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Volume chair made of cardboard for dolls. We create furniture for dolls: armchair, fireplace, ottoman

House is built. It does not matter at all whether it is big or small, made of brick or cardboard, Barbie or Snow White with the gnomes will live in it. In any case, he needs an interior, furniture and necessary accessories. In toy stores today you can buy everything. But as you know, the most fashionable things are exclusive, made in a single copy, handmade things. Therefore, we roll up our sleeves and begin work on making doll furniture with our own hands.

In the toy market, working miniature models of real human household items: cars, planes, clothes, etc. are most valued. The smaller the models, the harder they are to make. Let's try to create a similar exclusive piece of furniture.

To make doll upholstered furniture, you need to prepare:

thick cardboard 1-1.5 mm thick;
plain paper;
foam board (thickness 0.5 cm) or corrugated cardboard (thickness 0.3 cm);
a tube with a diameter of 1.5-2.5 cm from any material. You can use an old marker or a cardboard tube from under the threads;
fleece or thin foam rubber 0.3-0.8 cm thick;
upholstery fabric. It is better to choose chintz or staple, so that it is better saturated with glue;
PVA glue and "moment";
scissors, knife;
ruler, pencil.

Making a real chair step by step

Make drawings of parts on paper and cut them out.

Cut out the details of the chair according to the drawings. Glue four rectangles of foam board or six of corrugated cardboard together. This will be the base of the chair, the seat. Then glue the back and front of the chair, cut out of thick cardboard. Attach the armrest tubes. Further, after pasting them with paper, they will hold well, but for now they can be slightly “basted” with pieces of adhesive tape.

Cut out several strips of corrugated cardboard 1 cm wide and equal to the length of the tubes, and put them in a pile under the roller, smearing the layer with glue. Determine the number of layers locally. Paste over the armrest first with thin paper, and then with fleece or foam rubber.

Cover the chair with fabric. To do this, cut out pieces of material according to the same drawings, but adding a little (1-1.5 cm) in length and width for the fold.

Cover the back (removable) for the chair first with foam rubber on one side, and then with a cloth on all sides.

Set the back in the chair. It can be glued to a stationary back, or it can be left collapsible.

Do the pillow on the chair in the same way as the back.

This is how the royal chair for your favorite doll turned out.

The manufacturing technique of this upholstered furniture is similar to the scheme described above, only this chair is not a real model, and therefore the base for it is easier to perform. It consists of a piece of foam rubber, cut according to patterns, 1-2 cm thick and a small box. These parts also need to be pasted over with a beautiful fabric, and then connected.

From a rectangular piece of foam rubber that matches the size of the box, cut out a pillow and drape it with a cloth. If there is a sufficiently long and narrow box, then you can get a chic sofa for a doll.

The desire to make furniture for very often stops the lack of materials. Of course, few people have furniture boards, wooden blocks and springs in the apartment. However, miniature furniture does not require such real details. Half-liter plastic bottles are in any home and can be used not only as containers.

If they are cut in a certain way, they can turn out to be beyond the original chairs. In order to give them a presentable look, you can sheathe or glue the edges of the plastic with a beautiful braid. Next, you need to sew two pillows with your own and fill them with some kind of filler. One of them will be the seat and the other the back.

To complete this work, we need a cardboard tube, which remains from a roll of toilet paper. The manufacturing scheme is the same as in the previous version, only in this case we will not be able to make armrests. Therefore, miniature furniture will be more like an ottoman with a back.

Cut out the desired shape from the tube and paste over it with a cloth. Make a bag, stuff it with filler and put it inside the tubes to make a seat.

Bed for doll baby

Barbie or Monster High are grown girls, so it makes sense that they might have a little baby. It also needs some furniture. For example, a crib.

There is a very simple option for making a cradle for a little Baby - a bed made of matchboxes. For the backs, you can use popsicle sticks. Glue the two boxes together and cover with colored paper. Glue the sticks and paint them. The bed is ready.

Matchboxes are an excellent building material for dollhouse furniture. These are ready made drawers. You can make a whole kitchen set out of them.

Take 9 boxes and fold them into three rows, gluing them together.
Tape around the perimeter with colored paper tape.
Make staples at the ends of the "boxes" with a stapler. These will be the handles.
Make hanging cabinets from three boxes.
Glue two pieces in each box.
Paint or cover them with colored paper.
Cut the top of the box down the middle. These will be the doors. Handles on them can be drawn with a felt-tip pen or glued on a grain of rice.

From matchboxes you can construct a wonderful chest of drawers. For this we need:

4 matchboxes;
4 beads for legs and 4 for handles;
thin fabric or colored paper;
beautiful braid;
glue, paint.

Paint all boxes inside and out with a solid color paint. Glue them together and wrap with cloth or paper. Glue a braid along the contour, 4 bead legs on the bottom, and bead handles on each box.

Only 4 matchboxes, three beads, thick cardboard and colored paper are needed in order to make a stationery or desk. Take 3 boxes and glue them flat sides together. Glue them around the perimeter with colored paper.

Glue the fourth box with the same paper, which will serve as a second support for the countertop. The width of a matchbox is exactly equal to the height of a stack of three of the same boxes. Decorate drawers by sewing on beads as handles.

It remains to glue the cardboard tabletop on top and the school desk for the puppet student is ready.

Step by step master class 2

What dollhouses just do not exist! Houses for barbies, baby dolls, all sorts of animals, even for monster high dolls, and that is, dwellings. But one house is not enough, it is necessary that it has furniture, otherwise the puppet dweller will be uncomfortable. You can go to the store and buy all the necessary items, or you can watch master classes on how to make furniture for dolls with your own hands.

You can equip a house with a variety of materials.

Furniture is made from cardboard, plywood, matchboxes, paper, wire, clothespins, plastic jars, lids and crocheted.

You can consider several master classes. So, we make furniture for the dollhouse.

Rocking chair made of clothespins

You will need 12 wooden clothespins and PVA glue. Disassemble the clothespins by removing the metal fastener. Glue the 8 halves together with a fan. Get the back of the chair.

Glue the other 8 halves to each other evenly, you get a seat that must be connected to the back. Now the sides. Take two halves and glue the house. Then glue the half on top, rounded side up, and on the bottom, rounded side down. Make the same second sidewall and glue to the seat.

It will turn out like this:

Matchbox bedside table

You need to take several matchboxes, depending on how many boxes you want to have in your nightstand. Fold them on top of each other to the desired height and glue. Spread a strip of cardboard with glue and wrap the bedside table blank where the drawers do not slide out. Everything, the furniture is ready. Then it all depends on the decor. Each box can be painted or pasted over with paper. The back wall and sides of the cabinet are also pasted over with paper. Beads can be used as handles. The appearance of the item depends on the desire and creative imagination of the manufacturer.

Wicker chair

Cut out the back of the chair from cardboard, as in the photo, and make holes along the edge with a needle. Take pieces of wire. Fold in half and insert into holes. Cut the wire at the top, just don't cut the front. Use twine or yarn to make the top. Like this.

When ready, fasten the thread with wire by bending it. Now you need to weave the bottom and also secure with wire. Make sure everything is straight and not warped. Weave a pigtail from the same threads and glue it on a bent wire so that it is not visible. Make legs from the wire below.

Take a thin piece of sponge for dishes, glue or sheathe it with a cloth and put it on a chair. Ready! In the same way, you can make a table and stools.

Leisure sofa

What you need for work:

Glue;
Colored pieces of fabric, at least two different colors;
Cardboard or hardboard;
A few buttons, a needle and thread;
Ribbon, lace or braid;
Sponges for dishes or simple foam rubber.

Draw the details on paper: back, 2 sides, base and front. Cut them out of hardboard. Take a sponge and cut it into 2 or 3 pieces lengthwise. Stick on the sides, as in the photo.

Glue the sponge to the base and back. You get a set like this:

Cover the back of the sofa with upholstery. On the reverse side, make holes with an awl and use them to sew buttons to the upholstery.

Glue the base of the sofa with the same material. But the front part and armrests are finished in a different color. In this way.

Giving or making a home for your daughter for her dolls is just the beginning. Next, this house will have to be furnished. This is a bunch of toy furniture, appliances, accessories. How to make furniture for dolls with your own hands will be described in this article.

How to determine the size

Dolls, their houses and furnishings are miniature copies of us and our dwellings. And the most reliable way to make doll furniture with your own hands and not make a mistake is to measure real objects, reduce them several times, and then work with the values obtained.

Furniture for dolls - copies of our furniture

How much to reduce the actual size depends on how small or large the doll is, because they are from 7 cm to 60 cm or even higher. Accordingly, they need furniture of different sizes. To determine the number by which real dimensions should be divided, we divide the average height of a person in centimeters (170 cm) by the height of the doll. Let's get some number. Here it will be necessary to divide the dimensions of real furniture into it.

For example, the height of the doll is 15 cm. We calculate: 170 cm / 15 cm = 11.3. Here we divide all the parameters of “human” furniture by this number. It should also be said that exactly 14-15 cm is the most popular size among the puppet population. Therefore, most of the finished furniture is made in a ratio of 1:12. We can also use the available dimensions, at least in order to be able to navigate with the scale of the required parts and the amount of materials.

So, the most common sizes of dolls:

male doll 150 mm;
female doll - 140 mm;
baby doll - 75-100 mm;
toy baby - 65-75 mm.

If you need furniture for dolls of similar sizes, its parameters will be as follows:

If the toys you have are slightly larger / smaller, you can not adjust the sizes. With a large difference, you will have to increase or decrease (or you can calculate it yourself).

Doll furniture from matchboxes

The easiest way is to make furniture for dolls with your own hands from ordinary matchboxes. They are glued together with PVA glue, creating certain designs, then pasted over with paper or cloth, self-adhesive film, etc. Wooden beads can be used as legs, drawer handles can be made from small buttons on legs or from long beads.

From matchboxes you can make chairs, a table, a chest of drawers, a bed, a bedside table. Another thing is that furniture is obtained for very small dolls, no more than 10 cm high. Although, you can use more boxes by gluing them into blocks, and from these blocks create furniture for dolls about 15 cm high. Also an option, but work with others materials are not much more difficult, but they are more plastic and allow you to create products of more elegant forms.

This may be your first experience in making doll furniture. Later it will be possible to take on something more serious.

Cardboard Dollhouse Furniture

You can try your hand at making furniture for dolls using cardboard. The material is inexpensive, affordable, it will be possible to try and make mistakes, redo it. Cardboard is usually connected with PVA glue, you can use a glue gun or any universal glue that can glue cardboard, fabric, wood. Just making furniture for dolls with your own hands from cardboard, you will still use these materials. If we talk about convenience, then a glue gun is preferable - it glues quickly, it is convenient to work, the connection is reliable.

To make furniture for dolls, you can use ordinary packing cardboard. It is cheap, but the furniture from it is very delicate. It is unlikely that the child will have enough of it for a long time. But, as a "first experience", this is a good option. Scrapbooking cardboard products are more reliable. It is more dense, uniform, has a different thickness (from 2 mm or more), can be with a textured surface, extruded monochromatic patterns, a pattern on one or both sides. The disadvantage of such cardboard is that you have to buy it, and some types of such cardboard are not very cheap.

Cardboard bed for a doll

This cardboard doll bed is designed for a large doll - up to 50 cm in height. If necessary, all these dimensions can be reduced.

This option can be done in just 10-20 minutes. There is no need for glue or other fixatives. The pieces are held in place by grooves cut into the cardboard. The width of the groove is equal to the thickness of the cardboard, the length of the slots and the dimensions of the blanks are indicated in the diagram.

The green and yellow dots indicate overlapping cuts. They are inserted one into the other, where the assembly ends. If you like this model, it can also be made from plywood.

Schemes for the manufacture of cardboard doll furniture

Basically, furniture for cardboard dolls is glued. It is unlikely that it will be possible to make something openwork or very complex out of this material, but the manufacture of simple models will not take much time. Having a diagram with dimensions, you can even do without explanation. Everything is so clear.

Such models can be made "by eye". Without “upholstery” they look unsightly, but after that they look pretty decent. A bedside table with doors and an open shelf - the scheme is the same, different execution

Furniture schemes for dolls can be used not only for making cardboard. They can be transferred to plywood and cut with a jigsaw.

Wardrobe for dolls from improvised materials

The toy cabinet can be made of plywood, painted or pasted over with wrapping paper or self-adhesive film. Here, probably, there will be no questions - everything is clear, and if there are questions, you can peep their solution in a “natural” closet. But you can make it from very inexpensive materials. Do-it-yourself furniture for dolls is good because its cost is very low.

From a cardboard box

The main task is to find a cardboard box of the right size. Moreover, it will be easier to work if it is packaging - with folding edges. Such a folding part is a ready-made door. All that remains is to finish it - hang a mirror, attach a handle, etc.

One of the options for home-made furniture for dolls is a wardrobe

What do you need to work

For work, you will need a good adhesive tape, it is better - on a paper basis, since it is then easier to glue the finish to it. If you have a glue gun or a construction stapler (a large clerical one will do) with staples, that’s also good. If you use other materials besides cardboard and paper, it is better to find a universal glue that glues paper, cardboard, fabric, plastic. You will also need scissors and a clerical knife, a ruler.

If the found box is too large, it can be reduced by cutting off the excess. To make the folds even, we take a ruler. we apply it to the place of the future fold, several times we pass well along the ruler with a blunt solid object (the petiole of a spoon or fork). After that, it will be easy to bend the cardboard.

Filling for a toy cabinet

From scraps or from another box, cut out the shelves. They should be slightly - 5-8 mm - longer and wider than the internal space of the cabinet. We bend the excess so that the sides form on all sides. Folds form in the corners, we carefully cut them off. We bend one of the parts by 180 ° and glue it to the shelf itself. This side of the shelf will "look at the world." We bend the other three parts at an angle of 90 °, coat with glue and glue the shelves into the cabinet. The photo on the right shows how the shelves are glued. But, so that the gluing places are not conspicuous, it is better to wrap the sides down.

Making furniture for dolls with your own hands is no less fun than playing with it later.

In addition to shelves, you can also make a crossbar for hangers. It can be made from bamboo skewers, for example, you can try using a juice straw, wire, etc. Hangers can also be twisted from colored wire or cut from juice bags, plastic bottles, etc.

Finishing is a creative process

Next up is finishing. You can paint the cardboard with watercolors or acrylic (better) paints, glue it with wrapping paper, cloth, felt. You can imitate a mirror surface - paste over with foil (food, for example). If you want to make a "plastic" surface, look for water bottles of the right color, cut off the neck and bottom, and use the "body" as a finishing material.

Finishing is a creative process, but to start with, use simpler, softer, thinner materials that are easier to work with.

Handles can be made of wire, beads, long beads. For larger toy cabinets, buttons or buttons can be found. We glue all this “beauty” after we have “sheathed” the cabinet.

Newspaper doll wardrobe

You will need old newspapers, PVA glue with a brush, a glue gun, a couple of pieces of wire or thread, wrapping paper for finishing the cabinet or paint.

We twist dense tubes from newspapers, coat them along the edge of the PVA and leave to dry. Then the tubes can be glued together. A glue gun is best for this operation. There are two ways: first, assemble large blocks, then cut them into fragments of the desired length, or immediately cut the tubes of the desired length and immediately glue the blanks in size. The second way is more painstaking, but there is less waste.

The finished walls of the cabinet must be fastened together. To rigidly fix the angle of 90 °, it is better to use a thin wire. First, coat the joints with glue, then draw the walls one to the other with wire. If the wires are in the way, they can be removed after the glue has dried.

The bottom, top, shelves are glued using the same technology. The doors will need to be done a little differently. In order for them to open, two strips about 1.5 cm wide are cut out of the tape. Tape is glued along the edge of the door so that a little more than half hangs in the air. With this loose adhesive tape we glue the door to the wall, but so that there is a gap of 2-3 mm between the wall and the door (there is just adhesive tape). This will allow the doors to close. We fix the glued door on the other side with a second strip of adhesive tape.

The second way to fix the doors is on the wire. Only this time it should be tough and thick enough. Cut off a piece that is 2 cm longer than the height of the cabinet. Immediately on the wire on one side we make a loop, using 1 cm. We bend the loop at an angle of 90 ° to the wire. We make holes in the bottom and roof, pass the wire through the bottom, the loop remains below. We put a door on the wire, using the outer tube instead of hinges. Slightly bending the wire, we thread it into the hole in the cabinet roof, bend the excess, fixing the door. We repeat the same operation with another door. Please note that it is necessary to fasten the door to the adhesive tape before finishing the cabinet, and it is possible to attach it to the wire after.

There are some other little things that need to be said a few words. Legs and handles for the cabinet can also be made from paper tubes. You just need to twist them from the paper with which you trim the toy. Fold it into a tight roll, glue the edge with glue, then cut it into segments of the desired length and glue it in the right places. Instead of tubes, there can be wooden sticks, beads, etc.

Doll bookcase or ruler shelf

You can make furniture for dolls with your own hands from school wooden rulers. They are good because they are already processed, have the same width and thickness. In the stationery store you can find the right size - larger / smaller, wider / narrower - as desired. For example, to make a doll bookcase, you need 6 rulers 15 cm long.

You will also need a jigsaw to work. If there is an electric one, great, if not, a manual one will do, since there is not too much work. You also need fine-grained sandpaper, glue (PVA or carpentry) and paints (acrylic or gouache).

We cut segments from the rulers: 4 pieces of 6 cm each, one - 8 cm. We sand the edges to an even state, we also remove the markings and barcodes. Between the two rulers we have shelves (which are 6 cm each), on top we leave approximately the same distance - under the lid (a segment of 8 cm). We coat the joints with PVA or carpentry glue, connect and tighten with masking tape, leave for a day. When the glue dries, glue the very last detail - the cover on top. Actually, the shelf itself is ready, it remains to paint it.

To obtain an even and bright color, it is better to cover the structure with white, after drying, already paint with the desired shade. Also, do-it-yourself doll furniture can be decorated with.

Furniture for dolls: photo ideas

You can make furniture for dolls with your own hands from the most unexpected materials. You have already seen how to use newspapers and wooden rulers. But you can make tables, chairs, armchairs, sofas, beds, shelves, cabinets, etc. from ice cream sticks.

Garden bench or sofa - depending on the finish

What is good about this material, you probably already understood - it has rounded processed edges, is the same in size and well processed. If the sticks seem too rough, sand them down to smoothness with fine grit sandpaper.

Clothespins make good armchairs and chairs. They are disassembled into halves and connected with wood glue. Figured products are obtained in almost a few tens of minutes.

Armchair, table - can also be made from clothespins

Almost always, wooden clothespins are used to make doll furniture. But no one forbids taking plastic ones. It is also difficult to work with them in the same way, only the difficulty is that wooden ones are easier to modify by changing the thickness of the shape, etc. If the product is simple, does not require refinement, you can take plastic ones. They are more varied in shape and size, already painted, so there is less fuss with them.

With the growth of skill, you can switch to more complex material - plywood or wood. The difficulty is that turning and cutting miniature parts requires filigree precision, perseverance and takes a lot of time. But you can do whatever you want.

Corner desk for a doll….everything is real

Plywood doll wardrobe - very high fidelity

If your child loves to play with dolls, this workshop is for you. Today we will make a soft and beautiful armchair for a doll with our own hands.

Kids always like to equip houses for their toys. In order not to spend money on furniture for, make it yourself. It's actually very simple. You can even involve your child in this process. Let them choose for themselves what color the fabric will be on the new throne of their “pupils”.

What will we need?

piece of cardboard box
foam rubber (or sponge for washing dishes)
beautiful upholstery fabric
PVA glue

How to make a chair?

First, let's decide on the size of the cardboard (and, accordingly, the chair itself). Estimate the size of the doll. If you are making for Barbie, it is enough to cut out a cardboard box measuring 21 * 12. At the same time, we immediately cut off the right and left upper squares, bend them in the shape of a chair.

From the parts cut off earlier, we will make a seat. We glue the lower part (on the inside, by the way, you can also glue it with double-sided tape), but we don’t attach it to the main part yet.

Now glue the sponge on the seat and back of the chair. Don't make them too thick.

Let's unfold our future doll chair for a while. We also wrap the armrests with a piece of sponge. Here it can be sewn or glued. Immediately wrap the back and the visible part under it with a beautiful fabric - we will glue them.