Furniture made of cardboard for dolls

In modern stores you can buy almost everything, and the variety of doll houses and furniture is amazing. But, as you know, sometimes all this has too high prices. In addition, no matter what, toys made by hand, children appreciate much higher. After all, even the most expensive toy bought in the store will not be able to bring so much pride and joy, like the one that the child made himself or together with you.

We offer you a small gift for your child and make furniture for dolls from cardboard. This is the simplest option, which requires virtually no cost. Enough will be your desire and a little patience, and we'll show you how from cardboard you can make furniture. So, we provide you with an instruction for the manufacture of several pieces of doll furniture, for the invention of which you only need a thick cardboard, scissors and glue.

Detailed instructions and schemes for the manufacture of furniture from cardboard

1. In every house, even if it is a puppet, you need a table! Make it out of cardboard is easy enough. Let's consider some variants. Rectangular table. First you need to cut out the cardboard countertop - this will be a rectangle measuring 120 by 100 mm. To make the legs for the table, cut 16 strips 70 mm long and 10 mm wide. Glue each other in height by four strips. The obtained legs are glued to the table top.

Round table. The table board should be cut out as a circle with a diameter of 80 mm. The legs of the table are glued together from two cardboard strips 170 mm long and 20 mm wide. Bend them as shown in the picture. The legs for the round table are glued to the board of the table crosswise.

So, we already have a table. Now we need a chair!

2. For the manufacture of a chair, it is necessary to cut out a cardboard back with back legs and a seat with front legs. To the dolls of your baby was comfortable to sit, the back should be slightly bent. Cutting out the cardboard seat, bend it in the places indicated by the dotted line in the figure. Glue back and seat. For a complete set of furniture, most likely, you will need these four chairs.

3. For comfort and coziness in our doll house there is not enough of course a sofa. It consists of two side walls measuring 100 by 60 mm and a backboard measuring 180 by 70 mm. For a more original design of the sofa, according to the drawing, round off some corners of its component parts. In addition, you will need a cardboard box. You can take it already ready or glue yourself. To do this, cut out a cardboard box with a size of 180 by 96 mm, measure from the edges of each side to 20 mm (the expected depth of the box) and make deflections along these lines. Glue the box in the corners. To her with glue, attach the side walls and back.

4. In addition to the sofa for a complete set of "upholstered furniture" left to make chairs. Cut out the side walls from the cardboard, as shown in the picture. From a thinner cardboard, cut out the back of the chair, in the form of a rectangle measuring 150 by 70 mm. Leave the backrest according to the picture. Apply a layer of glue on the side edges of the back and glue the side walls of the chair.

For a more effective look, the doll furniture made of cardboard can be pasted with colored paper, painted with colors or decorated with beads. Fantasize, than you can still fill the doll room. It does not have to be cardboard. For example, from cloth you can make a carpet, a tablecloth on a table or a blanket on a sofa. In a word, everything in your hands and toy furniture made of cardboard can turn into a wonderful masterpiece!