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We are convinced that only home-made can be better than a purchased dollhouse. After all, it is very interesting to “build” and decorate it to your liking for both parents and children. Moreover, everyone can make a house for dolls with their own hands, this will require only a few tools, simple materials and creative inspiration.

Master class 1. How to build a house in half an hour from a cardboard box

A cardboard dollhouse is good because it is done quickly and from improvised materials. It can be very beautifully designed and periodically completed - add new rooms, floors and entire buildings.

Materials and tools:

A large cardboard box that will hold one to three floors for dolls 25-30 cm tall (Barbie, Monster High, Bratz, Winx, etc.).
Scissors and cutter.
Scotch tape in a contrasting color (does not include painting) or masking tape (if you want to paint the house later). In this master class, bright green tape is used, and the house itself is not painted.
White paint.
Decorating materials (optional): scraps of wallpaper, wrapping paper, paint, brushes, etc.

Step 1. First, cut the box in half and cut off the top flaps from both halves.

Step 2. We put the resulting pieces of cardboard into action: cut out the triangular gable of the roof from one part, and make a small hole in the other - this will be the second floor with access to the stairs. Next, glue the parts into place with tape and / or glue.

Step 3. From the unnecessary part of the box, cut out the slopes for the roof and another floor for the attic, and then glue the parts onto the adhesive tape. Do not forget to cut a hole for the stairs in the attic floor.

Step 4. Now we cut out the windows with a clerical knife and front door on the first floor, having previously drawn the markup. Then we cut out stairs from the remnants of cardboard and glue them to the floors.

Step 5. Hooray! The frame of the house is ready, now you can proceed to the "finishing". In this master class, all the details from the tiles on the roof to the steps of the stairs were drawn with a white marker.

As soon as the "repair" in the house is over, you can start creating furniture.

You can come up with your own house design - paint the house and the roof from the outside, draw window frames, paste over the walls with “wallpaper” made of fabric or scrapbooking paper, and finish the floor with linoleum or laminate. In the next selection of photos, you can get ideas for decorating a doll house miniature and cardboard furniture.

And here is an example of a cardboard house for dolls, upholstered in fabric, or rather, scraps of old dresses and pillowcases.

And finally, we offer you to watch a video review of a dollhouse for Monster High dolls, made with your own hands from several large boxes.

Master class 2. How to make a doll house from a bookshelf or rack

Do you want to make a stronger house without fiddling with blueprints and a jigsaw? Then use a small shelving unit or, say, an old bookcase as a base. With the help of the simplest steps, you can turn an ordinary piece of furniture into a wonderful house for dolls.

Best for "construction" is a cabinet with a depth (25-30 cm), which has a back wall. So, for example, in this master class, Ikea's Billy shelving unit is 30 cm deep and 106 cm high (pictured right). In such a house, you can equip three floors, quite suitable for 25-centimeter Barbies or Monster High. The price of Billy's rack is 2000 rubles.

Materials and tools for reworking the frame:

Cabinet, chest of drawers or shelving;
Plywood, MDF or boards 25mm thick, 30cm wide and at least 120cm long (these are measurements for Billy's closet, but you can get shorter or longer/wider boards depending on your closet dimensions);
hardboard sheet, wall panel PVC or MDF (for the manufacture / replacement of the back wall and the manufacture of partitions in rooms);
Bar 5x5x20cm (a pipe will be made from it);
Several small photo frames that will become trim for windows;
Decorative molding of small width (polyurethane can be used);
Screws and screwdriver;
Carpentry glue or liquid nails;
Drill and drill.

Decoration materials:

Wood putty (optional, but desirable for masking fasteners and joints);
Primer (optional, but desirable for better paint durability);
Acrylic paints of desired colors;
masking tape;
Brushes and / or spray gun;
Scissors;
Materials for lining the walls of rooms (paper for scrapbooking is best);
Popsicle sticks to create a lattice fence;
Roof tiles material.

Step 1. Painting the rack

This step is optional if you are satisfied with the color of the selected shelving or cabinet. For example, white or plain colored furniture will look great even without painting.

If the cabinet is old or has a too “furniture” look, then it definitely needs to be repainted. To do this, we act according to the following scheme: sanding and grinding - primer (until dry) - a layer of paint (until dry) - a second layer of paint (before drying) - a layer of matte varnish.

In this master class, the dollhouse will not only be painted, but also decorated with brickwork. If you like this decor idea, then prepare the following accessories:

Cellulose sponge;
Gray paint;
Acrylic paint (our instructions use a mixture of two paints - the colors of red brick and chocolate).

So, first we paint the entire rack with gray paint. As soon as the last coat of paint dries, we begin to create brickwork. To do this, we cut out a rectangle about 3.5 × 8 cm in size from a sponge, which will become a template for painting.

Pour the paint into the container, soak the sponge in it and, starting from the bottom of the cabinet, print the bricks - first one row, then the second row in a checkerboard pattern. Do not forget to maintain indents between bricks of about 5 mm. Paint about 1/3 of the house this way.

Step 2. Making windows

This step is also optional, but if you want to create a realistic miniature of the house, then it's better not to skip it. In order to cut windows, you first need to measure the window "frames" (if any) and draw markings on the cabinet walls from the outside.

Once the markings of all windows are ready, you can start cutting. To do this, use a drill to make holes in the corners of the markup inside the border to create a starting point for the jigsaw blade. To make the edges of the windows look neater from the inside, you need to glue the masking tape on the inside of the cabinet along the marking contour. In the photo below you can see the process of work.

To give the windows a more finished look, putty and paint the "window niches", remove the tape, and glue the frames on the outside of the house.

Step 3. Mounting and decorating the roof

In order to make a roof, you need to cut 2 boards from plywood (or other lumber) 30 cm wide, but of different lengths - 61 cm and 59 cm.

Now we join the end of the shorter board at a right angle with the edge of the 61-cm board and again drill holes, but only at the end of the short board, passing the drill through the three holes made earlier on the edge of the long board. This stage is clearly shown in the next photo.

Glue two boards together, then fix with screws. If desired, the joint can be sealed with putty.

Next, we move on to finishing the roof. It can either be painted in 2 layers, or pasted over with “tiles” from improvised materials, for example, from cardboard or cork sheets. And finally, on the ends on the front side of the roof, we glue 2 parts of the molding.

Step 4. Creating and installing a pipe, installing a roof

It's time to turn the 5x5x20 cm wooden block into a chimney. To do this, simply saw off one of its corners (45 degrees) and paint according to the principle described in Step # 1. When the paint is dry, we fix the chimney to the roof with screws.

Well, that's all, the roof is ready, it remains only to screw it to the cabinet in the inner corners, as shown in the photo.

Step 5. Replacing or installing the back wall

The next step involves equipping the rack with a wall, if it is not there, replacing the existing wall with a prettier one (for example, under a white lining) or simply installing the missing wall for the attic floor. We perform the following actions: we make the necessary measurements, cut out a blank from the hardboard / wall panel and fasten it on the reverse side with cloves / screws / glue.

Step 6 Install Partitions to Create Rooms

Cut out interior partitions from any material (hardboard, wood, MDF, plywood), then cut doorways into them and install with glue or screws. Woo-ala! The doll house is built, you can proceed to the most exciting part of the work - the decor and filling the rooms with furniture.

If you add a rack with wheels, the house will turn out to be mobile

And here is an example of equipping a dollhouse with lighting, which can not only create comfort in it, but also play the role of a night light.

Master class 3. How to make a plywood dollhouse

Making a dollhouse out of plywood or wood is somewhat more difficult, but it will look better and last so long that in the future it can even be inherited. To create such a house does not need to have special skills. It is enough to have tools, clearly follow the drawing and the following video instruction, from which you will learn how to make a dollhouse with your own hands for 25 cm Barbies and other dolls 25-26 cm tall.

A cardboard house is original and interesting, and most importantly, stylish for unusual interior.

A do-it-yourself cardboard house can play out certain functions, for example, be a real home for an animal - a cat, a dog, and sometimes even other pets.

In addition, a house can be made for a baby - children love to play where they can hide, retire with toys, and most importantly, feel like a real and only owner.

Decorative cardboard house

In order to decorate an apartment with cute houses that can imitate settlements, it is enough to stock up on the following materials:

cardboard in different colors. You can buy a pack of plain cardboard, and then just paint it in different colors;
paints. Even if you decide to buy multi-colored sheets of cardboard, paints will definitely come in handy for you. You can take a watercolor, it is in almost every home, in any case, where there are children;
scissors;
colored paper, you can also cardboard;
glue.

How to make a cardboard house

Actions will be as follows:

first we take paper, we make a box for a cardboard house out of it. It is better if the house is small, because you will need to make several of these. When cutting out a pattern for a future craft, it is better to pay special attention to the recesses that will be smeared with glue in order to fix the walls with each other;
we remove the top of the box, which will serve as the basis for the cardboard house, and install the roof in its place. You also need to fasten it to the notches so that the product does not fall apart. If you plan to decorate the house with something else, you can fix it with a stapler, but the glue will look better, not allow the cardboard to delaminate and create gaps;
do-it-yourself cardboard house must be installed on the base prepared paper. It should be tight so that it does not quickly wrinkle. Depending on how many houses you will have, you need to take a piece of paper. You can select one large one, or you can stop at cut small ones. We glue the house to the base;
we make all the other houses, after which we attach them to the base material. The colors of the houses should be arranged in the same way as the lamps of the garland are located (for example, if the first lamp is blue, and then red and yellow, we also place the houses). However, it is important to remember that garlands most often contain lamps that are too close to each other, so this rule may be irrelevant;
in each house, depending on the size of the lamps and the cord, we make holes (if there is a large hole punch, this will become the best option);
we pass the garland into each of the holes through the houses.

That's all, now you can install cardboard houses made of cardboard in a semicircular row and plug the garland into an outlet.

There will be a very beautiful glow inside. Of course, the number of windows and doors in such houses can be different, but it is better to make them multi-windowed - the glow effect will be enhanced.

Is there enough space? Of course that's enough!

And if you take, say, a box from a refrigerator, TV and microwave, the price will not be for such a cardboard house for a child.

So, it will be possible to use the highest box to create a kind of tower, in which a passage into the TV box will be cut with a clerical knife.

The kid will be given a lot of space, and most importantly, he will feel as if he is in the whole castle. A microwave box is suitable for creating a roof. What did you think?

The top of the TV box must be removed, and an L-shaped roof should be fixed in its place. And the height of the "ceilings" will be higher, and there will be more space, and the view will be more original.

By the way, the roof of a cardboard house can be finished using natural material, for which they will fit. But the walls are allowed to be pasted over with small branches - such a house will take the form of a bar, or some kind of toy forest structure.

It is better to fasten all the elements with a large stapler, since glue does not always help in the construction of such serious structures that are actively used by children, and, as you know, kids rarely remember that their “toy” can break.

Inner part it is better to either decorate the house or paste over with posters, pictures, stickers. And they will look great where doors and windows are made out.

Yesterday we made a village out of colored cardboard. I was inspired by this idea:

Such toy villages in Europe are very fond of making for Christmas, placing them under the Christmas tree and decorating with lanterns.

I found a very interesting site http://littleglitterhouses.com/paul/howard_how_to.htm#crossbuck which has a huge number of ready-made models that can be simply printed and cut out of paper.

My idea is that children can cut and glue simple models themselves. Together they look like a real village!

For the manufacture of houses, I bought several sheets of colored rough cardboard. Right on these sheets, I printed out the templates that I had drawn in advance on the printer.

A4 size

House number 1

House number 2

House number 3

House number 4 with a chimney and a roof

I decided that it would be prettier if the walls of the house were the same color (I have white, orange and brown), and the roofs of a different color (black and red). Therefore, I connected the roofs in one template.

Separately, I made sets of windows and doors for houses No. 1,2,4. I printed them on red, orange and brown cardboard.

And windows with doors for a large house number 3

Tree patterns

In order to make 14 houses, I printed a template with house #1, #2 each on two sheets of cardboard (that's 8 houses), three large houses #3 on four sheets (4 more houses), and house #4 on two sheets (2 more houses). For them, I printed 4 sheets with roofs, one sheet with windows for house No. 3 and one sheet with sets of windows and doors for houses No. 1,2,4.

I printed the trees on thick cardboard Brown color. To make them stand, I made special coasters from wine corks: I cut each one in half, glued it to a small cardboard box, and cut a slit at the top of the cork with a knife, into which I inserted a tree.

The photo at the beginning of the article shows this device better.

Unfortunately, I did not have time to photograph in detail how the classes were held. I can note that everyone really liked the idea, but not all children could cut out exactly along the contour, I had to help. PVA glue did not fit this cardboard at all and after the first bad experiences began to glue with an ordinary glue stick. We got a little confused with the windows and doors, small details just got lost on the tables. In addition, not everyone had enough red roofs, so it’s best to have a supply of cardboard sheets with you. different color to quickly cut something extra.

The lesson lasted about 40 minutes, this time was just enough for everyone to make one house with a little help from an adult. As always, the girls were happy to cut and paste something for the whole lesson, while the boys only had enough patience for 20 minutes :)

And already at the next lesson, I plan to jointly make a prefabricated model of an Orthodox Church that will decorate this Christmas village.

All children dream of toy houses, which they clumsily try to build from what they have at hand. And sometimes parents do not even realize that there is material in the house from which you can make a wonderful house for children's games - this is ordinary cardboard. Without much effort from waste material it can turn out to be a beautiful and comfortable house - a favorite place for children's games.

Decorating the house, children will develop their imagination. The toy house can become a spaceship or a princess castle for them, taking them on an amazing adventure. Tidying up their toy home, children learn how to clean up the house. Having retired to the house, they can organize a secret society or tell horror stories to each other.

Making a house out of cardboard with your own hands is not difficult. Children must be involved in the construction process. It's very interesting and exciting! Helping in construction, children will receive the first architectural knowledge and skills.

Materials and tools

Do-it-yourself cardboard house does not require large material investments. Materials and tools for construction can be found in the household of any family:

Cardboard boxes of different sizes, glue gun.
Scissors, sharp knife, pencils, felt-tip pens, markers, adhesive tape.
Acrylic or watercolor paints, gouache, glitter and various embellishments.

Operating procedure

The sequence of building a cardboard house with your own hands can be different, depending on what kind of architectural structure you want to create. But the general algorithm can be described as follows:

Find a sketch or diagram on the Internet, print it out on a printer and start acting. If you experienced master, you can draw a sketch of the house yourself.
According to the scheme, cut out the parts and glue them in the desired sequence with adhesive tape.
Together, you can decorate your building with fun.

Helpful Hints

It will be great if your boxes include corrugated cardboard.
Cardboard cutting work should only be carried out by adults.
For the stability of the house, it is desirable to find cardboard pipes. You can ask for them at a store that sells goods in rolls. If you can't find it, make pipes out of cardboard. To do this, simply roll it up.
Try to make the door of the house open outward so that the children have more room to play.
Don't throw away small cardboard boxes. From them you can make a beautiful doll castle for a princess or a garage for cars.

There are many options for do-it-yourself cardboard houses. You yourself can come up with something interesting. We offer several workshops and original ideas for the manufacture of houses that you can easily build with your children.

DIY folding cardboard house - master class

We will need: a large cardboard box, scissors, a sharp knife, tape.

Step one: cut off the top of the large box, as shown in the diagram. Set aside the cut pieces. We glue the side seams of the box with tape.

Step two: turn the box over and connect its parts in the places indicated by the yellow arrow in the diagram. We make a roof from the cut off parts, connecting the parts with adhesive tape in the places indicated by the arrows. We attach the roof to the side parts.

Step three: cut the cardboard in the place indicated by the yellow dotted lines in the diagram. We connect the parts indicated by the yellow arrows.

A comfortable and functional house is ready. It can be taken apart at any time, played with and put back together again.

Cardboard house with a door - master class

We will need: a large cardboard box, a sharp knife, adhesive tape, acrylic paints or gouache.

Operating procedure:

We cut out the roof and side parts of the house according to the scheme from cardboard.
We assemble the house and glue the junction of the side seams with tape.
We glue the roof and cut out the door on three sides, as shown in the figure.
The window can be cut or drawn.

DIY cardboard mill - master class

We will need: a large cardboard box, a knife, adhesive tape, a wooden stick, a screw, a rope, acrylic paints.

Operating procedure:

Fold the box as shown in the diagram. From the sides we cut out triangular gables, and on the roof we make holes for the window and pipe.
According to the pattern, we make a cardboard tube.
We screw a screw into the tip of a wooden stick and attach it to the roof with a rope.
According to the scheme, we make a screw and fasten it to a stick along with a screw so that it spins.
We cut out two triangular windows at the end and fasten the pipe.
We paint the mill with bright colors.

Do-it-yourself house for Barbie - master class

We will need: two small cardboard boxes, a knife, adhesive tape, glue, acrylic paints, colored paper.

Operating procedure:

We take two boxes, cut out two windows on the side and glue them together, as shown in the first picture.
We glue the shelves, the back wall and the roof, made of two pieces of cardboard.
We cut out beautiful windows, then paint the resulting house with paints or glue it with colored paper.

Cardboard cat house - master class

You can make a wonderful cat house for your pet out of cardboard with your own hands.

We will need: two not very large boxes, a knife, adhesive tape, glue.

Operating procedure:

We make two small houses according to the size of a cat according to the scheme given in the second lesson. Only one of the houses should be without a roof, there is no need to make doors.
We cut out the windows, as shown in the diagram and glue one house to another. We hope your kitty enjoys her new home.

Interesting DIY Cardboard House Ideas

A cottage with a starry sky can be made from cardboard boxes with skillful hands.
Surprisingly beautiful doll houses are obtained from cardboard if they are pasted over with a bright fabric.
Unusual architectural cardboard structures are simply amazing.
A transforming dollhouse can be made from cardboard according to the attached scheme.

We hope that our lessons, ideas and tips will help you in creating wonderful toy houses. You will certainly get a joyful mood and indescribable emotions as a result of your creativity.

Do you throw out the cardboard because it takes up a lot of space? But it can become a material for your creativity. For example, you can build a cardboard house for children or for a pet. Look for ideas for such crafts below.

Little house for dolls

Do you have a little daughter? Then make for her a house for dolls with your own hands from cardboard. Any girl will be delighted with such a present. If you have a lot of free time, then collect a home for Barbie, and if time is running out, then make a small haven for miniature toys. How to assemble a house? First of all, you need to draw a pattern. It should consist of three walls, one gable, floor, roof and partition between floors. Let's start creating. Cut out the details. There are two ways to attach blanks to each other. One is to glue the cardboard with a hot gun, and the other is to create grooves in the parts. You can combine two mounting methods for reliability. First connect the walls together, then attach the floor to them. After that, insert the partition between the floors, and the last action is to attach the roof. You can decorate the front of the house with cardboard, which will act as a pediment.

Big dollhouse

Do you want to make a stable structure and at the same time not spend a lot of time on creating crafts? Build a large open cardboard house. Before starting work, you need to draw a pattern. It will consist of two side walls combined with gables, a rectangle connecting the two parts of the future building, and three partitions between floors. We transfer the pattern to cardboard and cut out the details. In accordance with the photo attached above, cuts must be made in the blanks. They will play the role of grooves. Thanks to this fastening, the structure will stand stably, and if necessary, it will be easy to assemble it. When the grooves are made, you can start cutting windows. They can be of any shape and located in any part of the building. To make the house prettier, encircle each window with a curly frame. Use multi-colored gouache mixed with PVA glue for this purpose.

New Year's house

Children like to make such crafts for the New Year holidays. A cardboard house can play the role of a candlestick or become one of the decorative details of the room. How to assemble such a craft? You need to start with a sketch. Draw the house you want to design. If you rarely do layout work, then you need to start by making a one-story building of a simple design. The drawing is ready, now you should draw its scan. Contrary to popular belief, this is easy to do. If spatial thinking does not work well for you, first mold your project from plasticine. When the pattern is ready, transfer it to cardboard, and then cut it out. Glue the pieces together with a hot gun. Color the craft with gouache or immediately make a white cardboard layout. Complete the project with Christmas trees and a fence, and then sprinkle the craft with artificial snow or fine foam.

tea house

It is always a pleasure to make not only beautiful, but also utilitarian products. One of them is a cardboard tea house. A master class on the manufacture of such a product is given above. The roof of this craft is removed and the base is filled with tea bags. Such a house can be put on the table or decorate one of the shelves in the kitchen with it. How to make a tea house with your own hands from cardboard? Above is a pattern, you need to print it or redraw it. Let's assemble the base first. It consists of four long rectangles and one small square. We first fasten the walls of the structure together, and then glue the floor. The cutout for the door must be done immediately. At this stage, you need to check whether the bags are removed from the hole; if necessary, the hole can be enlarged. We glue the base with beautiful paper with a suitable print or paint the house by hand. Now you can assemble the roof. We glue together two rectangles, and insert a bar between them. We make gables and make a floor at the roof. You can decorate the part with rectangles bent on both sides. Cover the roof with colored paper or paint the detail.

House for children

Do you want to please your child? Make your own cardboard house for the kids. For toddlers, the best entertainment is to hide in a shelter. The cardboard house will become a permanent place for children to play. How to make such a gift to your child? Make a pattern. You can draw it on the wallpaper that remained after the repair. You need to design the building with a margin so that your child can enjoy his shelter not for one season, but for several years. Two side walls must be combined with gables. Long walls are rectangles. And for the stability of the structure, the roof must be made of rectangles folded with the letter "P". Such large "paper clips" will cling to the ledges that need to be created in the gable. Cut windows in the long walls of the house, and cut a door in one of the side parts. You can attach it using springs or an old door mechanism.

House for a cat

Do you have pets? Make a cat house out of cardboard. This design will be very primitive, but your pet will be able to appreciate the work. What should an animal house look like? Take 8 old cardboard boxes. The first row of the structure will consist of four boxes. Attach them together with tape or glue. Randomly cut through holes. But don't touch the floor of the house. The second row will consist of three boxes. Arrange them in the form of a corner on the first tier. Make cuts in each wall, and be sure to make several holes that will lead to the lower tier. Glue the remaining box with a third layer. Cut holes in it. The house is ready. You can decorate it in any way to make it look good in your interior.

Packing-house

Holidays are coming and you decided to give your friends sweet gifts? Then make a house out of cardboard. Such packaging can be filled with purchased sweets or sweets prepared by oneself. How to make a house? Attached is a template. You need to print the pattern and then cut out the stencil. Take colored cardboard and transfer the drawing to it. Now cut out the blank and glue it. It remains to decorate the craft. You can paint your creation or make an application from colored paper. If you're filling the box with homemade sweets, don't forget to wrap them in foil or cellophane. This is necessary so that the product is not soaked with oil and does not lose its presentable appearance. appearance.

Cardboard tower

It will be easy to create such a craft for those who have extra boxes from the refrigerator and TV. Cut the big box into two pieces. The base of the house is ready. Cut windows and a door into the blank. Build two thin rectangles of cardboard - these will be the pillars at the entrance. Now from another rectangle, but a larger one, you need to make an arch. We will make the roof of the tower from a TV box. We cut it in half, and then we make out the cut edge with a rectangular zigzag. We create a visor decorated with the same snake as the roof. You need to place it above the arch. You can decorate the tower with cardboard overlays. Decorate windows with them. From small rectangles you can create