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Cardboard is a versatile material from which you can make not only boxes, but also various crafts, as well as things that are quite useful in everyday life.
This environmentally friendly material is easy to find and 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:
Toilet paper rolls
Cardboard box (from shoes is ideal)
Tape or glue to hold the grommets together (optional)
* The number of bushings depends on the number of cables and space in the box.
* You can fill the box full or half full with bushings to leave room for larger items.
* So that the bushings do not hang out in the box and fit snugly together, you can fasten them with tape or glue.
Cardboard Crafts: Laptop Stand
From an ordinary pizza box, you can make a convenient laptop stand. This stand was created by Russian designer Ilya Andreev. He cleverly managed 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 plank or a special rug)
Glue (PVA or hot).
* Select the dimensions of the parts according to the dimensions of your computer.
* Make incisions on the parts about 6 cm.
* This stand has been designed for 13" and 15" laptops.
*Use glue to secure all the pieces starting from the bottom.
* Allow the adhesive 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 size of the shoes.
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 a wide adhesive 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 box on top.
Cardboard organizer (scheme). 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.
Do-it-yourself cardboard organizer (scheme). 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 sleeves from toilet paper or paper towels.
Do-it-yourself cardboard shelves (photo)
1. Prepare the cardboard. If you have boxes, then 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 slits (see image) so that the tops of the figure can be bent towards the center.
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If you still have cardboard boxes left after buying electronics or other things, you don’t need to throw them away.
You can make a huge number of crafts from cardboard for both home and children.
Here you can learn how to make 5 very interesting and useful things out of cardboard, as well as see some incredible crafts made by some masters of their craft.
DIY cardboard garland
You will need:
Sequins on the dress (sequins)
Stationery knife
Super glue or hot glue
Rope.
1. Draw even letters, geometric shapes or patterns on cardboard and cut them out.
* To get a letter on cardboard, you can simply use a ruler and a pencil, or you can print a letter on paper, put the paper on cardboard and cut out the letter with a clerical knife, tracing it along the contour.
2. Prepare sequins (sequins) and start gluing them to the cardboard. You can use different types of sequins and it is not necessary that the sequins be on a thread.
3. When all the letters or shapes are ready, lay them on a flat surface back to front and in reverse order and glue the thread to them.
When the glue dries, the garland can be hung.
How to make a desktop organizer out of cardboard
You will need:
25 sheets of cardboard (25 x 25 cm)
Ruler
Pencil
Stationery knife
Glue brush (if necessary).
1. Using a ruler and a pencil, draw on one sheet of cardboard where you want to make indentations (for pens, small items, etc.), leaving at least 2.5 cm from the edge of the cardboard.
2. Lay the finished piece of cardboard on a new sheet, circle the places where you made the holes and cut them out of the new sheet.
3. Repeat the same steps with other sheets, but at the end leave 5 sheets intact.
4. Begin to carefully and evenly glue together all the sheets with holes. You can use a brush to apply glue. You can first glue 5 sheets, then five more, and so on until the end.
5. Glue 5 intact sheets together to make the bottom of the organizer.
6. Now it remains to glue the bottom of the organizer to the cut out part of the 20 sheets.
Let the craft dry overnight and then you can use it.
DIY Cardboard Crafts: Geometric Lamp
You will need:
Thin cardboard
Scissors
Stationery knife
PVA glue or hot glue
Ruler, compass and pencil (to draw a pentagon)
LED light bulb (it is important that there is an LED light bulb so as not to burn the cardboard)
Lamp socket.
1. Start drawing pentagons on cardboard (a figure with 5 identical sides). To begin with, you need 11 pieces, later about 10 more. In this example, the side size of each pentagon is 6 cm, but you can choose a different size, as long as all the shapes are the same size.
How to draw a pentagon (video)
To draw an even pentagon, watch this video:
Once you have drawn and cut out the pentagon from cardboard, use it as a template to trace and cut out the rest of the pentagons.
2. Within each of the 11 pentagons, draw 5 smaller pentagons. In this example, the distance between them is approximately 6 mm.
3. Using a utility knife, cut out all the shapes from each cardboard pentagon (see image). This is the longest process, but it is quite simple.
4. We begin to collect parts.
Prepare one group of 5 pentagons. Put the largest one on the table, and glue the next largest one on top of it so that its ends touch the sides of the large pentagon. Continue in the same style until you have glued all the details.
5. Repeat step 4 with the remaining groups of pentagons.
6. We assemble the lamp.
When all the details are assembled, you can assemble the lamp. Lay one piece on a flat surface and start gluing the rest of the pieces to its sides. Try to glue so that the adjacent parts also have glued sides (see image).
* You will have to lift the figures a little. You will get something that looks like a vase.
7. Now you need to make the base for the lamp. To do this, you need to draw a few more pentagons (in this example, there are 8 of them) and cut them out.
Inside each shape, draw another pentagon (1 cm from the edge) and cut it out. Remove the cut out part and carefully glue together all the other parts.
8. For the light bulb, you need to cut out another pentagon and make a hole in it for the lamp holder.
9. Glue the part from step 8 to the base of the lamp.
10. With the bulb attached to the base, position the bulb where it should be (on the base) and make a small cut (or hole) for the cable. You can add some glue to better attach the base to the lamp.
DIY wall decoration made of cardboard (scheme)
You will need:
Scissors
Pencil and ruler (to draw some squares)
Acrylic or spray paint.
1. Cut the cardboard (cardboard box) into several squares of different sizes.
2. Color all squares. In this example, a metallic color was used.
3. Prepare a large sheet of cardboard and paint it.
4. Start painting all the other squares and glue them to the big sheet.
* Glue as you like.
5. You can stick the work to the wall with double-sided tape or simply put it on a shelf against the wall.
Do-it-yourself cardboard furniture: a shelf in the form of a cloud
You will need:
Several sheets of cardboard
Stationery knife
Pencil
Scissors.
After the text instructions, you can find a video instruction for creating this shelf.
1. Take one sheet of cardboard and draw a cloud on it. It's best to draw with one side of the cardboard sheet serving as the bottom of the cloud (see image).
2. Cut out your cloud with scissors.
3. Use a cardboard cloud to make a few more of the same blanks - circle it on each sheet and cut it out.
* In this example, 23 sheets of cardboard were used - 3 sheets will repeat the shape of the cloud and 20 will be "inside" the cardboard structure and they have a similar structure, but cardboard can be saved in them (see video).
4. Cut the unused cardboard into small pieces to be glued between the cloud pieces
5. Start gluing carefully and one by one all the parts of the shelf, remembering to glue pieces of cardboard between the parts (see picture).
6. To hang a shelf, you first need to attach one hook and one carnation (see video) and hang the shelf on them.
How to make a cardboard shelf (video)
DIY cardboard chandelier (photo)
Paper and cardboard crafts: a mirror decorated with cardboard details
All the small parts are made from a cardboard roll from paper towels or toilet paper.
First you need to cut the roll into rings of the same thickness, and press these rings down with a motor. From the received parts you can make beautiful decorations and crafts.
When buying large household appliances, food, shoes and other goods in the house, packages appear that must be stored until the warranty period expires. Then they can be taken out to the trash, but there is also a more constructive solution - to make interesting decorations for the interior of the children's room, gifts out of them. Ideas for what can be made out of cardboard come spontaneously. They are pushed by the forms of packaging materials, the need to complement the gift with an unusual form of packaging or an interesting postcard.
And if you think that you can’t make something really cool out of cardboard, look on the Internet, look at pictures with examples of finished work, or on YouTube, where moms and dads post their homemade products and show off whole furniture toy sets in the height of a child, where there is everything from kitchen cabinets to models of microwaves and gas stoves - thick packing cardboard from boxes is the best suited for these purposes. And what cool three-dimensional figures of animals are obtained from it - your child will definitely like them! Yes, and you can do a lot of useful things - a stand for stationery for school, organizers for cabinets, boxes for needlework and jewelry, and much more.
As a rule, cardboard is remembered when it is necessary to make a carnival costume, which must keep its shape.
Dinosaurs, tractors, corncobs, robots, cell phones - such full-length and symbolically made costumes will delight kids. They are necessary not for carnivals, but for the game. With the help of such costumes, children can be captivated by a new game, learn new livers, poems with them. Everything that kids fail to learn under the strict supervision of their parents, they will remember better in a playful way.
As a rule, cardboard is remembered when it is necessary to make a carnival costume, which must keep its shape.
Costumes of knights, gladiators, historical figures are more suitable for studying history. True, such costumes are more complex in execution. Cardboard can be painted with gouache. The only drawback of this paint is that it gets dirty even after drying. It is better to glue boxes made of corrugated cardboard, from which voluminous costumes are made, with colored paper.
For decoration, you can use large buttons, badges and other light elements made of wood or plastic.
What can be done from colored cardboard with your own hands
Colored cardboard is not very durable, it is better to use it for making postcards, gift boxes.
Do-it-yourself cardboard postcard
A postcard according to this sketch is made from two sheets of contrasting cardboard. Lighter cardboard should be smaller than bright cardboard on each side.
A postcard according to this sketch is made from two sheets of contrasting cardboard.
- The light sheet is folded in half.
- Stepping back from the edge of 2 cm, on the outer side of the sheet it is necessary to outline a line 6 cm long. At a height of 3 cm from the first line, a strip parallel to it is drawn, of the same length.
- Above it, after 2.5 cm, the next line 4 cm wide is outlined.
- The third, final, line will be at a height of 2 cm from the previous one. Its length is 2.5 cm. All outlined lines are cut through.
- Now they need to be turned inside. To make them look like a stack of gift boxes, they must be decorated with longitudinal strips of contrasting paper with small elements made of foil glued on.
- The edges of the card are also decorated with shiny stripes.
- The letters with the name of the holiday to which the postcard is timed are cut out of foil or velvet paper and pasted onto a cardboard base.
- It remains only to glue the decorated light sheet of cardboard onto the colored one. They fold upside down.
- The corner elements of a larger sheet are cut into squares so that when its edges are bent to the outside of the decorated one, a neat frame is obtained.
On the outside of the resulting address, you can stick a holiday symbol (tree, date) or the word “congratulations”.
Gallery: cardboard crafts (25 photos)
A book-toy for a child made by parents
When using cardboard, painted on both sides, you can make a book for a child with three-dimensional elements. To make the base of the protruding elements, the same strip cutting technique is used as when creating a postcard.
When using cardboard, painted on both sides, you can make a book for a child with three-dimensional elements
Crafts from cardboard tubes
Thick cardboard tubes are the most fertile material for creating home decorations. They can be cut with a construction knife into elements of the same length. This allows you to create furniture with a glue gun that can serve a person in everyday life. For an open gazebo from cardboard pipes, you can make a table and chairs at no extra cost.
- Sitting will require 64 pieces of pipes, 38-40 cm high - this is the standard height of chairs.
- The tubes are glued 8 pieces in a row. There are also 8 such plates. They must be glued together.
- To form the armrests, pipes with a height increased by 20 cm will be required. They are also in a row of 8 pcs. Each armrest consists of two rows. 58-centimeter elements will require 32 pieces.
- From 15 80-cm elements, the back of the chair is glued together.
- Tubes glued together form the base of the table. A worktop made of laminated thin fiberboard or glass is glued to it.
For an open gazebo from cardboard pipes, you can make a table and chairs at no extra cost.
curved bench
For the manufacture of this type of furniture, you will need not only cardboard, but also pressed wood.
- Two identical parts are cut out of wood. They will serve as the legs of the bench.
- When using tubes of different diameters, the corresponding holes must be drilled in the legs for them. Their height varies depending on the idea. For the seat to be comfortable, the line of holes should be smooth.
- The length of the tubes is chosen arbitrarily.
- Lubricated with assembly or carpentry glue, the ends of the tubes are inserted into the holes.
- Wooden bases are strung on tubes. This bench will look more interesting if the edges of the tubes protrude a little.
For the manufacture of this type of furniture, you will need not only cardboard, but also pressed wood.
Such a bench will decorate not only the gazebo in the garden, it will become indispensable in the hallway of the apartment and even in the living room. It can also be used in the kitchen when peeling potatoes.
Glowing openwork hemisphere
You can use such an ornament in landscape design by installing it in front of a homemade waterfall or illuminated fountain or under a street lighting lantern. Thanks to the mirror used for the base of the structure, the light will be reflected, creating the effect of glowing from inside the ball. In the absence of external light sources, the hemisphere can be used as a candlestick.
For manufacturing, you will need cardboard thick-walled tubes, a large round mirror, glue and a varnish that protects against moisture.
You can use this decoration in landscape design by installing it in front of a homemade waterfall or illuminated fountain.
Preparation method:
- Tubes of different diameters are cut into circles with a width of 3 cm.
- Before installation, each element is varnished on all sides in several layers. This preparation can take a long time.
- The assembly of the hemisphere begins with gluing the elements of the bottom row to the mirror surface.
- At the end of the first row, the only element with the largest diameter is glued.
- A frame is created around it from the alternation of narrow and medium elements with a slight shift inward.
- Further work continues in a circle. The first few rows have a slight deviation from the vertical inside the sphere.
- When the wall is equal in height to the largest structural element framed by the frame, the bevel will be steeper.
- The top center ring is installed last.
This openwork decoration will glow not only in the evening, the sun's rays will also enliven it.
Teremok for a baby
Smooth cardboard tubes are very similar to logs. Of these, it is much easier than to make a teremok for a child from wood. It will be much more interesting than the cloth tent that commercials impose on parents.
- To make the “log house” spacious, it is enough to take tubes 120 cm long.
- It is necessary to make slots in the tubes, at both ends, equal in width to the diameter. The tightness of the tubes to each other depends on the depth of the holes.
- It remains to fold the house and decorate it with a roof made of thick corrugated cardboard.
- The door and windows can be cut through after assembling the house, or you can form openings from shortened pipes in the process of folding the elements.
Smooth cardboard tubes are very similar to logs
By the same principle, you can assemble fabulous houses for dolls and other toys. Only the diameter of the pipes needs to be chosen smaller. And the material may not be so dense.
A few more ideas for using cardboard tubes in the interior
There are many practical applications for cardboard tubes with strong thick walls. They are used as organizers for pencils, pens and other necessary items. They make shelves for equipment, for storing clothes and soft toys.
Many practical applications for cardboard tubes with strong thick walls
Crafts from white cardboard
The simplest white cardboard crafts are applications. To make them, you need a sheet of white cardboard and a colored base. Having cut out the silhouettes from white material, they must be glued onto a colored sheet. When depicting a white poodle, bear, swan, additional materials will be required that will give the image texture. It can be: cotton wool, scraps of napkins, woolen fibers.
The simplest white cardboard crafts are applications
It is a little more difficult to make the applique convex without the use of additional expressive means.
A little harder to make the appliqué convex
Using the example of a squirrel, it can be seen that in order to obtain a three-dimensional figure, it is necessary to cut out individual elements, bend them and connect them together with glue.
From white cardboard, you can make a three-dimensional figurine of a hare, a white bear, a cat, a dog.
From white cardboard you can make a three-dimensional figurine of a hare, a white bear, a cat, a dog
To make the body, a strip of paper is cut off from the sheet, it is glued together with a tube. From below, details of the paws are attached to it, and from above the head. It is cut out along with the ears. To make the muzzle of the animal turned out to be convex, the workpiece is folded lengthwise and across. The fold lines converge at a point that forms the bunny's nose. It remains to draw his eyes, nose, mustache.
Silhouette paintings look very impressive.
Silhouette paintings look very impressive
Details cut with a blade do not adhere to the background sheet. They are fixed to a three-dimensional frame, which can serve as a candy box. The peculiarity of such an interior decoration is that when the angle of illumination changes, shadows will appear on the elements that are not adjacent to the sheet, the picture will come to life, filled with new colors. If you consider a girl on a swing, it may seem that she is really swinging. This effect will be enhanced by the flames of a candle burning on the side of the image.
A white openwork house cut out of seven sheets of cardboard will become a spectacular decoration of the mantelpiece. To make it, you will need two templates with drawings.
A spectacular decoration of the mantelpiece will be a white openwork house
One with the image of the decor of the walls, the second with the ornament of the roof and the lower part. Edges are added to the side walls with a pediment for gluing with details from all sides. To them, after cutting out the openwork elements, the rest of the product is attached.
What can be done from thick cardboard
Using several layers of thick cardboard, connected with glue, and decorated with a sewing seam made with thick thread on top, you can make partitions for a box with an attached lid.
It is also easy to make from thick cardboard:
- The longitudinal partition is cut from above to the middle.
- Transverse cut from below at the same distance.
- The resulting grooves are a lock, it will securely hold dense parts.
- As a decorating outer layer, upholstery fabric is used - tapestry. Until it is glued onto cardboard, a beautiful button is sewn to the front of the bar.
A loop of thin elastic is glued to the lid. The treasure is ready.
A wicker vase for small things is made on the basis of a blank made of thick cardboard.
- Having drawn a heart or a circle for the bottom, you need to cut out two identical parts.
- Visually dividing the perimeter of the workpiece into equal segments, it is necessary to determine the weaving step.
- In accordance with this parameter, strips 5-7 cm high are cut out of cardboard.
- In their upper part, in the middle, round holes are made with a hole punch. They will be needed at the end of weaving to decorate the top edge.
- The lower ends of the slats are glued between the bottom blanks.
- Weaving is done from the bottom up.
Wicker vase for small things
What does corrugated cardboard look like and what can be made from it
Corrugated cardboard is a dense packaging material consisting of at least three layers - two even outer and inner sinuous, creating cells. The second type of corrugated cardboard is specially made for needlework.
Large practical things can be made from packaging cardboard. For example, a house for dolls.
Large practical things can be made from packaging cardboard
As a basis, you can take a box of loose cookies. To model the dwelling of dolls, it is enough to cut window and door openings in the body. Until the end, the elements of the windows are not cut out, they can be decorated under the shutters. Lattices of window frames are glued from the inside.
The door can also be left by pasting it with colored paper. The roof is formed from the remains of cardboard.
Chest for gifts from Santa Claus - a fabulous chest
- It is made from two packaging boxes of the same length.
- The bottom is practically unchanged.
- The upper part is cut out of three parts - two semicircles and one straight piece.
- Halves of a circle are best made from one circle. It is drawn with a diameter of 2-3 centimeters more than is necessary for the side parts.
- The required size of the part is marked on the workpiece. Triangles with a base width of 1-1.5 cm are cut out of the "extra" strip.
- The teeth remaining on the workpiece are bent. The upper part of the lid of the casket will be attached to them.
- It is better to paint corrugated board after double priming. Otherwise, the colors will appear faded.
Piggy bank
Corrugated cardboard piggy bank is made without glue. It folds and is fixed at the corners from the inside with a decorative cord. At the bottom of the piggy bank, the hole is sealed with paper or postal tape.
Corrugated cardboard piggy bank is made without glue
Fake Corrugated Cardboard Fireplace
A fireplace made of cardboard is not just a decorative thing. It is meant to support the story of Santa Claus. Made before the New Year. It is hardy enough to withstand a decorated Christmas tree.
- The portal is assembled from a former packing box;
- Reinforced from the inside with slats;
- The outer part is decorated with foam elements;
- A false fireplace is attached with slats on a foam plastic pedestal;
- It is painted together with decorative elements in white with a blue tint or ivory.
A fireplace made of cardboard is not just a decorative thing.
Corrugated cardboard toys will be an excellent decoration for the New Year's fireplace. Only for their manufacture is used a special - ornamental material created specifically for quilling.
Corrugated cardboard toys will be an excellent decoration for the New Year's fireplace.
Many types of cardboard can be used to make crafts. Thin cardboard is suitable for making applications, postcards, baby books. It is more advisable to use a denser one for the manufacture of stable toys. Corrugated cardboard is suitable for making scenery for amateur theatres, including home theaters. Corrugated quilling cardboard allows you to create absolutely fantastic crafts.
Bright do-it-yourself cardboard desktop organizer (video)
Today we have an extremely interesting topic that has the most applied significance for making gift wrapping with our own hands: we will turn ordinary cardboard and plain paper into cardboard and design paper. The method that will be discussed has already been covered in Runet more than once, but it is so simple, elegant and effective with minimal material and time costs, which is definitely worth it to continue the baton of master classes. Moreover, we will not be slow to use the result for its intended purpose and make wonderful gift boxes.
So let's get started, friends. For the intended transformation we need:
- plain white cardboard for children's creativity,
- decorative napkin,
- food wrap
- scissors,
The idea is based on a type of decoupage known as napkin technology: the top layer of a three-layer decorative napkin is glued to the surface of the cardboard, but instead of traditional glue, food film is used, which melts when heated and perfectly fastens the materials to be joined. Created this way designer cardboard(or designer paper) perfectly retains its mechanical properties, while turning into a completely new quality.
I show you the whole process step by step.
1. The selected napkin must first be carefully ironed with an iron to remove wrinkles (if the capabilities of the iron allow, you can steam the napkin if necessary)
2. After that, we separate the top layer with a pattern from the napkin
3. We spread food film, napkin and gauze alternately on a sheet of cardboard
4. Carefully and slowly iron it all. Don't skimp on temperature. I set the knob to the "Cotton" position, and it was just right. Particular attention should be paid to the corners and edges where it is desirable to hold the iron for a few seconds.
5. Turn over the cardboard and cut off the excess film and napkins with scissors. It may turn out that the napkin did not grab well at the corners. It doesn't matter - we will eliminate this flaw in the next step.
6. Iron the cardboard again from the front and back sides
The result is a solid sheet of cardboard with a beautiful pattern and pleasant to the touch texture.
And everything about everything took only 10 minutes.
Using this napkin technique, you can also make colorful design paper from ordinary office paper, white or colored.
But if we talk about cardboard, the best result is achieved when using high-density photo paper.
The photo below shows 2 sheets of cardboard decorated with decoupage. One (on the left) is made on the basis of ordinary cardboard for children's art, the other (on the right) is made on the basis of Lomond matte photo paper with a density of 230 g/m² (about the same density as cardboard).
As you can see, the second option naturally turned out to be brighter, but another undoubted advantage of it is the pure white color of the wrong side.
If desired, the wrong side can be easily tinted by imposing the desired color on the computer and printing on the printer.
By the way, using Lomond photo paper will not cost much more than using regular cardboard. Judge for yourself: one sheet of uncoated cardboard for children's creativity costs an average of 2.5 rubles, and the cost of 1 sheet of photographic paper in my case was 4 rubles (but you can find cheaper). Obviously, in terms of price and quality ratio, Lomond is out of competition. But this, as they say, is food for thought.
And here is a couple more sheets of designer paper (Lomond, density 120 g/m² (for comparison, the density of ordinary office paper is 80 g/m²)) frankly New Year theme
Stocks of designer cardboard and designer paper have been replenished - you can start making gift boxes. Let's continue tomorrow. Don't forget your designer cardboard. :)
