How to use juice boxes. DIY crafts from boxes: turning ideas into reality. How to make a house out of boxes with your own hands
Looking at an empty milk carton, the idea came to make a house for tea bags. There is food foil inside the bag - which means you can put bags in it without fear or risk (to your health).
Here's how it all happened: Here it is that same ill-fated box.
It needs to be cut off.
Then we place the box on a sheet of cardboard and draw the contours of the bottom and sides. There should be five parts (bottom, two sides, front and back walls).
Using PVA glue (the whole house is glued only with PVA construction glue), we glue the cardboard blanks. We fix it with newspaper strips for reliability. Newspaper strips also hide the joints between the cardboard pieces.
When it dries, we repeat all the movements, cutting out parts from cardboard and gluing them to the right places. It turns out that two layers of cardboard were glued.
We also carefully glue strips of newspaper on top. Dry it.
I took a square of cardboard the size of the smaller side wall and drew a triangle. Our roof should be sloping. You need to cut out two such triangles.
Coat the side ends of the triangle with glue. And hold it in your hands for a bit so that the glue sets. The distance between the triangles is equal to the width of the larger side wall of our house. You see, I have drawn stripes with a felt-tip pen.
Then we fix everything again with newspaper strips and use them to hide all the cut places. It should look like this. Dry again.
This is the kind of newspaper and cardboard house we have.
And he has already turned sideways to you.
Then take the eggshell. For those who have not worked with eggshells, I give advice. I put the shells in cold water for a long time (maybe it can be for a short time, I don’t know), for three hours or more. We'll see how it goes. Then we break the edge, grab it with our fingers and remove the inner film. It shoots very well. If anyone does it differently, it would be very interesting to know.
Glue on pieces of shell. I do this: I don’t glue one piece at a time. I place a large piece of shell on a surface coated with glue. Then I press on it with my finger, the shell cracks and with a toothpick I push it apart to the required distance, etc. Now let's think about how to make the walls of the house. Here's how: Wrinkle the bottom layer of a three-color napkin and glue the crumpled one onto the walls with glue diluted with water. Right on top of the napkin. Dry again. Oh! And the roof is already beautiful. Is it true?
Now we will decorate the house so that it looks like a tea house. Let's paint everything with white paint. And then we'll come up with ideas.
But it turned out that on November 5 Nastenka and I were going to Klin to the Christmas tree decorations factory. She has my head full with this trip, the New Year, the snow, the Christmas tree decorations. How many of them will we buy and how will the master class on coloring the blank Christmas tree decorations take place? I began to unnoticeably see a New Year's winter house appearing on its own.
Some items can safely be used more than once. Very often such things are simply sent to a landfill. That is why today we will talk about those very items that could be used again and again.
1. Birdhouses
Creative birdhouses made from old leather boots will become not only a temporary home for birds, but also a stylish decoration for the garden plot.
2. Garden lamps
Wonderful garden lights with candles that can be made from scraps of old metal pipes, tin cans and glass vases or jars. To do this, all of the above parts need to be fastened together with glue, and candles must be placed inside the glass containers.
3. Lampshade
A charming lampshade that you can make yourself from waste plastic bags in black and white.
4. Desk organizer
A plastic canister cut, painted and divided into sections for juice, milk or anything else is suitable for creating an original desktop organizer for office supplies.
5. Piggy bank
A funny piggy bank that even a child can make using a plastic bottle, colored paper, cardboard and glue.
6. Poof
From strips of plastic bags of different colors and any soft filling, you can knit very unusual poufs and coffee tables, which will become practical and unique components of a modern interior.
Video bonus:
7. Magazine bin
An old tire can be turned into an original basket for magazines or any other small items, which, despite its simple and slightly rough appearance, will fit perfectly into a modern interior decorated in an industrial, rustic, Scandinavian or minimalist style.
8. Flowers
Wonderful three-dimensional flowers that can easily be cut out of a cardboard egg tray and used for wall decoration, mirror frames or anything else.
9. Containers for all sorts of things
Unnecessary shoe boxes can be decorated with colored fabric and textile handles can be attached to them, turning them into comfortable and cute baskets for storing children's toys, notebooks or any other things.
10. Outdoor planter
Original outdoor flower pots, cut from old tires, painted in different colors.
11. Trash can
A cute waste paper basket that can be made from glossy magazines cut into strips.
12. Magazine stand
A bright stand for correspondence that can be easily made from an unnecessary tire, spray-painted, and thick wire.
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13. Organizer for bracelets
Unneeded glossy magazines, rolled up and secured with tape, can be used as convenient stands for bracelets and necklaces.
14. Pencil case
A stunning vintage pencil case that can be made from the hard cover of an old book, fabric and hard handles from any unnecessary bag.
15. Bag dispenser
A practical and original dispenser for plastic bags, which can be made from a plastic bottle cut and painted in a bright color.
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16. Mini vases
An original composition for home decor, which can be made from a small piece of plastic or wood, several bottles of nail polish and miniature bouquets of artificial flowers.
17. Caskets
An empty jar of face cream is perfect for creating an amazing jewelry box. To do this, you need to paint the jar in any color you like, and attach a small kinder figurine or any other suitable accessories to its lid and paint it too.
Continuing the topic, the secret is...
Crafts from juice and milk boxes. Second life for unnecessary things. Links to detailed MKs.Cardboard boxes made of milk (juice, kefir) are a wonderful material for children's creativity. They can be used not only as pots for seedlings. If you show a little imagination, you can make a large number of useful crafts from milk cartons that your child can use in his games. You can, of course, buy similar toys. But it’s no secret that many kids enjoy playing with homemade toys. And often they find them much nicer than store-bought ones. Is it because these toys keep the warmth of your hands, the love of your hearts, a piece of yourself? This is not consumer goods, this is exclusive. And among other things, such homemade toys are very useful for the baby. They develop his imagination and creativity, because he needs to do something make-believe all the time, use substitute objects. No wonderful and realistic commercial toy can provide this.
1. Baby wallet made from a milk carton
Let's start with, perhaps, the most original, in our opinion, craft, which can be made from a milk carton - a wallet for storing various small items.
A description of the work and detailed video instructions for making this craft can be viewed.
Wallet pattern:
The two halves of the pattern must be cut out and glued together with tape, and then proceed according to the video instructions.
2. Bird feeder
The easiest craft to make from milk cartons is a bird feeder. Cut a hole in the bag on one, two or four sides, leaving a side at the bottom, and thread a string or wire through the top to hang the feeder. Now all that remains is to decorate the feeder to your liking.
3. Cubes
Another easy craft made from milk cartons is building blocks. There are several ways to make them:
1st method - see link
2nd method - see link
3rd method - see link
It is advisable to cover the cubes with pictures cut out from old magazines and postcards, or you can paint them yourself.
You can also use them to make a toy house like this, which your child will assemble floor by floor:
For more information on the instructions for making a house from cubes, please follow the link
4. Houses made from milk cartons
Let's continue the conversation about cardboard houses. Milk cartons make wonderful dollhouses.
By following this link, you can download cute windows and doors for your future cardboard house.
You can also make a garage for cars out of juice or milk boxes. See the link for more details.
In addition to the house, you can make a chair for a doll (see link):
And a well (see