Matchboxes are an excellent material for original crafts with children. You need to apply just a little creative thinking so that completely unusual and useful things turn out from familiar everyday objects.
Matchbox toy
Many animals can be made from matchboxes. For example, make a giraffe with your baby. To do this, glue the two boxes together to form the body of a giraffe. Glue two more boxes to it - these will be the legs of the animal. Three boxes glued together with the letter "G" will represent the neck and head of a giraffe. When the craft is completely assembled, paste over it with yellow paper and draw the specks of the animal and eyes with a felt-tip pen.
Dollhouse furniture
You can make a bed for a small doll out of boxes. Glue several boxes side by side. Draw a headboard on the cardboard so that it can be glued across the width to the base. Cover the cardboard with cloth or colored paper. The boxes can be painted with acrylic paint. Clip the parts together. Complete the bed with a mattress, duvet and pillow. They can be sewn from any fabric, and then carefully stuffed with cotton wool.
You can also make a TV for a dollhouse from a matchbox. Matches fixed with plasticine can serve as an antenna.
A doll bedside table is assembled from two or three boxes, which are glued with a flat part on top of each other. Then the bedside table must be pasted over with colored paper or painted with paint. Decorate the front of the drawers with wooden toothpicks. Glue them back to back and use scissors to remove any excess.
Mini chest of drawers made of matchboxes
Small convenient cells of such a chest of drawers will be useful for storing all kinds of small things: beads, ribbons, beads, sequins, buttons. This item is also useful for playing with a child. The miniature drawers can be used to store all kinds of teaching aids, such as mugs, triangles, sticks.
To make a mini-chest of drawers, stock up on several boxes at once. Remove the matches from them, and then assemble the outer parts of the boxes into the structure of the chest of drawers. Here you can give free rein to your imagination and make the number of boxes at your discretion. Glue the boxes together with transparent glue or PVA glue. To improve adhesion, squeeze the elements together not with your fingers, in this case, you can crush or tear them, but with clothespins. Remove them when the glue is dry.
Insert the inner parts of the box into the dresser and decorate the surface. Cover the mini dresser with colored or textured paper or cloth. Attach large beads or buttons as handles for the drawers.
You can make legs by the chest of drawers using beads. They must be fixed with glue.
Garland for the New Year holidays
From matchboxes, you can make an original garland for the New Year. To do this, collect 31 matchboxes. Paste each of them on the outside with something bright. You can cut funny figures of animals, snowflakes, cartoon characters from paper or felt. Put a wish sheet, a small card, a toy, a chocolate bar or a cookie in each box. Glue thin tape to the boxes. Pull the ribbon for the garland and tie the prepared stashes to it. Every day the child will open the boxes and receive their present.
