Furniture for dolls own hands

First, let's determine for whom exactly you are going to make furniture: for dolls or for children. As you know, the children of the people are very inquisitive, they will gladly make your furniture crash test for breakability, disassembly and durability. Therefore, if your home-made furniture is intended for playing dolls, and not for museum exposition, it should be not only nice, but also functional. Of course, among other things, miniature crafts must be very neat. Furniture for dolls is the jewelry direction of the handmade furniture industry of home craftsmen, neatness and accuracy are important here.

How to make doll furniture?

Playing, our children copy their parents, relationships in the family and life. Or they play in the house of their dreams, seen in the film, in a neighbor's family. Perhaps everything that our children play today, they will tomorrow embody in their adult real life. Therefore, it is so important, the prototype, what kind of adult house we program the girl in the game.

Be sure to involve children in making furniture for your favorite dolls. Take care that the dolls have everything you need. It is important that the kitchen was well equipped, there were various lockers, bedside tables, utensils for cooking and eating. The bedroom should be spacious, on the bed a beautiful bed linen. It is important to equip a separate room in the doll house for children's dolls for babies, because you want to grind your grandchildren in the future?

Matchbox furniture

The simplest thing is to make a nightstand for the doll. You just need to take two matchboxes, glue them with PVA glue, so that the sliding parts look like drawers of the chest. Then you should paste the boxes on four sides with cardboard, put them on the boxes with a bead-pen. You can decorate the ends of boxes with rectangles of cardboard or edging from cardboard, matches or toothpicks. The bedside table is ready, now it can be painted. If you decide to make the entire doll interior in a vintage style, as in the photo, it is worthwhile to listen to the following recommendations.

1. Dye the whole product with acrylic paint in a dark chocolate color. Dry it.
2. Go through the candle along the edges, edges, ribs, protruding places to simulate scuffs. Brush off the crumbs with a cloth.
3. Paint with acrylic paint in white or pastel color. Paraffin treated places will remain dark.
4. Apply several layers of matte varnish.

Of matchboxes on their own you can make almost any furniture for dolls. You only need boxes, your skillful parent hands and the desire to please your daughter. How to do this you already know. In addition to the chest, you can glue a desk with drawers, a piano, a cot or a buffet.

Furniture from a cardboard

Many interior items for dolls are easy to make from cardboard. For example, a wardrobe, kitchen table, clothes hanger, bed, armchairs for a chair and a sofa. As a real cabinet furniture is collected from the fiberboard, so the furniture for dolls can easily be cut out of cardboard. To make a pattern is convenient according to the example of furniture in your living room or bedroom. Cardboard allows you to make an exact copy of all the items of your own home, if you, of course, are interested in such cloning.

Some items of carton furniture for dolls can be strengthened with chopsticks from ice cream. For example, the backs of chairs and beds. Chopsticks can be used to cover the doors of cabinets and cupboards. You can use sticks as an independent material for furniture. Interesting models of furniture for dolls can be made by hand from wooden clothespins.

Making soft toy furniture is not much different from making its analogues in full size. The difference is only in size. Filler and, at the same time, a skeleton can serve as a foam. The railing can be made of polystyrene, polyurethane foam, plastic for modeling.

The recipe of plastics for modeling

Cook in a Teflon saucepan a mixture of 1 cup cornstarch, 1 cup PVA (the construction company "Moment"), 1 spoonful of hand cream, 1 spoonful of lemon juice, before lagging behind the walls. Knead the resulting dough warm, add the paint, wrap in a film and put in the fridge. You can sculpt a day later. Finished parts glued to PVA. When drying, the color of the product becomes more saturated. From this clay it is possible to fashion everything: from cupcakes and a tea set to a living room set.

Museum furniture for dolls

If you made your own doll house not for children, but for yourself, i.e. interior option, you can not worry about the fragility of the furniture. Particular attention should be paid to its appearance.

Crystal chandeliers can be weaved from beads, beads. Wonderful twisted wicker furniture for dolls can be made from pressed paper or papier-mâché, wire and thread.

And yet, if you still got the idea to make doll furniture for children, and by all means own hands, start today. Children are growing so fast.