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As a business owner, matchboxes are a great way to brand and advertise your business to current and professional customers. After all, they would see it multiple times because you are giving them a practical and useful piece of marketing. The result is that a box match becomes more than just a branding tool.
However, these matchboxes are not only good for marketing, but they can also be useful to create various artistic or other creative and practical pursuits. With that in mind, let’s talk about 11 craft ideas where you can use matchboxes.
Beds for Smaller Toys
Buying doll furniture can be pricey, simply because they offer a number of options at your local toy store. However, matchboxes can be turned into beds or other pieces of doll furniture. Get creative by using cabinet shelf paper to add color and design. Plus, you can add blankets or other items, giving your kids more to play with. There is also the bonus of being able to craft these matchbox furniture pieces with your children, allowing them to express their own creativity.
Advent Calendar
Although the holiday season has just passed, there is not reason to be thinking about ideas for the next one. Matchboxes are a great way to create an advent calendar, plus allowing you to be creative in the process.
Doll Beds
While we talked about doll furniture, this craft idea is specific to creating customizable beds that allow you to give your kids a chance to express their imagination. It might even allow you to create a few small dolls, adding another layer of fun to the crafting process.
Build Your Own Town
Matchboxes can turn into storefronts, allowing your kids to create their own town. If they have trains, then the matchboxes can also be part of the town that your train drives through. With their rectangle shape and thin size, they can become the right fit for any new toy town.
Dolls
The fun of a matchbox is that you can also turn it into a toy. Allow for creativity using paper, a matchbox, and crayons or markers to create your own unique matchbox doll.
Musical Instruments
Your mini dolls might want to listen or play music and matchboxes can be transformed into a variety of different musical instruments. They can be as detailed or unique as you want.
Make an Art Display
Matchboxes can be taken apart, thus allowing you to turn them into mini pieces of art, which can then be hung in a doll house or even allow you to create a mini art gallery. The results of this miniature gallery can be a lot of comments and hours of fun.
Mini Camera
Many kids love the idea of taking pictures and so a mini camera could be the right toy for them to add to their doll collection. Using a matchbox and a piece of ribbon, along with paint and markers, you can end up with a toy camera that compliments their play area. The end result is that they have the type of creative additions for their dolls that they want without it being a big ding to your budget.
Make a Travel Gift
If you are looking to make a gift for a friend who likes to travel, you might want to consider tying two mini suitcases to the ribbon. Using a couple of matchboxes, you can decorate them and turn a matchbox into a piece of luggage. Mini suitcases can also be a creative addition to your keys.
Postal Delivery
Turn a few matchboxes into packages of mail, adding them as a decorative twist to your mailbox. You can choose to make these little packages another fun addition to your kids’ dollhouse or play area. The beauty of these boxes is that their craft ideas are only limited by your own imagination and what you can envision.
Build a Collection of Matchbox Art
Another part of your creative matchbox art is building a collection to showcase all of your efforts to turn matchboxes into something else. The reality is that once you finish off the matches, that empty box can have another life, allowing you to produce new toys or fun displays for the holidays, thus turning them into art.
As a business, you might want to create matchboxes that are artistic in their own right, thus encouraging people to want to add them to their collection. Contact our knowledgeable and experienced team, who can help you customize your matchboxes to fit your brand within your marketing budget.
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