Day 144: Matchbox houses

Day 144 of #365 Creative #Ideas to do with your kids: Do you have empty matchboxes at home? How to make a matchbox cat house:
1. Cover a matchbox with a piece of orange felt, leaving the
ends of the matchbox clear for the inside drawer to slide out
easily. Secure with glue or sticky tape.
2. Cut out a triangle of red felt and paste onto the matchbox to make a roof. Cut out two small blocks and paste on the front of the house as windows.
3. Draw a cat face on a small round stone.
4. Cut two triangular ears out of cream felt and stick them onto the back of the stone.
5. Place the cat in the matchbox cat house!
How to make a matchbox bunny hatch:
1. Cover a matchbox with a piece of pink felt, leaving the ends of the matchbox clear
for the inside drawer to slide out easily. Secure with glue or sticky tape.
2. Cut some grass out of green felt and glue onto the pink felt, leaving the grass blades free from glue (see previous page).
3. Find a small round stone for your bunny. Cut ears, two eyes and a small round tail out of cream felt.
4. Draw pupils on the eyes with a black felt tip pen.
5. Stick the eyes onto the front of the stone, and the ears and tail onto the back of the stone.
6. Line the matchbox with green felt grass and send your bunny into her hatch!
How to make a matchbox fish tank:
1. Cover a matchbox with a piece of blue felt, leaving the ends of the matchbox clear
for the inside drawer to slide out easily. Secure with glue or sticky tape.
2. Cut some waves out of cream or white felt and glue onto the blue felt.
3. Find a small round stone for your fish. Cut fins, a mouth and tail out of cream or white felt.
4. Draw fish scales and an eye with a blue felt tip pen on the stone (see photograph on
page 61).
5. Glue the fins, mouth and tail onto the back side of the stone.
6. Place the fish into the matchbox fish tank!
From my book, Kids’ Market Days (Struik 2014), email me on sam@kidsdecor.co.za if you would like to buy a book.