How to make a cardboard playhouse for children

Making a children's house out of cardboard is a simple and fun project, perfect for doing with the little ones too. cardboard It's such a versatile material that it can be transformed into a thousand different things. Just turn on your imagination and you're done. You can also use it to make boxes of different sizes, from shoe boxes to larger packaging boxes.

Cardboard house for children

So let's see how to make cardboard houses for children.

• It is easy to make the little house of Santa Claus With pieces of corrugated cardboard, recycled from the packaging of small furniture or furnishings, assembled with tape and then covered, inside and out, with pieces of wet and well-wrung paper, attached with PVA glue. The color will make everything even more beautiful, and it will be fun to have fun creating accessories and interior furnishings, using recycled materials, of course.

• With large recycled cardboard, you can make a cardboard house without using glue, but by assembling the pieces with colored straps and creating appropriate light points, making holes on the roof, into which to insert some plastic bottles through which the light will filter.

• To make a medieval castle, you'll need a large, square cardboard box. Simply cut away the flaps and the top hem. Next, cut out the windows and build the turrets with the remaining cardboard pieces. By drawing bricks everywhere, you'll create a realistic effect that will amaze both adults and children.

• Using a nice, large box, create a country house. Cut out a cute little window and draw a flowerpot underneath. Finish off with a cardboard fence, which you can glue to the house itself.

• By assembling two pieces of cardboard, you can create a larger house, complete with a door cut out of one side of the cardboard itself, and a window, with curtains made from plastic bags or fabric, for those who enjoy sewing. I love the idea of ​​a three-dimensional windowsill, on which to place flowers (also made of paper) and a mailbox, also made of recycled cardboard.

• The little house created from an old household appliance box (big enough for the child to stand in) is beautiful, decorated with tempera paints and dotted with little hands here and there on the outside walls.

How to Build a House Out of Shoe Boxes

• Small shoeboxes make cute dollhouses. Just gather the necessary supplies and have fun together. The lid becomes a sturdy roof, and other small boxes, like medicine boxes, can be used to make furniture for the dollhouse.

• In addition to the child-sized cardboard houses, cardboard can also be used to make beautiful DIY furniture for playing, functional and economical, much nicer than those sold in large-scale distribution.

Video tutorial for building a cardboard house

If you want help building a cardboard house with a child, all you have to do is turn to YouTube. In this video tutorial, very simple and clear, you will find all the steps to get to the end of building your little house.

How to build a cardboard house for children

And once you've built the house, here's a fun game to spend time with your little ones, simple, low-cost, and very entertaining: a paper battle. It's also a great idea for recycling and not wasting waste. old newspapers.

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