Children's games are largely based on imitating the actions of adults. Children (first of all, girls) enjoy watching and copying everything that their mother or grandmother does. Each baby has a doll-mom, dad and their children who live their own family life, prepare food, go to work, do homework, watch TV and go to bed.
For a full-fledged play, dolls, of course, need their own house. Of course, the modern assortment of toy stores makes it easy to solve the furnishing problem. They have absolutely everything: from bedroom sets to household appliances, plastic products and utensils. However, this kind of doll furniture costs absolutely unthinkable money.
Any materials can become the basis for doll furniture!
It's easier to do everything you need with your own hands. Such an exciting process will undoubtedly interest your child as well. The crumb will certainly make the feasible work when creating sofas, tables and cabinets for your favorite toys. Let's figure out what kind of furniture you can quickly and easily make with your own hands, and also find out what tools you need for this.
Do not think that the process of making doll furniture is hard work that takes your time and energy. Try to make doll furniture on your own just once, and you simply will not be able to stop, because this is not just another way to save money!
It is a fun creative process in which you and your child can show off-the-box thinking and sense of style. At the same time, you will master all kinds of decorating techniques and get another fun joint activity that will brighten up long autumn and winter evenings.
Assembling doll furniture is a very fun and creative process.
Take a look around - you will immediately notice how many items that usually go to the trash can you can use! They will become the basis for the manufacture of all kinds of dollhouse items. If you decide to make furniture with your own hands, stock up on such available tools:
Matchbox is one of the cheapest and most affordable materials
After you have prepared a sufficient number of necessary items, you can start making furniture for dolls.
Dolls love to preen themselves, so they simply cannot do without a table with a mirror! To make such a table, prepare:
Stages of making a table:
The hair dye box will become the base of the dressing table.
Storing clothes requires dressers with drawers in the room. To make a doll's chest of drawers you will need:
Stages of making a dressing table:
Matchboxes are a great material for making a chest of drawers.
When the dolls gather for tea in the living room, they need a table on which to place the cups from the set of dishes. This piece of furniture will require the following items:
Step-by-step process of making a table:
No living room can do without an elegant sofa, for which you will need the following items:
When making doll furniture, creativity and ingenuity are important.
Stages of sofa manufacturing:
Not a single dollhouse can do without a sufficient number of beds, because girls are so happy to put their wards to bed before they go to rest. There are several simple options making beds for dolls.
Option 1: Matchbox bed
For little babies or toys, you can make a mini-version of the bed from matchboxes. To do this, you will need:
What you need to do to make a crib:
A cardboard bed is the most popular piece of doll furniture
Option 2: Large crib out of the box
In this case, you need to stock:
Manufacturing process:
Each doll should have its own place, because for receiving guests, dining or dressing up at the dressing table, little residents of the toy house will definitely need comfortable armchairs.
Option 1: Cardboard armchair
To make this chair you need:
Chair manufacturing steps:
With cardboard and paper at hand, you can make a beautiful chair for dolls.
Option 2: Plastic bottle designer chair
Such a chair will be no worse than modern designer furniture, and for its manufacture you will need the simplest and cheapest materials:
The manufacturing process includes the following stages:
Using the same scheme, you can make a chair for small dolls, only you need not use bottles for them, but egg boxes.
A bedroom set will not be complete without soft ottomans, for which you need to stock up:
To make a pouf:
The kitchen is the most important place in any home. Dolls' housing is no exception to this rule, because little housewives love to play chefs and treat dolls with various dishes. To make furniture for the kitchen space, you will need:
Kitchen furniture can be made from many matchboxes
Stages of making a kitchen for dolls:
Girls love to play school, so the dolls will definitely need desks to prepare their homework for. To make this piece of doll interior, you need to stock up:
The step-by-step process of making a school desk looks like this:
Don't stop at one piece of furniture - make a set!
Dolls definitely need a place where they can hang dresses, blouses and skirts, so the headset will not be complete without a roomy wardrobe... To make a wardrobe, you will need:
Stages of cabinet manufacturing:
Parents who have already been able to make a dollhouse on their own or bought it in a store, having spent a significant amount, are thinking about how to make furniture for dolls with their own hands. Toy furniture isn't cheap, so why not save some money family budget... You can easily make it with your own hands from improvised means.
For arrangement dollhouse your daughter may use those materials that we most often throw out:
When choosing materials, everything will depend only on your imagination.
Plywood and wood are the most popular and durable materials for making doll furniture. However, the process of creating interior items from them is laborious, and skills of working with them will be required. But if you still make such furniture, it will serve the dolls for a very long time and will delight your daughter just as long.
In order to make miniature plywood furniture you will need:
Stages of work common for all types of furniture:
So one piece of doll furniture has been made.
Cardboard furniture for a dollhouse is very easy to do. You can also involve a child in the manufacturing process. Cardboard is the most affordable material for work. You can use both sheets of cardboard and take small cardboard boxes as a base.
Necessary:
Stages of work:
You can decorate the dollhouse with a new piece of furniture.
You can design almost any piece of furniture from matchboxes. The advantage of such furniture will be drawers. It is enough to show your imagination and think over in detail the image of the future furniture.
We need:
Stages of work:
Your daughter's dolls will be happy with the new thing.
You can make a rack for dolls from matchboxes yourself by watching the following video.
Plastic jars can be great furniture in your dollhouse. Sometimes, you don't even need to do anything with them. In finished form, they can be used, for example, as a bath. The child will be able to truly bathe his dolls, the water will not pour out of them anywhere. You can construct more complex interior items from plastic jars, toothpaste tube lids, and other little things. They can simply be glued together in the required sequence.
For a master class on making a toilet bowl for dolls from a shampoo container, see the following video.
From wire that bends easily, you can decorate the interior in the Provence style. Beds will look very elegant, the frame of which will resemble a forged product. It will be possible to add a wrought-iron candlestick, an unusual wrought-iron chandelier. Almost any interior detail can be made using a wire frame. Your imagination will point you in the right direction.
Using egg tablets, you can perfectly equip the rooms of the dollhouse. Both plastic tablets and cardboard ones are useful in work. All that will be needed is to carefully think over the composition and cut out the necessary parts of the tablets.
The work may require:
and much more. Everything will depend on how your imagination is played.
In this section, you are offered some ideas for creating furniture for dolls with your own hands.
We will need:
Step-by-step instruction:
In the next video you will see a master class on making a bed for a cardboard doll.
The bedside table can be decorated in the same style.
We will need:
Step-by-step instruction:
See the next video for a master class on making a bedside table from matchboxes.
We will need:
Step-by-step instruction:
Chairs can be made in the same way.
You can see how to make a sofa for a doll with your own hands in the next video - a master class.
For manufacturing you will need:
We draw a blank of a cone on cardboard. Cut and glue it. Cut off the top of the cone. It turned out the base of the floor lamp shade. We glue it with lace. We bend the wire in half and pass it through the rod. We attach the lampshade from above to the wire, from below to the lid - to give stability to the floor lamp. The lid can be decorated with a lace skirt. Instead of a rod, you can use beads as a stand by passing a wire through them. In this case, we also decorate the lampshade with beads.
Watch the video for a master class on making doll furniture from old boxes.
To make a chandelier, we need a small container. You can use measuring cups for medicines, disposable plastic stacks, the simplest candles in a metal case.
To decorate the chandelier, you will need strips of lace, thin strips of satin ribbon. They need to glue the plastic base of the chandelier. You don't even need to decorate the metal case, you get an original chandelier. We attach an LED to the base of the container that we used, if you were thinking of a house with real lighting. We hang it from the ceiling. The method of fixing to the ceiling will depend on the materials from which the house is made.
Thus, you can make lamps in any room of your dollhouse.
For the manufacture of the kitchen, it will be convenient to use small boxes. If there are no such boxes, then it will be necessary to make them out of cardboard. This is not difficult to do. It will be convenient to use if the boxes are glued together, making a single structure.
If hanging cabinets are planned for the kitchen, then we glue a sheet of cardboard to the back wall of the cabinets, on which we glue these cabinets. You can strengthen the structure by gluing long flat sticks to a sheet of cardboard from the back. It is necessary to cut through the cabinet doors in the boxes.
To decorate our kitchen, we will use self-adhesive paper, or any other beautiful paper. We glue the cabinets, use wire and beads to make handles for them. The faucet can be made of wire, the mixer handle can be made of small beads. A deep lid works well for the sink. We attach it to the table top. The burners of the stove can be made from buttons. You can arrange the space between the cabinets in the form of a tiled apron. To do this, find a suitable picture on the Internet and print it. Stick it onto a piece of cardboard that the cabinets are attached to.
We arrange dishes and food. The kitchen is ready, you can send the hostess to cook!
You can see a master class on making a kitchen in the next video.
We will need:
Stages of work:
We make a chair for a dressing table in the same way. We change only the required height. Instead of a mirrored surface, we make the back of the chair.
Almost any piece of furniture can be made from available tools. This requires free time, your imagination and desire. Your girl will be very happy with the new dollhouse!
The process of making a dressing table for dolls from matchboxes and cardboard, see the following video.
How to do dinner table ik for dolls, see the next video.
The child's desire to play with dolls must be encouraged and supported. Do-it-yourself doll furniture will be an excellent way to bring together the older and younger generations. Various furnishings, copying the adult interior, contribute to the development of the child's imagination and logical thinking. Dare, create, and the dollhouse will turn into a small masterpiece.
Sets of doll furniture amaze with their variety and elegance. It is easiest to buy a ready-made kit, but it is much more interesting to make miniature furniture for dolls with your own hands. In addition to the standard interior elements in the form of a bed, an armchair and a table, almost any object can be made from scrap materials. The main thing is to be smart and set aside some free time. Kitchen and bedroom sets are most often found in the set for playing with dolls. But the child will be delighted with the desk, floor lamp and bath.
The complexity of making doll furniture is determined by the material chosen as the basis. Sizes should be appropriate for the doll's height. It is very easy for little babies to make furniture based on matchboxes. The owner of the dolls is often involved in the process. For larger copies, choose cardboard and plywood.
The materials at hand that are often used in the manufacture of do-it-yourself doll furniture are presented in the following list:
Exclusive sets of furniture for dolls, designed by wood craftsmen, are presented in the photo:
There are several ways to make a comfortable doll chair. The choice of material depends on the size of the doll, whether you have a desire to use the child or you will arrange everything with your own hands. The presented options differ in complexity, so everyone can choose the most suitable piece of furniture for themselves.
To work you will need:
Algorithm for making a doll chair with your own hands:
Comment! The external aesthetics of a doll's chair and any other furniture depends on the finish. Therefore, take care of beautiful upholstery material.
The upholstery elements are cut out according to the previously prepared drawing, only allowances are made of 15 mm. Before making out the back, it is initially covered with foam rubber on one side. This element can be made removable or stationary. Making a pillow for doll furniture with your own hands is even easier, the steps are repeated with the backrest.
The work, of course, is painstaking, but the result deserves admiration.
You can make a chair for a doll even easier. The base is a small cardboard box. Based on the size of the base, a blank is cut out of foam rubber, which will simultaneously be the back and armrests. Scotch tape will help fix it on the seat. The armchair is decorated with upholstery fabric, supplemented with a miniature pillow. If you take the box not square, but oblong, you will get a chic doll sofa.
A plastic bottle can become a frame for furniture. Having cut out the workpiece, it is sheathed with fabric. For stability, the inside is filled with something heavy. In order for the furniture to correspond to the idea of an armchair, a cushion and a soft seat are prepared. You can make a small chair from a 0.5 liter bottle or take a larger container, then it will be something like a throne.
If there is a desire to make a doll rocking chair, we suggest studying a diagram of an interesting design. Experience with a jigsaw will be required, reliable and durable furniture is made of plywood.
Games with dolls often turn into a real performance, when the beloved Barbie is already a mother herself, and her little child needs a crib. Cardboard matchboxes are an affordable and free material to make a doll bed. The whole process consists of three steps:
Instead of cardboard, the legs can be made from ice cream sticks.
It is not much more difficult to make a bed with drawers... For this, matchboxes are glued together in 2 layers. On the side that will be used as a box, beads are glued or fastened with wire. After connecting to the backs, the furniture is decorated with paper. Additionally, it is advisable to sew bedding.
A small bed can be made from cardboard sheets:
Comment! If plywood is used in the work, the edges of the blanks are carefully sanded so that the child does not get hurt while playing.
Plywood is the most suitable material to make doll furniture. Similar to a bed, an exclusive doll sofa can be made of plywood.
Crafting workshop:
The procedure can be slightly changed. First, the elements of the doll's sofa made of plywood are fixed to each other using Moment glue. The finished sofa is varnished and small soft pads are sewn onto it.
You can make a sofa according to the principle of an armchair, model 1. If you try very hard, you get a masterpiece close to the sample in the photo:
It is somewhat easier to make a chest of drawers from matchboxes. The main stages of the creative process:
Photo collage demonstrates the process of making doll furniture with your own hands and the result.
Matchboxes are a kind of constructor, extremely affordable and with an unlimited resource of crafts. Desk or a desk - another sample of doll furniture, which is easy for a child to make on his own.
Key points of creativity:
An approximate result of the work is shown in the photo:
First, consider a simple option, how to make kitchen cabinets from matchboxes. The lower part is formed from 9 elements according to the principle of a chest of drawers. The function of the handles can be performed by staples from the stapler. For wall cabinets 3, the box is fixed on a cardboard wall and cut in the middle to make the doors. Of course, it is better to paste over the boxes with paper or paint in advance. Naturally, the entourage plays an important role:
Doll furniture will sparkle with new colors. Supplement kitchen set can be a table and chairs made of cardboard.
We will not describe the complex options of how to make doll furniture for the kitchen out of plywood. We can only imagine the result of the painstaking work of the master:
To make a cute doll floor lamp, you need very little:
If there is no lid, we prepare a base for a lampshade made of thick cardboard. We glue the blank with lace. The wire is passed through the rod. A lampshade is fixed at the upper edge of the rod, and a stand at the lower edge.
Comment! For the floor lamp to gain stability, the stand must be wider than the lampshade and heavy.
An interesting and easy way to make a floor lamp in addition to doll furniture is presented in the video:
Similarly, you can make a chandelier for a dollhouse. The shade is based on a small container. Candle molds fit perfectly. The chandelier will be mounted on a wire. The lampshade is decorated with lace. If dad is attracted to creativity, then you can make a luminous chandelier. For this, an LED is fixed inside the lampshade.
DIY furniture for dolls can be simple and intricate designs. When choosing material for crafts, they are guided by their own experience and the availability of free time. Crafts can be done by adults or in tandem with children, it will be much more interesting. A school-age child is able to cope with the task of making doll furniture from matchboxes or cardboard on his own.
Show your creativity, develop them in your child with the help of independent design of doll furniture. This activity will allow you to get closer to your child, help him to reveal the abilities of a designer. Here are some easy options.
You will need:
Take the boxes, stack them lengthwise. You should have a table with the planned height. Several pieces can be removed or added, depending on the final idea. Glue the pieces of stacked boxes together. Take the cardboard, bend it in the right places, completely wrap it around the side, in which there are no boxes. Then glue the cardboard. V finished version carefully cut off its edges with scissors and proceed to the decor.
Decorating a glamorous nightstand can be different. If you paste over it with shiny colored paper that looks like multi-colored foil, then there will be a glamorous look, especially if it is crimson, silver, gold. If you want the bedside table to be like a real one, then use imitation wood, colored wallpaper with a small pattern, or paper similar to them. This is sold in children's art stores.
Straighten the paper gently, apply glue to the wrong side. Smear it to flatten the foil. Then glue the back, the side with paper, flatten it until it's dry. This is done with the side of the ruler or with a blunt turn of the knife. The boxes can be decorated in whole or in part. You need to stick paper on the pull-out part, and if you want it to become completely colored, you can pull it out and glue it with paper on the outside or inside. The paper also needs to be straightened.
When it's dry, move on to the handles. Take a bead, drop glue on its base. Place it in the middle of the drawer drawer. Do the same with the rest of the beads, which should form an even row. They can be replaced with bulky self-adhesive rhinestones. When they are dry, the bedside table is ready.
A beginner can do it. You will need:
Take a cardboard box. Cut the front and back out of it. Then glue it with coarse tape from the inside, then from the outside. It is important that it lay down without folds - the attractiveness of the product will depend on this. Then start decorating.
Carefully cut the paper to fit the width of the box. Then stick it onto the tape. Most suitable is paper with a self-adhesive layer, on which you need to carefully apply glue, smooth the layer until it dries. Remove the remaining glue, dry the paper.
This piece of furniture is used as coffee table for a Barbie or a hanging cabinet that is glued to the wall of the house or put several products in one row. And if you combine it with glamorous bedside tables, you get a beautiful wardrobe for Barbie. We need to add a few more elements to it. Then furniture for dolls will be stylish and glamorous. She can furnish a room in one style.
You will need:
First, place the boxes over the area of the cardboard. It will be the back of the cabinet. Arrange matchboxes in a row in the middle. Having determined the required amount and proportions, get to work. Make a bedside table with drawers as in the description. The table, as a shelf in the closet, needs some work. If in the beginning it was necessary to cut out the front and back parts, now the back is cut out, and the front one serves as a cabinet door. You do not need to cut it. Cut it, cut it on three sides, without cutting the door, and glue it with colored paper outside and inside.
When choosing details, it is important that all boxes are of the same height and width, then it will look nice and neat. When you have decided on the number of elements, cut off the excess. Get to work.
Identify the empty space. It must be pasted over in advance with silver foil imitating a mirror. You can also stick a nice picture. It depends on personal taste. Experts do not recommend using two shiny textures in one set, and if you make all bedside tables and cabinets from shiny crimson fabric, replace the mirror part beautiful photo... Stick it on in advance. Hide the edges of the picture behind the cabinets.
When all the details are ready, glue them to the back wall. If you want the doors to close easily, attach a sticker or lock to them. One part is attached to the door, the other to the side wall. They are made from hooks and fasteners. They hold the door securely.
In addition to cabinets, tables and nightstands, upholstered furniture is also made for Barbies. For example, folding sofa... Such furniture for modern dolls will look bright and beautiful. And the material for the design depends on your imagination. Here's how to do it.
You will need:
Glue the sponge to the cardboard. Cut it to size. Do the same with the rest of the sponges. You will end up with three identical pieces. Wrap them in material and secure them with a stapler from the bottom. Then take the material slightly smaller than the size of the piece and glue it to the surface from the inside, hiding the traces of fixing. Before us are three identical details.
We process the back. Cut it out of cardboard, put the material on top. Secure with a stapler. Stick a velvet material on the fastener.
Lay the mattresses on top of each other and apply to the back. Then glue the bottom mattress and secure with tape. Attach it around the entire perimeter of the mattress and secure it at the back with glue. Then wrap the tape around the top mattress. Spread the glue on the surface, except for the middle, which will be a loop. They pull on it to unfold the sofa. You do not need to stick the tape to the wall, because it is fixed from the back with Velcro.
The sofa is ready. To unfold it, unfasten the Velcro and pull on the eyelet. Then fold carefully and use.
They can be easily made from a regular Coca-Cola can, forfeit, or a sprite. To do this, you need to cut the jar into many thin strips. It is best if done by an adult, as it is easy to cut yourself on the edges of the can. When the can is cut, you need to direct part of the strips up (about 1/4 of the total mass), and all the rest down. Then divide the bottom strips by the number of legs and get to work.
Measure the number of strips that will go to each leg, then start twisting them on the sides. In this case, the middle leg should remain the longest, since it will become the main support of the leg, which sets its length. You can twist the strips in different directions, symmetrically or asymmetrically, depending on your idea. When all the legs are ready, you can proceed to the back. It needs to be twisted in the same way as the legs, from the edges to the middle, after which you can start the decor.
The chair looks incomplete without a seat. For it, you need to cut out the sponge in diameter, carefully rounding the top part. Cover with material and secure on the underside with glue. Better to use superglue that fixes metal surfaces... When the seat is dry, reapply the glue to the surface, attach to the chair seat. It dries up and you're done.
Several chairs will create the fantastic attributes of a magical castle. The main emphasis of the chair design depends on the color and texture of the seat upholstery. The darker, the more mystical options you will make. Dark shades purple, emerald or blue are more suitable for magical Monster Hight dolls than for a glamorous Barbie or fairy godmother. Pink, cream, red tones will allow you to create a glamorous or vintage product, complemented by a round silver table with a leg, and colorful fabric will create a unique antique flavor.
It can be made from aluminum wire and a lampshade. It is made from threads, special beads for decoration or a lace frame.
Beads can be purchased at craft stores. They come in different sizes, but wickerwork will work well. They will allow you to create a country-style floor lamp. More suitable for glamor lace lampshades... They do it like this.
A cone is made of cardboard or thick paper. Then lace is glued onto it. If desired, you can fix them with needles with pearl tips, then the lampshade will look glamorous. Then we proceed to the frame.
To do this, you need to bend the wire at the bottom and string a thin rod onto it. From above, spread the ends in different directions and put a lampshade on them. Secure it. The floor lamp is ready and you can put it in the dollhouse. It will suit any design and will prove to be an irreplaceable decoration. Especially if it's a bedroom, a rest room, or even a balcony for Barbie and her friends.
This is not all DIY furniture for dolls. But it will allow the child to reveal their creative potential, becoming a stepping stone in the creation of masterpieces.
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Content
Crafts for dolls are a great idea of joint creativity of a child and his parents. Although today you can buy any miniature piece of furniture, self-production toys helps to save the family budget. In addition, handicraft contributes to the development of perseverance, accuracy and aesthetic taste.
DIY furniture for dolls can be made from a variety of materials at hand. Every home contains cardboard, paper, newspapers, pieces of wood and plywood, cans, corks, wire, scraps of fabric and interesting, but already unnecessary things. It takes inspiration, a little patience, and uncomplicated raw materials turn into elegant interior items. Tiny armchairs, highchairs, a desk, a coffee table, a bedside table with a TV, a refrigerator, a sofa and a crib make a two-story dollhouse beautiful and cozy.
DIY miniature pieces of furniture for dolls are made from unnecessary cardboard packaging. To make a dressing table, you need materials:
Procedure:
DIY furniture for dolls is easily made of paper. To make a miniature table with mosaic countertop, you will need:
Procedure:
Doll furniture made of paper tubes resembles real furnishings made of vines. To make a wicker sofa from such material with your own hands, you will need 200 blanks 30 cm long, a side cutter, a ruler, clothespins, colored cardboard ribbons. Before making things for dolls, you need to prepare the main material - newspaper tubes. Procedure:
Let's start creating the sofa:
A rounded plywood coffee table for a doll is easy. To make such a craft with your own hands, you need plywood, a device for cutting it (jigsaw), glue, acrylic paint or varnish. To get this piece of doll furniture, do the following:
For the manufacture of furniture for dolls with their own hands, wood is successfully used. To make a sofa, you will need:
Procedure:
DIY doll furniture is easily made from matchboxes. For a glamorous chest of drawers that is convenient to store jewelry and hairpins, you will need the following materials:
Procedure:
The first video shows the process of making a bed for a Barbie. As a material, a corn-builder is used (a toy-constructor made of corn). The second video explains how to make a doll bed. The third lesson shows you how to make a doll chair using the Origami technique. The fourth master class is devoted to making a doll cabinet from boxes. The fifth video shows the process of building a beautiful soft sofa according to the scheme. In the sixth lesson, learn how to make a dining table and stools from corrugated cardboard, and in the last master class, a chair made of polymer clay.
