Boxes accompany our life all the time. They bring home shoes, household appliances and even milk. Almost always, after use, cardboard containers are sent to the trash heap, polluting our long-suffering planet.
But you can give the packaging a second life and create useful crafts out of the box with your own hands. Most crafts do not require special skills or special tools.
Fireplace
To create a decorative hearth, you need a large box or several small ones, depending on the size of the future creation. Small boxes are glued together, partitions that will be inside the future hearth, it is better to remove in advance.
In the front part of the product, a “firebox” is cut into which the “firewood” is subsequently placed. Firewood can be made from small real logs, their imitation from rolls of light wallpaper, branches.
To give the craft a solid or attractive look, the box is pasted over:
- Wallpaper for tiles, brick or stone;
- Self-adhesive film;
- Bricks cut out of paper and everything else that its future owners want to decorate the fireplace with.
The edges of the fireplace are finished with skirting boards or border strips.
Home decor is placed on the mantelpiece, a scoop and a poker are hung on a special stand. If desired, they can also be created from cardboard.
Picnic basket
The picnic basket will continue the theme of relaxation. It will be possible to take it to the forest, to the country house or to the kindergarten. Crafts from a box of this format are made very quickly and do not require complex engineering calculations.
To create an adorable basket, you need to find:
- Shoe box;
- Fairly thick twine or thin rope;
- Glue;
- A piece of cloth;
- Ribbon or thick lace.
The answer to the question "how to make a craft out of the box" is very easy to solve.
- Apply a generous layer of glue to the sides of the box.
- Twine is neatly and tightly glued to it, leaving no empty space between the turns.
- At the very top, leave a couple of centimeters unsticked, this will allow you to put the cover in place.
- The lid itself is designed in a similar way.
- The resulting baskets are glued to the sides or sewn with handles from ribbons.
- A cloth napkin is placed inside the box.
The twine is sometimes replaced with cloth, in which case the box and lid are carefully wrapped in cloth and secured with a stapler or glue. For crafts, you can use one type of fabric or decorate the lid with a contrasting color. The interior can also be decorated with fabric.
Gif.webpt box
Any gif.webpt will bring much more joy if you put it in a neat box. And crafts from a cardboard box will also help with this.
The required box is selected depending on the size of the gif.webpt.
Then you can:
- Paint with paints;
- Decorate with an applique;
- Decorate with bows and artificial flowers.
Or you can make an unusual candy. To do this, a hexagon is cut out of a piece of cardboard, resembling the top of a chocolate candy.
It is glued to the lid of the box, the whole structure is painted in one color. A cute candy is ready, all that remains is to put the gif.webpt inside and hand it to the recipient.
As an unusual presentation, you can imitate an unnecessary cardboard container for a letterbox by placing small slats on the sides and gluing postmarks on it.
Mailbox
The original mailbox can be attached to the door of the nursery and send funny letters to the kid.
A thick candy box is useful for this. A slot is made at the top of the box for letters. You can get the messages themselves by simply opening the lid.
Organizer
What kind of crafts can be made out of the box so that they are not only beautiful, but also useful? Maybe a stationery kit or a paper organizer. For this, small boxes are decorated with paints or foil. The large box is cut diagonally.
As you can see in the photo of crafts from boxes, such sets can decorate not only a home workplace, but also office tables.
Toys from boxes
Craft from a box for children in the form of a dollhouse is useful for girls. In such a house, you can comfortably place all your wards, while furniture can also be made from the remains of cardboard.
- Young housewives can get their own stove, washing machine, refrigerator, coffee machine.
- Cars, planes, ships are more suitable for boys.
- If there are a lot of large boxes, then you can create a whole maze.
- Clothespins or large crocodile paper clips will help to fasten them together.
Of course, such a craft is not intended for adult children, but the crumbs from the year will certainly appreciate the funny toy. And when she gets tired, the sheets of cardboard are folded until better times.
Cat house
A small box and an old T-shirt can help you quickly build a house for your furry pet. A cozy resting place can be created in just half an hour.
- For this, a hole is cut in the box along the diameter of the neck.
- The T-shirt is pulled over the box, the excess fabric is tucked into the pintucks, the bottom of the T-shirt is sewn on the back of the box.
- The sleeves of the T-shirt can be stowed away or made into fun escape routes.
- But for this, the corresponding holes will also have to be made in the box.
- For bustling kittens and graceful cats, you can create a whole cat town with ladders, labyrinths, viewing platforms.
Storage facilities
Shoe boxes can store not only shoes in their bowels, especially since they live somewhat longer than their contents.
From unnecessary boxes, you can make a wonderful closet for storing seasonal items: hats, scarves, mittens and gloves. This will allow you to keep your main wardrobe clean and tidy and quickly find the accessories you need.
- To create such a useful design, you just need to label each box with bright felt-tip pens or glue the appropriate labels. The boxes are placed one on top of the other with the inscriptions outward.
Dividing the box into compartments to hold pairs of socks or underwear is also a good option.
Trough
From waterproof bags of juice and milk, you get a dining room for birds.
- To do this, holes are simply cut in it, a strong twine is threaded from above and tied to a branch.
- Simple crafts from boxes do not require a lot of effort and complex tools, but they can create a cozy atmosphere in the room.
Photo of crafts from boxes
