If you bought a doll for your daughter, then expect numerous requests for the purchase of related products. The child will want new dresses and other items of clothing, a bed, a sofa, upholstered furniture, a dollhouse or a stroller. However, all this can be perfectly constructed independently if you know the principles of manufacturing.
In the article, we will consider how to make a chair for a doll with your own hands, what materials will be needed for work, how to make a craft so that the seat and sides are soft. Corrugated packaging cardboard and empty plastic containers, matchboxes and foam sheets, linen clothespins and cardboard sleeves from napkins are used.
Before making a doll chair, consider what size is necessary in accordance with the growth of the toy, and choose a material that is convenient in work and affordable. You will also need fasteners or reliable glue, if the work is carried out with cardboard or foam. It will hold the construction details together hot glue or transparent moment glue.
To upholstered furniture looked like real, it will need to be pasted with foam rubber or synthetic winterizer and sew a beautiful cover made of dense fabric. Shreds can be found in the box of any seamstress or use old things from your wardrobe. You can decorate the product with lace, satin or crepe ribbons, a wavy edging, decorate with buttons or beads, it all depends on the quality of the fabric and the selected craft material.
Matchbox furniture
This option is suitable for small toys. Before you make a doll chair, buy a pack of matches and set aside 6 boxes. Take out all the matches, and paste over empty cardboard containers with any paper. Put 2 boxes on top of one another and connect them together. PVA glue will cope with such a simple fastening. The backrest is made up of 2 boxes glued together with an end part.
It remains only to attach the side panels on the left and right, and the chair is ready! You can wrap it with thin foam rubber or synthetic winterizer, and on top with a cloth.
Sleeve base
If you still have a sleeve from kitchen napkins, you get an excellent cardboard chair. How to make a doll chair? Very simple. It is enough to draw the contours of the future crafts with a simple pencil and cut with a sharp clerical knife. The cardboard is incredibly dense, so cutting will take some time.
You can paste over the shape of the chair with either cloth or colored paper and scotch tape. Insert the foam-lined foam cylinder inside. It should peek slightly out of the bore of the sleeve.
Styrofoam armchair
The chair consists of 4 square sheets and one rectangular. The sides are reinforced with a double layer, and the back is attached at an angle to the back. Cut out the necessary pieces with a hot wire, then the edges remain flat and smooth.
Subsequently, you can glue the round legs to the bottom, reinforcing it with a piece of thick cardboard, and lay soft pillows inside the seat and backrest. You can not attach the side parts, but replace them with cylindrical pillows from old hair curlers.
Use of wire and plastic container
It is very simple to make a toy chair for a doll from a dense plastic container, for example, from a gel for washing or for washing dishes. The step-by-step photo clearly shows how to make a doll chair. You need to cut the corner with semicircular sidewalls. Clean the edges with emery paper so that there are no sharp burrs.
The next stage of work will be the manufacture of stands for a plastic chair. It will take a piece of thick wire and pliers. On such a basis, the chair can be glued with hot-melt adhesive both outside and inside the workpiece. It remains to sew a soft, bright pillow, fill it with cotton or padding polyester and lay it on the seat.
Cushion chair
If you have a sewing machine and sewing skills, it’s easiest to sew a chair in the shape of a round pillow. The photo below shows how to make a chair for a Barbie doll from pieces of fabric. 6 identical sectors are cut out from different shreds of fabric and stitched together with each other so that a circle is folded. Before the last seam, fill the inside of the pillow with any filler.
It can be foam balls that are used in construction. You can fill the pillow with dried peas or lentils, in extreme cases - with sand or salt. The finer the filler, the easier it is to give the desired shape with a simple indentation.
Armchair made of plastic bottles
To work on the next version of the craft, prepare an empty two-liter container and scissors. The photo below shows which contours you need to cut the workpiece. The armrests are elongated strips that need to be bent in half and stitched. To fasten it was reliable, but at the same time beautiful, use a flower made of fabric and a button matched to match.
Pre-hem the edges so that they do not cut the child’s hand. The seat is made round and filled with padding polyester or cotton. The soft part of the back is also made in the same way. So that it does not fall, it is sewn to the plastic base with stitches, reinforcing again with a button.
How to make a cardboard doll chair?
It is best to use corrugated cardboard packaging. It has several layers that make the products durable. On a sheet of cardboard, draw a pattern and cut with scissors along the contours. This is a long rectangle in the center, the width of which corresponds to the internal distance between the sidewalls. Having departed from the edge of 5 or 6 cm, on the sides draw squares of the sides. The length of the central rectangle is equal to the sum of the dimensions of the back, bottom, lift up front and the actual seat.
After everything is drawn and cut, make the necessary folds and assemble the chair. It remains only to glue the gun to strengthen all parts in their places. The next stage of work is the upholstery of the chair with thin foam rubber and fabric.
The photo above shows how the sides of the chair are pasted. At this stage, you can give the product a rounded or rectangular shape. Then it remains only to paste over the entire crafts with a cloth.
Sponge Chairs
Let's look at one of the simplest and easiest ways to make toy furniture, namely, how to make a chair for dolls out of sponges. It is more convenient to buy 4 thin sponges with a flat surface and glue them together with Moment glue.
If you buy monophonic kitchen sponges, then a chair or sofa, made of such foam products, can be left in this form, without gluing them with a cloth. But you can sheathe all pillows with fabric, you get real soft furniture, only a small size, your daughter will definitely like it.
Rocking chair
How to make a rocking chair for dolls from simple clothespins, we will consider below in the article. Prepare a lot of parts and remove the metal spring, only wooden parts are needed for work. The photo below clearly shows how to place the halves of the clothespins together so that the chair swings on a flat surface. You can connect parts to each other with wood glue or with a glue gun.
The wooden chair can be covered with a layer of stain and acrylic varnish. The craftsmanship looks impressive, but it is not difficult to do it. Any dad will collect in a few minutes. The toy comes out strong, the child can freely rearrange and hide the chair in the box.
In the article, we examined some of the most popular options for making doll chairs from a wide variety of materials. Choose your favorite and try to make a craft yourself. Good luck