How to make a cabinet for dolls, a detailed description of the process with recommendations

Adults know how important it is to be able to put things in order. The child learns during the game, so it is important to organize the puppet space of the baby in the likeness of the real world. Caring parents can make toy furniture with their own hands. Let's look at examples of how to make a cabinet for dolls in various ways.

What can be done

There are many things in the house that will turn into a full-fledged locker in just a few minutes. A shoe box in mother's skilled hands will become the basis, and shelves with doors can be easily cut from cardboard or box lids. For a larger doll, a corrugated box can be used as a wardrobe system. They already have "doors", it remains to install the box in the right position, paste cardboard shelves, attach the legs. Drawers are made out of a smaller box. After that, it remains only to attach the handles from the wire, insert the compartments into the cabinet.

Materials and Tools

For the manufacture of doll furniture, various auxiliary materials are suitable:

cardboard;
boxes;
thick paper;
transparent Moment or PVA glue, glue gun;
wire;
plywood.

For the decoration of facades come in handy:

acrylics or gouache;
napkins for decoupage;
beads;
colored paper;
fabric and braid;
natural material (watermelon seeds, melons, acorns, fruit seeds)

To work, you will also need tools:

scissors;
grinding whetstone;
pliers;
clamp;
hacksaw for plywood cabinet.

Dad loves to approach the issue thoroughly. That is why they can assemble a cabinet for dolls with their own hands from scraps of plywood or MDF. And the daughter will be proud that daddy did it himself.

Corrugated cardboard

Instruments

Parts preparation

Before you make a doll cabinet, you need to decide on the place where he will stand. A strong but heavy cabinet made of MDF or thick plywood is not suitable for Barbie's house. In order to avoid injuries to the child, such a wardrobe can only be placed on the floor, but cardboard furniture will fit perfectly into the doll's dwelling.

Consider the order of cutting blanks from plywood and cardboard. To make a chiffonier, you will need to remove the dimensions. The bar section should be 3 cm larger than the doll clothes. We measure the longest dress, add 3 cm and 1 cm to the legs to this value. This will be the height of the finished structure. Width and depth are calculated based on the space reserved for the cabinet, the planned number of wings, the size of the scraps of plywood or cardboard. When all dimensions are known, parts are cut out, grooves for inserting shelves are marked on the side walls. Then the shelves are cut, the edges from the burrs are processed with a grinding bar.

If the card is not tight enough, it needs to be strengthened. In this case, all parts must be cut in two, and glued together in pairs.

Details

Assembly

After the preparatory work on cutting blanks is completed, you can proceed to assembly. From the lateral, upper and lower planes, the product frame is glued. Fix the design with the back wall. If necessary, the details are compressed with a clamp, after each stage they are dried. Then the shelves are mounted. They can be glued or inserted into the slots. For the second option, cuts are made in the thickness of the parts in advance on the vertical walls and in the shelves themselves. It is necessary to ensure that they are located strictly perpendicular to the walls. Then they are glued together, sliding shelves are inserted. The bar can be glued out of paper by folding it into a thin roll or using a suitable-sized stick. In a small cardboard cabinet for a Barbie doll, the doors are glued, and it is better to hang the doors from plywood on real hinges. We twist a thin strip of paper into a tight roll and fix it with glue - we get legs. Plywood squares or rectangles can also replace them.

Another option is paper origami wardrobe for dolls. To make it, you need a few squares of paper, a detailed master class is convenient to watch in the video.

The collection of parts is based on the principle of the puzzle

Decor

The resulting design is dyed or decorated using decoupage technique with napkins, trimmed with fabric and decorate the edges with braid, stickers or natural material. You can entrust this work to your daughter, let him develop his imagination!

Handles for doors and drawers attach at the last moment, when the surface of the cabinet is already fully decorated. Looks good wire and from round beads. The wire is cut into small identical pieces, a loop is formed handle. Glue the middle with paper or wrap it with the same wire. With an awl, holes are pierced on the doors, and a handle is inserted. The ends of the wire are bent on the back side and are fixed by twisting between themselves. The wardrobe is ready, it remains for the daughter's chrysalis to carefully hang up her things here and start playing.