Handmade dolls are much better and more valuable than factory-made toys. They store the energy of the craftswoman and embody the author's ideas. Even children like to make new toys and various crafts for the doll with their own hands. These can be items of clothing, interiors, toy food and homes.
Folk fabric dolls
Since ancient times, according to folk traditions, every girl and woman knew how to make dolls, which served as talismans to attract good luck, preserving health and family well-being. Stitched crafts performed this function. With your own hands, amulets are made easily. This was a tradition: they lived in each house next to the cradle and on the stove. They were used to comfort infants and to teach little girls to hand-work. It was with such toys that learning the basics of needlework began.
The manufacture of such toys is extremely simple, unsophisticated, like most folk traditions. The material was shreds of fabric that remained after sewing clothes. So that nothing was wasted, all the remaining rags were used by the prudent housewives.
Usually, the pattern of crafts for a doll made with their own hands consists of a simple square in the middle of which a head is filled with tow or dry grass. The neck is wrapped with thread. In the same way, all other elements are made of shreds rolled into a bundle and tied with a thread. The clothes are primitive, and even a little girl can handle her tailoring. The remains of lace or lace serve as decoration. The face was not traditionally designated in order not to attract the attention of dark forces.
Flat dolls with outfits
Modern descendants of these amulets are homemade textile dolls: tildes, attic dolls and many other varieties of interior toys. Voluminous and flat, dolls are always a favorite toy for girls.
Everyone remembers paper fashionistas, clothes for which it was necessary to cut from magazines? A small wardrobe aroused imagination, and the children enthusiastically supplemented it with products of their own manufacture, which were cut from cards, painted with felt-tip pens or colored pencils. A nice alternative is a flat fabric doll with a weak padding. Clothing should also be flat, but sewn from fabric. Such a set can be made as a gift to the baby or sew a miniature wardrobe with her.
Millipedes and other small dolls
Very cute and pretty toys are obtained from foam balls and nylon knitwear. A DIY handmade doll, the photo of which is slightly lower, does not require much effort. A base for the head is embedded in a cover made of elastic fabric (it can even be a sock). The material is a foam ball. The body is stuffed with padding polyester, as are the limbs. A small nose and closely set eyes are a hallmark of the pupae, which are called millipedes because of the size of their lower limbs. Sometimes the legs are completely absent, and then we get nice toys that can decorate the Christmas tree or any other place. Such author's crafts are rarely used for the game, but most often they are an interior decoration.
Garden doll sculpture from pots
In addition to toys made by adult needlewomen, there are those that little craftswomen can do with the help of parents. We presented an original idea for decorating a garden, flower bed or flower garden on a window. These are characters from empty flower pots. In this way, for example, it is possible to store containers for seedlings until the next season.
The technique is simple and accessible to everyone. It is necessary to prepare two large pots for the trunk and head and several small for arms and legs. All parts are fastened to each other on a wire fixed in the holes with nuts or any objects that serve as a stopper. Acrylic paints for picturesque elements and a few shreds of bright chintz for clothes, in fact, all that is needed from additional materials.
Such funny crafts relate to varieties of garden sculpture. They can decorate any place where there is greenery, or use for the game.
Toy housing
Any doll, according to children, requires a large number of things. Stores offer many different optional accessories, but they will not replace home-made furnishings. Here, crafts made for the doll are made. This includes doll houses. You can buy ready-made, filled with stamped plastic furniture, or make it yourself from a cardboard box.
Any cardboard packaging, for example, from household appliances made of dense corrugated cardboard, is suitable as a basis. All that is required is to make a gable roof and cover the walls with beautiful wallpaper. Everything you need can be found in almost every home. Home-made furniture will also not require any additional cash costs. Dolls will be happy to live in a new house.
DIY crafts for dolls from plasticine
In addition to large furnishings, small additions can be made. A separate direction in handmade art is the manufacture of miniature food for dolls from various materials, including plasticine. This material allows you to fashion anything, any exquisite treat for a toy tea party. And whole sets with ready-made forms give a lot of pleasure when sculpting doll dresses, different varieties of ice cream and other beautiful trinkets.
Toys for modern dolls
Modern girls prefer non-standard toys. The ugly dolls from Monster City have become the favorite companions of many children. Like other role-playing characters, they encourage creativity, and crafts for the Monster High doll can be cute or as ugly as the toys themselves. Items of clothing or furniture - all that is customary to craft for ordinary dolls, you can do it yourself.
To immediately understand what dolls the accessories are intended for, they need to be decorated with the symbols of toy monsters. Cobwebs, bones, bats and the use of black are mandatory attributes.
From ordinary small rubber bands for hair, you get nice home slippers. You need to take two things and sew each on one side, so that it looks like a sole. From an unnecessary sock you will get a cute sleeveless top or top, it is enough to make slots for the hands and cut off half. The neck needs to be collected on a thin elastic band, which is inserted into the darn needle.
An excellent dining or coffee table will come from an empty sleeve from tape and a cardboard circle. It is necessary to glue them together and paint black or paste over with suitable paper with a pattern.
Almost all children like to make crafts for dolls with their own hands and make new toys on their own. Such activities are very useful for their development.