A high-quality handmade dollhouse is an unusual and memorable gift. Its creation usually occurs secretly from the child, but it can become a pleasant time together, turn into an educational game, a way to learn to better understand and hear each other.
Children remember for a long time and highly value the time spent on creative activities with their parents Source youtube.com
Why is this necessary?
A happy childhood is not so much a room full of toys as it is the love and attention of parents. A gift created by yourself emphasizes these feelings in the best possible way. By making a house yourself, you can:
- do not limit yourself to the capabilities of your wallet (good quality factory products are quite expensive);
- make a structure of any size;
- leave the rooms of the house empty or fill them with furniture at your discretion;
- build a fairytale castle, a forest fairy hut or implement any other idea.
Dollhouse with transparent walls for self-assembly Source pikabu.ru
The production of dollhouses from plywood and other available materials does not require special knowledge or a significant investment of time and effort.
Interior design - toy furniture and decor
Interior design is a real holiday for a girl, so it’s worth inviting her to help with interior design and furniture making. The latter can also be very diverse. The most affordable option is cardboard.
Everything that is in the house will be used for finishing:
- wallpaper remnants;
- pieces of fabric;
- beads;
- artificial flowers;
- toothpicks;
- cardboard boxes and so on.
Everything depends only on the imagination of the manufacturer. You can make beautiful curtains, bedspreads, tablecloths, even pictures for the walls yourself. This will not take much time, but it will be fun and will help to attract the girl to housework and sewing.
Video tutorial on creating furniture from plywood:
Video tutorial on creating foam furniture:
General principles
All dollhouses are produced according to general principles. They must be taken into account in order to make a functional toy that will give the child a lot of impressions and become a reason to be proud of the parents.
- The classic building is not equipped with a front wall to provide children with free access to the objects and dolls that fill the rooms. If desired, the partition can be made removable or replaced with a curtain; it will protect the interior of the house from dust and dirt particles.
Toy homes are usually not covered with a front wall in order to maintain full access to dolls and interior items Source museum-design.ru
- The size of the building is determined not only by the wishes of the baby; age is of great importance. It is difficult for a small child to play with bulky products; it is dangerous to gain access to small parts and prefabricated structures. Older children like large, realistic toys.
- The height and width of the building should be in harmony with the dimensions of the children's room. Too large toys with complex shapes are inconvenient for use in small rooms oversaturated with other interior items.
It is difficult to play with large dollhouses in rooms oversaturated with furniture Source akak7.ru
- It is preferable to choose the material of manufacture based on the age of the children. For kids, it is better to limit themselves to a small soft structure made of fabric; for preschoolers, light toys made of thick cardboard are suitable; for a child over 6 years old, it is permissible to create a house from plywood or old furniture.
The ideal house combines answers to the needs of all family members. The child needs the toy to be bright and entertaining; parents are more interested in the safety of the materials and the strength characteristics of the product. Building such a structure yourself is much easier than finding it in a store.
A bright, reliable house for dolls made from materials that are safe for children's health Source domikdljprodagi.blogspot.com
Features of work
To create a playhouse, it is recommended to use so-called furniture plywood. When preparing parts, it is necessary to process all cuts.
Fastening is done using self-tapping screws.
Difficulties always arise when installing interfloor ceilings. Experts advise attaching them to a narrow glazing bead fixed around the perimeter inside the house.
Making a fabric toy house
Hanging structures made of fabric stretched over a frame, and handbag houses that fold out like folders, serve as excellent educational toys for children 2–4 years old. To add rigidity to individual interior elements, cardboard sheets are sewn into soft material.
Furniture and other furnishings are marked using appliqué or embroidery. It is useful to make some of them convex by stuffing them with a small amount of cotton wool or padding polyester, like pillows. Beds and wardrobes can be equipped with pockets and opening doors.
Felt dollhouse in the form of an educational book for kids Source youtube.com
DIY doll house: drawings with dimensions
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Construction of a dollhouse from cardboard
Cardboard is a light and safe material, it is well suited for joint creativity with children. The properties of the raw materials do not limit the size of the structure:
- to make a home for small toys, it is enough to select shoe boxes, an iron, and a hair dryer;
Small cardboard boxes serve as an excellent building material Source b2btara.ru
- For medium-sized dolls, packaging from a vacuum cleaner, microwave or bread maker is suitable;
- To create a toy mansion or cottage, it is convenient to use boxes from large household appliances (refrigerators, washing machines).
If boxes of the required size cannot be found, the home can be assembled from separate pieces of cardboard and small packages. It is convenient to form such a structure into several floors, laying out rooms in the form of ready-made blocks.
For decoration use colored paper, paints, fabric. Properly designed cardboard floors can easily withstand toy furniture made of the same material and plastic interior items.
Durable cardboard frame of a doll house Source youtube.com
Connecting rooms
It is more convenient to connect the walls with wide masking tape. It does not damage the cardboard when removed, does not make the work sloppy and does not interfere with decoration. Adhesive Moment Crystal will help fix cardboard walls relative to each other: it sets quickly and leaves no marks.
To connect the walls to each other you should:
- Coat the cut of the side wall with glue and press it tightly against the edge of the rear wall, trying to maintain an angle of 90 degrees.
- Cover the resulting corner with masking tape on the outside and inside, so that the middle of the adhesive tape is at the junction of the walls.
- Similarly, attach the second side wall, forming a U-shaped frame for the future house.
- Coat the cut of the floor part with glue on three sides, press it to the edges of the walls, while simultaneously adjusting the internal corners of the house.
- Reinforce each joint between the floor and the wall with adhesive tape on the outside and inside.
- Apply glue to those sections of the inner wall that will be attached to the floor and the back of the house.
- Press the part strictly perpendicular to the floor and parallel to the side walls of the house (check the distance between the walls below and above with a ruler, adjust if necessary).
- Cover the resulting corners on both sides of the partition with masking tape.
Pasting the corners on both sides will make the structure stronger and fix the shape more rigidly. To ensure a tighter fit of the tape to the surface, it is recommended to forcefully iron the gluing areas with the edge of a ruler or plastic card.
Building a dollhouse from plywood
Making your own toy house from plywood requires consistency and patience.
Preparation of materials and tools
Before making a toy house from plywood, you will need to prepare materials and tools according to the chosen work plan.
- You can use ready-made drawings as a diagram. It is easy to develop a sketch yourself, adjusting the parameters of the rooms and the height of the ceilings to the size of the dolls.
- Plywood must belong to class E0; other types of raw materials are not suitable for the manufacture of children's toys and even furniture. To calculate the amount of material, the area of all parts is summed up. A small tabletop house requires about 2-3 sheets, a large one - up to 7 or more.
Plywood sheets for making a durable and safe dollhouse Source strelnawood.ru
- It is preferable to use corrugated cardboard as a roofing material.
- To apply markings, use pencils with a soft lead, a ruler, a corner, a compass, and a tape measure.
- The most functional tool for cutting plywood is a jigsaw, as it helps to quickly and accurately cut workpieces of any shape.
- For temporary assembly and adjustment of building parts, mounting tape is convenient.
- Strong fixation of elements during the manufacturing process is carried out using wood glue.
- Sanding paper with fine grains is necessary for finishing surfaces for priming, varnishing or painting.
How to make a staircase for a house or castle?
The staircase in a doll's house is one of the most difficult elements, a real challenge for dad. The easiest way to make it is from cardboard or foam. The first one can simply be bent into the desired position, and then reinforced with intermediate parts using the same foam.
A wooden staircase can be made from two rulers and several blocks. On the rulers, you need to make small cuts at regular intervals, into which steps from small pieces of wood are inserted at an angle of about 45 degrees, which are attached with glue to one and immediately to the second ruler. Wide rulers can serve as railings.
A foam ladder can be cut from a piece if you have a large enough block. It is placed at an angle and the steps are sawn through with a hot knife. Real craftsmen can build a staircase from wooden blocks according to special drawings.
Examples of stairs in the photo:
Making a realistic model
Older children like toys that are as realistic as possible, which are exact copies of real objects. To create a doll house in this style, materials used for renovation and decoration of residential premises are required.
- Drywall will be an excellent basis for the structure. Its surface is well suited for any type of finishing, including puttying, painting, and applying decorative plasters. To make joints of individual sheets, small corners will be required.
- The remains of tiles, linoleum or laminate, or wallpaper after a real renovation will allow you to perform a realistic decoration of the rooms of the house and even maintain a uniform style of its design.
- The layout of the rooms should be recognizable. Following the usual patterns will make the house even more like the real thing.
Small battery-powered LED lamps and clocks converted from wristwatches to wall ones will fit well into the setting of such a creation. Vertical partitions can be decorated with miniature drawings of a child placed in frames made of thin wooden slats.
Dollhouse made from real building and finishing materials Source youtube.com
conclusions
Making and decorating a dollhouse yourself, from creating a diagram to finishing it, is quite a labor-intensive but exciting activity.
The child will undoubtedly be proud of his father, who can make a house for his child. After all, such an original toy will delight you for many years.
Creation of toys with extended functionality
A large dollhouse made of plywood can become a full-fledged piece of furniture if you attach drawers to it on the side, bottom, and equip shelves. In this case, from an adult’s point of view, it will be a convenient storage system for the child’s toys, and the child will enjoy cleaning.
Wooden dollhouse with shelves and drawers Source oozor.ru
If you attach a house to your baby's bed when he goes to bed, he will be able to continue playing. This option will be of interest to those parents whose children have difficulty switching, have difficulty falling asleep and are capricious.
Preparing everything you need
In order to make a doll room, you need to prepare:
- cardboard box;
- scrapbooking paper;
- glue;
- hot glue;
- cotton wool
To make the room look more realistic, you should ensure there are miniature chairs and a table. It is important to have toy pencils, books, stickers, notebooks and stickers available. You can order such miniatures online.
Sintepon and cotton wool are perfect for filling. For bed linen, you should prepare a piece of beautiful fabric. And instead of a glue stick, you can use PVA glue. For wallpaper and flooring, scrapbooking paper with appropriate dimensions will be used.
Layout
I cut out 1 piece from a large piece of cardboard - this is the back wall of our house and 2 side ones (see photo 1).
Next, I bent down 2 side walls and began gluing the floor and ceiling (photo 2).
The house has dimensions: height - 74 cm, width - 50 cm, depth - 30 cm.
Next, holes were cut for windows on 2 floors.
I covered the blank for our house with pieces of wallpaper and suitable paper (see photo 3).
The outside of the house is covered with wallpaper, the roof is strips of cardboard measuring 3 cm by 31 cm, glued overlapping.
The frames are glued together from strips of cardboard.
Our house needed a variety of doll furniture , which we tried to make with our own hands from scrap materials. I glued everything by eye without preliminary drawings or patterns. I simply cut a cardboard rectangle and glued the necessary pieces to it. All furniture is painted with acrylic paint and covered with acrylic varnish.
Kitchen
Room No. 4 is the kitchen , it is small but roomy. The kitchen set is a large cabinet in the shape of the letter L (photo 18).
The sink is a small plastic jam container, the faucet is made from modeling clay, and there is a small hanging cabinet:
The stove is electric with 4 burners (photo 20), its door opens.
In the kitchen we have 2 chairs (photo 21) and a table (photo 22).
Dishes were also made from small items (photo 23).
Photo 24 shows our kitchen after applying paint and varnish.
On the top floor we have a children's room and a toilet room.
