Matches, if you look closely, looks more like miniature logs, and the first thing that comes to mind when you think about crafts, it's how to make a house of my own hands. You can build from them both using glue and without it. This article will describe both options.
For beginners, it is recommended to collect a simple house on the principle of the well. It is going out of 7 boxes of matches on a stand. Detailed video at the end of the article.
Basic design for more complex crafts - cube. Having learned to collect it, it is much easier to learn the construction of fortresses and multi-storey houses.
Cube assembly stages:
The simplest crafts:
Wheels from matches:
Little well made of matches:
Mill from cubes:
For the smallest
It is necessary to discard the outdated stereotype of "Match Children is not a toy", because just matches can serve as an excellent developing material for the child. Observing as adults are laid out on a flat surface of a figure of matches, the baby learns accuracy, develops attention and patience, as well as the memory if the memory figures begin to collect. For example, a figure of a figure of matches:
You can also lay out letters and numbers from matches, and the child will remember them better in the game than in the lesson. A little time later, the baby himself will begin to collect figures, then you can offer him to make a picture.
So it will learn to work with glue.
Then you can proceed to bulk figures.
And start doing masterpieces from matches.
Photo:
Complex structures
Having mastered the basic knowledge of the assembly of cubes from matches, you can start building large buildings. This church can be built, almost without applying glue. Instructions for assembling cubes.
From one cube you need to push 4 matches using toothpick or one more match for pushing.
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Captured matches should be preferably cleared of sulfur so that they are easier to enter another cube.
For reliability, you can push not 4, but 6 matches.
To make sure that the fixing matches got into place (half in one Cuba, half in the other), you need to check the match.
Here is such a layout assembled from cubes:
To build such a cottage, you will need cardboard and glue:
The plan of such a house, like more complex buildings, is first drawn on paper, calculating the length of the matches. As can be seen in the photo, many matches are cleaned, or simply they are cut off their heads. All this also needs to be considered when developing a plan. The finished circuit is transferred to cardboard, cut it out, carefully cut through all the holes: windows, doors, foolits, arches; And begin to stick matches on the cardboard. After the walls are ready, they are collected, building a castle or palace, and even the whole city.
Instead of matches use straws:
And sticks:
There are several ways to build walls from matches. All of them are based on gluing matches with each other. This is a very painstaking work requiring tremendous patience. Here is such a workpiece for the wall consists of three blocks:
Two blocks consist of 10 matches in length and 2 width, and one block wide in 2, and the length of the half.
Video on the topic
For beginners:
Coles made of matches without glue:
Valuable information:
Cube connection:
How to launder sulfur: