My lil one's growing requirements created so many little, lovely inventions. The saying, "necessity is a mother of inventions" has proven itself. I made most of the thing in my house.Weather it is Alphabets or an Almirha ...lol !!! well, what can you do?... These days packagings are so beautiful and tempting that they straight goes to my Storage. I always try my passion, when my son goes to school. So, here are the few results!
When you are a crafty mind you will try to make best out of waste and I did the same. It was a little side table in the house, but got damaged at the time of shifting, sadly irreparable. The drawers were really nice, so couldn't throw them away and tried to do some experiments and for me the end result was very satisfying.
I used 2 drawers to make a little wooden Mandir. 1 for the front vertical side and other one is for base.
Things I used:
Empty drawers
Glitter
Glue
Tissue boxes
Sticky tape
Coloured paper
Craft knife
Scissors
Sand paper
Step 1:
Decide the way you want your Mandir vertical or horizontal . I decided to go for vertical/longer side.
Step 2: From the second drawer I took the wooden ply base out for designing purpose only, It can be cut by a normal craft knife easily.
Step 3: Just draw your pattern and cut it out with craft knife. You can easily do it with little extra pressure on the ply and use sand paper to make edges smooth.
Step 4: I was so impatient, so, for sticking purpose I used Bluetack but you can always use wooden glue as it will be more durable. It just takes little longer to dry hence, my shortcut was bluetack!
Step 5: I used PVA glue for sticking the glitters but you can use your decorations and thing to give it a perfect look.
Step 6:
Originally the base was small, so I extended it with another drawer and just did the addition of tissue boxes to make sections.
Step 7:
Here is my final look of Mandir.
Hope you like the idea of converting drawers in to Mandir. Thanks for looking. please visit my blog and like my Facebook page for more awesome recycling ideas.
Well, I am loving this, too. I do lots of activities with my LO and used to make little things to make my DS busy and was curious to google new ideas n tips when I found lots of amazing pins on pinterest and literally, there are thousand of way to make a letter, wooden letter, cardboard letter, yarn latter, concrete letter, vintage letter, metal letter I mean options are endless...but again, I was stuck on my loving cardboard letter and decided to give it a go.For me this is best way to share your photo collage with everyone.
Supplies needed:-
-Cardboard
-Empty yogurt pot
-Glue
-Vibrant/Mod podge (sealant)
-Scissors / craft knife
-News papers
-Photos ( I used B&W pics)
I pick 2 pieces of card boards, the size of cardboard depends on the size of your letter, then I drew"T" shape on the cardboard (for me that was the hardest past). I used craft knife to cut the shape.
Next thing I did was to put empty yogurt pot in between the card boards. If you don't have a yogurt pots you can put anything witch is capable enough to made the letter uniform. you can make cardboard stripe and with the help of glue turn them in a circle you will need six circles or six yogurt pots.
Put several layers of paper pages on the letter to cover it all over. you can use normal diluted PVA glue, just to make spreading easy, then start sticking your pieces of news papers to cover the entire letter.
.This part is absolutely optional, my DS wanted to color his letter. That's the good part of cardboard, you can basically just have a go and experiment and not to worry about you are "wasting " anything.
Now here comes the fun part, I chose B&W picture because i love the look of black and white but its totally up to you, if you want you can choose colored pics too.
After choosing your photos your photos will need to be shaped and trimmed to fit the letters. Once you have determined where you want to place the photos, you can easily create a crease in the paper to match the shape of the letter. My letter was covered from sides as well.
So first, decide the layout of the photos (including which photo overlaps the other, etc). Once you decide that, Glue them and apply sealant.I used Vibrant.
Entering this challenge, wasn't planned, initially, since had no idea where to begin from. So, opted a start with few little drawers to put my DS's toys inside. But as the Christmas was just over, we had an abundance of cardboard boxes in our house, sowith the little addition of used cardboards I ended up making 3 drawers and an Almirah on the top of the drawers. I must admit, that though it was not my plan to make a huge storage almirah and drawers but at the end I am so happy as this thing is, indeed a huge space saver and much needed in the house.
About the size and measurement :- I had a little space near my couch in sitting room so opted to utilise that hence, in my case, I decided the width, depth and height according to the space available in the corner of my house. Things I used :- Cardboards knife Glue cable tie Duct tape Brown paper I Made 2 set of Almirha ( mirror image) to put them together. First things first, Like my every other cardboard project first you have to make sure that cardboard is hard enough to hold the weight. Make your cardboard sheet strong, for that I always stick 3 cardboard together to make a hard strong sheet . Each and every wall of my drawers are made up of 3 sheets of cardboards as shown in the picture down. Make 8 cardboard sheet for the cardboard base.
Thickness is about 1.5"
8 Sheets
Now make 8 (1.5" thick) strips of cardboard and stick them on the wall with the help of Glue and Cable tie like the picture shown below.
On theses stripes you are going to put your Drawer base. I also cover the edge with the brown paper to give them a nice finishing look. Now your base is ready for six drawers.
Now drawer base is ready, time to make some drawers, for drawers, just remember one thing that you have to stick 2-3 sheets to make it strong and after that cover/ decorate them with the paper of your choice.
For base I used wall paper and some decorative papers. Again every wall of my drawers and the base of drawers are made of 2-3 layers of cardboards.
As you can see the depth is really good of these drawers so again I did a little experiment with the last drawer. as shown in the picture below, I made 2 section in one drawer, A secret treasure place for my DS.
Well thats the fun part, my DS always enjoy making these things with me.
I used drawer magnet for the door of almirah. So that way every thing is hidden here.
made a little base for cardboard tube for hangers
Just cover everything with final sheet of cardboard to give it a nice neat finish look.
With its multiple dividers and drawers, this almirah is a great space saver to put away your stationery, accessories, clothes, toys and so on. It’s easy to make and you can be rest assured that everything will be organised and rule out the hush hush timings.. You can use your favourite wrapping paper or anything to create your own style, I used duct tape here.
I made this Almirah in september 2014, so it is now almost 2years old. In between we moved to another house and this almirha was again a BIG hit, we used it just like a cardboard carton and wrapped it in cling film. I am adding the recent picture of this Almirah working and in excellent condition.
Thanks for looking my little projects, don't forget to check my other cardboard make as well.
It was the surprise knowing that people actually do researches on card boards or on related things. I mean WOW!!!
I used to make little things to make my DS busy and was curious to google new ideas n tips when I accidentally found this amazing video on you tube (Bálint Fekete ). I watched this video hundreds of time because I was so impressed with the concept of cardboard bed and was so eager to try this and after reading the comments section only I came to know that this is a part of his thesis. You can find his video on you tube here as well.
As I mentioned earlier that I love recycling and do lot of experiments so I never throw them. Instead, I make them flat to hide them absolutely anywhere (this is the beauty of cardboard cartons), which I used to do in my previous accommodation. This time I was lucky enough to get separate storage place in my house hence they straight come to my storage. Luckily few days back we bought a new Ikea almirha so had a big carton in my store.
Well, because I didn't have any measurement or template so I started it just by hitting the arrow in the dark, absolutely, which was not easy. And at the end result was not bad for my cardboard bed.
Things I used for this -
:- Lot of card boards
:- Craft knife
:- Ruler / Inch tape
:- Cable tie (yeah I used some cable tie)
:- Duct tape Yeah, surprisingly No glue for this...lol!
cardboard pieces all together....
After adding the last piece it was looking like that
Now time to deal with this space
So simple...
Different shades of duct tape helped me up to made it more attractive n colorful. Along with this little drawers under it, turned it in extra useful and enhancing furniture.
Extra little drawers covered with Duck tape.
Extra storage for little things...
Oh I am loving this...
Today this bed is 9 months old.
It is a shame that I don't have a step by step tutorial or pictures, but of course, I have an end product and here it is!
If you like this cardboard bed you may like my cardboard stool for kids. Thanks for reading my page, if you have any suggestion for me, please drop me a comment.
Being the Mom of little kids what you always think is about your little one's, their activities n interest. You always enjoy to make them learn, play and engaged in different innovative and creative activities. Well, I saw my DS was taking interest in jigsaws on ipad. he was really good that at the age of 2.2 years he was able to solve 20+ pieces puzzle (I was really impressed) but I was not sure how he is going to deal with real jigsaw pieces.
So, I started looking for 2/3 pieces jigsaw puzzle and bought few of them (2 to 10 pieces) but soon after 3-4 go, they were lying in the corner of my home THAT'S IT! this gave me the idea of making jigsaw puzzles.
I made him around 20 puzzles (1 -15 piece) and I used to alter the pieces further, if I feel he is not taking interest or getting bored.
things I Used:-
Started with my B&W printer,
Some cereal box cardboard,
Some pamper cartons
Craft knife
Craft glue
And we are ready to go- My each puzzle is made of 2 A4 sheet (1 cereal cardboard n 1 pamper carton card board)
Print the design and stick it on carton and cut the outline.
For this puzzle I chose every possible black and white prints which includes animals and vehicles. B&W because my Dear Son enjoy painting, so together we colored them.
Glue cardboard and carton together.
For front side I used Pamper's carton and for the base I used cereal box card boards.
Let your kid join you in glueing and colouring...he did enjoy a lot.
And here is the result... not bad? I started with one piece.
like this...
When he got board with one piece, I cut it in a 2 piece and so on...right now its a 10 piece jigsaw puzzle
Well its time to do it ...
Now!!
It is a shame that I don't have a step by step tutorial or pictures, but of course, I have an end product and here it is!
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