Building a house from matches (27 photos)

9 September 2009

Today we will learn how to make houses from matches. This is a very interesting technique for making a souvenir (or pyrotechnic device :-)) from the cheapest material - matches. Moreover, you don’t need any glue or nails. Interested? Then let's go...

To make a house, we don’t need standard tools to create anything useful:

We will need: 1. Packing of matches (at best, we use only 5 boxes). 2. CD box or book (will serve as a table for assembly, which can be easily rotated without disturbing the structure itself) 3. Coin (ideally 3 Soviet kopecks, but you can use a 2 ruble coin. Paper money and Credit cards will not work :-) )

Place the CD box in front of you and begin assembly. Place two matches next to each other, parallel to each other, so that the distance between them is slightly less than the length of the match.

On top we make a flooring of 8 matches. The outermost matches should lie flat and form a square with those matches that lie below.

We lay the second layer of flooring (8 matches), perpendicular to the first. The matches that lie inside do not have to have equal distances between each other, but it will be easier if you immediately arrange them evenly.

Now we make a well of 7 rows. Try to make it even. The heads of the well matches should be located in a circle.

Carefully place a sheet of 8 matches on top of the well. It is desirable that the direction of the matches of the upper flooring be opposite to the lower one.

We lay the second flooring, but now from 6 matches. We will add the last 2 matches later. The resulting structure is pressed from above with a coin coin, like a press. Now we can work with the house by pressing it with our finger. If we had not used the coin, the matches would have stuck to our fingers and the house could have collapsed.

Holding the house with one finger, we stick corner vertical matches (head on top) along the edges of the house between the floorings.

The matches of the lower floorings can be moved apart with another match, but at the same time make sure that the house does not move off the lower matches.

So, four corner matches are stuck through the upper and lower floorings and stand on the disc box.

Very carefully we insert matches along the perimeter along the walls, pushing the flooring apart with an auxiliary match and pressing the structure with a finger.

We squeeze the walls of the house on all four sides. We take out a coin. We don't need her anymore.

Now you can pick up the house. We squeeze it from all sides.

We press in the matches that go along the perimeter to the end so that their heads press the flooring. The resulting square of match heads will serve as the foundation of the house, that is, from the very beginning we started building the house from the top.

We place the house on its rightful foundation. We ended up with a frame with the ends of matches sticking out in different directions. Now you can assemble the house in your hands, it will be more convenient. The protruding ends of the matches that we inserted around the perimeter will be the top of the house.

We make walls. The walls will consist of two layers of matches - vertical and horizontal. We insert vertical matches on one side of the house.

We do the same with the remaining 3 walls, inserting all the matches with their heads up.

Now we lay a horizontal layer of walls. The matches should go in a circle, as when building a well, and the heads of the matches should alternate with the ends of the matches. After all the matches are inserted, press the heads of the horizontal matches so that they press the matches of the adjacent wall.

Ok, almost everything is ready. All that remains is to make the roof. We insert the missing matches into the corner holes and, pushing the vertical matches of the wall from below, take them out halfway to the top. Don't be afraid, the house won't fall apart.

We lay the roof matches perpendicular to the top deck. Starting from the edges and alternating the directions of the matches, we put first 2, then 4, then 6 and in the two middle rows - 8 matches.

Now between the protruding vertical matches we insert the “tile” matches with their heads towards the middle (a rather complicated process, you will understand why). We press the “tiles” in a circle with the heads of the side matches, pressing on them with our fingers.

That's it, the house is ready. It can be decorated with a pipe (4 whole matches are inserted into the roof), windows and a door (break the matches in half and insert into the walls).