Each girl dreams of a real house for her doll. Nowadays, it’s not a problem to buy it, there is a choice in almost every toy store, but if you make a house with your own hands and even involve a child in its manufacture, such a doll’s dwelling will become priceless.
Material selection
For the frame, plywood or a cardboard box from the technique is best suited. However, it must be taken into account that the paper house for dolls will serve a shorter time, besides it can be accidentally crushed or torn. Therefore, it is desirable to make a cardboard frame in two or three layers. The ideal option is walls and a roof made of plywood or wood, such a house will definitely not hesitate, even if the child rests on it.
Manufacturing process
So how to make a dollhouse? First you need to determine the size of the hostesses of the future home and the number of floors in the building. If you use cardboard boxes, it is better to make the floors by gluing two or three boxes, placing them on top of each other. For a pitched roof, you will need another piece of cardboard, from which a stripe is cut to the size of the house, bent in half and glued on top of all the boxes, as a result we get a ready-made house for dolls. How to make windows in such a house, even a child will guess. By the way, it is best to think carefully about their location so that there is enough space for furniture.
A wooden or plywood dollhouse will be more reliable. How to make such a house? First you need to determine the size, then prepare the rails, carnations, a sheet of plywood and a jigsaw or saw. For the frame, the following details are cut:
- back wall - it should be the width of the whole house and the height of all proposed floors;
- two side parts with height in all floors and with the desired depth of the house;
- floor, ceiling and interfloor partitions - their number depends on the number of floors, and the size - on the width and depth of the future house;
- details for the pitched roof and, if necessary, the front panel of the house.
On blanks, you immediately need to cut window and door openings, as well as openings in the interfloor partitions for stairs, if such are planned, because after assembly they will simply be inconvenient to cut. After all the details are ready, you can assemble a dollhouse. How to make this process more interesting for the child so that he also participates in the construction? The baby can be instructed to serve cloves and slats, which are used to connect the workpieces.
Dressing
To decorate the walls inside and outside the cardboard house, it is best to use wallpaper for painting, they can easily be given the desired color with water-based paint. In a plywood house, preliminary wallpapering is not needed. To give the house a perfect look, you need to highlight in one color all the window frames and doorways inside and out. Rectangular flower pots attached to the tide of the windows will look original, this small detail will enliven the dollhouse. How to make this decor element? As a pot, you can use matchboxes pasted over with paper, and flowers can be made from ribbons, beads or take small artificial inflorescences.