored cardboard or equally thick paper. It is good to buy office colored paper for such crafts - it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.

Or children can make these easy ones with their own hands clamshell crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 size) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then it is folded into 2 folds (to make 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the sketch.

Children's paper crafts.

DROP template.

If we fold a wide strip of paper with the ends together, we get drop-shaped twist.

Based on such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a whale from blue paper, a ladybug (glue wings to a drop).

It is convenient to make mice or a hedgehog from a drop-shaped paper template.

Can i add to such teardrop-shaped details on top round paper roll- to make a head. So even more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duckling, swallow.

Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.

And if you connect a whole series of strips together like CHAIN ​​LINKS, you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.

And here are some more simple crafts based on a wide strip bent into a ring or scaphoid shape.

In the craft with a boat - we first make holder at the bottom of the boat- it’s just a small rectangle of paper with small sides folded on both sides. And then to these curved sides we glue REAL BOAT SIDE BOATS MADE FROM BLUE PAPER. Rectangle with sides in the center will not allow the sides of our boat to collapse towards each other.

The craft is suitable for children aged 5 years and older.

And here is a children's paper craft, which also has white edges made of paper strips that imitate the body of a swan. Here the form holder is a roll of white paper rolled into a long tube. Craft for children 5-6 years old.

Crafts-cards

from paper.

And of course, if you like to make children's crafts from paper and cardboard, then postcard openers are a suitable theme for children aged 3 years and older. Ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with fish. Or a Valentine craft with spring birds.

You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will be opened for boys by knights and soldiers, and for girls by beautiful princesses hidden inside a paper bastion.

Crafts-cards can be an excellent handmade gift for March 8th. For example, this cup with tulips. The handle for the cup can be cut out as a separate piece and glued to the side of the mug.

Or you can make an apron craft with carved lace from paper (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or cut out a snowflake from paper, trim its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.

You can cut out the silhouette of a can on a craft and cover it with a thin layer of file (with double-sided tape). And also glue a paper pocket (the back wall of the craft) and put a heart in this transparent pocket at the front.

Here's another technique VOLUME CARDS. It's simple. Fold a sheet of paper in half. And on the edge of the fold we make 2 cuts scissors (any length and width). And then we simply push the space between these cuts inside the postcard with our FINGER - and it PULLS OUT in the form of such a rectangular stand.

And now we stick any element onto this stand. For example, a cupcake.

If you make three pairs of such cuts and push them with your finger inside the card, then you can glue a cupcake to each of them. And on top there are flags. Here is a simple children's craft and it's ready. Interesting and non-standard.

First, practice on a piece of regular sheet - bend it in half, cut it twice and push the cut part inside. You will see that it is simple.

And you can show your children the same thing. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will stick any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).

Any original ideas can be implemented using this technique of volumetric postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.

The longer you make paired cuts, the further the stand strip inside your card will be curved. You can see this in the example with the postcard craft in the photo below.

Craft openers can have a surprise in the form of a clamshell fan. Under such a folding bed you can decorate a peacock with a bushy tail.

Of course, such a complex carving (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, you can simplify any idea - let the fan not be carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.

Or the clamshell inside the postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements– butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is symmetry of the folds).

We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right are like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued in halves to each other (not all halves should be coated with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we will get a multi-colored accordion of parts. And paste this accordion into the postcard. Also a beautiful craft - moths, bright against a dark sky background.

These are the ideas I collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with your children, but also CREATE YOUR OWN WORKS using each of the proposed METHOD.

After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - multiplying the same technical idea in the form of a variety of crafts - then you just need to CONTINUE THE CHAIN ​​OF IDEAS.

And I wish you the most original creative finds. And the children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.

Good luck with your children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site

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The question of what can be made from cardboard and paper arises quite often. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, these materials are accessible. It is worth noting that we are talking not only about paper and cardboard, which can be bought in office supply stores, but also about newspapers, magazines, boxes and drawers available in every home. Secondly, these materials are easy to work with, so even the smallest craftsmen can use them to make various crafts. Thirdly, despite the numerous products sold in modern stores, you want to have original and unique things in your home, and you can claim their full uniqueness only if the item is made with your own hands.

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

If you start listing what you can make from cardboard with your own hands, then even a few pages may not be enough. First of all, these are interesting things, which can include both home decorations (garlands, lanterns, toys, etc.) and useful items (boxes, vases, furniture for dolls, etc.). However, each of these crafts will look much more interesting if it is not just white, but has an interesting design, which, by the way, is not at all difficult to obtain.

To make it you will need sheets of cardboard, three-layer kitchen napkins of interesting colors (only the top decorative layer will be used), scissors, gauze and an iron. First you need to iron the napkin thoroughly, there should be no wrinkles, and then separate the top layer from it. Next, place cardboard on the ironing surface, cover the entire area with cling film, then a napkin, and then gauze. After this, all layers are ironed with an iron heated to maximum temperature, paying special attention to the edges. Then you need to turn the cardboard over, trim the edges of the napkin and film to the level with the sheet and iron it from the wrong side, and then again from the front. The result of the work will be a beautiful workpiece. But it won’t be difficult to come up with what can be made from cardboard of this type.

made of cardboard

Neither adults nor children can imagine their life without a holiday. This is the New Year, and birthdays, and anniversaries, and many others. And what is a holiday without special attributes? One of the most popular items with which holidays are associated are caps, this is especially true for children, although adults often do not refuse these unique headdresses, especially if they are decorated with a holiday theme. But first things first.

For people who have decided to make their holiday more bright, the question of what can be made from cardboard and paper with their own hands no longer arises, but in its place another question appears - how to make a cap from cardboard? To work you will need thick paper or cardboard, glue, scissors and an elastic band or narrow tape. These materials are quite sufficient for making a cap, but others will be needed for decoration, depending on the theme and age category of people present at the holiday.

Roll a sheet of paper or cardboard measuring 30x45 cm into a cone shape, trim off the excess paper, and glue the edges together. In order for the product to stay on your head better, you need to attach a ribbon or elastic band to it, punching holes on both sides in the lower part of the cone. You can decorate the cap at your discretion with corrugated paper, rhinestones or various figures cut out of colored paper.

Cardboard box

Every home has a lot of little things that are often in disarray because there aren't enough separate drawers for them all. However, everything changes after a child or adult learns that you can make an original box out of cardboard. To do this you will need cardboard, pencil, scissors, tape, glue and fabric.

First, using a pencil and a ruler, you need to draw a quadrangle on the cardboard, which will be the bottom of the future box. Then continue each side of the square as high as the finished product should be. Draw a lid for the future box on cardboard of the same dimensions, except that the sides continuing the quadrangle should be 2 cm. Cut out both diagrams. And also draw and cut out four rectangles that would have the same width as the sides of the future box, but would be 2 cm higher. Next, you need to bend the sides of the drawn square and fasten them together with tape, and do the same with the lid. Cover both products, as well as 4 rectangles, with fabric. After this, insert the latter inside the box along its perimeter and secure it with glue, after which the box can be closed with a lid. To decorate the product, you can use various appliqués, rhinestones, lace and other decorative materials.

Applications from paper circles

Of course, making boxes, caps and many other useful things can be difficult for a child. Therefore, parents often wonder what can be made from cardboard and paper so that the baby can do it. Making an applique from circles can be a very interesting activity. So, you need to stock up on cardboard, standard white sheets, colored paper, scissors, glue and a compass or objects that can be placed on a sheet, traced and obtained into circles of various sizes. First, you will need to draw and cut out circles of different diameters from different papers, and then, taking a sheet of cardboard, give free rein to your imagination and create all kinds of pictures and whole figures or their halves.

For example, if you fold the halves in a circle and glue them to cardboard, and attach a small circle in the middle, you can get a flower. The leaves of this plant can serve as the same shapes, only green. The stems can also be folded from very small circles or their halves, and half of a large circle can be used as a pot, gluing it cut side up.

Cardboard sofa for Monster High doll

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

To make this type of furniture you will need a lid from a small cardboard box, glue, cardboard, scissors, fabric, and sponge wipes. The surface of the box lid must be covered with fabric. Then glue together all the sponges needed to cover the area of ​​the box and also cover it with fabric. Then attach the “mattress” to the “frame”. Cut out the back and sides of the required height from cardboard and “upholster” it with sponge napkins using glue, and then with fabric, 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 a Monster High doll, the sofa for her can be decorated in the desired way, for example, with beads, sequins or embroidery.

Frame for photos or paintings made of paper and cardboard

Modern people often use photographs or paintings to decorate the interior of a room. The latter can be embroidered, beaded or painted, but in order to hang them on a wall or put them on a table, a frame is needed. I’m glad that you can make a very original frame out of cardboard and paper with your own hands. So, you will need cardboard, glue, and pages of a glossy magazine.

First, a sheet of cardboard - the basis of the future frame - must be covered with magazine pages. While the base is drying, you can start making tubes to decorate it. To do this, a sheet of glossy paper must be rolled into a tube using a pencil 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 junction at 45 degrees. The next rows need to be glued in the same way. There should be so many rows of them until they cover the entire surface, except for the part where the picture or photo will be placed. If desired, the finished frame can be coated with acrylic paints.

Snowman made of paper and cardboard

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

To make this craft you will need cardboard, standard white paper and scissors. First, you need to cut out three strips of the same width from white paper and glue them into a ring, with each circle slightly decreasing in diameter compared to the previous one. Next, cut out a square from cardboard that is slightly larger than the largest cylinder - this will be a stand for the future snowman. Then glue the largest paper ring to the cardboard, turning it horizontally, glue a slightly smaller one on top, and on the very top - the smallest one - a snowman's head. Thin branches that need to be attached to the middle cylinder can serve as hands. Eyes, mouth, nose and buttons can be drawn with a felt-tip pen. Now the child will know what can be made from cardboard with his own hands. A photo of the finished snowman can be seen below.

“Paper” sun - an interesting craft for children

An interesting and easy to make craft is the “paper” sun. It will be an excellent choice for those who have long been thinking about what they can make from cardboard and colored paper with their own hands. So, you will need glue, yellow colored paper, thread, scissors and cardboard, preferably yellow, if it is white, then it will have to be covered with colored paper or painted.

To begin with, you need to cut out two identical circles from cardboard, 6-7 centimeters in diameter. Next, cut 20-25 strips of yellow paper 12-14 cm long and 1 cm wide. Bend each strip in half and glue the ends. The resulting elements should be voluminous and not flat, that is, at the top point the strip does not need to be folded in half by smoothing. The blanks must be glued along the entire length of the circle next to each other - these will be rays, and cover the surface with a second circle on top. With a felt-tip pen you can draw a mouth and eyes for the sun or decorate it in any other way. Attach a thread to one of the rays and hang the craft in the desired place.