Girls, and sometimes boys, love to play "mother-daughter." Having dolls, they dream of acquiring for their darlings and a dwelling reminiscent of the one in which they live. Of course, parents can please their children and buy them houses for Barbie and other dolls with ready-made furniture and other furnishings. But what if we go the other way and try to make doll apartments ourselves?
Family building contract
Let's figure out how to make a doll house with your own hands. All family members can take part in the construction process. It is quite simple if:
- short doll;
- you (in the sense of dad or older brother) know how to handle a jigsaw, nail files and other carpentry tools, you have these tools, and you can also choose suitable pieces of plywood, fiberboard, etc.
Do you answer “yes” to both questions? Then a great option on how to make a doll house with your own hands is to make it from plywood, wood and other auxiliary materials. For example, you have a large parcel box in your household. For skilled people, this, believe me, is a treasure. Consider that there are already finished walls and floor. Now we’ll tell you how to make a doll’s house with your own hands. You can cut windows - large, in three walls. Outside, stick shutters made of cardboard and painted with paints. From cardboard, make a window cover and stick it under the shutters. And from the inside, drive in small carnations, string tulle on a thin wire and make magnificent elegant curtains. In the fourth wall, cut a hole for the door - large so that the doll can "pass". And the door itself is also made of cardboard and papered "under the tree."
Another detail of how to make a doll house with your own hands is a beautiful design. Surely you have flaps of wallpaper after the next repair. By combining them, you can give the room a wonderful design: wallpaper, use the most beautiful fragments as carpets on the wall and floor. By the way, cover the floor with the same self-adhesive as the doors. Or, if available, lay a piece of linoleum. You can distribute the decoration of details between family members: mom works on walls and carpets, father works on wood.
Homemade doll houses can not do without furniture. If the parameters of the "home" allow, you can buy and put in it special sets: bed, table, chairs. If not - again, family members should demonstrate their crazy hands. The same cardboard will come to the rescue - boxes from various household appliances. Measure the length of the doll, figure out how wide the bed should be, and with a simple pencil and ruler, set aside the necessary parameters on the working material. Add a few centimeters to the legs. Cut the desired rectangle, bend from both edges along the leg-side segment. And mother can sew a small pillow, give rags of cloth for sheets, blankets and bedspreads. Using the same principle, make a table and benches.
Paper Craftsman
If there is no parcel box, try making a dollhouse out of the box. A large box from, for example, a TV, a boiler, an electric stove, etc. will do. Process and furnish it in the same way as described above. And the same cardboard can serve as a roof, both in the first and in the second “building” version. Good luck and joy to your children!