More Paper House and Building Templates

by Linda | Jan 14, 2011 | DIY printables

As promised, I’m back with a few more paper templates for various house shapes and buildings. I thought it would be cool to explore other types of buildings…sort of creating a village or quaint town with paper. Here you can see that I created a little paper birdhouse shape, a tall tower house and a swirly roof building. Still some kinks to work out and much learnings in creating templates, but the results are cool to look at either way.

There are those little details to consider and brush up on though…how big tabs should be in proportion to the object itself and how your final project looks at different angles. I’ve realized that double sided paper would really make the houses look more finished in the end. Or just use colored cardstock as I did with the birdhouse roof. Let me know if you have any tips, suggestions or requests! If you haven’t seen yet, check out the regular house and home templates post. And below you can download this next set of three – birdhouse, tall tower and swirly roof building.

Download zip file of birdhouse template, tall tower house and swirly roof building

Let me know what you think and if you have fun with these – perhaps constructing them with the kids? If I had access to a mega copier I would enlarge the templates to a bigger size and see what comes of it. Imagine a little paper miniland! You can also just use the template shapes and create your own house designs and decorations. Above all, have fun! Ciao ciao for now.

A House and Home Paper Template

by Linda | Dec 31, 2010 | DIY printables

I had previously posted a bag and box template, but those templates actually came out of my original experimentation with creating a house with paper. Actually, it all started with a birdhouse template video I saw by Marion Smith and I thought I could create my own version of a house or home from that idea. After a bunch of prototypes I’ve realized there are two options possible and I’ve included both below for download, so you can play along! One version has the roof separated, so it can overhang on top of the house shape…the other is just all one piece folded up like a box. Simpler in some respects but you don’t get the overhanging of the roof detail…

From experimenting, I’ve realized there are a lot of details to figure out in creating a template. I’m sure more can be perfected in regards to what I’ve posted, but I’m happy to have figured out that I can do it myself! It’s fun to realize that really we can make any shape we want and of course the thicker the cardstock the more sturdy it will be in the end. I suppose you can use the template to create the shape with any material type that is sturdy enough!

Download house templates PDF files

In my examples I’ve used regular copy paper which results in a flimsy structure. Not only that, it’s hard to glue everything together when the paper is not so sturdy – go with wet adhesive if possible! I’m sure I’ll be trying out other shapes and exploring more papercrafting and design on them as well. I like to create these custom little pieces, super fun and now I’m thinking I can create an entire village so the kids can play with them…cool! Let me know if you have any requests or ideas as well 🙂 Enjoy!

Also, let me take a moment to say – have a fabulous holiday season and a MEGA Happy New Year – until 2011! Ciao ciao!

Christmas Candy Cane Treat Box Template

by Linda | Dec 20, 2010 | DIY printables

For our Christmas dinner this year, I’ve been trying a few different ways to incorporate a papercraft into our table setting. Obvious option is to make a festive place card. In experimenting and playing around I somehow ended up with a treat box instead. Not sure if I’ll be using this for our table setting, but I figured since it’s a cute template I’ve already created…might as well share!

Download Christmas Candy Cane Treat Box Template

You basically just fold along the dotted line guides and then cut out the whole shape. You glue the white flap to the inside and fold up the bottom flaps in the order numbered, slipping the last flap into the slit that remains. So it seals up nicely by itself. These would be a great Christmas treat boxe as party favors or punch a hole and hang them up in a garland…lots of possibilities. I was thinking to put names in the circle label so they could actually be place cards… but I’m just not sure I want to give everyone treats before dinner 🙂 Let me know what you think and enjoy!

[update]

To try to make it clearer, I’m adding a photo of my sample, so you can sort of see what it looks like. Basically, the circle label is on the front side of the long top flaps. I’ve just attached them by punching a hole and tying with ribbon, but you could staple or punch two holes to string ribbon through. For the box itself, I guess more of a bag – you basically fold the entire paper along those dotted line guides. Then it’ll be easy to glue the white flap to the inside. Then the bottom section doesn’t really require glue at all, just push down the flaps in the order numbered and the fourth flap is slipped into the slit… you might have seen this kind of construction in other boxes.  Really simple… have fun!