Making furniture for dolls with your own hands is a great opportunity to spend time with your child in an interesting and useful way. You can experiment with design, size and styles. Such an activity contributes to the development of children's imagination and helps to create a unique dollhouse.
Sizing
Dollhouse furniture is a small copy of the real one. When choosing a scale, you need to be guided by the size of the doll and the dollhouse. After the doll’s height is measured, you need to divide the average person’s height (170 cm) by the height of the doll. This number will need to be divided into all sizes of real furniture in order to determine what size toy interior items should be.
Most items of toy furniture are designed for dolls fifteen centimeters high.
The most popular doll sizes:
- male doll - 15 cm;
- female doll - 14 cm;
- baby doll - 7.5 cm.
DIY furniture (do it yourself)
The approximate dimensions of furniture for a Barbie doll with your own hands will be as follows:
- Double bed - 16 * 13 cm.
- Single bed - 16 * 7.5 cm.
- Chair - 7.5 cm.
- Wardrobe - 17 cm.
- Sofa - height 4 cm.
- Table - height 6 cm.
These are approximate sizes from which you can build on creating interior items for specific dolls.
Furniture Material
Toy items can be created from absolutely any material. There is complete freedom for the imagination and hands of the master. It all depends on material capabilities and the availability of improvised material. Examples of finished products in pictures are on the Internet.
- Matchboxes. This is the easiest way to create doll furniture. Boxes are interconnected with ordinary PVA glue. From such blocks you can create absolutely any items: chest of drawers, armchair, bed, nightstand, table. Handles can serve as buttons or beads. If the blocks are sheathed with foam rubber and cloth, you can make a soft sofa and decorate the living room in the dollhouse with it.
- Cardboard. This is a fairly inexpensive option for creating doll furniture. On the Internet there are a lot of templates and schemes showing what and how to do. From cardboard the furniture for the dolls turns out to be quite interesting, since you can cut out any shape of the future interior item. Parts are fastened with PVA glue, a glue gun or any other glue. Such furniture must be decorated, because cardboard itself does not look very nice. The disadvantage of this material is that it is not durable.
- Plywood. This is the most durable and durable option. Plywood can be fastened with a hot gun, PVA glue or other wood glue. This material makes very beautiful beds, tables and wardrobes. From plywood, you can make a whole doll house with a large number of rooms.
- Newspaper tubes. This is a new way to create any interior item. Craftswomen who weave newspaper tubes can easily make a bed or a sofa out of them. The finished product can be painted or pasted over with decorative paper.
- Ice cream sticks. From this improvised material you can glue beautiful furniture for dolls. For gluing you will need a hot gun. The sticks have a flat surface, so they are easy to decorate.
Decoration toys
After manufacturing, an even more interesting process begins - the design and decoration of crafts. Cardboard and wood can be painted with acrylic paint, pasted over with paper or wallpaper.
You can use food foil to create a mirror surface.
To make a sofa, armchairs and a bed, you can use foam rubber or cotton wool, and on top of the toy is wrapped with a piece of cloth.
Handles can be made of beads, wire, paper clips and any improvised materials.
After painting with white paint, bedside tables and dressers can be decorated with flowers using decoupage technique or varnished to create a wood effect.
Making doll furniture with your own hands is a very interesting and creative process that will appeal to both adults and children. After all, this is the creation of a unique and inimitable interior and an interesting time spent with children.
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