How to recycle a Box into a HouseYou can recycle any box into a doll house! At the top part of your box draw a horizontal line and drop a vertical from its center to reach the roof as shown. Draw sloping lines from the sides to meet the top center and you have made the shape of your doll house
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Use a knife or scissors to cut down from the top corner to meet the horizontal line as shown.Bend the flap inwards at the line earlier drawn as shown to make the front of your doll house
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Do the same cutting and folding for the other 3 top corners of your box and you will have 4 triangular flaps as shown
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Bend the side wall at the level of the horizontal line and fold down the rectangular shaped flap as shown
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Stick the side wall flaps to the triangular flaps from the front and back of the house and the basic frame work of your doll house is ready.
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My little one wanted the door to swing open and fortunately the cardboard was strong enough to withstand our architectural efforts!
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Make a roof by bending some cardboard over your doll house or measure out 2 roof pieces and glue them over the doll house
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If you want to make a detachable roof so that you have a house shaped box here is the tutorial link : House shaped box.Here is my young architect decorating her cardboard doll house and enjoying our recycling craft. |
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Our roof has 2 pieces of corrugated card glued down in the middle with pattern paper. I used a Fiskars punch [ Thank You Priya!] to make the lacy roof of the doll house.We also added some homemade fabric bows and punchcraft flowers.
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My daughter wanted a window so hand cut a window and hid the jagged edges using corrugated paper and jazzed up the wall with some quilling.
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The other side of the house too has some punched flowers and quilling
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Here is our cardboard doll house in our garden ready to play with. If you keep the decoration minimal,making these cardboard doll houses is quite a quick craft for a school project, an xmas tree decoration or just to pretty up your house with a fabulous
recycling craft.
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I know most of my old followers have seen this
Doll House as its one of my most popular ones [
it had won top 3 at 4 different challenges] but I have never shared the tutorial on my blog before so just reviving a favorite recycling project with an extra zing!
This tutorial was featured on
Totally TutorialsHere are some House Shaped Boxes with the tutorial links
Here is another link to House shaped box making tutorial - the lid comes off and you can use it as a boxAnd another House shaped box made by recycling a chocolate box: House shaped Box Tutorial |
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