Crafts from matches for beginners

In order to do original crafts with your own hands, you do not need to purchase expensive materials. In particular, interesting and very unusual masterpieces can be made even from ordinary matches, which are in every house without exception.

How to make handmade crafts from beginner's matches?

To work with matches proceeded easily and at ease, it is necessary to observe the following useful recommendations:

1. Matches are rather small material, therefore it can not be offered for too little children to create themselves.
2. In all cases, small children can not use a match with a burnt head to create artifacts. If they are required for making a children's masterpiece, parents should first remove this part with a clerical knife and only after that offer the ornamental material to the child.
3. Before starting work, it is recommended to sort out matches and choose those that do not differ in form and size. Unconventional specimens are best left in a separate box to use them where possible.
4. If in the process of creating an artwork glue will be used, the table should be covered with an oilcloth or polyethylene before starting work. In addition, the child will need a special container, a thin brush or toothpick.

How to make handmade articles from beginners?

Crafts from matches for beginners can be done both with the use of glue, and without it. In particular, for the smallest, the application pictures that any child can easily make on their own are good . For their manufacture, it is enough to take a sheet of cardboard, draw a sketch of the future masterpiece on it and glue the matches along the contour.

In this figure, anything can be depicted, for example:

If you want and the developed fantasy of the child from matches and other materials, for example, cereals, pasta and so on, you can build a variety of shapes - there are absolutely no restrictions.

Funny flat images can be laid out from matches on a flat surface and without the use of glue. In this case, they can be disassembled or changed at any time, however, such handmade items may not be kept for long at all. Meanwhile, such pastime very well contributes to the development of assiduity and concentration, as well as fantasy, abstract and spatial-figurative thinking. To make similar crafts from matches for beginners the following schemes will help you:

A favorite craft for children is a small house or hut, which can be made without the use of glue. This assignment is available for boys and girls over 7 years old, and younger children, no doubt, will need the help of adults. To perform such crafts from matches you will help the instruction for beginners, in which the tactics of actions are described step by step:

1. Stock up with enough identical matches in size, as well as a pair of coins and toothpicks.
2. Lay out 2 matches in parallel to each other.
3. Perpendicular to these 2 matches, put another 6.
4. Similarly, place 6 more matches.
5. On this basis, start to build a well, gradually achieving that each wall of the well consisted of 6 matches.
6. Lay out a few more matches, just like at the bottom.
7. At the very top of the craft, place a coin, then in the corners of the well place 4 matches head up. Between the two lying horizontal matches, insert matches at the top and bottom, if necessary, pushing them off with a toothpick.
8. Here is the design you should get:
9. Carefully take out the coin and insert the vertical matches into the house so that only the heads remain on the surface.
10. Turn over the house and form another vertical row of matches.
11. Once again, squeeze the house.
12. Form a second horizontal layer of matches.
13. Insert the matches into the angled channels.
14. From the base, push out a few matches to form a roof.
15. Make a horizontal skeleton of the roof.
16. Mount the side roof.
17. Make windows, a door and a pipe.
18. Here is such a wonderful house you will succeed!