House of matches with your own hands and other crafts

"Matches are not toys for children" - we have heard this phrase since childhood, but it is matches that can be an excellent tool for creativity of children and parents. Such activities help children develop fine motor skills and accuracy, adults - it is interesting to spend time with the child. In this article we will look at how to make a house of matches with our own hands, and other crafts.

Materials for match drawings

The man's fantasy is multifaceted, so you can endlessly create and make special people happy with special gifts. A few people know how to make crafts from matches. The easiest way to do the applications for which you need:

• Boxes with matches;
• Sheets of cardboard;
• Scissors, knife;
• Glue "Moment";
• Cotton threads;
• Scotch;
• Paints, brushes.

Creation of a match application

The creative event begins with the following stages:

1. On a white sheet of cardboard, the color will be even more interesting, to draw a template - a contour of an animal, a bird or any object.
2. Let the child on the contour learn how to spread out the figures from the matches.
3. Then you can fix these figures with glue.
4. To make the pictures become more beautiful, you can match from which the picture was spread, paint with paint.
5. After that, an adult can help arrange the work in a frame, which, too, can be laid out with ornaments from matches.
6. Such an article will be an excellent design solution for the design of children's, kitchens and other rooms, depending on the subject. In addition, such an unusual gift, made by the hands of a child, will be dear to grandparents, parents.

Flat match figures: material

House of matches with their own hands can be done flat. This technique is the simplest and does not require special skills. But it is necessary to prepare the following materials:

• A few boxes of matches;
• A set of colored cardboard;
• Glue "Moment";
• knife;
• pencil.

Performance of work: flat figures of matches

Stages of work:

1. On a sheet of cardboard, draw images of objects you want to put out of matches.
2. It can be, for example, a fence and a sunflower, flowers in a vase, a beetle with open elytra.
3. Teach a child to lay out a fence of matches, this technique will be the basis of many voluminous figures of matches.
4. Let's start the sunflower. The middle of the flower can be filled by laying out matches with a lattice. To make it round, the last matches should be slightly shortened with a knife. This work should be performed by an adult.
5. The petals of the sunflower are very simple to make. To do this, each match must be glued obliquely, tightly to each other, until a rhombus is formed.
6. Thus, filling the space with pictures, you can make a vase, a beetle and so on. Where figures have rounded outlines, the extreme rows of matches need to be gradually shortened. You can also create a house of matches with your own hands in a flat view.

Match House

Tools:

• Packing of matches;
• Round, flat object up to 25 mm in diameter (coin or button);
• stand.

Completing of the work:

1. Examine the matches, all curves and damaged ones, remove, they will not fit.
2. "Build" a house of matches with your own hands, like the real one, begin with the laying of the foundation. To do this, on the stand, a pair of matches should be parallel.
3. On them lay a row of eight matches, so that they form a square. Distances between matches should be the same.
4. On the received basis to lay one more row in eight matches, only they with the first series should form a perpendicular.
5. On the foundation to expand a square of four matches, forming a kind of well.
6. Further, this well is supplemented with six same rows, as the previous one. The main nuance is that the matchheads on every corner of the house form flat columns.
7. On this blank for the walls you need to lay out matches exactly the same as for the foundation, with one exception: the second row should not consist of eight matches, but of six. This layer will form the basis for the roof. Cover it with a coin.
8. In the corners of the house insert, passing through, one match. At the same time, you need to control the foundation so that it does not fall apart.
9. By the length of all the walls of the house insert matches, so that the sulfur heads are at the top, forming a straight row.
10. Align matches using a coin, they need to be moved as close as possible, so you compact the whole structure. Then the coin can be removed.
11. Already without a coin, once again hands should "compress" the whole house.
12. Match the matches. In order to strengthen the walls, you need to install a number of matches from all sides. To insert matches it is necessary as vertically and upwards heads.
13. The horizontal layers are filled in the same way as the well was laid, but the sulfur heads are directed one way and the other.
14. Before installing the roof, you need to pull out matches from the corners set at stage 8 and raise the vertical layer halfway.
15. From the matches, set the perpendicular to the base of the roof and form the roof. Heads should be centered. This is how the house looks. Matches (crafts from matches can be different) give an opportunity to show imagination.

Of these, not only do buildings, it can be all kinds of animals, tiny furniture, as well as amazing pictures of beauty. The main thing is your imagination. After studying the master classes, you can make sure that with such material you can spend time safely and interestingly. Now you know how to make a house of matches with your own hands, and that it is not difficult.