How to make a paper cabinet

If a child wants to fill a dollhouse with furniture, then it is not at all necessary to look for it in stores - a toy paper cabinet will be an excellent alternative. And its creation is also a great opportunity to practice finger motor skills and introduce your child to the magical world of needlework.

What materials and tools are needed to make a paper cabinet?

If you are interested in origami furniture, then you should be prepared for the fact that the child will need the help of adults. Transforming a whole sheet into a cabinet element is not difficult. But it’s easy to get lost in the folds or “warp” them a little.

As a result, the child quickly gets bored with failures or crooked crafts and forgets about the magic of origami for a long time. How to make a cabinet out of paper? In a situation where there is a desire and opportunity to create with him, the following will come in handy:

• Colored paper;
• Ruler;
• Pencil;
• Scissors.

The second option is a cabinet made from scrap materials. Matchboxes, tea bag packaging, and even a simple sheet of packaging cardboard will come in handy. In order to turn “junk” into furniture, you need to have patience and:

• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Colored paper;
• Scrappings of ribbons or beads for decoration.

Having prepared everything you need, you can start working.

Step-by-step instructions for creating an origami cabinet

In some ways, paper furniture is even a little more complicated than adult furniture: a shelf made from a sheet of paper is not always made according to the “cut and fix” principle. Especially when it comes to the art of beautifully crumpling paper.

The origami cabinet consists of two elements:

• Shelves, which are made from a square sheet of paper (recommended minimum 7.5 x 7.5 cm);
• Rectangular housings (7.5 x 15 cm).

Important! If you need a larger craft, just increase the original size of the sheets of paper. But maintaining the proportion is mandatory: a rectangle is equal to two squares.

So, the shelf. Its step-by-step production looks like this:

1. The opposite corners of the square sheet are brought together one by one and the fold line is pressed with a finger only in the center - you should get a cross pointing to the center of the square.
2. The right and left sides of the sheet are folded to this point. Then the workpiece is turned over and the remaining two sides are reduced to the center.
3. The workpiece is bent along both diagonals.
4. Take one of the corners located in the center and move it to the side so that you get a triangular pocket. Then the action is repeated with the remaining three corners.
5. The resulting figure is folded in half, creating a double pocket, and opened.

The shelf is ready, it's time to start making the cabinet itself. The process is also quite simple:

1. The rectangle must be divided into 8 parts along the long side. To do this, the sheet is folded in half and only the center is marked. The fold cannot be ironed! Then the right edge is brought to the center. The fold line is ironed and, focusing on it, two more adjacent folds are made. Then the action is repeated on the opposite side.
2. The sheet is straightened and folded in half along the long side.Then the workpiece unfolds again and the sides are folded to the resulting fold.
3. On the resulting strip on the right, the second vertical is counted and the paper is folded back along it. The action is repeated on the left side.
4. The corners of the resulting rectangle are folded to the intersection point of the vertical and horizontal lines. It turns out to be a square with four triangles on the sides.
5. The tails bent back are unrolled, returning the workpiece to the appearance of a ribbon. Then, in the central area, it is opened and, using the existing folds, a box is formed into which the shelf is inserted.

The last stage is the double “wrapping” of the long tails inside the cabinet, after which the toy furniture can be considered ready.

What is the difference between making a cabinet from cardboard boxes?

Simplicity is the main feature of a DIY box cabinet. How to make a cardboard cabinet with your own hands? An empty tea bag, a sheet of colored paper and a little imagination - the chest of drawers is ready. Matchboxes work well as drawers.

And beads or pieces of ribbon will make excellent decorative handles. The best part about all this is that the child is quite capable of completing the task on his own: parental help will only be needed at the stage of assembling everything necessary.