Suitcase
To make this miniature suitcase in retro style, you need a thick brown paper (two shades), an empty matchbox and funny pictures (these will be “badges”). We paste the boxes with paper, make a pen, “belts” and decorate with retro “badges” – the suitcase is ready.
A source
Miniature Photo Album
Do you want to surprise and please your loved ones? Then make them a present here is such a miniature photo album. To do this you will need: a matchbox, glue, paint, cards or scrap paper, scissors, brushes and, of course, tiny photos. Separate the boxes and put a miniature screen of photos into it. Such an album can always be worn at the heart – in a breast pocket.
A source
Book-screen
By the same principle, you can make a little book. Print out short stories, come up with illustrations, make a screen and stick it in boxes. Perhaps such an unusual form will awaken in the child an interest in reading.
A source
Giraffe
Out of 7 empty matchboxes, you can make this cute giraffe. You just need to make a frame, paste it with paper and decorate it. This is a great idea for sharing creativity with children.
A source
Mini-Zoo
From matchboxes you can make not only a giraffe, but a whole zoo. Take the four boxes, paint them in gray (hippo), orange (lion), light and dark brown (bear and donkey). Top glued the appropriate faces. You will get a bright and original gift for the baby.
A source
Valentine’s Day
To admit to love you can (and need to!) Not only on February 14, but all year round. Moreover, it’s so simple: take a matchbox, glue it with beautiful paper, attach a pair of hearts – and it’s ready. Inside to the same, you can (and need to!) Put something tasty – it will be a very sweet confession.
A source
Garland-surprise
On New Year’s Eve, as well as any other holiday, you can make such a bright garland with surprises. Cut out a starlet from glossy paper and glue to them matchboxes with sweets, nuts and other goodies.
A source
Christmas calendar
In America and Europe, on the eve of New Year’s holidays, it is customary to do so-called Christmas calendars (Advent calendar). This is a kind of postcard, consisting of 24 “pockets” (the number of days before Christmas). Inside these cases are sweets, small gifts, notes with biblical quotations or just kind words. Each day, one surprise is opened, thus recharging the pre-holiday mood. You can also make such a calendar. A simple, but very beautiful way – a mosaic of matchboxes.
Sources: 1, 2
Christmas decorations
Christmas tree toys in the form of Christmas deer and Santa Claus are matchboxes pasted with paper, with faces made of felt. If you show a fantasy, then you can also have a Snow Maiden, Snowman and other New Year characters on your tree.
A source
Gift wrap
In such an original box you can give a ringlet, earrings or other “little things”. And still it is not known, that will be more valuable, – a box or its contents. After all, as is known, the best gift is made by own hands. To turn a matchbox into an original package, you need scrap paper and other decorative elements, as well as your imagination.
A source
Aircraft
Boys, for sure, like the idea of making a plane with their own hands. This will require a box of matches and colored cardboard. From the cardboard you need to cut the workpiece: two wide strips, one long narrower and two narrow ones. And then, as they say, the matter of technology.
A source
Robot
Another “man’s” toy – robots from matchboxes. In this case, boxes are used, as details of the designer. To get a real Iron Man, the main thing is to properly glue and paint.
A source
Puppet furniture
For girls, you can make chic doll furniture. A little imagination, and gray matchboxes turn into exquisite bedside tables and writing desks. You will find a detailed master-class by clicking on the link below.
A source
Computer table for dolls
No modern lady can not do without a computer, so in the doll house of your daughter you just need a computer desk. Matchboxes will come to the rescue again. Glue them so that you get a table with drawers, and zadekoriruyte it to your liking. “Computer”, by the way, can also be made from a box.
A source
Dolls
From matchboxes you can make not only doll furniture, but dolls themselves. To do this, on the label, you need to draw or make a small girl in the scrapbooking technique, while matches sticking out of the open box will play the role of her legs.
Sources: 1, 2, 3
Boxes for confetti
Arranging a holiday is easy. One of the recipes for a great party is the matchboxes + confetti. Zadekoriruyte boxes are brighter and fill them with confetti – it will be convenient to store and use.
A source
Panel
If matchboxes (or rather their “pull-out” part) are glued together, make cells of different sizes, paint them or make decoupage, paste them inside the photo, decorate with flowers and other decorative elements, you will get a very original and beautiful panel. You will find a detailed master class below. But remember: the meaning of any tutorial is not to repeat it, but to inspire your own creativity.
A source
Puzzle
Print a beautiful picture, glue it on the “canvas” of matchboxes, and then gently cut the contour of each box to get the details of the puzzle. In this way, you can also make a photopatch – an excellent gift for loved ones.
A source
Cubes
Matchboxes can serve not only entertaining, but also educational purpose. So, if you paste pictures of different animals with their names instead of labels, you will get original “cubes”. Of course, subjects can be any – fruit, color, profession, etc.
A source
Children’s educational game
Another game useful for the development of the child is called “Who lives where?”. And it can also be made at home using matchboxes. To do this, you need to paste a picture on the label with the habitat of an animal (for example, an aquarium), and inside the box – with the animal itself (fish). Thanks to this, the kid will quickly and easily remember who lives where.
A source
Score and Alphabet
To the child quickly learned the numbers and the alphabet, try to offer him such “scores” and “alphabet.” On matchboxes write 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and inside put as many matches as written on the box; or write letters, and inward, paste pictures with words beginning with these letters.
A source
Inspiration boxes
Dutch illustrator designer Kim Velling (Kim Velling) is sure that just to kindle a person, just one kind word or smile. But what if no one is around? Make a “box of inspiration” – says Kim. This is a usual matchbox, inside of which is an encouraging or admonishing note and a nice picture. You can carry it with you and at any time, getting out of your pocket, improve your mood.
A source
Seating cards
With the help of matchboxes and beautiful paper, you can make original seating cards for guests at the wedding. All that is needed for this is to print out the names of the guests and past the boxes. Guests will be able to pick up matches with them, such a souvenir will long remind them of your celebration.
A source
Bonbonniere
Bonbonniere is such a beautiful box, in which are put souvenirs and small surprises for guests at weddings, anniversaries, birthday parties or other celebrations. Initially, as a filling of these boxes used candy (even the word “bonbonniere” comes from the French “bonbon” – “candy”). But now everything is put inside: from charms to aromatic oils. To make a bonbonniere, as you can see, simply, you can just decorate an ordinary matchbox.
A source
Casket for storing small things
Immediately and do not say that these elegant boxes in the form of chest of drawers are made of banal matchboxes. Nevertheless, this is so. The technology of their creation is simple on the one hand, and on the other will require a lot of imagination and perseverance. But, you see, the result is worth it – it’s beautiful and functional. In such boxes you can store jewelry, clips and other small items.
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
