Creating crafts is an exciting experience for both children and adults. Moreover, there is a very large number of different schemes and descriptions for their manufacture, which differ among themselves in complexity and material.
The simplest and most affordable material for making souvenirs with their own hands are ordinary matches. With the help of them you can personally create interesting and original houses. It should be borne in mind that the more fantasy and matches a person has, the bigger and more interesting the piece will be.
Information for beginners
In order to build a house of wooden elements, first of all you need to know what materials and tools are needed for its construction, as well as existing schemes.
Depending on the design of the manufacture of such crafts will require different materials. However, not one house of matches will not work without the matches themselves.
As for the manufacturing schemes, there are a huge number of them, but the following are considered the most basic:
- assembled without glue;
- made with glue.
Guide to create a match house without glue
This method is the easiest and safest. To create it will need the following materials:
- about seven full boxes of matches;
- dvuhrublevaya coin, which can also be replaced with an ordinary button (the same size);
- thick cardboard for stand.
Step-by-step instructions for creating a house of matches without glue has the following form:
To build a foundation
To do this, on a cardboard stand parallel to each other, put two sticks. The distance between them should be slightly less than the length of the whole element. Next to the so-called base perpendicularly fits a row of eight sticks. After that, another row of eight sticks is laid over it, perpendicular to the first one. At the same time the distance between the sticks should be exactly one match. In the thus obtained connectors inserted one match in each corner.
Lay out the walls
This process is as follows:
- a kind of seven matchstick well is built;
- one row of eight matches is laid out over the lined well, and the second perpendicular of the first is out of six;
- further the flooring is covered with a coin. This is done in order to be able to hold the built part of the house with your fingers without damaging it.
Strengthen the walls
This procedure is very important and is performed as follows:
- holding a craft, stick a stick in each corner of it. In this case, the head of each element should be up.
- further along the walls of the house in the same way matches are inserted around the perimeter. All elements must be lowered to the top of the deck;
- when the binding of the walls is finished, it will be possible to remove the coin, and take the product itself in hand, without fear that it is deformed.
Make a roof
For this you need:
- sticks, which serve as reinforcement for the walls of the structure, lift up to half their length;
- In the received connectors from two sides on the diagonal insert eight matches. Moreover, one diagonal row should be a support for another.
After completing the above steps, the hack is ready in the form of a house.
Also, if the master has a good imagination, the resulting house can be used as the basis for a larger match building (castle, church, etc.), or equipped with additional elements in the form of windows, doors or chimneys.
Glued match house
For the manufacture of such a souvenir you need to take care of the availability of the following materials and tools:
- matches (sticks);
- PVA glue";
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- simple pencil.
To perform such a product you need:
- Decide on the size of future crafts.
- Draw, and then cut out all four sides of the constructed building from cardboard. At the same time, door and window openings are immediately cut out.
- Alternately, every detail of the layout is smeared with glue on one side.
- Each wall smeared with glue should be carefully pasted with matches. In this case, all matches must be placed horizontally.
- Window and doorways are glued along the contour.
- To decorate the windows it is necessary to glue a thin transparent film from their inside, and already to it a foil of any color.
- All four parts (walls) in the corners are glued together.
- From the same cardboard cut the door, in size suitable previously cut the opening. It should also be pasted vertically with matches, and then attached to the opening.
- The roof is also cut out of cardboard. It is necessary to comply with all sizes, which should be slightly larger than the width of the house.
- To bend this part, you need to make a small cut in the middle.
- As a decor for the roof, you can use matches, and you can pieces of plastic that will imitate the tiles. Do not forget about the fold, which also need to decorate with matches or plastic.
- All available joints are required to stick with sticks. However, they should be placed vertically.
- Further from the colored cardboard (green is best) cut out the bases for the house. If there are no colored cardboards, you can simply paste over colored paper.
- Glue the house to the base.
On the base next to the house you can also arrange a bench, trees and other elements made of wooden sticks.
Secrets of skill
To make it really beautiful and durable, it is necessary in its manufacture to observe the following nuances:
- pre-sort through all the matches, and exclude the curve and the deformed material;
- position sulfur sticks from the outside;
- for a more natural look of the future souvenir, it is recommended to remove sulfur from the sticks;
- the finished structure is opened with a transparent paint and varnish product intended for wood. Thus, it turns out to extend the life of the craft, as well as make it more spectacular.
