The store has a lot of varieties of houses for Barbie dolls, but, unfortunately, with furniture there are very few options, if there are such, then they only have a bed or a table. We decided to make the furniture ourselves using cardboard furniture schemes (for dolls). If you like creativity, you’re almost “with you” with it, then you can try your hand and make the house yourself on your own, which will save your budget at times. Let's try using the article to answer the question of how to make cardboard furniture for dolls.
We make cardboard sofa in the living room
As in any house, in the first place is the living room, we will begin to furnish it with furniture. The first thing we start with is the sofa. We need a pattern of furniture from cardboard for dolls, you can prepare it from plain white paper. Next, cut out of thick corrugated cardboard in the amount of 1 pc. the bottom of the sofa is 10 x 20 cm in size. The back wall is also in the amount of 1 pc. size 13 x 20 cm. Side backs in the amount of 2 pcs. the size of 1 piece is 8.5 x 10 cm. The workpieces are ready, now you need to make the sofa soft and bring it closer to reality. For this we use foam rubber, the thickness is at your discretion, but remember, if it is thin, then it is necessary to cut out several pieces and glue them together. In the case of 1cm thick foam rubber, it will be enough to cut 1 part of the back and sides, and 2-3 parts are better to the bottom. We circle the finished blanks on the foam and cut out, then we foam the foam and the blank with any available PVA glue.
The sofa upholstery can be any (leather, suede, fabric), that is, you can just use what you have available. We tighten with ordinary cloth. Parties with foam look inside, so they are given special attention.
After all the parts are ready, they must be glued together in one design, for this use the "Moment" glue, or something else but strong fixation.
Decorate the sofa with soft pillows and an extra seat. To do this, cut out pieces of foam equal to the bottom in the amount of 2pcs from foam. and sew the cover in the same dimensions, insert the foam through the hole and sew. Using the same principle, make a back and pillows. From a piece of woolen fabric, additionally make a warm blanket for your doll. The sofa is ready, you can safely bring it into your dollhouse.
Cardboard armchair
We create a cardboard chair in the same way as a sofa. Amount from 2 pieces. Take the sizes of the patterns from the sofa, the only thing you need is to reduce the length of the back and bottom of the sofa.
We make a cardboard bed in the bedroom
No bedroom can do without a bed. And in the orphanage you need a crib for a doll. We make it from thick cardboard. To do this, we will prepare patterns: the bottom is 26 x 18 cm, the side back is 9 x 8 x 18 cm. We cut 1 piece of cardboard. We use a side plate in the form of a trapezoid, you can fantasize to your taste or use a regular rectangle measuring 18 x 8 cm.
From foam rubber we cut to the bottom 3 parts of the same size, to the side of the 2 parts. Glue the foam to the base of cardboard and tighten with a cloth. We also make cardboard legs for the bed. To do this, cut out 4 squares measuring 5 x 5 cm and approximately 1 cm on either side, make cuts at a distance of 0.5 cm from each other. We twist the square into a tube and bend the cut strips to the side, with which we glue the leg to the bed. So do with all the legs. We make pillows for the bed, instead of a blanket, you can use a piece of fabric. The crib for the doll is ready, we put it in the bedroom, and you can put the doll to rest.
We make cardboard chair in the kitchen
We continue the topic of how to make cardboard furniture for dolls, and further furnish the dollhouse. In order to make a stool, you need a dense cardboard of A4 format.
First, prepare a diagram and transfer it to cardboard. Mark the folds. Proceed to pasting stool blanks with material or leather and remember that on the back the seams are hidden on the front side, and on the seat - on the wrong side. The stool for the doll is folded along the dotted lines, these places can be slightly bent before pasting. We attach the seat with strong fixation glue. At will, we decorate with ribbons or additional decorative materials.
Little table for the dollhouse kitchen
What kitchen without a table? We continue to make crafts from cardboard. Furniture for dolls is made only of dense material.
You can use a cardboard sleeve for the table leg. Or you can take ordinary cardboard and tightly twist it into a tube. We glue the blank with colored or white paper. We cut the countertop in the shape of a circle and also paste over with colored paper. Using a glue gun, we connect the tabletop and the leg. We decorate the table with a tablecloth from pieces of material and, if desired, make napkins. A table for the kitchen is ready.
Wardrobe from a cardboard to a doll's house
Developing the topic of how to make cardboard furniture for dolls, we solve the problem with scattered dresses and other things.
We will use a ready-made cardboard box for work. With the help of an office knife, we remove the upper and lower valves, leaving only the side ones, in the future they will serve as cabinet doors.
We glue the inside of the box with a suitable color, you can use self-adhesive wallpaper under a tree.
We prepare templates for shelves and cut them out of cardboard. Consider the dimensions based on your box, measuring the height and width of the inside. It is necessary to paste over them with the same color as the inside of the cabinet. We connect the shelves with a glue gun.
In the next section of the cabinet, glue a cocktail tube and make hangers from paper clips. Outside, the box can also be pasted over with paper or painted. On one door, as an option with a mirror, you can glue a piece of foil. Fill the closet with things and install it in your house.
Cardboard TV
What is a house without a TV? To create it, we need, as in all products, thick cardboard. We prepare two identical parts measuring 15 x 12 cm. Glue them together. For a plasma effect, you can paste cardboard cardboard on black tape. If this is not at hand, plain black paper will do. First, we begin to paste over all the side parts, and then only the flat panels. The leg can be made from an ordinary cap from a felt-tip pen, we also decorate it with adhesive tape.
As a stand, you can take two matchboxes and glue them together, additionally paste over with plain paper and only then decorate them to match the TV. With hot glue we fix the leg to the TV and to the base of matchboxes. We cut out a beautiful picture from any children's magazine, a size slightly smaller than the TV screen and glue it to the plasma. We place it in the house and make your doll happy.
With the help of the article, we examined the main options for arranging a house out of cardboard and answered the question about how to make furniture out of cardboard for dolls.
On the basis of this, fantasize, invent your own options and please the children with new ideas.