Created in 1959, the Barbie doll is still very popular. And not only for children. For example, for collectors it is also a coveted object. Barbie is every girl's cherished dream. And parents, if possible, try to purchase this doll for their children. But what if your little one’s collection already includes a Barbie rider, a ballerina, an athlete, a nurse or little mermaids? The conclusion suggests itself - make a doll with your own hands!

“Do-it-yourself Barbie doll” master class

Make a new one, original version Barbie is not difficult. You don't have to be a talented designer or artist to do this. Of course, if you set yourself the task of making the most accurate copy of Barbie, you will have to spend a lot of time and money, and put in a lot of effort. But there are much simpler ideas. This could be an option or a rag doll. In principle, children don’t care what it’s made of. The main thing is that your child likes the result. Homemade dolls are practical (if they are made conscientiously!), cozy and, unlike people, do not age, so more than one generation will play with them. In stores you will find special materials for making dolls, and even individual auxiliary parts (wigs, eyes, shoes, clothes). No, if you don’t bother too much, you can do everything yourself!

In order to DIY Barbie doll If it lasted longer and could be played with, you should choose a simpler and stronger material for it. Products are usually made from plastic or cold porcelain for decorative purposes, which gather dust on shelves and are not practical in children's games because they can break if handled improperly. For a doll, for example, it’s perfect salt dough. It is made from water, flour and salt in proportions of 0.25:1:1 (measured in glasses). The dough is a simple and cheap option; and even if the toy breaks, you can always quickly find a replacement. Or clay will serve as an alternative. If you really want to work with a material similar to porcelain, then it can be replaced with a mixture of glycerin, PVA glue, starch, cream and water.

The doll is sculpted and formed from the selected material in the form in which the author sees it. She can be tall or short, plump or thin... For a doll, you can sculpt all the parts separately, and then combine them into one; or immediately sculpt as a single whole. After which finished product dried in a warm room or in the oven. And then the workpiece can be painted with acrylic, gouache, artistic varnish and other types of paints. You can mix all kinds of dyes into the dough in advance and immediately get parts of the desired shape and color, so that you don’t have to cover the doll first with paint to match the skin color, and then adding detailing. In such cases, it is convenient to make a mulatto Barbie or a Barbie in a diving suit. The base will be ready, all that remains is to apply your face and makeup.

Sewing Barbie dolls is also a great option. To sew a doll, you will need fabric, cotton wool or padding polyester for stuffing, and yarn for hair. Patterns are made on paper: the head is sketched big circle, the body is made in the form of a rectangle with rounded corners; arms and legs are drawn immediately along with hands and feet. According to the patterns, cutting is done on flesh-colored fabric. The head part is “baited” along the edge with a thread, a cotton ball is placed in the middle and the thread is pulled together, securing the part with several stitches. The result is a ball of the desired size. Beady eyes are sewn onto it, hair is made from yarn, and the mouth and nose are drawn with felt-tip pens. Barbie's head is ready.

Parts for arms and legs are cut out in pairs and folded inward right sides and stitched together. Then the blanks are turned inside out and stuffed with padding polyester. The torso is also stuffed; but a frame should be inserted into it so that it can support the weight of the head, and in general the doll has a stable appearance. The head is connected to the body; legs and arms are sewn in. Made from colorful scraps beautiful clothes. Rag-doll completed.

One more question: ? After all, each material requires its own approach. The most in a simple way It will be better to buy a ready-made wig or material from which it is easy to make neat strands. Or you can take ordinary knitting threads and make a fancy hairstyle out of them. If, say, it is done DIY Barbie Doll Cake, That better hair put it in a ponytail or secure it with a net, or mold the hair from the same material as the doll itself (in this case, imitation is most suitable short haircut or under the square).

All of these options are good. But they are quite primitive. And children love it when the doll’s legs and arms bend and its head bends and turns. At home, the process of making such a copy is quite complicated and will require certain skills and great patience from the author. How to do it jointed doll, but at the same time simplified. Here, no matter how you look or think, you will need a ready-made hollow plastic doll and plastic glue, special hooks, thin elastic bands and a mass for crafts. The doll is disassembled into “spare parts” and a mark is placed on each of them, so as not to get confused. The parts are carefully cut into pieces, and each is filled with hot plastic glue and prepared special hooks are inserted on each side. You must wait until the glue has completely hardened.

Hinges are made from the ornamental mass, pierced with a thin knitting needle and “baked” in the oven at a temperature of 100-120 0 C until they harden completely. And now you can connect the resulting doll parts using thin elastic bands, securing them to the hooks and passing them through the hinges. Barbie is ready. You can start playing with it! All you have to do is pick it up and it’s ready! Although, having learned how to sew a barbie doll tilde, all clothes for her can also be made using thread and needle. And those who love to knit can knit jewelry and accessories for Barbie.

If you have thought about the question: how to make a Barbie doll with your own hands? Then any of the proposed options “” is perfect for this. And how beautiful the end result will be depends only on your skills and efforts! Be sure to involve children in the process, turning work into an interesting game. And discuss with your child in advance what he wants to get in the end. Together, choose a material, draw a sketch, prepare scraps for an outfit... Perhaps making dolls will become your hobby, and you will please your relatives and friends beautiful models given as a gift.

Jewelry for Barbie can be made from absolutely different materials: from old jewelry to special accessories purchased in a sewing store.

Making earrings for Barbie.

This will require various chains, beads, rhinestones and pins (1). Using fishing line or copper wire(2) you can make any pendant (any shape, size, etc.), and then attach the finished pendant to a pin, after cutting it to the required length (do not throw away the cut ends of the pins, they will be useful later).

Making beads and bracelets for Barbie.

Nowadays, many dolls have heads that are not separable from the body, and I have not seen small clasps for beads (large clasps are too heavy for dolls). You can get out of the situation in the following ways. Firstly, make beads without clasps. You can make a decoration right under the throat, but then instead of thread you need to use a special thin elastic band. Secondly, special sewing hooks can be used as fasteners. And then your complete creativity and imagination. Bracelets are made in the same way.

Making rings for Barbie.

Rings are the most difficult to make because they are small and not very convenient. In order to make a ring you need to take thin wire and small rhinestones with holes and beads. Make a wire rim to fit your finger and secure the stone.

Production of decorative belts.

To do this, you need to buy a small decorative buckle and a piece of leather or dense material. It should look like this:

2. DIY shoes and accessories for Barbie.

Handbags.

They can be made from any material from simple fabric to leatherette. I took the bag models from the Internet and simply copied the design, cut out the parts and sewed everything together in order.

Shoes.

In our city, as it turned out, it is not very easy to buy shoes for Barbie dolls, and even if it is possible, then they are all the same type, well, they don’t fit into the image of a fashionista. There are two options here. First, change and decorate existing shoes to your liking.

Secondly, make the shoes yourself. For this you need: glue, thick cardboard, a piece of fabric, air-hardening plasticine for modeling and rhinestones.

Cut out a foot from cardboard, two for the right and two for the left. We apply the first cardboard to the leg and give it the shape of a doll’s foot. Let's take it small piece fabric, cut it out taking into account the selected shoe model and sew it to the cardboard. All this must be done without removing the cardboard from the foot (so that the shoe does not turn out to be too big or too small). Glue the second part of the sole to the workpiece with glue and let it dry. While the glue dries from plasticine, you can model any heel from a stiletto heel to a platform. When the workpiece and the heel are dry, you need to glue the heel to the sole. Well, now you can decorate the shoe as you wish. I painted the sole and heel with nail polish.

And if you know how to build nails, you can also make shoes from acrylic and gel. Wrap foil around the doll's leg and lay it out with acrylic or gel whatever your heart desires.

Sunglasses.

In our city there is also a bit of a problem with Barbie accessories, in particular glasses. We could only find these in stores, but they are not very high quality or beautiful.

I thought for a long time about what to make it out of. I searched a bunch of sites and didn’t really find anything, someone offered glass from plastic bottles Someone cut out the old film. But this is not practical. And I decided to make glasses from my broken glasses. To do this, you need to separate the glass from the frame. Cut out the shape of the glasses you want to get from paper and glue it to the prepared glass (tip - cut out the shape right with the bridge of the nose. If you only cut out the glasses, it will be difficult to attach later). Then, using a paper cutter heated over a fire, cut out the desired shape from the glass. Use a file to polish the edges. Pieces of cut pins will serve as scents for the glasses. It also needs to be heated over a fire and not completely inserted into the glass along the edges of the glasses. The plastic of the glasses will cool and lock the pins. Now you can decorate the glasses as you wish. You can imagine that glasses are without frames, then you don’t need to do anything else, but you can do them with frames. To do this, make a border around the edges of the glasses with nail polish. And you can put beads on the darlings and secure them with a pin.

Every girl dreams that her favorite Barbie doll has a beautiful and cozy home. Of course, you can buy it in a store, but the price is often not encouraging. We suggest you make a house with your own hands. You can easily cope with this, and your daughter will be only too happy to help. In addition, for its construction you can use almost everything that is at hand!

Materials and tools

Whatever model of house you choose, during construction and finishing you may need the following tools:

  • glue “Moment” or PVA, depending on the material;
  • scotch;
  • scissors;
  • paints and brushes;
  • colored paper or anything that can replace it (stickers, wallpaper, pictures);
  • ruler or tape measure for measurements.

For interior decoration, scraps of fabric, fur or leather, beads and seed beads, bamboo sticks and whatever your imagination tells you will be useful. But main question consists of what to make the walls of the house from. It turns out that there are a huge number of options here too. You can use cardboard boxes, scraps of plywood, fiberboard or drywall, boards and even old furniture!

You can even make such a house for a doll yourself from scrap materials.

The house can even be two- or three-story, horizontal (without a roof and with a top view) or vertical (with a removable front wall), simple or complex to manufacture, requiring certain skills in carpentry. But in any case, its construction and arrangement with your own hands will be exciting activity for the whole family. In addition, you can make furniture and interior items for the dollhouse yourself from the same materials at hand.

House made of fiberboard

You can easily make such a house model from fiberboard or plasterboard by gluing the parts with PVA glue. Most likely, you won’t even have to buy anything: many people have surplus building materials after renovation. You will also need:

  • cardboard;
  • wallpaper;
  • colored paper;
  • bamboo slats (they can be removed from the hot tray).

A house for Barbie can be made from fiberboard or plasterboard, gluing the parts with PVA glue

The peculiarity of this house is that in addition to three floors, it has an attic. We proceeded from the following dimensions: height - 65 cm, floor area - 16 X 28 cm. You can calculate the parameters suitable for you and draw a diagram according to which you will make the house.

Calculate the parameters of the future house and diagram it on paper

Pay attention! Before you start making calculations, decide where the house will be located. Often such products stand in one place. The design should not take up a lot of useful space, “clutter” the room and get in the way.

According to the sketch, cut out the walls, roof and partitions between floors.

Cut out the walls, roof and partitions between floors

Connect all parts using PVA glue.

If the PVA glue is not thick enough, you can add a little sawdust for extra strength.

Cover the roof of the house with corrugated cardboard.

Cover the roof of the house with corrugated cardboard

Cover the outside walls of the house with colored paper. Glue the bamboo strips.

Decorate the exterior of the house using colored paper and bamboo strips

You can decorate the base to make the house look more elegant. For example, stick on pre-cut “bricks” from colored cardboard.

The base can be decorated with cardboard ‘bricks’

Glue the entire building onto a frame made of fiberboard or plywood. It should be larger in area than the floor of the first floor. Firstly, this will give the house stability, and secondly, it will be possible to organize a “flower garden” on the frame.

Glue the house onto a frame made of fiberboard or plywood

Cut out window frames from thick cardboard.

Cut window frames from thick cardboard

They need to be glued on both sides.

Glue the frames to the windows on both sides

Make a balcony. For the floor and railings, use thick cardboard; simple toothpicks will serve as balusters.

Cut out a door for the balcony from thick cardboard

You can attach wire hooks to the railings. Hang a cardboard box with toy flowers on them.

The balcony can be decorated with a toy flower garden

Insert an attic window.

Design an attic window

The front door is also very easy to make. It is enough to paste over the cardboard base with a picture cut out from an advertising brochure. The handle can be made from plasticine.

In order to create the effect of a grass lawn around the house, cover the frame with the hard parts of ordinary kitchen sponges. Make flower beds out of cardboard boxes and “plant” them with plastic or paper flowers.

Interior decoration

The inside of the house must also be beautifully decorated to match its owner - the most beautiful and fashionable Barbie doll.

Cover the walls with wallpaper, colored or wrapping paper, it depends on the purpose of the room. Suitable for the floor are colored cardboard, cellulose kitchen napkin(she imitates carpeting), fabric with a soft texture.

Complete the interior decoration of the house using wallpaper, wrapping and colored paper, cellulose kitchen napkin

Ceilings can be covered with white paper.

Be sure to make curtains by hanging them on curtain rods using bamboo strips.

From cardboard boxes

For such a house you will need:

  • cardboard boxes - according to the number of rooms;
  • glue - you can use a stapler or double-sided tape;
  • wallpaper, colored paper, magazine clippings, organza, fabrics - for decoration.

If this model is too big for your living space, you can make a folding house that is easy to make and very compact. To do this, just connect two cardboard sheets crosswise into grooves. Cut doors in the walls, cover the “rooms” with wallpaper and pictures, and celebrate a housewarming party with your favorite doll and her friends.

Make a compact house out of cardboard by connecting two cardboard sheets crosswise into grooves

From plywood

This option is more difficult than the previous ones; you will need patience and the ability to work with tools.

A plywood dollhouse is more difficult to make, but the result is worth the effort.

For a plywood house you will need:

  • hammer;
  • jigsaw;
  • nails;
  • sandpaper;
  • primer;
  • dye;
  • wallpaper or adhesive film.

Think about the layout of the house. Cut out the parts from plywood. Use the drawings below or come up with your own project. You can change the sizes as you wish. Just remember to maintain proportions.

Be sure to sand all surfaces so that the child does not injure himself on burrs while playing. Assemble all the parts according to the plan.

Assemble all parts according to plan

Attach the back, front and side walls to the top of the base. Cut out the windows. Their dimensions are 9 X 6.25. The triangular window is the same width as the others, and its shape and height must be calculated according to the angle of the roof.

Cut out the windows

A plywood house needs to be nailed together.

Glue will not work here: PVA is unlikely to hold the parts together firmly enough, and “Moment” will look sloppy at the joints.

Cover the gaps formed between the parts with a primer.

Paint the outside of the house a suitable color.

Paint the outside of the house

Paint the internal surfaces, cover them with wallpaper or self-adhesive film - as desired.

Paint, wallpaper or self-adhesive film the dollhouse rooms

You can lay felt, fleece or carpet on the floor. Furnish your home and invite Barbie to your housewarming party!

You can make the front wall of the house in the form of opening doors.

The front wall of the house opens up like cabinet doors

An ordinary Christmas tree garland will provide lighting in the rooms.

By using Christmas tree garland can you make lighting in the house?

From old furniture

Consider the option of creating a house for Barbie from an old chest of drawers. Please note that such a massive thing will require a lot of space in the room; its mobility or compactness is out of the question. But such a house is strong and durable.

An old chest of drawers is a great base for a doll's house

First of all, compare the height of the doll and the boxes. Our chest of drawers will make a two-story house, in which each floor is equal to the height of two drawers. Barbie will be able to stand at full height without her head reaching the ceiling.

Calculate the height of future rooms according to the size of the doll

Remove excess partitions. Do this carefully so as not to damage the interior surfaces of the chest of drawers.

Remove everything unnecessary from inside the chest of drawers

The recesses that formed in the places of the former partitions need to be processed. To do this, you can place wooden slats in them on glue. the right size. Press them down and wait for the glue to dry completely. You can put something heavy on top or use clamps.

Seal the resulting recesses with slats

When the glue has dried, level the surfaces. Fill all cracks and damage on the external and internal surfaces of the chest of drawers with a thin layer of putty. Once dry, sand the chest of drawers until smooth. The doll house is almost ready, now you need to paint it inside and outside in two layers. It is best to use white paint for this.

Level the surfaces, sand and paint the chest of drawers white

All that remains is to arrange the toy furniture, hang mirrors and paintings on the walls. On the first floor of our house there is a living room and a kitchen, and on the second floor there is a bedroom.

Arrange furniture, hang paintings and mirrors on the walls

How to make a house for a Barbie doll with your own hands - video

Almost all girls love to play with dolls, especially Barbie. For children, such games become the first experience family life, V doll houses passions run high, toy people communicate, everyday situations are played out. Games will not be realistic without an appropriate interior. The furnishings of Barbie's home should be as similar as possible to a real home. If adult women want to have unique things in their wardrobe, then their daughters just need original and beautiful Barbie furniture to be happy. If parents decide to make furniture for Barbie with their own hands and involve their child, then the baby will have an interesting pastime for the evening and new elements for play.

It’s interesting to come up with and make different elements of furniture in a toy house from scrap materials. Unable to clearly define the list necessary tools, it will depend on the imagination of the masters. Useful in any case:

  • Scissors;
  • Glue;
  • Ruler;
  • Napkins;
  • Oilcloth;
  • Threads with needles;
  • Pencils.

These things will help create a very beautiful details. In fact, it is possible to create furniture using much larger list items. For example, to make a lamp with a switch you may need a blowtorch, LEDs, and wires.

Regular cardboard will help in production. Real masterpieces are created from the material. Making furniture from cardboard is an accessible way for everyone to furnish a toy house with high-quality furniture.

Step by step guide

You can, of course, come up with ways to make furniture yourself, but it will be much easier and more reliable to use drawings, assembly diagrams, and instructions to help in making toy furniture. All this has been tested several times, and your imagination can run wild at the decorating stage.

Table

Barbie, like people, has different tables. Manufacturing methods differ slightly depending on the purpose, functionality and design features:

  • Dining table;
  • Coffee table;
  • Desk.

The tables are made of cardboard. To give strength to the products, table legs must be made in the form of cylinders. This shape creates additional stiffening ribs that prevent breakage or deformation. You can fasten them with glue or tape. These substances should not be spared. The more tape, the stronger the product.

Legs can be attached to the table in two main ways:

  • Using through holes. To do this, circles are cut out in the tabletop, equal in diameter to the table legs. Cylinders are inserted into them, their height is equal to each other, the tabletop is lowered so that the cylinders rise about a centimeter above its level. The protruding parts of the cylinders are divided into 3-4 parts; all of them must be tightly glued to the table surface. The upper part of the tabletop will not look very aesthetically pleasing, but this can be corrected with decor;
  • Gluing the legs to the “underside” of the table. The process remains exactly the same, except the legs are separated into strips and glued to the bottom of the table. This allows you to leave the front side untouched.

Tables with one leg will not stand stably, so another circle of thick cardboard is attached to the bottom of the only support, which gives the structure stability. For reliability, it is better to use 3-4 legs per product.

Cutting out the details

Gluing the parts

Armchair

In the photo, such products seem almost real and allow children to create compositions for photographs. This is a rather complex piece of furniture, so its production must be approached with all responsibility. It will be most convenient to make a chair from thick cardboard. Packaging from household appliances is perfect. The corrugated middle of these sheets adds strength, and the smooth sides make them easy to attach. A chair without legs and without large quantity small elements.

  1. First you need to come up with the shape of the back of the future chair. It must be drawn schematically on cardboard;
  2. Such forms should be glued to each other until a thickness of 0.5-1 cm is achieved;
  3. The seat is cut out in the same way. It should follow the shape of the back. The height of the seat is also gained by gluing together several layers of cardboard. Ideally, it is 4-5 cm;
  4. The arms of the chair can be made from cardboard in the same way;
  5. The chair turns out angular, flaky and unsightly. You can deal with this using a utility knife or by covering the furniture with a layer of soft fabric.

The chair needs to be made a little larger than required, this will allow you to choose any decorative elements and use soft filler for the textile part.

Preparing the boxes

Fabric seat trim

We fix the fabric with staples

Upholstery with padding polyester

Bed

This element will not cause difficulties, especially if legs are not required. The easiest way is to make a bed out of a shoebox. The dolls have a comfortable height, making them fit perfectly into many boxes. In this case, you won’t have to do practically anything except prepare bed sheets, pillows and mattress.

You can attach legs to the bed, but they should not be made of fragile material. Bottle caps covered with elastic fabric or painted with acrylic paint in the desired color are perfect. The most convenient way is to attach them to a cardboard bed with a wire. It, like threads, is threaded in two places into cardboard and connected by twisting. To prevent the metal from tearing the cardboard, the wire is attached to several toothpicks placed between the puncture sites.

The sides of the bed should be hidden with fabric, adhesive paper or a soft strip made from padding polyester glued to the surface and covered with fabric. You can create a canopy bed. Usually it is mounted on top, on thin legs. It is impossible to create thin and durable legs from cardboard, so parents will have to make them from another material. You can use old pens covered with beautiful elements. Thin tulle is hung on these racks. For strength, 4 vertical supports are connected with strong and thin sticks. They are connected to each other with tape.

The blanket should be approximately 1.5 times the size of the bed in all directions. Thus, wrapping the doll will not be difficult. A large blanket can be used as a carpet if desired.

Cutting parts out of the box

We connect the elements with masking tape

Painting the workpiece

Making and attaching ruffles

Sofa

The sofa is very similar in design to the armchair. It is made in the same way, by connecting layers. However, there is an easier way:

  1. First, you need to determine the dimensions of the future sofa and select the most suitable shoe box;
  2. One of the long sides must be cut out immediately. You can leave a strip 1 cm high at the bottom;
  3. Cut out the shaped back and armrests, you can leave them square;
  4. Cut out a rectangle the size of the bottom of the box from polystyrene foam 1–2 cm thick;
  5. Exactly the same size piece of padding polyester or any other soft material;
  6. These parts are overlapped and covered with fabric. This will be the seat. It is placed on the bottom, and the remaining centimeter of cardboard prevents the soft part from falling;
  7. The other parts of the sofa are covered with exactly the same fabric. Soft padding polyester must be glued to surfaces and only then covered with fabric;
  8. The legs are made from corks. This is a durable and easily accessible material that allows cardboard furniture to last for a long time. They are attached to the sofa with wire and toothpicks, as mentioned in the section on making a bed.

We attach the fabric to the cardboard

We attach the sides and seats of the sofa

Making pillows

Glue the pillows

Dresser

Parents are wondering how to make furniture for Barbie also functional, and not just beautiful. The chest of drawers should open and small toy items, such as combs, bows and shoes for dolls, can be stored in it. To make a toy chest of drawers, several matchboxes. They easily create the possibility of storing things:

  1. First the boxes should be painted. To do this, remove the grater for lighting matches and apply paint;
  2. Each subsequent box is attached to the previous one with glue;
  3. They can be wrapped with tape around the perimeter, this will prevent peeling and will help further strengthen the structure;
  4. For ease of opening, it is necessary to make handles. Buttons on the stem are suitable for this. You can simply sew them on.

You can create a dressing table, then you need two such chests of drawers, a tabletop between them and a mirror. It is made of cardboard covered with mirror film or silver tape. The mirror is attached to the back wall, it can also be its continuation. For strength, this part should be glued to the chest of drawers.

Preparing matchboxes

Cut out the side walls and back

We paint the coatings

Making pens

Decoration

To decorate furniture for the house you will need a variety of props: fabric scraps, unnecessary cream boxes, pieces of cardboard, broken pencils, empty pen pastes, decorations torn from elastic bands, unpaired socks, torn buttons, and many more seemingly unnecessary little things.

  • The soft parts of beds, sofas and armchairs are made from padding polyester. This is a cheap and accessible material. You can even find it at home if you rip open an unnecessary jacket;
  • The pillows are stuffed with the same padding polyester. They can be sewn on a machine, but you will have to sew up the remaining hole for stuffing by hand, this makes the product much neater;
  • Accessories and furniture are made from paper. This is where a set of colored paper can come in handy. It is better to use a double-sided option, this will help make the elements completely painted in one color;
  • Buttons are needed to create handles on bedside tables and chests of drawers. Small buttons are used to create beautiful pillows, blankets, tablecloths;
  • All elements must be in the same style. This is ensured by using the same materials. Usually people do not store very small scraps of fabric at home, so this point will not cause any difficulties;
  • Adhesive film will help imitate wooden surface, will make it easy to turn cardboard furniture into almost wooden furniture. Beautiful tape with a pattern or lace saves time on decoration and helps not only to fasten elements, but also to decorate them. By using these tools simultaneously, you can effortlessly create beautiful element, especially if the lace tape is a contrasting color to the film.

For makingDIY furniture for BarbieIt will be convenient to purchase several meters of beautiful ribbon in advance. It will cover unsightly joints, distract attention from glue smudges, and disguise the tape. All materials for decoration are prepared in advance, selected to match and stored for future use.

Custom Fashion Dolls are a trend with a long history. Even the ancient Egyptians enjoyed painting makeup on their statues. The baton was taken over by the Greeks, then the Romans. The Japanese, on the other side of the world, started making karakuri-ninge. Now the dolls are being customized, outfitted and repainted to create a OOAC. This article will tell you how to make such a doll.

Choosing a doll

Most often they choose fashion dolls from the “Monster High” series. They have wide heads that are easy to paint. And, unlike Barbie, they don't have the same type Hollywood smile, spoiling the whole image. But if you wish, you can make both an OOAC Monster High doll and a reincarnated Soviet baby doll.

The next contender is Roberta Tonner. They are original, beautiful, each model has its own facial features, shape of eyes, lips, size of cheekbones. But there is a significant drawback - their cost. If Claudine Wolf can be bought for 1,500 rubles, then the most modest Tonner Doll will cost at least 7 thousand.

The golden mean between Tonner and Monster High- MiniFee dolls. These are magical vinyl creatures with big sad eyes and wood elf ears. The prototype is Japanese anime characters. Fans of the fairy world customize them to fit fairy-tale characters.

Start of modification

After choosing and purchasing “Monster High”, Barbie, “Minifi”, their transformation begins. The first stage is changing your hairstyle. Factory-made hair is reluctant to style. Usually they prefer to puff up in the most inappropriate way. It is useless to fight them, so the puppeteers cut them off.

Before removal, the head must be separated from the body. To avoid damaging it when removing it, keep the toy in boiling water for several minutes until the plastic becomes elastic. When the head is removed, it is shorn upper part wig

The hair roots remaining inside are carefully removed with tweezers. But Monster High has difficulties with this. To completely remove hair, you will have to make a small hole in the head, which is then sealed. When the doll is completely “bald”, it is ready for the next stage.

Makeup removal

From the face, sometimes from the scalp you need to completely remove the paint. For this you will need:

  • Acetone or remover acrylic paint. Regular nail polish remover will not remove doll cosmetics.
  • Cotton pads and swabs used to remove paint.
  • Mr. Super Clear. People simply call him “clear.” This is a special spray that is used at the very end. It acts like a primer, gives a matte finish, and prevents the paint from eating into the rubber. A budget substitute for clear is PVA glue or hairspray.

After the complete removal of the doll make-up, the birth of the OOAC begins. How to create a unique image and what you need for this is discussed below.

Face painting

Facial features, eye expression, lip shape will make the image unique. But before you implement ideas with paints directly on the doll, it is better to sketch out several sketches. Without them, you can make both a OOAC beauty and a funny misunderstanding, especially for beginners.

When all the details are thought out, painting begins, for which you need:

  • watercolor pencils;
  • acrylic paints;
  • eye shadow;
  • brushes

It is better to choose paints water based. In oil they run the risk of cracking over time. Brushes should be synthetic and as thin as possible. For convenience, excess hair is cut off. First, all the contours, whites of the eyes and lips are drawn with pencils and opened with “Clear”. Only when it dries is acrylic used.

Redrawing, or repainting, is a place for flights of fancy. Eyebrows, eyelashes, tattoos, terrible scars and charming moles. Master doll makers are happy to share unusual solutions, telling in detail how to make OOAK “Monster High”, Barbie or “Minifi” makeup.

When the makeup is complete, apply a finishing layer of Clear spray. It will give a glossy shine to the lips and pupils, prevent the paint from washing off and fading, and protect it from ultraviolet radiation. The next step is creating the hairstyle.

How to make OOAK hair

Among customization fans, changing a hairstyle is called reflashing or rerooting. There are two options to implement it: one is slow and painstaking, but of better quality. The second one is much faster, but beginners don’t always succeed.

  1. Rerut OOAC: how to make it with a needle.

You will need an embroidery needle with a wide eye, pliers, hair and time, approximately two days. When everything is ready, you can begin the execution. Thread a strand 1-2 mm wide onto a needle and pierce the doll's head. It sounds creepy, but it turns out beautiful. Use pliers to pull out the tip from the inside, take out the strand and tie a knot on it.

So gradually stitch the entire head. Start at the edges from the temporal region, move to the back of the head, make a parting. Then fill the remaining space with hair.

2. Express flashing.

The tool for the second method will be an awl or the blade is first taken out of it and changed with the eye facing up. Prying each strand with an awl, insert it into the doll's head. There is no need to tie knots. When all the hair is inserted, pour Moment glue inside and massage. This will prevent your hair from falling out.

You can either make hair for the OOAC doll yourself or buy tresses. Home production is much cheaper. Acrylic threads of various colors and shades are suitable. They are silky and easy to style with an iron.

On this creative process ends. All that remains is to dress the doll and come up with suitable surroundings: chairs, houses, sofas. Creating OOAK is not only an art, but also a profitable hobby. Fashion dolls are successfully sold at auctions and in stores. Their approximate price is 100-200 dollars. Therefore, doing puppetry is good not only for the soul, but also for the budget.