Every girl dreams that her favorite Barbie doll has a beautiful and cozy home. Of course, you can buy it in the store, but the price is often not happy. 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 decoration 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, wallpapers, pictures);
  • ruler or tape measure.

For interior decoration, scraps of fabric, fur or leather, beads and beads, bamboo sticks and whatever your fantasy tells you will come in handy. But the main question is what to make the walls of the house. It turns out that there are also a huge number of options. you can use carton boxes, scraps of plywood, fiberboard or drywall, boards and even old furniture!

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

The house can even be two- or three-story, horizontal (without a roof and with a view from above) 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 their own hands will become an exciting activity for the whole family. In addition, you can make furniture and interior items for the dollhouse yourself from the same improvised means.

House made of fiberboard

You can easily make such a house model from fiberboard or drywall by gluing the parts with PVA glue. Most likely, you don’t even have to buy anything: many have surpluses of building materials after repairs. You will also need:

  • cardboard;
  • wallpaper;
  • colored paper;
  • bamboo slats (you can get them from the hot stand).

A house for Barbie can be made from fiberboard or drywall by 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 a house.

Calculate the parameters of the future house and schematically depict it on paper

Note! Before proceeding with the calculations, decide where the house will be located. Often such products are in one place. The design should not take up a lot of usable space, “clutter up” the room and get in the way.

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

Cut walls, roof and partitions between floors

Connect all parts with PVA glue.

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

Cover the roof of the house with corrugated cardboard.

Cover the roof of the house with corrugated cardboard

Decorate the walls of the house from the outside with colored paper. Glue on the bamboo strips.

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

You can decorate the basement to make the house look more elegant. For example, stick "bricks" previously cut out of colored cardboard.

The plinth can be decorated with cardboard 'bricks'

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

Glue the house on a frame made of fiberboard or plywood

Cut out window frames from thick cardboard.

Cut out window frames from thick cardboard

They need to be glued on both sides.

Glue the frames on the windows on both sides

Make a balcony. Use thick cardboard for the floor and railings, simple toothpicks will serve as balusters.

Cut out a balcony door from thick cardboard

Wire hooks can be attached to the railing. Hang a cardboard box with toy flowers on them.

The balcony can be decorated with a toy flower garden

Insert an attic window.

Decorate the attic window

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

In order to create the effect of a grassy lawn around the house, glue the frame with the hard parts of ordinary kitchen washcloths. Make flowerbeds out of cardboard boxes and “plant” them with plastic or paper flowers.

Interior decoration

From the inside, the house must also be beautifully finished to match its mistress - the most beautiful and fashionable Barbie doll.

Paste the walls with wallpaper, colored or wrapping paper, it depends on the purpose of the room. For the floor, colored cardboard, cellulose kitchen napkin(it imitates carpet), a fabric with a soft texture.

Finish the interior of the house with wallpaper, wrapping and colored paper, cellulose kitchen napkins

Ceilings can be pasted over with white paper.

Be sure to make curtains by hanging them on bamboo strip cornices.

From cardboard boxes

For such a house you will need:

  • cardboard boxes - by 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 large for your living space, you can make a folding house that is easy to make and very compact. To do this, it is enough to connect two cardboard sheets crosswise into the grooves. Cut through the doors in the walls, cover the “rooms” with wallpaper and pictures and celebrate housewarming with your favorite doll and her friends.

Make a compact house out of cardboard by criss-crossing two cardboard sheets 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.

Consider the layout of the house. Saw out details from plywood. Use the drawings below or come up with your own project. You can change the dimensions as you wish. Just remember to keep the proportions.

Be sure to sand all surfaces so that the child does not get hurt by burrs while playing. Gather all the details according to the plan.

Gather all the details according to the plan

Attach the back, front and side walls to the top of the base. Cut out windows. Their dimensions are 9 X 6.25. A triangular window of 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 hammered together with nails.

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 your house the right color.

Paint the house outside

Paint the internal surfaces, paste over with wallpaper or self-adhesive film - if desired.

Paint, wallpaper or self-adhesive the dollhouse's rooms

You can lay felt, fleece or carpet on the floor. Furnish the house with furniture and call Barbie for a housewarming party!

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

The front wall of the house opens like cabinet doors

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

Via Christmas tree garland you can 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 dollhouse

First of all, compare the height of the doll and the boxes. From our dresser we get a two-story house, in which each floor is equal to the height of two boxes. Barbie will be able to stand upright without reaching her head to 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 inside surfaces of the chest of drawers.

Remove all unnecessary 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 seat wooden slats on them with glue. right size. Press them down and wait for the glue to dry completely. You can put something heavy on top or use clamps.

Glue the resulting recesses with slats

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

Level surfaces, sand and paint chest of drawers white

It remains only to arrange 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 pictures 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 barbies. For children, such games are the first experience. family life, v doll houses passions boil, toy people communicate, everyday situations are played out. Games will not be realistic without an appropriate interior. The decor of the barbie home should be as similar as possible to a real house. 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 barbie furniture with their own hands, involve their child, then the baby will get an interesting pastime for the evening and new elements for the game.

It is interesting to come up with and make different elements of the situation in a toy house from improvised materials. Unable to clearly define list necessary tools, it will depend on the imagination of the masters. Suitable for any occasion:

  • 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 a much larger list of items. For example, to make a lamp with a switch, you may need a blowtorch, LEDs, wires.

It will help in the manufacture of ordinary cardboard. Real masterpieces are created from the material. Making cardboard furniture is an affordable way for everyone to furnish a toy house with quality furniture.

Walkthrough

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, instructions that help in the manufacture of toy furniture. All this has been repeatedly tested, and your imagination can run wild at the stage of decoration.

Table

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

  • Dinner table;
  • Coffee table;
  • Desktop.

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

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

  • With through holes. To do this, circles are cut out in the tabletop, equal in diameter to the legs of the table. Cylinders are inserted into them, they are leveled in height with 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 surface of the table. The top of the countertop will not look very aesthetically pleasing, but this can be corrected with decor;
  • Gluing the legs to the "wrong side" of the table. The process remains exactly the same, only the legs are divided into strips and glued to the bottom of the table. This allows you to leave the front side intact.

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

Cut out the details

We glue the parts

Armchair

In the photo, such products seem almost real and allow children to create compositions for pictures. This is a rather complex element of furniture, therefore, its manufacture must be approached with all responsibility. It will be most convenient to make a chair made of thick cardboard. Ideal packaging for household appliances. The corrugated middle of these sheets will give strength, and the smooth side parts make it easy to fasten them. Simple and durable will be a chair without legs and without a large number small items.

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

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

Preparing the boxes

Seat upholstery in fabric

Fixing 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 a shoebox bed. The dolls have a comfortable height, making them ideal for many boxes. In this case, you will not have to do almost anything, except to prepare linens, pillows and mattress.

Legs can be attached 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. It is most convenient to attach them to a cardboard bed on a wire. It, like threads, is threaded in two places into cardboard and connected with a twist. To prevent the metal from tearing the cardboard, the wire is attached to several toothpicks placed between the puncture points.

The sides of the bed should be hidden with a cloth, sticky paper or a soft strip created from a padding polyester glued to the surface and cloth-covered. You can create a canopy bed. Usually it is attached from above, on thin legs. It is impossible to create thin and strong legs from cardboard, so parents will have to make them from another material. You can use old pens pasted over 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 adhesive tape.

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

Cut pieces out of the box

We connect the elements with masking tape

We paint the workpiece

We make and fasten 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 choose the most suitable shoe box in size;
  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 curly back and armrests, you can leave them square;
  4. A rectangle the size of the bottom of the box is cut out of polystyrene 1–2 cm thick;
  5. Exactly the same size piece of synthetic winterizer or any other soft material;
  6. These parts overlap each other and are covered with fabric. This will be the seat. It is placed on the bottom, and the left centimeter of cardboard does not allow the soft part to fall;
  7. Exactly the same fabric is covered with other parts of the sofa. A soft synthetic winterizer must be glued to the surfaces and only then covered with a cloth;
  8. The legs are made from corks. This is a durable and easily accessible material that allows cardboard furniture to serve for a long time. They are attached to the sofa with wire and toothpicks, as mentioned in the section on making the bed.

Attaching fabric to cardboard

We fix the sides and seats of the sofa

Making pillows

Glue pillows

Dresser

Parents are thinking about how to make furniture for Barbie also functional, and not just beautiful. The chest of drawers should be openable and can hold toy items such as hairbrushes, bows and shoes for dolls. To make a toy chest of drawers, several matchboxes. They easily create the possibility of storing things:

  1. The boxes need to be painted first. To do this, remove the grater for lighting matches and apply paint;
  2. Each next box is attached to the previous one with glue;
  3. They can be wrapped with tape around the perimeter, this will prevent peeling and help to further strengthen the structure;
  4. For ease of opening, it is necessary to make handles. Buttons on the leg are suitable for this. You can just 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, pasted over with a mirror film or silver tape. The mirror is attached to the back wall, it can be its continuation. For strength, this part must be glued to the chest of drawers.

Preparing matchboxes

Cut out the sides and back

We paint coatings

Making pens

decoration

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

  • The soft parts of beds, sofas and armchairs are made of synthetic winterizer. It is a cheap and readily available material. It can be found even at home, if you rip open an unnecessary jacket;
  • Pillows are stuffed with the same padding polyester. They can be sewn on a typewriter, but you will have to sew up the remaining stuffing hole manually, this makes the product much neater;
  • Paper is used to make accessories and furniture. This is where colored paper comes 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 fabrics at home, so this item will not cause difficulties;
  • Adhesive film will help to imitate wooden surface, will make it easy to make almost wooden furniture out of cardboard furniture. A beautiful adhesive tape with a pattern or lace saves time on decoration and helps not only to fasten the elements, but also to decorate them. Using these tools at the same time, you can effortlessly create beautiful element, especially if the lace tape is in a contrasting color to the film.

For the manufacture ofdo-it-yourself furniture for barbieit will be convenient to purchase several meters of a beautiful tape in advance. It will close ugly joints, divert attention from glue smudges, mask adhesive tape. All materials for decor are prepared in advance, matched to the tone and stocked up for future use.

The factory "Spring" - at that time still the artel "Toy" - appeared in 1942. Since then, the production of toys has never stopped. The factory produces 1,200 different types of children's play products, of which about 500 are dolls. Production shops and sites are located in Kirov and beyond - in Slobodskoy, Lyangasovo and Batashy.

Today we will find out how dolls are made.

The process of developing a new doll model before it appears on the store shelf takes about nine to ten months. According to the factory's business plan, there should be about a hundred such new products a year. Every day, the production produces about three thousand dolls. Models change every day, usually their number is 30-50 types. The goods are sold through a dealer network in 70 regions of Russia, as well as to the CIS countries. Branches of the company are opened in Orel and Nizhny Novgorod.

First, artists, fashion designers and designers develop an image new toy making sketches appearance and accessories. Then the sculptor-former makes the shape of the future parts of the doll from plasticine - the head, arms, legs and torso. On their basis, a plaster mold is created, then a wax mold and, finally, a metal galvanic mold. It is she who is used for the next stage of production - rotational molding.

On the rotation section from the dispenser, the galvanic molds are filled with PVC-plastisol (polyvinyl chloride-plastisol) and hermetically sealed. Then the discs, complete with galvanic molds, are placed in a rotary oven, where they are rotated in three parallel planes and heated at the same time.

This procedure does not allow the plastisol to sinter, but evenly distributes it along the walls of the mold. As a result, the substance "gelatinizes" - turns into a dense solid material. All furnaces are computerized, and, depending on the program and product, on average, galvanic molds are inside from 8 to 16 minutes at a temperature of 140-270 degrees. After that, in order to easily remove the semi-finished toys, they are cooled in a special chamber.

Parts of plastic dolls - torso and legs - are made by extrusion blow molding. In an extruder - a recycling machine - the plastic is melted and falls into the open shape of the torso or legs of the doll. After filling, its edges are closed, and compressed air is supplied inside, which accelerates the molten material through the mold cavity. Extracted from the open mold ready product and sent to the plastic processing area.

In this area, holes are drilled in the torsos of the dolls so that the doll can be assembled and inserted, if the doll is voiced, a sound device. All the texts spoken by the dolls undergo a psychological and pedagogical examination.

The expert gives a conclusion that listening will not harm the child and will not cause aggressive actions, but, on the contrary, will develop the necessary skills. It also determines from what age a child can play with this doll. In addition, each toy has a certificate of conformity.

Next, the products go to the art site. Here, the designers give the workpiece the look of a doll. First, hair is sewn on to the toy on a special sewing machine. Before performing this procedure, the heads are heated in special heating drums at a temperature of about 65 degrees: when the plastisol is soft, it is easier to flash it. For hair use Italian nylon fiber. Straight hair of dolls is sewn immediately from the bobbins, and for wavy ones, steamed nylon is used, which comes from the manufacturer folded in rings.

After that, the designers make the dolls “make-up”: they blush their cheeks with an airbrush, paint eyebrows and lips with a brush. Then the semi-finished product goes to a specialist who inserts the eyes. Some of them are produced right there at the factory, but the main share is from the Spanish manufacturer.

The next stage of doll production is assembly. The factory produces soft stuffed dolls (the head, arms and legs are made of plastisol, the body is made of non-woven material and filled with a hypoallergenic mixture of synthetic fiber and foam rubber) and plastic (the body and legs are made of plastic, the rest is made of plastisol). At the same stage, the dolls are dressed and combed. For each toy, fashion designers have developed their own clothes and hairstyle.

One of popular models dolls - Anastasia. She has 11 collections, among which, for example, "Sport" (Anastasia is a figure skater), "Folk motives" (Anastasia is a Russian beauty) or "Professions" (Anastasia is a teacher).

The factory has several sewing shops for the production of clothes. One of them has a knitting area where knitwear is made for dolls.

For each doll, there are usually several outfits - the one in which it is sold, and additional ones that can be purchased separately. Dressing up toys has a positive effect on fine motor skills children. Self-adhesive Velcro is most often used as fasteners so that a child of any age can handle them.

And, finally, the final stage - the dolls are packed in boxes, which are put into corrugated boxes. In this form, toys are sent to the warehouse, and then end up on store shelves.

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Custom Fashion Dolls are a trend with a long history. Even the ancient Egyptians were happy to paint makeup on their statues. The baton was intercepted by the Greeks, then the Romans. The Japanese on the other side of the world began to make karakuri-ninge. Now dolls are being customized, outfitted and repainted to make OOAK. How to make such a doll - this article will tell.

Doll selection

Most often, fashion dolls of the Monster High series are chosen. They have wide heads that are easy to paint. And, unlike Barbie, they do not have the same type of Hollywood smile that spoils the whole image. But if you wish, you can make both an OOAK 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, the shape of the eyes, lips, the size of the 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 7,000 rubles.

The golden mean between Tonner and monster high- MiniFee dolls. These are magical creatures made of vinyl with big sad eyes and ears of wood elves. The prototype is the characters of Japanese anime. Fans of the world of fairies customize them for fairy-tale characters.

Start of modification

After choosing and acquiring "Monster High", Barbie, "Minifi" their reincarnation begins. The first step is to change your hairstyle. Factory hair is reluctant to style. Usually they prefer to bristle in the most inappropriate way. Fighting them is useless, so the puppeteers cut them off.

Before removal, the head must be separated from the body. In order not to damage it when removing it, hold the toy in boiling water for several minutes until the plastic becomes elastic. When the head is removed, the top of the wig is cut off.

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

Make-up removal

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

  • Acetone or liquid remover acrylic paint. Doll cosmetics cannot be overcome with ordinary nail polish remover.
  • Cotton pads and sticks with which the paint is removed.
  • Mr. Super clear. In the people it is simply called "clear". This is a special spray that is treated at the very end. It acts on the principle of a primer, gives a matte finish, prevents the paint from eating into the rubber. A budget substitute for clear is PVA glue or hairspray.

After the complete removal of the puppet make-up, the birth of OOAK begins. How to make a unique image and what is needed for this - is described further.

face painting

Facial features, eye expression, lip shape will make the image unique. But before embodying ideas with paints immediately on the doll, it is better to sketch a few sketches. Without them, you can make both an OOAK beauty and a funny misunderstanding, especially for beginners.

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

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

Paints are better to choose on water based. On oil, they run the risk of cracking over time. Brushes should be synthetic and as thin as possible. For convenience, excess hairs are trimmed. First, all the contours, the whites of the eyes and lips are drawn with pencils, opened with "Clear". Only when it dries is acrylic used.

Redrawing, or repainting, is a place for a flight of fancy. Eyebrows, eyelashes, tattoos, terrible scars and charming moles. Master puppeteers are happy to share unusual solutions, tell in detail how to make OOAK "Monster High", Barbie or make-up for "Minifi".

When the make-up is completed, the final layer of the Clear spray is applied. It will give a glossy shine to the lips, pupils, will not allow the paint to wash off and fade, and protect it from ultraviolet radiation. The next step is to create the hairstyle.

How to make OOAK hair

Among fans of customization, a change in hairstyle is called a flashing or a reroot. There are two options to implement it: one is slow and painstaking, but better. The second one is much faster, but for beginners it does not always work out.

  1. Reroot OOAK: how to make with a needle.

You will need a wide eye embroidery needle, pliers, hair and time, approximately two days. When everything is ready, you can start execution. String a strand 1-2 mm wide on a needle and pierce the head of the doll. It sounds creepy, but it turns out beautiful. Pull out the tip from the inside with pliers, remove the strand and tie a knot on it.

So gradually flash the entire head. Start along the edges from the temporal region, go 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 removed from it and changed to the eye up. Prying each strand with an awl, insert it into the doll's head. Knots do not need to be tied. When all the hair is inserted, pour Moment glue inside and massage. This will keep the hair from falling out.

You can either make hair for the OOAK doll yourself, or buy tresses. Home production is much cheaper. Suitable acrylic threads of various colors and shades. They are silky and easy to iron.

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

How much is sold in toy stores today. The range is such that you want to buy everything at once. Especially a large selection of dolls and everything connected with them. These are houses, and clothes, and any things that we use in life are only toys. But you can’t buy everything, you just don’t have enough money. But you can make it no worse with your own hands. Inventive mothers are already sharing their experiences on the Internet. They tell what can be done for dolls, how exactly, give detailed instructions.

Dishes for dolls

The little housewife will definitely want to seat her doll at the table and drink tea. And you can help her with this, it just takes a little time:

  • Plates are very easy to come up with. Take a few covers from sunflower oil and cut off unnecessary walls from them. You will be left with the bottom of the lid. Now cut out a circle from cardboard, its diameter should be slightly smaller than the resulting circle so that it fits inside. Decorate the cardboard part, cover beautiful paper or attach a sticker. Next, glue it to the plastic base. Apply a thin layer of clear nail polish on top. That's it, you got saucers for the cake;
  • Now we need to make glasses. It's even easier. Take old felt-tip pens and pens, unscrew caps and lids from them, turn them over and you're done;

In any home there is a lot of suitable material. And if not, go to the needlework store, buy polymer clay and blind from it.

How to make clothes and shoes?

The most interesting thing is to dress up the doll. And she should have no less things than the hostess. Make new ones at least every day, it's not difficult:

  • It is easy to make a seamless dress from a sock. Cut off the bottom of the sock, and use the top as a collar. We make cuts for the arms and pull the waist with an elastic band for hair, instead of a belt. The dress turns out to be a simple cut, but today they sell such beautiful socks that the clothes turn out wonderful from them. In addition, you can change it at least every day;
  • You also need to put on a doll. Home slippers are a must. Making them is easy. We measure the length and width of the foot. We cut out two rectangles from felt according to these measurements. We round them - this is the sole. Then we do upper part in the same way, but it will be a little shorter. Also measure its length along the leg. We round off. We sew or glue parts. We take a piece of synthetic winterizer, roll a ball out of it and decorate slippers with it. slippers ready.

You see, everything is simple, you don’t even have to know how to sew.

In this video, Marina Kirasova will show you how to make a backpack for your doll, what you can put in it:

food for dolls

Once there is a dish, you need to fill it. Toy food is most often sculpted plasticine or clay, glued from paper:

  • With plasticine, everything is clear. We just take and form vegetables, fruits and bread. Then we hide the crafts in the freezer, where they freeze and you can play;
  • There is more to do with polymer clay, but the result is better. You can create products with small details that are indistinguishable from the real thing. For example, canned vegetables. Blind small cucumbers and tomatoes from clay of the corresponding color. Put them in toy jars, medicine bottles, other transparent dishes. Cut greens from a piece of clay and sprinkle it on the workpiece in jars. Fill the products with clay gel or epoxy. Close the lid, which can be cut from the cork, glue it. That's it, now your doll will not disappear in the winter;
  • It is also possible to make any products from paper. For example, ice cream. Doubt small piece colored paper in a ball. Twist a cone from white, and glue a lump to the cone. Get a horn.

It is just as easy to make pizza, cookies and any food.

Toy furniture from improvised materials

A closet is a must and without a mirror in any way:

  1. For a chest of drawers you will need matchboxes . Take as many of them as you want to make boxes. Then glue together. To make them look like one piece, cut out the back and side walls from cardboard, carefully connect all the parts. Let the chest of drawers dry, and then paint it with any paint, even nail polish will do. If you want to decorate the boxes, use toothpicks. Glue them tightly one to the other along the outside of the future box, carefully cut off the protruding tips. Get a real wooden cabinet. Handles can be made from beads or staples;
  2. The mirror is easy to make from cardboard and metallized paper. You can find the latter in craft stores or children's creativity. Cut out a piece of cardboard of any shape. From the mirror paper, also cut off a piece smaller than the cardboard. Glue two parts, decorate with beads, stickers and you're done. Cardboard can be colored, decorate it along the edge with patterns and you will get a beautiful frame.

There are no clear instructions, in the process you can fantasize, change designs. We only give you a direction, suggest where to start and what materials to take.

Hanger and hairbrush for a doll

Anything you can create with your own hands. Here are some more useful things:

  • A clothes hanger is an indispensable thing for a fashionista. You can make it from a paper clip. Unbend it, then fold it back in half, leave one end a little longer and bend it in the form of a hanger. The second twist around it;
  • Hairbrush. To make it, you will need an ice cream stick, a piece of dense fabric, better skin and fishing line or villi from a toothbrush. Draw a shape on a stick and cut it out with a sharp knife. We rub out all the irregularities with sandpaper. We make an oval pillow out of fabric. We insert the fishing line into the needle and thread it through the pad. We do this several times. Now, from the inside, we process the ends of the fishing line with a lighter so that the pieces are fixed and do not fall out. WITH front side cut the bristles to the desired length. We glue the structure. Can be decorated and combed.

Things are miniature so that they do not deteriorate or get lost, put them in a box after the game.

Doll box

If you make dolls with your own hands and give them to your friends, you need to arrange packaging for them. There are many options, here is one of them. We give dimensions such that it turns out box 35 by 21 by 7 cm. You are guided further by your measurements:

  • We take corrugated cardboard, cut out a rectangle 28 by 35 cm. This will be the lid and side wall;
  • From the side of 28 cm we measure a strip of 7 cm and bend it down along the entire length;
  • We make the remaining parts: bottom - 35 by 21 cm, side walls - 21 by 7 cm (2 pieces) and 35 by 7 cm;
  • We glue the parts: we attach the end wall to the bottom with glue, then we smear the end of the lid with glue and also glue it to the bottom from the opposite side;
  • We fasten the sidewalls in the same way;
  • Craft paper, or any other, glue the box. We process her joints and edges so that it is smooth and neat;
  • We pierce two holes in the lid with an awl and insert ties for beauty. And you can come up with loops for them, then the design will close tightly.

Everything else is in your hands. You can cover the product with an elegant fabric and decorate to taste.

We could list endlessly what can be done for dolls. On forums and websites, people leave numerous reports about their work. The main thing is that everyone gets pleasure from the process: both children who have a lot of new toys, and adults who temporarily return to childhood.

Video tutorial: making a cozy house for Barbie

In this video, Alina Mozaeva will show you how to make a beautiful and cozy house for your doll yourself: