House
Last year I offered my help to create set decorations for my daughter's play at the local theatre. They need a house and castle...yikes. Always up for a crafty challenge.
As you can see from the photographs below I use the largest boxes I could find and started cutting out a house. Since the play was a simple community children's play, the house didn't need to be very tall.
I cut out 4" strips of cardboard from other boxes i had and then cut the strips every 4" (give or take, it doesn't need to be perfect) to have roughly 4" x 4" squares. I did not use a ruler for the cutting.
I then glued them to my roof pieces to make them look like they were shingle pieces.
I then painted the walls of the house using left over home latex paint.
I also cut up strange rounded pieces to immigrate stones for the bottom of my house. I then glued them to the bottom of the house and tried my hand at faux stone...
As you can see from the photographs below I use the largest boxes I could find and started cutting out a house. Since the play was a simple community children's play, the house didn't need to be very tall.
I cut out 4" strips of cardboard from other boxes i had and then cut the strips every 4" (give or take, it doesn't need to be perfect) to have roughly 4" x 4" squares. I did not use a ruler for the cutting.
I then glued them to my roof pieces to make them look like they were shingle pieces.
I then painted the walls of the house using left over home latex paint.
I also cut up strange rounded pieces to immigrate stones for the bottom of my house. I then glued them to the bottom of the house and tried my hand at faux stone...
I found some fake grass tiles at my local dollar store. I took them all apart and then used a glue gun to glue them at the bottom of the house to imitate grass.
I cut two large rectangles the height of the window, glued mini strips of cardboard to each of one, glued them on either side of the window and then painted them, creating very simple shudders.
I used another piece of cardboard and cut it in such a way that I created a windowsill flower box. Painted it. Bought dollar store plastic flowers and glued them in side the box.
I then completed the house by adding simple details, attaching the roof and painting anything that needed to be painted.
Voilà!
I cut two large rectangles the height of the window, glued mini strips of cardboard to each of one, glued them on either side of the window and then painted them, creating very simple shudders.
I used another piece of cardboard and cut it in such a way that I created a windowsill flower box. Painted it. Bought dollar store plastic flowers and glued them in side the box.
I then completed the house by adding simple details, attaching the roof and painting anything that needed to be painted.
Voilà!
Castle
Using the largest cardboard boxes I could find I cut out three arches, applied tower details to the two side arches and then added cardboard and commercial packing foam (comes in sheets) stone cut outs to the entire surface. I left two large cardboard pieces in each of the end arches to allow placement of set weights. These weights allowed the castle to remain up right during the play.
I painted every inch of cardboard in different shades of grey and tried my hand again at faux stone painting.
The result surprised even me. This actually looked cool to the 8 year olds.
I painted every inch of cardboard in different shades of grey and tried my hand again at faux stone painting.
The result surprised even me. This actually looked cool to the 8 year olds.
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