Preparing for the New Year holidays allows you to especially feel the surge of joy and warmth that is characteristic of the New Year. And when there is not enough atmosphere or you want to fully embrace the upcoming period of fun, it is useful to do various crafts to decorate your home or office. Moreover, this activity is suitable not only for children of different ages, but also for adults. And it will be extremely useful for the family to spend time together during the exciting process of making paper houses for decoration.
Paper house + template
The templates are printed, folded along the dotted lines and glued into solid products in the indicated places. Finally, they are painted in the most suitable places.
Mini paper lantern house: step-by-step MK + template
The template can be printed or hand-drawn onto paper and then cut out. After that, bends are made in future gluing areas, and multi-colored thin corrugated paper or film is glued to the inside of the house. All that remains is to glue the houses together and put them on electric candles.
House for Santa Claus
The child is wondering where Santa Claus lives? Tell and complete the story with a house. Before you make such a house out of paper, it is better to enlist the help of your dad. Next you will understand why.
What we need for Santa Claus's house:
- box;
- scissors;
- emery cloth;
- scotch;
- paint brown, white and blue;
- brushes;
- polyurethane foam.
Let's get started:
- Prepare a box (preferably made of thick cardboard; further processing should not soak it through), give it the shape of a house. To do this, we cut the components of the structure and glue them in the required order. Cut out the windows and doorway. For convenience, mark them on the workpiece with a pencil. House for Santa Claus. Let's start applying foam
- We decorate the house using polyurethane foam. Dad's help will be needed here. It will make the job more accurate. In addition, polyurethane foam is almost not washed off from hands and clothes; be extremely careful when working with it. Apply foam from the ends
- The foam should be applied to the product in strips no wider than one and a half centimeters. Leave a distance of three millimeters between the strips. The material will swell as it dries.
- Leave the product for at least half an hour, preferably an hour until it hardens completely. Waiting for the foam to dry
In the meantime, while our house is drying, let's make a stand for it. The house is intended for Santa Claus, and he loves the cold, so we’ll make a snow meadow.
Making a stand:
- Cut out a rectangle from cardboard. Its area should be larger than the base of the house. We decorate the perimeter of the stand with foam; it will help imitate snow. If the foam runs out, you can replace it with polystyrene foam or cotton wool. Glade for home
- You can use cardboard slides, snowdrifts, Christmas trees and a snowman as decorations. If foam was used, do not forget to trim it with a knife after drying. We paint all the products, install the house in a clearing and you can invite residents.
Log cabin made from paper tubes
An ordinary A4 sheet is cut into 3 parts, rolled into tight tubes and glued along the edge so that they do not unwind. The house is gradually laid out from the tubes, constantly being held together with glue. Then it is complemented with decorative elements in the form of curtains, doors and a roof frame. Thick colored paper or cardboard is fixed on top as a roof. All that remains is to complete the image of the house with additional decor.
Master class on making a large house for a child
By building a toy house in the middle of a children's room, a little more than a meter high, you can keep a child or even two children, aged from one to six years, occupied for a long time. The design imitates a multi-story building, a village hut. It is carried out according to sketches and patterns or, more simply, from a large box of large household appliances. Suitable dimensions of the structure are 120 by 80 by 80 cm. Some stores sell “moving boxes,” but if you can’t find similar ones, buy sheets of corrugated cardboard—you will need at least two or three of them.
If you combine two or three or more cardboard boxes of various sizes, you will get a “multi-room” play complex in which several children can play at the same time.
Materials, tools
Tools and materials you will need:
- corrugated cardboard;
- sharp scissors or a stationery knife;
- PVA glue;
- wide tape;
- long ruler;
- remnants of wallpaper or colored paper, fabric;
- markers, pencils;
- glue gun.
First you need to draw a diagram and determine what the details will be.
Manufacturing process
For work, separate pieces of cardboard or one or two large boxes from a washing machine, refrigerator, etc. are used. The structure must have four walls and a gable roof, the ends of which are left open to allow air to flow. The parts are connected with tape and glue. On one side, a door is made of such a size that a child can climb into the house. The windows are covered with tulle and transparent film, the walls are painted and covered with paper. A more interesting option is made using ready-made patterns downloaded from the Internet. The picture is enlarged to the required size, the details are cut out, glued onto corrugated cardboard, assembled - the result is a house already decorated on the outside. It is also easy to find suitable patterns for interior decor.
A soft rug is placed in the playhouse so that the baby does not feel cold when playing in it.
House coloring book
It will be exciting for children not only to assemble a ready-made image, but also to bring something of their own to it. To do this, you will need to print out your favorite template or several, or draw it yourself. Then cut it out, glue it and, armed with pencils, paints or felt-tip pens, color it as you wish.
Christmas village
To create a multi-component decoration, you can make a full-fledged Christmas village. To do this, the templates of all buildings need to be printed, cut out and carefully glued together. The finished layouts are decorated with paint, pencils or felt-tip pens and arranged into a single composition.
Gingerbread house
Bakery
Church
A toy shop
Fairytale castle
It will be interesting for a child to make his own fairytale castle. The process will consist of standard printing, cutting and gluing of templates. Then the assembled castle is decorated and complemented with various decorative elements. Particularly relevant will be shiny metal parts, beads and beads, as well as shiny dense threads.
Box house
The craft can be used for good. To do this, print out, cut out, glue and decorate the box house template. Then it can be filled with candies, sweets or other small items that can be given as a gift.
Creating a house for a pet
Many of us have pets, so we want to please them and give them comfort. They love to climb into ordinary boxes, so many are interested in how you can make a house for a cat out of cardboard yourself.
To do this, you need to take a cardboard box of suitable size and use a plate to draw a round entrance.
Carefully cut it out using a stationery knife. We use the upper part to create a roof. They just need to be connected and beautifully decorated.
You also need to make several round holes in the upper part of the back wall to ensure good ventilation. And then you need to use your imagination and decorate the house so that it looks good in the interior.
Advent calendar
Nowadays, Advent calendars or Christmas calendars are becoming more and more popular. They contain several cells with numbers, the opening of which allows you to conduct a fascinating countdown of the days until Christmas or the New Year. The content of such calendars can be anything: sweet treats, small gifts, cosmetics, wishes or even financial resources. The main thing is that every open day brings something new that is not present in any other.
Putting together such a calendar for the New Year is quite easy. To do this, all parts are printed or transferred by hand onto paper, cut out along the contour and bent in the places indicated by the dotted line. At the end, all this is carefully and step by step glued together, filled with the appropriate content.
Mini house for Christmas tree
A homemade house can even be a Christmas tree decoration. You just need to print it, cut it out, glue it and paint it with colorful paints or even sprinkle it with glitter. To create a unique image, you can also use additional gluing on the model of shiny paper.
New Year's hut
When making crafts, you need to focus on diagrams and templates of cardboard houses. After you choose the most suitable option, you should transfer the markings to the workpiece. Well, then there’s nothing complicated:
Cut out the parts from a white sheet of paper according to the template and glue them in the prescribed sequence onto the cardboard. You can use glue or double-sided tape.
All cardboard parts are carefully cut out. To arrange windows and doors, you should use a stationery knife.
Adhering to the drawn folds, bend the workpiece and glue the structure. For strength, a primer can be applied to the house.
The hut should be decorated and decorated, for example, the roof is often sprinkled with glitter. Having attached a rope to the structure, the hut is used as a Christmas tree decoration.
Circus
Many people associate the circus with fun and celebration, just like the New Year, and therefore it will be interesting to make a similar craft for New Year's days. The template is easily duplicated or printed on paper, cut out, glued and painted in circus-specific or other desired shades.
Benefits of working with paper
Paper and cardboard are the materials of choice for creating crafts, both volumetric and applique. A number of advantages distinguish paper from other working materials:
- Availability. Every craftsman always has paper sheets and cardboard at hand. And the cost of paper does not exceed reasonable limits.
- Ease of working with basic materials. Working on crafts does not require special skills from the master.
- Large selection of models.
- A huge range of ready-made templates, step-by-step instructions and educational video lessons for beginning craftsmen.
- Creative activities are an excellent hobby for adults and children, which allow them to develop memory, thinking and logic.
To create paper houses you do not need a wide range of materials and tools. Every detail for the job can be found among the set of office supplies at home.
Scene in a winter house
Not only for decoration, but also for children’s entertainment, you can print and assemble a template of a room in the house, as well as characters - the inhabitants of the house. The finished work can be easily placed in any place in the house, and children will always be interested in playing with the figures, acting out various scenes. Parents can also join in to spend time in a warm family circle.
DIY New Year's house - patterns, instructions
New Year is not only a holiday, but also a time for children and parents. This is a time for joint creativity, a time for crafts and home decoration. Kids enjoy decorating the Christmas tree with their own hands: cutting out snowflakes, making Christmas trees and other New Year's toys.
We offer patterns of such beautiful paper houses as in the small pictures - pink, red and blue. In the archive for downloading patterns in pdf and jpg formats. There are also instructions for assembling some products. You don’t need anything to download; the file will be available as soon as you click on the red button. To download archives, you need to click the arrow at the top of the screen. Then just print the template on a color printer, stick it on thin cardboard, cut it out and glue it together. It will turn out great!
And if you put an LED garland in the resulting house, it can turn into a lamp. The archive contains not only houses, but also a paper Christmas tree and Santa’s boot! Enjoy co-creation with your baby! You can download all the patterns at once, or save the ones you like one by one. At the end of the article there are photo ideas for decorating finished products. Happy creativity!
Winter city made of paper + template
A beautiful and minimalistic decoration will be the whole image of the city, which can be transferred to paper or printed, then cut out and, bent in the indicated places, installed in any suitable place.
Or this option
Black and white three-dimensional house templates for cutting out of cardboard: can be printed on A4
Here are some easy and not so easy options. Choose which one you liked the most and go ahead and make it! Here you will find both simple huts and entire palaces:
