Do-it-yourself baby house in an apartment from a cardboard box, paper or newspapers, improvised means

Creating your own little house is a favorite activity for preschool children. During this lesson, imagination and ingenuity work, and hard work develops. To do this, children use all the things lying nearby as material for their construction plans. Here you can help them by lending your hand.

To do this, you need to remember one inexpensive, natural raw material for packaging containers. It is cardboard. It’s easy to find and use for your craft fantasies. A do-it-yourself cardboard house is one of the most interesting products for a child.

How to make a house for a baby from old newspapers and magazines?

A house for the baby in which he will play can be made from old newspapers and magazines. How to do it?

We take several sheets of old paper of equal length, stack them together one on top of the other, and tightly roll them diagonally into a tube.
We secure the edge of the tube with tape to prevent it from unraveling.
We connect 3 tubes together with triangles using a stapler.
We build a square house from triangles. It will require 8 triangles.
To make a roof, we connect 4 more triangles to the walls of the house.
We cover the house with a blanket and it is ready for play.

Roll the newspapers tightly into a tube

We make triangles from newspaper tubes

Ready frame for a child's house

Ready house for a child

Conclusion

Thus, summing up all of the above, it becomes clear that the manufacturing process is quite complex and does not require any special skills.

Even someone who has never done anything like this can handle the construction of such a structure. You just need to prepare everything in advance so as not to be distracted from work later.

Also try to follow each step of the above instructions with precision. We wish you good luck and success in building a house out of a box!

How to make a baby house from a paper box?

A baby house in an apartment can be made from a large paper box if you recently purchased some equipment from the store. But you can buy such a box, they are sold in stores. It is desirable that the box be more than 1 m in length.

Let's start building a house for a baby from a paper box:

The rectangular box has closing doors. On smaller sashes, measure the middle and cut off triangles on both sides. The doors should be in the form of triangles with equal sides. Triangle and rectangular doors will be the roof for the house.
We also cut off the bottom of the box.
We glue the roof with tape. We cut out the missing parts for the roof from large rectangular sheets of the bottom of the box. We also glue them with tape.
We cover our house with a cardboard sheet bent in half and glue it together with glue - this will be the roof.
We decorate the long sides of the house with a window and a door - cutting them out with a knife.
There will be another window on the short side of the house.
The baby house is ready.

The dotted line shows where to cut and what part of the sash

Cut these parts of the paper box

We add the missing part for the roof of the house from the bottom of the box

The box already looks a little like a house

House with a roof

Cutting out windows

House with windows and door

What you will need

Before you start work, you need to clearly understand what you will need in order to avoid the lack of this or that material during the work.

So, to create a house out of a box with your own hands you will need:

Box. The larger its size, the better. For example, let's take a box 800*600*600. This is the largest box that can fit in the trunk of a car. Of course, you can buy more boxes, but this will also be quite enough.

Corrugated cardboard, or rather a sheet of it, measures one thousand two hundred by eight hundred millimeters. With its help, you can significantly strengthen the roof of your future structure. You can, of course, do without it, but it is still recommended to use it.

A simple pencil, marker or pen

Scissors and knife. It is recommended to use both accessories, making cuts with a utility knife and cutting parts of the boxes with scissors.

Thus, by adhering to this recommendation, you can save a lot of time and significantly facilitate the construction process.

Large ruler or corner made of metal. The ruler should be large, because it will be inconvenient to measure parts in a large box with a small device

Scotch tape and glue. It is recommended to use PVA glue, as well as special paper tape.

Recommendation! When choosing the size of the box, for the most part you need to focus on the size of your living space, because a large house will not fit very well for small apartments.

In this case, you should choose a small box.

If your apartment is large enough, then you can choose a fairly large box, because you won’t even notice the lack of space it occupies.

How to make a house for a baby - a wigwam from improvised materials?

To give your child a place to play, you can make a simple house for your baby at home - a wigwam.

We make a house for the baby - a wigwam from improvised materials:

For a wigwam, the main thing is to find 4 or 6 sticks, 1.5-2 m high. You can buy them at a building materials store.
We tie the sticks together on top with a strong rope, and place them as wide as possible on the bottom.
We cover our structure with a blanket, and the wigwam house is ready.

Attention. To make it more pleasant for the child to play in the wigwam house, we lay a soft rug on the floor.

Construction of a cardboard castle

A real “princess castle” made of cardboard will not leave any girl indifferent. Boys will also love it as a full-fledged “defensive structure.” A lot of cardboard will be needed here - two or four towers with a jagged edge, connected by the same lintel walls with teeth on top. If desired, the turrets are decorated with cone-shaped tops with flags. Small windows and an acceptable size entrance are also necessary. You can also make a miniature table lock - it is made from ordinary colored cardboard. Any number of turrets are made here, including round ones. Windows and doors are drawn with a marker. The structure can be placed on an “island” and equipped with a folding bridge-gate equipped with ropes for quick lifting – in case of an enemy attack. Sometimes the castle is a full-fledged model of a famous structure.