Matchbox furniture

There is no house where there are not a few boxes of matches. It turns out that matchboxes can be an excellent material for creativity. Together with the child, you can come up with a lot of ideas, where to "attach" unnecessary boxes. We will tell you a few ideas for girls, together with a master class on making matchbox furniture.

Simple ideas from matchboxes

Small toys from kinder-surprises or cute little puppies, too, need a cozy little house. Furniture for the house is easy to build, if you add a few matchboxes and pasted them with colored paper. From matchboxes you can easily and easily fold a chair, table, sofa or wardrobe. Try it, and you will succeed!

Doll's furniture from matchboxes

Perhaps the most necessary piece of furniture in the doll house is a bed. We suggest you make a bed with drawers, which can comfortably accommodate a small doll. So, we need two matchboxes, glue, paint, 2 beads.

1. We take two matchboxes and glue them together, this will be the bed foundation. We put the boxes on a flat surface, circle them with a pencil, leave a place for the ends and finish the backs of any desired shape.
2. Cut out the contours of what we circled in two copies and pasted boxes from two sides.
3. We paint the crib in any color and attach the handles to the drawers using wire.
4. A ready-made crib can be decorated with a mattress, a blanket and a pillow.

Mini chest of match boxes

With girls of school age it will be interesting to make a chest of drawers for storing jewelry and hairpins. To make a dresser we need 3 matchboxes, glue, toothpicks, wire, pieces of a rod or beads for handles.

1. First you need to glue the base for the chest. We do not just glue it on top of paper, but create a cardboard frame. Can be pasted with unnecessary plastic cards. We must have side walls, a bottom, a table top and partitions between the boxes.
2. Then we insert the matchboxes in the chest frame and measure the chest width in order to correctly measure the front part of the boxes. To do this, we need toothpicks, a pencil and a clerical knife.
3. We paste the toothpicks to the front of the boxes, and after that we cut off the excess. Handles for the chest can be made from an old chip, pieces of a rod or small beads.
4. It remains to paint our artwork and fill it with small "treasures."

And here's another version of making a stylish comedian from matchboxes

Crafts from matchboxes will not take you much time, but such furniture made by yourself will certainly be one of your daughter's favorite toys.