When buying an expensive doll for a child, be prepared for the fact that the daughter subsequently asks to purchase various additional materials, for example, furniture or a house for the pet. In stores, furniture for dolls costs fabulous money, so not every parent can afford such a pleasure. And not all furniture will fit your doll exactly in size.
Do-it-yourself furniture for dolls is easy to learn. You can use a variety of materials - foam and foam, corrugated cardboard packaging and old boxes, plywood and fiberboard, ice cream sticks and newspaper tubes. How to make furniture for dolls with your own hands, read further in our article.
Necessary materials and tools
Different furniture can be used for different dolls. If Barbie or Monster High dolls are large, then Lol dolls are small. It is clear that the furniture is made according to the parameters of the doll. Make it according to the drawings, using the following materials:
- Plywood or fiberboard. To work with such material use an electric or manual jigsaw. Spend a saw along the lines drawn by a pencil. Then the material requires additional processing. First you need to clean the edges with sandpaper No. 100, then cover with acrylic paint or varnish. They are odorless and safe for children. After staining the wood, the pile rises again, so you need to process it again with sandpaper, only already finer - No. 80. Then the surface is covered with paint or varnish for the last time.
- Corrugated cardboard. It is quite dense and holds its shape well. He is being cut with ordinary scissors. You can decorate your furniture for dolls with your own hands by gluing glossy paper with a print or cotton fabric. It is attached with thick PVA glue.
- Styrofoam sheets. Thin sheets are used, which are cut according to the template and combined into whole bundles. Then the details are sheathed with cloth or glued with thick paper.
- You can assemble doll furniture with your own hands from plastic bottles. The excess part of the container is cut with scissors, the edges are processed with a hot iron. In this way, sharp sections are melted and items of doll furniture become safe for the child’s games.
- Foam sponges. With their help, you can create upholstered furniture - an armchair, a bed, a sofa.
- Crafts from newspaper tubes.
You can list materials endlessly, any waste and natural material is used. In the article, we will consider how to make furniture for dolls with your own hands from improvised materials. In the photographs presented in the article, you can see samples of furniture for dolls.
Paper furniture
The photo below shows patterns of furniture for dolls with their own hands from thick paper. Such models are suitable for small and light dolls, pups. They are made by cutting along the contours. Dashed lines indicate bend lines in the figure.
Parts are glued together with thick PVA glue. You can cut a double layer of paper or use thick cardboard. It is advisable to immediately make furniture out of colored paper, but if it is not there, do not worry, the paper can always be pasted over with a different color or painted with gouache paints.
Such a set of furniture for dolls with your own hands out of paper can be created temporarily, for example, for playing daughter's games in the country or on a tourist trip.
Matchbox furniture
You can make many different pieces of furniture from matchboxes. This is a secretary, shelves with drawers, a desk, a dressing table in the hallway, kitchen furniture. Several boxes are glued together, then the entire structure is wrapped with beautiful paper or fabric. The front sides of the sliding parts are also pasted over with bright fabric.
To make it more convenient for the child to open the drawers, on each one you can attach a bead, a button on the threads or make a simple eyelet. The desk is presented from 6 boxes. Three are on the left, three on the right. A wide strip of thick cardboard is attached on top. You can make legs by gluing corks or caps from plastic bottles to the bottom of matchboxes.
Six boxes are attached for the dressing table, only they are placed in pairs in length. A mirror is attached to the back of the craft. A piece of foil is glued onto a long rectangle of cardboard. You can make a frame for the "mirror" out of bright paper.
It is easy to make an armchair, a stool and a table out of matchboxes. If you fasten the end parts of several boxes, you get a long bed. The main photo in the article shows how you can decorate furniture from matchboxes. It turns out spectacular things with which the child is interested in playing games.
We use foam products
You can make lightweight furniture for dolls with kitchen sponges and women's curlers. It will take six large sponges with graters. The photo shows a step-by-step description of the manufacture of this work.
The sponge is attached to PVA glue. Curlers play the role of a cylindrical shape of the headrests. They need to be sheathed from all sides, creating a fabric cover. Then a cloak is sewn on the sofa.
Ice Cream Sticks Table
Good and strong furniture is obtained by using flat wooden sticks of ice cream. They have beautiful rounded edges that will not hurt the child. Additional processing is not required, since each part is already ready for use.
A glue gun is used to hold individual elements together. It will take another sharp knife in order to make the necessary incisions of the stick. The table is created from four integral elements fastened together by the end part. Then horizontal crossbars are cut. The legs are cut at an angle of 45 ° and glued crosswise. In this way, you can create not only a table, but also chairs, chairs, stools, a bed.
Cork Wine Crafts
After drinking champagne or any other sparkling wine, a cork with wire remains. Many of them like to create interesting variants of crafts by twisting. Puppet chairs also look great. The cork is left as a seat, and four legs and a back are twisted from the wire.
They can be given any shape. The legs can also be bent evenly or at an angle, to create smooth bends. The photo shows approximate examples of the manufacture of chairs.
Cardboard furniture
DIY furniture for Barbie dolls can be made from corrugated cardboard. Such packaging material remains after the acquisition of large units of equipment - a refrigerator, washing machine, TV.
To make a bed, several details are cut out, the drawing of which is presented in the photo in the article. The head of the bed is made larger. Small pieces are cut out on each element to assemble the pieces together. Going to bed putting on in the slot. Glue is not used at all.
Despite this, the furniture assembled in this way is quite sturdy. It can be rearranged from place to place, can be disassembled into individual parts and transported in a box. After arrival, for example, at the cottage, the furniture is assembled again. It is very convenient, only you need to act carefully so as not to tear structural elements.
Work with foam
Furniture for Lol dolls, assembled from a foam sheet with your own hands, will cost a lot. It is better to take thin material, it is convenient to cut into strips. Folding upholstered furniture from several layers of foam. After accurate measurements, it can be glued with PVA glue.
The shape of the furniture can be given in different ways. This is a sofa with armrests, and a couch, as in the photo in the article. You can assemble a bed and a trestle bed, chairs and a table, create an ottoman to the dressing table. After gluing the layers together, the craft is sheathed with a cloth. You can use the edge decoration with satin ribbons, fringe, a beautiful contrasting hem.
Furniture from newspaper tubes
To make such a bed, you need to roll several long newspaper tubes. To do this, use a knitting needle or wooden skewer. It is placed on the edge of a sheet of a newspaper or any other printed publication and is wound on a base. The edge is smeared with PVA glue and attached to the last turn. When several tubes are made, you can start assembling the bed.
The stove bench is assembled from two long tubes, which are held several transverse. For assembly, the tubes are cut into identical segments. To keep the parts firmly held, toothpicks and a glue gun are additionally used. Decorative elements on the headboards are spiral balls. They are twisted according to the quilling technique, but instead of strips of paper they used long corners cut from corrugated paper. They are also worn with toothpicks.
Furniture for plywood dolls
With your own hands, you can assemble doll furniture from thin 3 mm plywood. It is necessary to first measure the length of the doll and calculate the patterns of all the details. Cut each element with an electric jigsaw according to a pencil drawing. Parts are assembled for D-3 glue or thick PVA. All edges are cleaned before painting with sandpaper. If the furniture will be lined with fabric, then you can not cover the surface of the product.
However, if you decide to paint the craft, then you need acrylic paint. It is odorless and dries quickly. For children does not pose any danger.
Plastic Bottle Chairs
Furniture for dolls, made of plastic bottles, looks very impressive. For the manufacture you will need 1.5- or 2-liter containers, pieces of foam rubber, sheathing fabric, buttons, a hem for sewing the rim of the chair.
To get started, the bottom is cut in the same way as in the photo in the article. The back of the chair is cut larger. For armrests, two thin strips are rounded on top. Then, on a sewing machine, a cant is attached around the entire perimeter of the chair. The armrests are sheathed and lowered down, the part is fixed with buttons, which are decorated with a strip of gathered fabric.
At the bottom, a piece of foam rubber or sintepon trimmed with fabric is cut to size. The soft back of the chair is made in the same way. It is attached by sewing on a plastic bottle on a button. Products are very neat and beautiful. The doll will be happy with such pieces of furniture, and the daughter will be proud that her mother knows how to create such beautiful crafts.
The article presents samples of making furniture for dolls with their own hands from various materials at hand. It is not difficult to do it, and the products are spectacular.