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We are convinced that the only thing better than a purchased dollhouse is a homemade one. After all, “building” and decorating it to your liking is very interesting for both parents and children. Moreover, anyone can make a doll house with their own hands; all you need is a few tools, simple materials and creative inspiration.

Master class 1. How to build a house in half an hour from a cardboard box

Cardboard doll house ik is good because it is done quickly and from scrap materials. It can be decorated very beautifully and periodically expanded - adding new rooms, floors and entire buildings.

Materials and tools:

  1. A large cardboard box that will accommodate one to three floors for dolls 25-30 cm tall (Barbie, Monster High, Bratz, Winx, etc.).
  2. Scissors and cutter.
  3. Adhesive tape in a contrasting color (does not require painting) or masking tape(if you want to paint the house in the future). In this tutorial, bright green tape is used, and the house itself is not painted.
  4. White paint.
  5. Materials for decoration (if desired): scraps of wallpaper, wrapping paper, paint, brushes, etc.

Step 1: First, cut the box in half and cut off the top flaps from both halves.

Step 2. We put the resulting pieces of cardboard to work: we cut out a triangular roof gable from one part, and make a small hole in the other - this will be the second floor with access to the stairs. Next, glue the parts into place using tape and/or glue.

Step 3. From the unnecessary part of the box, cut out the slopes for the roof and another floor for the attic, and then glue the parts with tape. Don't forget to cut a hole in the attic for the stairs.

Step 4. Now we cut out the windows with a stationery knife and front door on the first floor, having previously drawn the markings. Then we cut out the stairs from the leftover cardboard and glue them to the floors.

Step 5. Hurray! The frame of the house is ready, now you can start “finishing”. In this master class, all the details from the tiles on the roof to the steps of the stairs were drawn with a white marker.

As soon as the “repairs” in the house are completed, you can begin creating furniture.

You can come up with your own own design at home - paint the house and the roof outside, paint window frames, cover the walls with “wallpaper” made of fabric or scrapbooking paper, and finish the floor with linoleum or laminate. In the following selection of photos you can get ideas for decorating a dollhouse miniature of a house and furniture made of cardboard.

Here's an example cardboard house for dolls, upholstered with fabric, or rather with scraps of old dresses and pillowcases.

And finally, we suggest watching a video review of a dollhouse for Monster High dolls, made with your own hands from several large boxes.

Master class 2. How to make a doll house from a bookshelf or rack

Want to make a stronger house without fussing with plans and a jigsaw? Then use a small shelving unit or, say, an old bookcase as a base. With the simplest steps you can turn an ordinary piece of furniture into a wonderful home for dolls.

  • The best option for “construction” is a cabinet that is deep (25-30 cm) and has a back wall. For example, this master class uses a Billy shelving unit from Ikea with a depth of 30 cm and a height of 106 cm (pictured on the right). In such a house you can arrange three floors, quite suitable for a 25-centimeter Barbie or Monster High. The price of Billy's rack is 2000 rubles.

Materials and tools for remaking the frame:

  1. Cabinet, chest of drawers or shelving;
  2. Plywood, MDF or boards 25 mm thick, 30 cm wide and at least 120 cm long (these are the dimensions for Billy's cabinet, but you can take boards of shorter or longer length/width depending on the size of your cabinet);
  3. Hardboard sheet, wall panel PVC or MDF (for making/replacing the back wall and making partitions in rooms);
  4. 5x5x20cm block (the pipe will be made from it);
  5. Several small photo frames that will become platbands for windows;
  6. Decorative molding of small width (can be polyurethane);
  7. Screws and screwdriver;
  8. Wood glue or liquid nails;
  9. Drill and drill bit.

Decoration materials:

  1. Wood putty (not required, but recommended for masking fasteners and joints);
  2. Primer (not necessary, but recommended for better paint durability);
  3. Acrylic paints in desired colors;
  4. Masking tape;
  5. Brushes and/or spray gun;
  6. Scissors;
  7. Materials for cladding the walls of rooms (paper for scrapbooking is best);
  8. Popsicle sticks for creating a lattice fence;
  9. Material for making roof tiles.

Step 1. Painting the rack

This step is optional if you are happy with the color of the selected shelving or cabinet. For example, white or plain colored furniture will look great without painting.

  • If the cabinet is old or has a too “furniture” look, then it definitely needs to be repainted. To do this, we proceed according to the following scheme: sanding and sanding - primer (until drying) - a layer of paint (until drying) - a second layer of paint (until drying) - a layer of matte varnish.

In this master class dollhouse will not only be painted, but also decorated with brickwork. If you like this decor idea, then prepare the following additional accessories:

  • Cellulose sponge;
  • Gray paint;
  • Acrylic paint (our instructions use a mixture of two paints - the color of red brick and chocolate).

So, first we paint the entire rack with gray paint. As soon as the last layer of paint has dried, we begin to create brickwork. To do this, cut out a rectangle from a sponge measuring approximately 3.5 x 8 cm, which will become a template for painting.

Pour paint into a container, soak a sponge in it and, starting from the bottom of the cabinet, print bricks - first one row, then the second row in checkerboard pattern. Remember to maintain approximately 5 mm gaps between bricks. Paint about 1/3 of the house this way.

Step 2. Making windows

This step is also optional, but if you want to create a realistic miniature of a house, then it is better not to skip it. In order to cut out windows, you first need to measure the window “frames” (if you have them) and draw markings on the outside of the cabinet walls.

Once the markings of all the windows are ready, you can start cutting. To do this, use a drill to make holes in the corners of the markings inside the border to create a starting point for the jigsaw blade. To make the window edges look neater from the inside, with inside the cabinet along the contour of the marking you need to stick masking tape. In the photo below you can see the work process.

To give your windows a more finished look, caulk and paint the “window niches,” remove the tape, and glue the frames to the outside of the house.

Step 3. Installation and roof decoration

In order to make a roof, you need to cut 2 boards 30 cm wide from plywood (or other lumber), but different lengths- 61 cm and 59 cm.

Now we join the end of the shorter board at right angles to the edge of the 61-centimeter board and drill holes again, but only at the end of the short board, passing the drill through the three holes made earlier on the edge of the long board. This stage is clearly shown in the following photo.

Glue the two boards together, then secure with screws. If desired, the joint can be sealed with putty.

Next we proceed to finishing the roof. It can either be painted in 2 layers, or covered with “tiles” made from scrap materials, for example, cardboard or cork sheets. And finally, at the ends with front side We glue 2 parts of the roof molding.

Step 4. Creation and installation of a pipe, installation of a roof

It's time to turn wooden block size 5x5x20 cm into the chimney. To do this, simply saw off one of its corners (45 degrees) and paint according to the principle described in Step No. 1. When the paint has dried, we attach the chimney to the roof using screws.

Well, that's all, the roof is ready, all that remains is to screw it to the cabinet in internal corners as shown in the photo.

Step 5: Replacing or installing the back wall

The next step involves equipping the rack with a wall, if there is none, replacing the existing wall with a nicer one (for example, under white lining) or simply installing the missing wall for attic floor. We carry out the following actions: we take the necessary measurements, cut out a blank from hardboard/wall panel and fasten it with reverse side for nails/screws/glue.

Step 6. Install partitions to create rooms

Cut from any material (hardboard, wood, MDF, plywood) interior partitions, then cut doorways into them and install using glue or screws. Woo-ala! The dollhouse is built, you can begin the most exciting part of the work - decorating and filling the rooms with furniture.

If you add wheels to the rack, the house will turn out to be mobile

And here is an example of equipping a dollhouse with lighting, which can not only create coziness in it, but also play the role of a night light.

Master class 3. How to make a dollhouse from plywood

Making a dollhouse from plywood or wood is somewhat more difficult, but it will look better and will last so long that in the future it can even be passed on by inheritance. To create such a house you do not need to have special skills. It is enough to have the tools, strictly follow the drawing and the following video instructions, from which you will learn how to make a dollhouse with your own hands for 25-centimeter Barbie and other dolls 25-26 cm tall.

Every little girl dreams of her own dollhouse. Nowadays you can find a lot of them in stores, but they are all of the same type and expensive. From this article you will learn how you can make an original dollhouse without spending big money. Such a house will become unique, the child will be able to furnish it the way he wants. Your whole family can have a great time creating their own masterpiece.



Popular master classes

There are many different workshops on making dollhouses. The materials used are very different: wood, plywood, drywall, laminate, boxes, bookshelves, folders for documents. This is by no means a complete list of materials offered.

The front wall of the house is either not made at all, or made in the shape of an opening door. This is necessary for the convenience of the game. We invite you to choose what suits you and get to work.

From plywood, laminate

The option of making a dollhouse for girls from wood is one of the most popular. The undoubted advantages of such a house are its strength and durability. It is easy to decorate both from the outside and from the inside. However, to make a wooden house you will need male help.

If the house is built with high quality, it will be indistinguishable from the one purchased. You can make the drawings for building such a house yourself, or you can use ready-made ones. You can attach wheels to such a house and then it will become mobile.


What will be needed:

  • Laminate or plywood, it is better to choose a thickness of at least 7 mm;
  • jigsaw;
  • glue – wood glue, PVA;
  • self-adhesive film, which we will use to cover the floor in our house;
  • wallpaper, they are useful for covering walls in rooms;
  • a simple pencil;
  • roulette.


Approximate drawing of a plywood house

Step by step instructions:

  1. We cut out the walls of the house from sheets of plywood, according to the dimensions in the drawing.
  2. We mark where the windows and doors will be located and cut them out.
  3. Using wood glue, we assemble the structure as shown in the figure. You can use small nails to secure the structure.
  4. Make a roof. Cover it with corrugated cardboard and paint it to imitate tiles.
  5. Glue ready house on a piece of plywood larger in size than the floors in the house. This will give it more stability. You can make a lawn on the plywood that remains on the sides of the house.
  6. Now we cover the walls in the rooms with wallpaper, and the floors with film.
  7. We arrange the furniture.
  8. We decorate the interior with textiles: curtains for windows, rugs, tablecloths for furniture.










Watch the next video for a master class on making a dollhouse from plywood.

See the necessary drawings from the video below.



From plasterboard

Many of us, after renovations, are left with pieces of drywall that are no longer needed. Why not put them to work and please your little princess? You can make a wonderful dollhouse out of it.

A house made of plasterboard has a lot of advantages, including: ease of working with it, its lightness. Even if you don't paint the walls of your house after assembly, they will still look neat thanks to it. white color. A significant disadvantage of such a house is its fragility. As soon as you put a little pressure on any part of the house, it will immediately break.

In order to make a house from plasterboard, you can use the diagram given above, or you can simply make cross-shaped partitions to save space in the nursery. These partitions will separate the rooms from each other, external walls and there will be no roof.



From large sheets plasterboard can be made into a full-fledged one beautiful house. Watch the master class in the next video.

From foam plastic

If you have sheets of packing foam lying around the house, you can build a house out of them. To work you will need:

  • foam sheets;
  • glue gun;
  • toothpicks;
  • wooden rulers;
  • bamboo sticks;
  • corrugated cardboard;
  • pieces of wallpaper;
  • acrylic paint;
  • foam sponge;
  • pieces of ceiling plinths;
  • necessary accessories for the interior: pieces of carpet, curtains, furniture and everything that your imagination is capable of.


House frame made of thin foam plastic

Step by step instructions:

  1. First you need to think about what your house will be like and make a drawing. To save space in the apartment, the house can be built in height.
  2. We cut the foam according to the drawing. It is convenient to do this with a hot knife, so the foam does not crumble.
  3. We are thinking about where you will have windows and doors, you can make a staircase between floors. We cut out the necessary openings.
  4. We begin assembling the house. Z We break the cleaners in half. We will need them to create a more durable structure. Glue the foam sheets together using glue gun, having previously connected them using toothpick halves.
  5. To strengthen the floor and ceiling we use bamboo sticks from Chinese napkins. We glue the sticks to foam sheets as beams. After this, the sheets intended for the floor-ceiling can be glued to the side walls.
  6. We glue the interfloor stairs separately. It can be made from polystyrene foam or wooden rulers. We use toothpicks as railings. After this we glue in the finished staircase.
  7. The roof can be glued together from foam plastic or corrugated cardboard. Shingles can be imitated by cutting cardboard into small pieces and gluing it, then painting it.
  8. On external wall you can make a balcony. We glue it together from polystyrene foam and use bamboo sticks as railings.
  9. Outside paint the house acrylic paints using a regular sponge.
  10. We cover the walls of the rooms with wallpaper and cover the floors with carpet. From ceiling plinth We cut out the baseboards and window sills and glue them. We create coziness with the help of curtains on the windows.
  11. We arrange the furniture, which can also be glued together from foam plastic, and we invite new residents.


Design interior decoration At home you can ask your daughter to come up with

Home decoration can be very diverse. You can use a clear plastic box, make prints of the underwater world and place an aquarium in your home. You can print out pictures, lay tablecloths on tables, add toys for dolls. Let your imagination run wild and you will have the most wonderful dollhouse for girls.

From a bookshelf/rack

You can make an excellent dollhouse from a bookshelf or shelving unit. It’s very easy to make, because you already have a ready-made base. To decorate the house, use cardboard, wallpaper, self-adhesive paper, and wrapping paper will also work.

Involve your daughter in this creative process. She will be able to act as a designer for her dollhouse.

If the house is located permanently against the wall, then you can make the roof of the house using black electrical tape, gluing the contours. Glue the chimney in the same way. If you need to move the house to another location, you can easily peel off the tape without damaging the wallpaper in the room. You can purchase furniture for dolls ready-made or use your imagination and make it yourself.

By placing the house against the wall, it will increase free space in the nursery

From an old cabinet or chest of drawers

Your daughter asks for a dollhouse, but it's gathering dust in the garage old chest of drawers? You can breathe a second life into old, no longer needed furniture. Delight your child by making a dollhouse from an old cabinet or chest of drawers . Such houses are very convenient for those whose children play with large or tall dolls.

First of all, you need to know the height of the dolls. This is necessary so that the dolls can be placed in rooms in full height. You may have to combine 2 shelves by removing unnecessary partitions. Work carefully, being careful not to break the inside walls of the cabinet or chest of drawers. In place of the partitions that we removed, a void we do not need will appear. It can be sealed with thin slats that fit in size.

After waiting for the glue to dry completely, treat the walls of the chest with putty thin layer. After this, the chest of drawers must be sanded, then it will become even and smooth. You can use a jigsaw to cut out windows.


House from old furniture will look very solid and reliable

The last step will be decorating your house. The outside can be painted. You will most likely have to paint it in several layers to get it covered. old color chest of drawers The walls inside can be covered with wallpaper, colored, packaging or self-adhesive paper. Or you can just paint them too. We arrange furniture, hang pictures and mirrors on the walls, curtains, lay out carpets and invite dolls to a housewarming party. Now your daughter's room will always have dolls tidy!

From cardboard

Budget option Making a dollhouse is corrugated cardboard. With its help, you can create a wonderful toy that will delight your girl for a long time.

We will need:

  • corrugated cardboard for the frame of the house;
  • decorative cardboard for decorating a house;
  • templates for parts that will depend on the size of your future house; sweeps;
  • stationery: pencil, ruler, eraser, scissors;
  • knife, paints, brushes, felt-tip pens;
  • glue gun;
  • colored, packaging and self-adhesive paper;
  • textile;
  • decorative elements - beads, rhinestones, stones, artificial flowers.

A girl can independently “make repairs” in her dolls’ new house

Let's start making the house:

  1. If you have a large sheet of corrugated cardboard, you can apply a reamer to it. Select the dimensions based on the size of the house. If there are no large sheets, then each part needs to be cut out separately. There is no need to do the front wall.
  1. To make the cardboard easy to bend, you need to make a groove at the bend by running a ruler along it. If all your parts are cut out, glue them at the junctions of the cardboard.
  2. We cut out and glue the interior partitions. In such a house they are simply necessary. They will perform a load-bearing function.

The structure is assembled. You can start decorating.

It is better to paste the walls inside decorative paper or cloth. This way you will hide the seams in the gluing areas. The outside walls can be decorated to your taste: painted, covered. Decorate your home with beads, rhinestones, stones or other elements of your choice. Make sure that the decorative elements adhere well to the cardboard, otherwise the house will lose its attractiveness during the games.

Arrange the furniture and invite your child to play.


In a house made of cardboard, you can easily re-paste the wallpaper if you get tired of the old ones

See below for master classes on making a dollhouse from cardboard.

From boxes

A very easy to make dollhouse from boxes. For it you will need to choose boxes of suitable size. The size will depend on the height of the dolls for which this house is being made. The number of boxes will depend on the number of rooms you are going to make. One box - one room. Such a house can be made multi-story by gluing boxes on top of one another. This will save space in the room.

It is necessary to fasten the boxes together so that its top is on its side, revealing interior space rooms. This can be done in various ways: using a stapler, glue, double sided tape. We cut out the windows. We decorate the house according to your taste. We furnish the furniture and delight the girl with a new toy, on which you spent a minimum of money and effort.


A cardboard house is one of the most simple options please my daughter

Watch the following master class, which shows in detail the process of making a beautiful dollhouse from a box.

It’s quite easy to make a great house out of boxes! See the following videos for more details.

From document folders

If there is very little space in the children's room, you can make a folding dollhouse.

For such a house we will need 4 document folders. We tape each folder inside beautiful paper– this will be wallpaper for the walls. Decorate the folder clip with fabric, making it into a kind of curtain. Print out interior items and stick them on the walls. The house is ready. All that remains is to open the folders and place them vertically. Add the necessary furniture.

You can make a separate room from each folder of folders.






A dollhouse is a special home in which children's favorites live. You can buy it at a toy store, but you can save money and make a cardboard house with your own hands together with your child. This will be a fun activity that will bring joy to both of you.

What will you need?

Do fairy house Quite simple for a child. You just have to stock up on imagination and patience. You will also need:

Drawings and photos will help you make a beautiful dollhouse.

For a doll

A fairytale house can be made into several floors: for this you will need 2-3 boxes, but you can get by with just one. If there are no solid boxes in the house, use tape to connect several cardboard sheets: the dollhouse will turn out just as good.

  1. Take cardboard box. If it is not glued, seal the edges well. It is better to do this with tape, otherwise the fairy house will turn out to be fragile and may fall apart during the game. Cut out the windows.
  2. Fasten two separate sheets of cardboard at a 45 degree angle. This will be the roof. Place it on top of the box.
  3. From separate sheets of cardboard, cut out partitions for the rooms that will contain the fairytale house.
  4. Place them inside the box.
  5. Now it's time for finishing. It can be arbitrary: from fabric, colored paper, beads, scraps or scraps. You can cover a dollhouse for children with white paper, and then ask the child to color it. He will certainly be happy to take part in this venture!
  6. Regarding interior decoration, don’t skimp on your imagination here either. After the next renovation, there will always be pieces of wallpaper, fabric, oilcloth left in the apartment. They can also be placed inside and pasted over the dollhouse.

This is what a children's fairy-tale house might look like in the photo.

And this is what the dollhouse looks like from the inside:

Video instructions

Schemes

For kids

Sometimes children don’t want to play with dolls, but rather climb into a small children's playhouse and arrange your space in it. Let's give them this opportunity! Making a children's house with your own hands is also very simple. The only difference will be in size, so you will have to look for a large box household appliances, for example, a refrigerator or washing machine.

  1. Glue the sides of the box or connect them with tape.
  2. Stationery knife make holes for the entrance and windows.
  3. To have more space in the house, you can remove the top of the box and attach an L-shaped roof in its place. Thanks to this technique, the kids will feel more spacious in the house.
  4. Now all that remains is to do the finishing. Children's house can be decorated natural materials: twigs, beams, cones, etc. You can simply cover it with paper and paint it.

The ideal fastening for all elements would be tape or a stapler. Glue is an unreliable material: a children's house can break during play.

This is what the children's house looks like in the photo. Agree, the craft scheme is very simple and is unlikely to be a problem for loving parents.

Wooden

For the New Year

The New Year's house for children will be different only external finishing. The craft pattern will be the same. To give the product a fabulous, New Year's look, cover it with glitter, cotton wool, and attach paper snowflakes.

You can put a small artificial Christmas tree inside and decorate it, and Father Frost and the Snow Maiden or a snowman can live in this house.

This is how a New Year's house for children will look in the photo.

You can put it under the Christmas tree or decorate your room with it.

If you want to make a small dollhouse, it is recommended to take designer cardboard or just thick paper. Cardboard from under household appliances will look rough and will be difficult to glue together.

Windows from the inside can be imitated with tape. If you want to light it up, stock up on a flashlight, turn it on and put it inside the house. You can use a garland. This is what this craft for children looks like in the photo.

Crafts for children are always an opportunity for parents and kids to communicate and show their creative abilities. Let your house be the way you dream of it!


If you think about it a little, you can make great things from the simplest and most ordinary materials that are often at hand. with my own hands.

One such example is wooden house made of paper.

But as for the ideas that arise to create such a miracle, they appear for a variety of reasons. Sometimes inspiration just comes and that’s not bad at all.

For this we need
Cocktail straws
A4 paper
Multi-colored cardboard
Glue
Scissors

Step 1






The first thing you need to do is take paper, preferably A4 format, without cells or rulers. The paper should be white. Next, you need to twist it into tubes.

Step 2


For more comfortable work, the paper must be divided into several equal parts, and only then twist it. First, do it on the sides, and only then in the middle.

You can never calculate how many of these tubes are needed in the exact quantity. That's why, do them as you go. It will be easier this way.

Step 3


As for the foundation, in order to build it, you need to select fairly thick cardboard. Remember, the “life” of your house will depend on it. You will need to glue paper tubes to the side parts. Several need to be made shorter.

Step 4


After you complete the process of laying out the tubes in three rows, make a small mark where the doors and windows will be. Remember, in order for your house to look more symmetrical, you need to place both windows and doors at the same height.

Step 5


For a bright effect, you can make curtains from colored paper in the middle of the windows. By the way, in order for all fastenings to be stronger, you can use transparent tape. But this is all optional, of course.

Step 6


Next, don’t forget about the roof. But initially, you need to build several supports so that it does not collapse. The roof can be cut from cardboard. Moreover, the shape of the cuts can be very different. It all depends on your own imagination.


Glue the roof, preferably simple, colorless glue to make it all look more realistic.

Step 7




After you complete all the steps listed, decorate the windows with the simplest self-adhesive. And in the same way, decorate the doors. As for stairs, you can make them out of them, or you can not make them out of them. And if you still prefer a house with stairs, then you can build them from the tubes that you made. If necessary, do more. It is advisable to cover the steps with “wooden” self-adhesive tape.



Step 8


And the final stage will be making the railings. And they are also made from tubes, having previously pasted them in brown. And now, your house is finished. All that remains is to decorate it. Here, you can dream up. For example, put up a variety of figures, animals, a fence, or even a vegetable garden, as if it were a real village. In any case, it will turn out just great!