A dollhouse is the dream of every little girl, especially if it has all the necessary furniture, rugs, curtains on the windows and all sorts of little things like photo frames and lamps. Such a real house in miniature, where your favorite doll will live. Each girl tries to equip her pet’s life, however, modern children are used to buying everything they need, and they don’t think about how to make doll furniture on their own. But this is a very interesting process that develops the creative abilities of a child.
So, how to make Barbie doll furniture to fill your home? For this, all kinds of plastic cups for yogurt and sour cream, various cardboard boxes, washcloths for dishes and other improvised material are suitable. You will also need a fabric for upholstering furniture, a synthetic winterizer or foam rubber for stuffing pillows, sewing accessories or a gun with hot glue.
Practical tips
First of all, you need to decide on the piece of furniture, and then select the appropriate material for the manufacture. Here are some tips for making doll furniture.
Bed
As a basis, you can use a cardboard box of a suitable size or an ordinary washcloth, and it can be absolutely any shape - round, oval, square or rectangular, the main thing is that the doll fits on it in full growth. If you make a bed out of the box, you will need a synthetic winterizer or a piece of foam for the mattress, the frame is sheathed with any beautiful fabric, satin crepe satin will look good. It is better to glue more dense material, such as felt, to the bottom of the bed. The washcloth also needs to be covered with fabric, it is good if you first sew a cover on it, and stick the felt blank to the bottom. After the bed is covered with fabric, it is enough to make a few pillows for it and a beautiful
fur cover.
Sofa
How to make furniture for dolls in the hall or living room, and what items should be in these rooms? First of all, this is a sofa, it is easiest to make it from ordinary washcloths for dishes. To do this, you need 8 washcloths that need to be covered with a beautiful soft cloth, it can be velor, fleece or fur. After that, all the blanks need to be put together - three washcloths for the back, three for the seat and two at the edges as armrests. Parts can be sewn together, or can be glued with hot glue. The same principle makes it easy to make a chair.
Table and chairs
How to make kitchen furniture for dolls, and what items are simply needed there? Of course, a table and chairs. To make them, you will need plastic glasses from under yogurt for chairs and one glass from under sour cream or cottage cheese dessert, as well as thick cardboard for the table. The bottom of the cups will serve as seats, but the legs must be cut out of its walls, after drawing them with a marker. Further, from the scraps, you can cut the back for the chair and glue it with hot glue - the blank for the chair is ready. For the table, legs are also cut out of a plastic cup of a slightly larger size, and a tabletop is made of thick cardboard. The next steps are to strengthen the blanks with papier-mâché and spray paint.
Knowing the basics of how to make furniture for dolls, the child will be able to independently make everything that is necessary for the pet’s house. The main thing here is to provide the child with material and, if possible, take time for joint creativity.