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The robot is one of the favorite crafts for kids of all ages. Figures can be made independently from a variety of and sometimes even unexpected materials: from unnecessary boxes to edible mastic. Let us consider in detail in what ways a robot can be made quickly and easily with our own hands. Descriptions and step by step photos are given below.

We make various robots with our own hands in step-by-step master classes

Crochet robot Bibi.

One of the cutest and funniest characters is the robot Bibi from everyone's favorite "Smeshariki". It is easy to crochet a round figure from the remains of multi-colored yarn.

Necessary materials:
  • acrylic or cotton yarn yellow and turquoise, as well as some black, brown, green and red threads;
  • hook suitable size;
  • synthetic winterizer;
  • cardboard;
  • wire;
  • needle;
  • scissors.
Operating procedure.

Threads yellow color we collect two loops and close them in a ring, tie it with 6 single crochet columns. In the second row, we knit 12 single crochets, then evenly add 6 columns in each row. We knit from 9 to 16 row without increments, in each row there should be 48 columns. From the 17th row, we reduce the loops in the reverse order, until we get a round workpiece. As we knit, we fill the part with padding polyester.

Let's start knitting the body. For one part, we collect two air loops with turquoise threads, close them in a ring and tie it with 6 single crochet columns. In the second row we knit 12 single crochets. In the third and subsequent rows, we make uniform increments of 6 columns, alternating between classic and embossed columns... In row 9, we knit the last increase, you should get 54 single crochet. We knit the next row without increments, then we tie the workpiece with half-columns, introducing the hook for back wall loops. In the 12th row, alternate 2 single crochets, a bump of 4 unfinished double crochets and 8 single crochets. Then, in the 13th row, we tie the resulting hemisphere with single crochet columns and cut off the thread. We knit the second part in the same way. You can use other knitting patterns for the case.

We collect yellow base and body parts, leaving room for the eyes. We knit handles of arbitrary shape from turquoise threads and attach them to the body. Then from the scraps of thread we knit wheels, an antenna, decorative keys and bulbs, eyes. Sew on the details to the figure, embroider the pupils and highlights on the eyes. We first insert the wire into the antenna and twist it with a spiral. Cut the threads and thread them carefully. Robot Bibi is ready!

Soft toy made of felt.

Who said that a robot must necessarily be made of metal and plastic or, at worst, cardboard? A funny robot girl made of felt may well replace soft toy or a miniature amigurumi figure.

For making a small toy in amigurumi style from soft felt or fleece we cut out square parts of the following sizes:

  • 4.5 cm for the torso;
  • 3.5 cm for the head;
  • 2.0 cm for legs;
  • 1.5 cm for hands.

For each part of the body, you will need 6 squares. If desired, the size of the blanks can be significantly increased so that a large soft toy can be sewn.

We cut out blanks without allowances or with minimum allowances of 1-2 mm. Sewing details on each side basting stitch until you get a cube. Before stitching the last side, we fill the workpiece with synthetic fluff or other filler. We make sure that the filler fibers do not stick out along the edges of the cube, if necessary, cut off the excess.

In a similar way, we sew all parts of the body of the future robot and connect them together with a needle and thread or a glue gun. Sew on eyes from half beads, embroider eyelashes, if desired, sew on a bow and other decorations. The miniature figurine can be made in the form of a magnet on the refrigerator, a keychain or a brooch.

Robot made of boxes.

A funny and very cute robot is made from unnecessary boxes. You can use the whole boxes to get the item big size, or trimming boxed corrugated board to obtain a miniature figure.

To do little robot out of the boxes, you can use the following template.

Pattern the right size transfer to cardboard and carefully fold the parts along the fold lines. To avoid the formation of torn creases and folds, you should use a clerical knife. In the details for the head, we carefully make cuts in the form of eyes and nose; if desired, the shape of the holes can be modified. We glue all the allowances with PVA glue or "Moment" and assemble the figure, starting from the body. Arms and legs can be made to swivel so they can move.

If you have ready-made, neat and clean boxes of the right size, you can use them. This method is great for beginners. Similarly, you can make a robot from other, more durable materials - wood or plywood. In this case, it is necessary to cut out the blanks from the plywood. required size, sand the edges and glue them into cubes with duct tape. Further, the assembly is carried out by analogy with a figure made of cardboard or ready-made boxes.

Robot from matchboxes.

A simple and cute robot can be made from matchboxes.

To make the craft, you will need 9 matchboxes, colored paper and glue. Paste over five boxes for pens, legs and head with colored paper, on the blank for the head, draw an image of the face with a black marker. Glue the four remaining boxes together and paste over the resulting blank with colored paper. Assemble the robot, decorate it if you wish: make antennas from matches or sticks, stick or draw additional elements.

Robot made of packs of cigarettes.

The classic craft of our childhood is a robot from a pack of cigarettes. To make it, you will need several empty packs and glue.

We assemble the body from 8 packs, glue the head on top, placing the cigarette packs perpendicular to the body. We make ears and mouth from the covers. We collect legs from three packs each and put a body with a glued head on them. From two packs we make an arm bent at the elbow. We glue the handles to the body in the places of the covers. We decorate the face of the robot, we make eyes and antennas from pieces of cardboard.

Application of geometric shapes.

Even toddlers can handle robot imaging with ease - funny applique from geometric shapes.

Must be drawn and cut in advance geometric figures different shapes and size: circles, rectangles, squares, triangles. Using PVA glue or a glue stick, together with the child, glue the figures on a sheet of paper so that we get an image of a robot. Use a marker to draw small details or decorate the background. This work will teach kids to navigate in colors, sizes and shapes, and develop fine motor skills.

Earrings "Robot" made of wire.

In the form of a robot can be crafted unusual decoration – original earrings made of wire and large beads.

We cut the wire into pieces of the same size and make dense spirals out of them, winding it onto a rod or a thin tube. We fold the head from a wire, four spirals and two beads of white or silver color, thread the ends of the wire into a large colored bead and unbend it to the sides to form hands. Each hand will need two spirals and four small beads. Having folded the arms of the robot, we proceed to the formation of the body and legs. To do this, we again pass the ends of the wire through a large colored bead and make legs, consisting of two spirals and a small bead each. We fix and cut the wire. In the same way we make the second earring, attach the ear wires.

A robot made of plastic bottles.

From waste material you can do a lot various crafts... A very unusual and original robot figurine is obtained from plastic bottles.

In order to make such a robot, it is necessary to cut off the neck and bottom of the bottle for the body using a clerical knife, and also to cut out the curly parts for the arms and legs. We will use covers and other details from plastic containers... With the help of an awl we make holes in the right places and connect all the blanks with wire. We fix the wire and hide it inside the figurine.

Mastic robot.

An edible robot can be made from mastic and used to decorate a cake for a children's party.

To make such a figurine, you will need food mastic of red, blue and white... We sculpt each part separately and connect with toothpicks or glue. Last but not least, we make out the face and make additional details. The cake candles can be used as antennas.

Video selection on the topic of the article

You will learn how to make other variants of robots by watching the videos below.

Master class for classmates. The master class can be used for independent work children on creative design from waste material. Designed for children 9-10 years old. A ready-made Spacebot made of matchboxes can decorate a nursery near a computer. And it can also be used for role-playing games.

Materials and tools

How to make a space robot from matchboxes with your own hands? Step by step instructions for children and adults.

Each matchbox must be wrapped in foil. To do this, you need to cut strips wide as Matchbox... To prevent the foil from unfolding, attach it with hot glue.

We make robot arms. We connect two boxes with an insert from one box, placing it between them.

Cut the second insert in half and insert it on both sides of the robot arm, as if closing the end sides. The hand is ready. We do the second in the same way.

To make the legs of the robot, you also need to connect two glued boxes. And glue one additional box to the bottom of the leg.

This is what the finished leg part looks like. You need to make two of them.

Legs are connected Bottom part torso. To make it, we glue glued boxes flat on top of one another. Fix the robot legs with hot glue on the resulting part.

We make the chest part of the craft from four glued boxes.

Then we connect the chest and lower parts.

Now we glue the robot arms. They can be lowered down, as in the picture below.

But we made them so that they are stretched forward, because the space robot must be ready to defend. And his weapon only in this position of his hands can be aimed at a space enemy. In order for our robot to create the impression of a full-fledged transformer, we decorate the details of the arms and legs with circles cut from a bottle cork. Glued in the center of the parts, they represent the hinges.

Let's move on to making the head.

To do this, we wrap the parts of the insert from the Kinder surprise egg with foil. Each half is separate.

We connect the halves by hiding the ends of the folded foil inward.

Here's what happened

And on the head, make antennas from handy material.

Space robot transforming for a star journey is ready!

All parents dream of giving their kids a happy and bright childhood complete unforgettable experience... And it's very easy to do if you turn a child's life into a game and add a little fantasy.

You can create your own unique robot from ordinary things, for example, cardboard box... In this case, the child himself, who climbed into the box, will become a robot. And only you will have such a robot, no one else will. You can't buy anything like this in Baby Toys

Known child artist Vivien Schwartz will help bring this idea to life. She created amazing book... This is a game book, a comic book, an instruction book with amazingly lively and funny illustrations.

A comic story about a boy who, together with his mother, assembles a robot from an empty cardboard box, will help make an interactive robot.

Invite your child to feel like a real construction set. Take the robot in a few steps.

Step 1. Take one little fidget and one large cardboard box.

Step 2. Have the child put the box on himself.

Step 3. Create a surveillance system.

Mark the slots for the eyes with a felt-tip pen. Cut the holes. Test the surveillance system. If necessary, glue the old holes and cut new ones elsewhere.

It can be whatever you want:

Step 4. Make a hole for receiving and dispensing.

You can make as many inlet and outlet holes as you like. The size and shape of the holes depends on their purpose. You can also add a hinged valve, an inclined gutter and a tray.

Step 5. Equip the robot with a display so that everyone knows what it is doing at this moment.

The display should show the operating mode of the robot. Think about what labels your robot might need to interact with outside world... To control the robot, place the command display on the outside.

And if you want to travel in time and space, then make such a display.

Step 6. Complete your robot with different details.

Look around and you will see many objects that can become parts of the robot. Replace parts frequently with other parts to keep your robot ready for any situation.

Each parent tries to give the baby all the best: interesting educational toys designed specifically for children's needs. And the kids will definitely love it!

But does the finished toy always benefit the child? Many of us have observed how modern children have a moment of "satiety" with benefits. Then they simply lose interest in toys: there are too many of them. Often, when meeting, children do not come up with joint games, but simply are engaged in "sorting out" toys - they only have time to familiarize themselves with the toys at a party, but not to play.

And parents just shrug their shoulders: we would have such toys in our childhood! And what did we play, remember? We made furniture for dolls from matchboxes, cardboard houses; the grass and fruits in the yard were the most varied food: yellow dandelions - eggs, dandelion leaves - cucumbers, acorns - zucchini, chestnuts - pumpkins, "helicopter noses" - bananas, foliage was banknotes. Yes, and the houses themselves, the store, the hospital, we sometimes arranged on a tree. Was it interesting? Of course!!! After all, we ourselves invented all this, and in the land of children's fantasies, attributes are not so important. No wonder they say that before, to become a princess, it was enough just to put on tights on your head. But with our children, for some reason, we go the other way, taking away the opportunity to experiment and invent.

The fact is that the mass of ready-made toys interferes with the flight of children's imagination. Who can prove that beautiful plastic vegetables and fruits are better than our baby dandelions? For children, the very process of playing and inventing is important, and not the result - a specific object - a toy.

The Maternity.ru portal invites you to plunge into the world of forgotten matchbox crafts. We will show you how you can make military equipment, furniture for dolls, fairytale characters and animals, interesting details.

Military equipment

On the eve of the holiday on February 23, we will first of all talk about the models military equipment... They can be presented to dad, grandfathers, taken to Kindergarten and school, use to play at home.

See what theater of war your son or grandson can play. With the independent production of such toys, the child develops well fine motor skills hands, perseverance and a desire to achieve the goal, the child develops interest and motivation, he gains self-confidence from the fact that he can do all this himself. Let's not deprive children of this, shall we?

Special equipment

Various cars can be made from this wonderful material at hand. For example, an ambulance fire truck, bus, taxi, traffic police car.

With such crafts, you can participate in various competitions.

Heroes of fairy tales, animals

Using colored paper, glue, matchboxes, you can make the heroes of your favorite fairy tale or cartoon. Look, the heroes of which fairy tale are shown in the photo?

Wonderful African animals and our dear Cheburashka are also made of matchboxes.

Young children love small toys and interesting attributes to them. A whole house for an unusual animal may well be located inside a matchbox. You can put it in your pocket and carry it everywhere.

Educational games from matchboxes

Games for child development can be made on the basis of matchboxes.

It can be a game of associations, learning letters and numbers, and so on. Make thematic images: who lives where; who eats what.

Matchbox toy furniture

Matchboxes are the basis for making toy furniture, and then everything depends on your imagination and material for decoration.
The furniture assembly scheme looks like this:

You can decorate furniture in your own way: with colored paper, cloth, toothpicks, wallpaper and self-adhesive film, using decoupage technique.

With the help of matchboxes, you can make and unusual items interior: TV, washing machine, piano, suitcase, frame for photos or paintings in the doll house.

We emphasize once again that everything ingenious is quite simple. And the interesting new is the well forgotten old. Now you most likely won't throw matchboxes and waste material for a wide variety of creative designs!

Sources of diagrams and photographs:

To make this miniature suitcase in a retro style, you need thick brown paper (two shades), an empty matchbox and funny pictures (these will be "badges"). We glue the boxes with paper, make a handle, “belts” and decorate with retro “badges” - the suitcase is ready.

Miniature photo album


Do you want to surprise and delight your loved ones? Then give them such a miniature photo album as a gift. To do this, you will need: a matchbox, glue, paints, postcards or scrap paper, scissors, brushes and, of course, tiny photographs. Decorate the box and place a miniature photo screen in it. Such an album can always be worn near the heart - in a breast pocket.

Screen book


By the same principle, you can make a baby book. Print out short stories, come up with illustrations, make a screen and stick it in boxes. Perhaps such unusual shape will awaken the child's interest in reading.


7 empty matchboxes can be used to make this cute giraffe. You just need to make a frame, glue it with paper and decorate. it great idea for joint creativity with children.

Mini zoo


You can make not only a giraffe from matchboxes, but also a whole zoo. Take four boxes, paint them gray (hippo), orange (lion), light and dark brown(bear and donkey). Glue the corresponding muzzles on top. You will get a bright and original gift for your baby.


You can (and should!) Confess your love not only on February 14, but all year round... Moreover, it is so simple: take a matchbox, glue it with beautiful paper, attach a couple of hearts - and you're done. In addition, you can (and should!) Put something tasty inside - you get a very sweet confession.

Garland surprise


On New Year, as well as any other holiday, you can make such a bright garland with surprises. Cut stars out of glossy paper and glue matchboxes with sweets, nuts and other goodies to them.

Christmas calendar


In America and Europe on the eve of new year holidays it is customary to make the so-called Advent calendar. This is a kind of postcard, consisting of 24 "pockets" (according to the number of days before Christmas). Inside these cases are sweets, small gifts, notes with biblical quotes or just kind words. One surprise is opened a day, thus recharging the pre-holiday mood. You can also make a calendar like this. Simple but very beautiful way- a mosaic of matchboxes.

Christmas decorations


Christmas decorations in the shape of Christmas deer and Santa Claus are matchboxes pasted over with paper and with felt faces. If you show your imagination, then the Snow Maiden, the Snowman and other New Year's characters may also appear on your Christmas tree.

Gift wrap


In such an original box, you can give a ring, earrings or other "little things". And it remains to be seen which will be more valuable - the box or its contents. After all, as you know, the most best gift- handmade. To turn a matchbox into original packaging, you need scrap paper and other decorative elements, as well as your imagination.


The boys will surely love the idea of ​​making a plane with their own hands. This requires a matchbox and colored cardboard. Cut out blanks from cardboard: two wide strips, one long narrower and two narrow small ones. And then, as they say, it's a matter of technology.

Robot


Another "male" toy is matchbox robots. In this case, the boxes are used as parts of the constructor. To get a real Iron Man, the main thing is to glue and paint correctly.


For girls, you can make a chic doll furniture... A little imagination, and gray matchboxes turn into exquisite nightstands and desks. Detailed master class you will find by following the link below.


No modern lady can do without a computer, so in dollhouse your daughter just needs a computer desk. Matchboxes will come to the rescue again. Glue them together to form a table with drawers, and decorate it to your liking. "Computer", by the way, can also be made out of a box.


Matchboxes can be used to make not only doll furniture, but also dolls themselves. To do this, you need to draw on the label or make a little girl using the scrapbooking technique, while the matches sticking out of the open box will play the role of her legs.

Confetti boxes


Arranging a party is easy. One of the recipes great party Are matchboxes + confetti. Decorate the boxes brighter and pour confetti in them - it will be convenient to store and use.


If matchboxes (or rather their "sliding" part) are glued together, make cells different sizes, paint them or make decoupage, stick photos inside, decorate with flowers and other decorative elements, you get a very original and beautiful panel... You will find a detailed master class below. But remember: the point of any tutorial is not to repeat it, but to be inspired by your own creativity.


Print beautiful picture, stick it on the "canvas" of matchboxes, and then carefully cut along the contour of each box to make the pieces of the puzzle. In this way, you can also make a photo puzzle - great gift for loved ones.


Matchboxes can serve not only for entertainment but also for educational purposes. So, if instead of labels you stick images of various animals with their names, you get a kind of "cubes". Of course, the theme can be anything - fruits, colors, professions, etc.


Another game useful for the development of the child is called "Who lives where?" And it can also be made at home using matchboxes. To do this, you need to stick a picture on the label with the habitat of this or that animal (for example, an aquarium), and inside a box - with the animal itself (fish). Thanks to this, the baby will quickly and easily remember who lives where.


For your child to quickly learn numbers and the alphabet, try to offer him such "abacus" and "alphabet". On the matchboxes write 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., and put as many matches inside as is written on the box; or write letters, and paste pictures inside with words starting with these letters.


Dutch illustrator Kim Velling is convinced that it takes only one to cheer up a person. kind word or smiles. But what if no one is around? Make a "box of inspiration" - says Kim. This is an ordinary matchbox, inside which there is an encouraging or parting note and a cute picture. You can carry it with you and at any time, taking it out of your pocket, improve your mood.


With matchboxes and beautiful paper you can make original seating cards for guests at the wedding. All you need to do is print out the names of the invitees and paste over the boxes. Guests will be able to take the matches with them; such a souvenir will remind them of your celebration for a long time.


Bonbonniere is such beautiful box, in which they put souvenirs and small surprises for guests at weddings, anniversaries, name days or other celebrations. Initially, candies were used to fill such boxes (even the word "bonbonniere" comes from the French "bonbon" - "candy"). But now everything is put inside: from key rings to aromatic oils. As you can see, making a bonbonniere is simple, you can just decorate an ordinary matchbox.

Small items storage box


You can't tell right away that these elegant chests of drawers are made of banal matchboxes. However, this is the case. The technology of their creation, on the one hand, is simple, but on the other, it will require a lot of imagination and perseverance. But, you see, the result is worth it - beautiful and functional. These boxes can be used to store jewelry, paper clips and other little things.