Some parents like not only to buy their children various toys, but also to make interesting toys with your own hands.
Very often, a toy made with your own hands is simpler and more interesting than factory ones. In addition, such toys are safer, since they are usually made from paper, cardboard and wood, which is much safer than plastic.
Here are the most interesting of them:
Homemade toys (photo)
Smart board with keys, phone, locks, wheels, keychains and letters on magnets.
Many people know that children can play with any thing that interests them. It could be beads or a smartphone - anything that can be studied.
One handyman created this wooden truck for his children.
And here is a board in the shape of a ship, on which you can find a calculator, locks, a lanyard and much more.
One parent decided to improve playhouse your child, decorating the walls with switches, door handles and threads.
Read also: Children's drawings that were turned into real soft toys
DIY toys at home
Children love to build a railroad, so parents made this colorful railroad with toy cars and trains for their child.
Almost anything can be made from cardboard. And if you add it to cardboard duct tape and felt-tip pens or paints (gouache or acrylic paints), you can create houses, car parks, tunnels and palaces.
DIY cardboard toys
The child had accumulated a lot of cars, and his parents decided to make him an excellent, convenient parking lot out of cardboard and acrylic paints.
A doll house based on the popular video game Super Mario.
It all starts at the top of the structure, where the princess is surrounded by cotton wool clouds.
Then you can choose one of two directions through the pipes: to the world of mushrooms or to the very bottom to the main villain.
DIY toys (photo)
Constructor for balls
Parents spray painted it necessary details(pipes and fastenings), and then attached them to the fence so that small balls and beads could be thrown through the pipes.
Homemade toys for children
Experiments with liquids and sand
To perforated fiberboard the parents attached several tubes, and a funnel was attached to the upper end of each tube so that they could easily pour liquid or pour sand, which would go down through the tubes.
To better see the water flowing through the transparent tubes, you can pour it into several containers and add food coloring. So for each pipe there will be water of a certain color.
DIY toys from scrap materials
Cardboard labyrinth
To make such a toy you will need:
Cardboard box
Scissors or utility knife
A set of sticks for children's crafts (can be replaced with cardboard)
Paints or stickers (to decorate the maze)
Hot glue (with glue gun)
Medium coin or large diameter or a plastic bottle cap
Pencil.
1. Take a suitable box and, if necessary, cut off one side so that you can build a maze inside it.
2. Prepare a set of sticks for children's crafts or simply cut cardboard into strips. As you create the maze, you will trim these strips with scissors.
3. Before starting construction of the labyrinth, it is better to draw it with a simple pencil, and then glue strips of cardboard or wooden sticks to the drawn lines.
4. Start gluing cardboard strips or sticks edgewise to the drawn lines with hot glue, cutting them where necessary.
5. To make “traps”, trace the coin with a pencil and, using a stationery knife, cut out a circle that will fit a ball, bead or marble. Cut the traps so that a bead or ball can pass by them.
If you want to keep the bead from falling on the floor, bend (and trim if necessary) the sides of the box and insert it inside another box (see image).
How to make a toy with your own hands
Parking for toy cars, made from a box and cardboard tubes from toilet paper
You will need:
Box or crate
Toilet paper rolls
PVA glue or hot glue
Scissors
Acrylic paints (optional).
You need to glue the cardboard sleeves inside the box.
If necessary, cut each sleeve in half and then carefully glue it.
You can make a helipad on top.
Decorate the craft as you like. You can use acrylic paints and stickers.
How to make a toy with your own hands (video)
13 cool ways to make a track, track, parking, slides, car wash, garage, road for children with your own hands. All this can be made from ordinary materials that almost everyone has at home. Let's take a look at these creations.
1. DIY track made of foam plastic (cardboard) for children’s cars.
A track for cars that can be made with children and for children. Fast, clean, easy and economical. All we need is:
- white foam, if you don’t have it, you can use it large cardboard, having previously painted it;
- decorative tape;
- scissors;
- wooden cubes, if you don’t have them, you can use any building blocks that you have at home;
- brushes
We paint wooden cubes acrylic paint. Colors can be any, we have pastel shades yellow, carrot, blue color. We mark the route with a simple pencil, then cover it with decorative tape. That's all, the track is ready. You can play with it at home or on the street. Easy to store because It's flat, so you can hide it under the bed or behind the closet.
2. DIY car wash for cars made from a cardboard box.
Cool idea for summer time. You can play with such a car wash on the street, in your dacha, as you can actually wash children’s cars there. Children simply love to play with water. And here you can spray cars with a spray bottle.
To make a children's toy we will need:
- cardboard box;
- cellophane to cover the walls and floor of the car wash;
- felt;
- wooden rolls, and two toilet paper rolls;
- scissors, hot glue.
We start work by cutting off the roof and one side of a cardboard box, and on the opposite side we make something like a door. Next we start painting. We need to paint all the outer walls and the bottom of the box, this way we will protect it from moisture.
After the box is dry, glue cellophane to the inside. You probably guessed that this will save the box from moisture and it will last longer.
We cut the felt and glue it to wooden bushings (you can also sticks), to toilet paper bushings. We attach everything to our car wash. Children can play with this for hours.
3. DIY children's road.
Very simple road from a cardboard box. All you need is time, desire and creativity. But seriously, cardboard, pencil, scissors, paint, brush. 
We cut out trees and houses from the box, and then color it all. Children will be happy to color everything, and at the same time we stimulate the development of creativity and fine motor skills our little ones. 
4. Race track for children's cars.
A racing track for four cars at once. It’s easy to make with your own hands, and children will really like it, because four cars can slide down it at the same time. Both boys and girls will be able to figure out which car goes faster. 
To make the route we need:
- cardboard box;
- hot glue;
- paint, brushes.
Just lift the cardboard and the cars will quickly rush down. This is a great toy for indoors when it's bad outside. Older children will especially like it, as they love speed and movement.
Below is a slide from wooden board, more durable, larger. You can't do it without dad. Stock up on materials and call dad.
Detailed instructions with lots of photos in .
Children's fun for creative children and parents. Everything is very simple, but incredibly interesting. For such entertainment, it is advisable to take paints water based to make it easier to wash soiled clothes.
5. Do-it-yourself parking for children's cars from shoe boxes.
A simple parking lot (garage) made from shoebox lids, toilet paper rolls and cardboard.
6. Large multi-level parking with a city made of cardboard.
Such a structure will require a little puffing. The work is painstaking, but what a wonderful city it turns out to be for cars. There are tracks, slides, and multi-level parking. In a word, super!
Still very interesting option cardboard crafts - garage parking. You can make these kind of houses for cars yourself, and you can also play with them. For those who decide to make such parking garages, here is a link to the site with a description and photographs.
Other parking lots and garages made of cardboard, ideas for inspiration.
7. Do-it-yourself wooden parking for children's cars.
Cool parking for small children's cars. It is made of wood, so it will last a long time. The safety of the child is also thought out - there are no sharp corners, they are all beveled. For those who decide to make such a parking lot, see the instructions and description.
8. DIY road for cars.
This is perhaps the easiest way to make a children's track for small cars. All you need is special tape and scissors. If you wish, you can add plastic figures of a traffic light, a house, trees, in general, whatever you have at home.
A children's track, even a whole city. Detailed description You can view 
Here, a children's road made of tape is glued to cardboard, thanks to which it can be moved around the house and even taken outside. 
And here they glued tape in the form of a road directly to the floor.
And here we went even further by gluing the tape directly to the sofa and carpet. I wonder how many parents would agree to this. But how fun and comfortable it is for children. 
If you do not have special tape with the image of an asphalt road, you can use colored tape or regular electrical tape. If desired, markings can be applied to it.
9. Road for cars on an old wooden table.
If you have an unnecessary or old wooden table, then it can be turned into a track for children's cars. Mark the table with paper tape before painting. After painting, wait until it dries completely. The road is ready for the children.
Hill, parking, gas station wooden table with your own hands. Large and wonderful table with play areas. How to make such a toy for children yourself, see
This version of the road for children's cars is convenient because it can be drawn as you like and as much as you like. To do this you need a piece of chalk and your or your child’s imagination. To make such a gaming table for cars, you need to cover the top of the old table with special paint for blackboards, on which you can draw with chalk. That's it, the table for children's cars is ready!
10. Height meter in the form of a racing track.
For little car lovers, parents can make this bright stadiometer in the shape of a race track. We mark the child’s growth with a machine that is attached using Velcro. The road can be made of any width, with the number of lanes equal to the number of children. The photo shows that there are two children in the family. If you are interested in a stadiometer, then Full description you can see its production
11. Road for children's cars on the wall.
You can make a road for cars right on the wall in the children's room. Thus we get interesting design and a play space for the child. The road itself can be made magnetic or made of felt, and magnets or Velcro can be attached to the cars, respectively.
12. DIY carpet for cars made of fabric.
Felt road mat with a surprise. He has a garage for three cars, these are pockets at the bottom. It’s great that this rug can be folded and won’t take up much space. It can be made of any size with any applications - mountains, trees, houses, hospitals, towers, skyscrapers, roads, slides, parking lots, various markings and all possible road signs. See this website for ideas and instructions with lots of photos.
13. Children's street track for small cars.
When making these children's tracks for cars, you will need cement. You dig a shallow trench in the ground, fill it with cement, paint it with black paint, and decorate the entire site. This perfect option playground for private houses and cottages.
Here are some more options play areas for boys on the street from scrap material.
Playground on the sand with a road for cars. In conclusion, I would like to suggest the most fun and entertaining way for a children's road for small cars. The children won't be bored, but dad or mom will get a wonderful massage and a dose of relaxation.
Thank you for reading our article to the end! Merry and have a good day you and your children!
Master class on making a game model "City Street"
Norkina Oksana SergeevnaTeacher of the MADO kindergarten No. 21 “Rosinka” of the combined type of the urban district of the city of Kumertau of the Republic of Bashkortostan
The master class is designed for educators, but may also be useful for parents.
Purpose: training in game modeling, formation of safe behavior on the roadway.
Target: making a model for game modeling in working with children of senior preschool age.
Tasks:
- introduce children to the rules traffic, the purpose and signals of traffic lights, with road signs, expand knowledge about the rules of safe behavior for children on the street;
- encourage children to engage in independent activities in the traffic rules corner,
The game layout can be used to develop fine motor skills, visual perception, social and everyday orientation, and spatial orientation.
Description:
Stage I - basis for the layout To make the base of the game model “City Street” we will need: 2 pieces from an MDF panel (I have them 53 cm), a piano hinge, screws and nuts for fastening.
Use a drill to drill holes in MDF panels in the selected places, fasten the piano hinge with screws and nuts.
So that our model stands at an angle of 90 degrees and does not fall back, we screw a corner stop on one side (for me it is part of the fastening from an old curtain), and paint the lower part of our model with black paint.
Now we will design the upper vertical part of the layout. To design it, we take 2 pictures depicting houses (I put together these for myself).
We print the pictures in duplicate and laminate them; if you don’t have a laminator, you can simply cover them with tape. The picture becomes brighter and it is easier to care for the layout - for example, wipe off dust.
We paste one copy of our laminated pictures, joining them onto the layout, this is what we should get.
Now we will add volume to the card. To do this, we cut out buildings from second copies at our discretion, and glue them onto pre-prepared ceiling tile blanks - single background and double foreground, in my work I used “Master” ceiling tile adhesive
Cutting out buildings stationery knife
We paste it (I still use the same “Master”) on the layout, our street now has “depth”.
Let's move on to the design of the roadway. We take construction tape, highlight the pedestrian crossing, the dividing strip, that is, what we will paint over with white, and cover everything else.
I use regular ones at work. aerosol paints in a can, sold at any hardware store, dry quickly, easy to use. We highlighted all the lines with white - remove the tape. The roadway and crossing are ready.
Stage II - Paper machines. Now he prints out paper machine templates; there are a huge number of them on the Internet; let’s take these as an example.
The image is reduced. Click to see original.
We laminate the printed templates (1 sheet of laminated film - 2 sheets of templates with cars), fold the sheets with the white sides inward. We laminate them so that the cars become tougher, brighter and can be wiped clean. When the sheet is laminated, we cut it along the contour and we get 2 sheets laminated on the colored side, the second side remains unlaminated (paper) - the paper sticks together better, and laminated machines shine. This is what a laminated sheet with templates, cut on 3 sides, looks like.
We cut out the car templates and glue them together.
Stage III - road signs. Now let's move on to making road signs.
Materials: I used 2 sheets of regular white office paper, ceiling tiles(better washable), a stationery knife, toothpicks, master glue, mosaic 3 colors (red, yellow, green), laminated sheet with blank signs, I used this one.
The image is reduced. Click to see original.
We cut out and paste 1 copy onto the tile, cut it out along the contour with a stationery knife, and glue 2 copies on the other side (if you wish, you can not paste the second part of the sign. We make a stand for our signs. Take a sheet of white paper and cut strips of 4-5 mm along the long side sheet. For one sign, you need 5 strips.. Take one strip and twist it onto a toothpick, forming a tight “roll” - this is the upper part of the stand. Glue 4 strips into a long strip, twist it into a “roll”. On a large roll, put a small one on top, glue it together. Dip the edge of a toothpick in glue, pierce our “rolls”, pierce the blank with a road sign with the other edge of the toothpick. Our sign is all ready.
To make the traffic light more voluminous, add a small mosaic of the appropriate colors to the lights, pierce the holes with an awl, and insert the mosaic.
Our fleet
Our signs
Thanks everyone for your attention!
Many girls play them as much as boys. If your little car enthusiast has already run out of ideas on how to play with cars, offer him one of the options that we have collected in this article. Or maybe not just one: all the ideas on how to play cars with a child can be combined perfectly.
DIY games: garage parking for cars
In addition to the fact that this is a great idea for a game, such parking will help solve the eternal problem with cars that constantly get under your feet. Making this game with your own cars couldn't be easier.
Will need wooden box and a tube made of thick cardboard. You can use a cling film tube, cardboard paper towel rolls, etc.
Cut the cardboard tube into equal lengths along the width of the sides of the box, and glue them together to fill the box. You can use a sheet of cardboard as the “back wall” of the garage.
Sand the finished parking lot, paint if necessary and hang a sign.,
How to play cars with your child: a real track right in the nursery
Is your child bored of simply pushing cars around on the carpet? Make new games with your own cars with him: for example, this track. It looks like the real thing and can be placed right in the nursery on the floor.
Print out templates of intersections, turns and straight paths, connect them into a complex route, similar to the intersection of city highways, and you can organize races. You can download road templates here.
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To make playing with cars more interesting with your child, add model houses from the construction set to the road. Or use cardboard boxes to create two-level driveways.
Another option for a track for playing with cars is “Eco-Track” stickers. This is a whole roll of “road” based on adhesive tape. The adhesive properties of such a road make it possible to fix it both on a flat floor and on furniture, but after removing the tape, no dirty marks remain. The track comes with road markings and road signs, so while playing with cars like this, you can unobtrusively teach your child in the city.
You can buy Eco-Track stickers.
An idea on how to play cars with a child: a racing track for cars 
On inclined plane The cars start together, but will not reach the finish line at the same time. The winner will be the most technically advanced car! Making this DIY toy car game couldn't be easier: all you need is a cardboard box and a little spatial thinking.
If a child, in addition to a passion for cars, loves Lego. Guides for cars, Start and Finish marks can be assembled from it. Playing with your own hands will be even more interesting.
Idea on how to play cars for boys: racing platform
This design looks more complicated than the previous ones, but is also simple to manufacture. And running cars down inclined chutes is unusual and fun. See for yourself.
How to play cars with a child: DIY games, video
You can make this DIY game from a couple of pizza boxes.
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There are so many things you can do with a child from an ordinary cardboard box! A simple cardboard box can turn into a boat, a rocket, an airplane, gas stove, a crib for toys. And with the help of boxes you can build an entire cardboard city, with roads, houses and trees made of pine cones and plasticine. The baby has material at hand with which he can “do” whatever he wants! The child's fantasy plays out. And it’s hard to imagine what it will lead to. For clear example, let's take cardboard box from a vacuum cleaner and see what we can build from it.
2. Container for throwing balls and small toys.
3. Musical instrument as a drum, if you sharply thrust a sharpened pencil into it, a sound comes out - a clap, which fascinates with the sound.
4. You can first draw on the box with pencils and felt-tip pens, then paint it with paint.
5. If you cut out windows, make doors and build turrets, you will get a castle for toys.
6. Using a stapler, scissors and children's imagination, you can build a knight's armor from the same box. Cut out a crown from a sheet of cardboard, color it and decorate it with an applique of glossy brochures. Adjust the size of the crown to the baby's head and connect it using a stapler. Make a shield and a sword from another sheet. The young warrior's armor is ready. From the remains of the box you can cut out masks and targets for javelin throwing.
7. When the box is no longer interesting in the above forms, you can cut it into strips, connect them with a rope, you get a snake, if you twist the other end of the rope around your belt, you get the tail of a dragon, which wriggles as it runs and noisily hits walls and doorways .
8. Corrugated packaging paper makes wonderful three-dimensional applications. First you need to draw a drawing with a pencil on a sheet of colored paper or cardboard, and then stick strips of corrugated paper along the lines.
9. It's fun to just tear cardboard into pieces. Kids love to do this. Older children cut out cribs and chairs from packaging, and glue together cabinets for dolls.
To create a house, you can use a large sheet of cardboard, a cardboard box or a pizza box. So, we will need:
1.Carton or cardboard box
2. PVA glue
3. ruler
4. Pencil
5. Scissors or paper knife.
6. Any available materials for decorating the house. Felt-tip pens, pencils, paints, glitter, stickers, pieces of colored paper, scraps of newspapers and napkins will do (while mom is cutting out the house, the baby can tear pieces of napkins or cut pieces of paper), in general, everything that can be found on the household.
Let's draw a sketch of our house by hand, observing the basic proportions. The shape of the house can be any - square or rectangular, depending on the idea and imagination. For my grandparents, my son and I made a square house from a finger theater. We made a couple more of these houses for our son’s other small toys. But for a large residential area, a long one is also suitable narrow house with many windows and painted balconies.
The main work of creating a fairy-tale kingdom from cardboard will still have to be done by the mother - drawing the cardboard, cutting along the contour, making doors and windows and bending the workpiece along the fold lines. But then the child can smear the necessary parts of the house with glue and help mom fasten the walls with a stapler (it’s especially good to fasten thick cardboard sheets, for example, from pizza boxes in this way). That's all, the house is ready, all that remains is to paint the walls, glue the tiles to the roof and move in the little inhabitants.
As a road, you can use a ready-made road made from cardboard puzzles or educational soft puzzles with letters. You can also draw a landscape with roads and paths on a piece of whatman paper. Houses can be placed around railway and travel to friends by train. Trees are easy to create from pine cones. Or you can cut out trees from paper and use a piece of tape, a skewer and a piece of plasticine to give them stability. To create a pasture next to the cabin, my son and I used a selection of small farm animals.
These puzzles are perfect for a “cardboard town”!
Large floor puzzle "Road", Orchard, art. 286,
Giant puzzle "Farm" Djeco, art. 07160,
ECO large floor puzzle "Animal Habitat" with animal figures, Hape, art. 702884,
Giant puzzle "Road" Djeco, art. 07161,
Animals from Schleich fit perfectly into urban and rural environments!
More options for houses that you can make for kids!
The curtains look cute)) In such a house you can relax and prepare a treat for your toys!
Home Sweet Home))
Cafe for cute mademoiselles!
A fortress for knights!
A castle for a beautiful princess.
What can you do besides houses? Yes, whatever your heart desires! Miracle sorter for kids.
You can come up with your own cartoons about a shark and show them on your own TV))
A funny rolling car.
Castle and gas station.
A miracle roller rink for your favorite cars.
Family mailbox.
Bed for a doll.
Little engine. By the way, it’s not a bad idea to decorate the yard like this for children's day birth!
Bridge with a train.
Tree house.
Personal car.
This way you can make heroes from your favorite fairy tales!
Some interesting things from the lives of passionate people!
Chris Gilmour was born in Stockport, UK in 1973, but now calls Udine and Italy itself home. Using only cardboard and glue, Chris creates incredible sculptures without any additional frames made of wood or metal. All you see is 100% cardboard. The material Gilmour chose for his sculptures is easy to obtain, cheap and lightweight. Guido Bartorelli says about Gilmour's work: "Gilmour's works not only accurately depict objects in life size, they are not crude and do not look like a regular repetition of something, like models or scenery. They are like real objects that we have all touched at some point: a typewriter, a car, a bicycle or a stroller.
Australian artist Daniel Agdag is working on his large-scale art project called "Sets for a Film I"ll Never Make". From ordinary cardboard, which is used to make boxes, he makes amazing sculptures of buildings, strange devices and mechanisms, as if preparing the scenery for science fiction films. The genius of Daniel Egdag is multifaceted, and manifests itself not only in sculpture and painting. The artist is also a director of short animated films, where he often uses scenery, similar topics, which was included in a series of cardboard sculptures. That's why it's called "A selection for films I'll never make." Which is not surprising, since the sculptures that the artist creates from packaging cardboard are reminiscent of steampunk, science fiction novels and adventure films in the spirit of science fiction writers of the early last century.
Surely many remember how in children's magazines, and later in special editions of magazines for girls, they printed paper or cardboard dolls with paper outfits for them. All this had to be cut out from the page, and then you should buy a wardrobe for the dolls at newsstands and magazines, or draw fashionable outfits yourself. Italian artist Christian Tagliavini has long grown out of this age, but his passion for paper outfits remains. True, now he dresses up living people in them, and the whole thing is called the Dame Di Cartone art project. In the wardrobe of the models of this art project you won’t find outfits for club parties or beach sundresses, tracksuits or cocktail dresses. Here are models in retro style, for which Renaissance costumes were created from cardboard. This is no longer just a game, says Christian Tagliavini. This is a costume ball, a theatrical performance in which he is a one-man orchestra, combining the author, stage director, photographer, and, of course, costume designer.
Looking at the paper works of the Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus, childhood impressions involuntarily come to mind - delight and a feeling of real miracle, when, having opened an ordinary-looking book, you see voluminous cities unfolding before you, ancient castles and whole fairy-tale episodes with many details that can not only be look at it, but also touch it. In addition to abstract patterned sculptures in the spirit of Escher's engravings, Ingrid Siliakus creates real architectural objects - in her paper installations the outlines of New York skyscrapers, London buildings and even modern sports complexes. However, according to the artist herself, what inspires her most in her work is the architectural heritage of the great Spaniard Antonio Gaudí and the famous Dutchman Hendrik Berlage.
Photographer Andy Rudak created models of buildings located in London, New York, Mumbai, Paris and Tokyo. The series is called “Cardboard Cities.”
The Wonderful Toys Shop offers to beautifully decorate cardboard creations with drawings, stamps and stickers! Perfect for this:
Set of stencils Djeco
Set of stamps "Farm" art. 08809, "Princesses" art. 08810, "Knights" art. 08811, "Elves" art. 08813 Djeco.
The 9 stamps included in the set will help you create a fun world with just one touch! All you have to do is color all the elements as you wish, and you're done!
Set includes: 9 stamps, 1 stamp pad, sketchbook.
Hard gouache paint, 36 colors. art.08873.
Watercolor pencils, 12 pcs. Djeco, art. 08824
Soft watercolor pencils, 12 colors.
An ordinary pencil drawing can easily be turned into a beautiful watercolor! Just moisten the brush a little with water and brush along the contours of the design, slightly “blurring” them.
Gouache 12 colors,
Amazing quality gouache! Lays flat, clean beautiful colors.
-- Classic colors art.08807
Gouache markers (6 pcs) art.08876.
They paint with gouache! Very beautiful and neat!
Djeco finger paints, art. 08878.
A set of magnificent first paints, with their help your baby will create his first masterpieces!
The paints are absolutely safe! They wash off perfectly from the child, clothes and the whole house)) with just water
Double-sided markers, 8 pcs. art.08875.
Easy to wash! Without detergents, just water or a damp cloth!
Includes: 8 markers (16 colors).
Finger paints 6 colors Djeco, art. 08860,
The paints are non-toxic and specially designed for hand painting. Easily washed off with just water.
Includes: 6 tubes of paints classic colors 75 ml each, a palette mat for easy drawing (so that kids don’t mix all the paints in the jars)))
That's all! These are the unique things you can make with and for children using regular cardboard! Nastya was with you!
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