DIY doll bed

A doll house is every girl's dream. All dolls must have a locker for storing clothes, a personal living room, a bathroom, and, of course, a bedroom. The most important thing in the bedroom is the bed, because not a single girl will allow her doll friend to sleep on just anything. You can buy a bed, but making it yourself is much nicer.

DIY doll bed

Making a crib for a doll yourself is an adventure, and even more so if an adult comes to help. Joint creativity will benefit both the parent and the child; by helping your daughter make a crib for a doll, you thereby show that her interests are very important to you. Of course, you can buy a crib for any of the dolls, but a homemade one will be better for several reasons:

• you will make a model that the child wants;
• you will choose the material for the product yourself, which means the final product will be of high quality, which cannot be said about plastic;
• the decor of the product will be special;
• you will spend more time with your child.

IMPORTANT! Always listen to your daughter’s wishes, even if you know how best to do it, make the bed the way your child asks, because you are making a toy for her.

Doll beds can be wooden, cardboard, two-tiered or collapsible. Today we will look at manufacturing options for each of them.

Wooden doll bed

Perhaps one of the strongest materials for making a doll crib is wood. It is very easy to be disappointed when you buy such a bed in a store, since manufacturers do not particularly care about safety, and it is unlikely that they will sand and process it during the production of such a toy. Moreover, if it is covered with paints and varnishes of unknown origin, it will become toxic and unsafe. That is why it is better to make a cradle yourself, this way you will protect the child from splinters on his hands, which may well appear after contact with a factory toy. The material can be absolutely any piece of wood: bars, boards, sheets of plywood.

To make a wooden crib you will need the following tools:

• screws and screwdrivers;
• Ruler and pencil;
• drill, jigsaw, wooden blocks and planks.

Before cutting out parts from wood, you should create a model of the product on paper, then transfer it to the selected material and saw it. If the bed model has rounded shapes, you need to cut them out using a jigsaw. Make holes for future fastening. Check if all the parts fit together well, if everything is fine, sand them with sandpaper and fasten them together. Self-tapping screws can be used as fasteners.

IMPORTANT! The wood for a doll's crib should be of medium humidity, not dry, otherwise the finished product will fall apart.

The finished product can be varnished, but can be left in its natural form; still, a toy made of natural wood will look very solid.

Bunk bed

If your daughter has more than one favorite doll, but two or more, you can make a bunk bed at once so that she can put all her friends to bed together. The material for such a crib can be cardboard, plywood, or wood. It all depends on imagination and the ability to use tools. Let's consider product options made from various materials.

Bunk bed made from matchboxes

For small toys, you can make a two-story bed from matchboxes; it will look cute and stylish. You will need 4 matchboxes, popsicle sticks, matches, cotton pads, a piece of fabric, a glue gun and braid.

1. Boxes of 2 pieces are glued together with a locomotive for the lower and upper tier.
2. We glue cotton pads on top to make the crib softer, and cut off the excess parts on the sides.
3. We cover the resulting 2 tiers with fabric and secure it with hot glue.
4. We make the support pillars from ice cream sticks, and we also glue them with a glue gun.
5. Let's make a ladder. Glue another ice cream stick at a short distance parallel to the support post. We use matches as steps.
6. We tape the first and second tier of the bed with tape.

Bunk bed made of cardboard or plywood

For larger dolls, you can make a structure from plywood. Let's look at production step by step.

1. We draw 2 rectangles on a sheet of plywood; its length and width will depend on the growth of the pupae. These parts will serve as the basis for the mattress.
2. Next, draw 2 rectangles with rounded edges. Their height should be equal to the height of the intended structure. They will serve as a support for the bed.
3. We prepare 2 strips of plywood for the side sides of the crib.
4. Cut out the parts and assemble the bed using a glue gun.

IMPORTANT! Before cutting out parts from plywood, it is best to make a pattern on paper. This way you can estimate the dimensions and make sure you measured everything correctly.

Shoebox doll bed

If you don’t have plywood or wood on hand, and your child doesn’t want to wait for a crib for dolls, you can easily make one out of a shoebox. This material is quite strong, and the manufacturing process itself will not take much time:

• cut the box lid in half;
• one half of the lid must be attached very tightly to the end of the box;

• Mark the desired height of the legs with a pencil, set aside the box itself, draw the shape of the bed legs, do not make them too high, the product may become unstable, the distance between the legs should be equal to ¼ of the entire length of the side of the lid - then the finished structure will not fall on its side;

• We do the same actions with the second half of the lid - then you can unfold the parts, or cut off the excess - in the end you should get the following sides:

• You can shape the crib using a paper cutter - draw with a pencil what needs to be cut, glue the cut edge, if the box delaminates, you should get a box similar in shape to the one in the photo below;

• And the final stage of work will be attaching the legs to the base of the bed.

The shoebox crib is ready - you can decorate the product in any way you like.

Bed for a doll made of paper or cardboard

A doll bed can also be made from cardboard; craft cardboard is suitable for these purposes; it holds its shape well and is quite dense. As in previous cases, you should transfer patterns made on paper to cardboard:

1. The dimensions of the parts must correspond to the dimensions of the doll.
2. We cut out each detail in duplicate on beautiful paper, maybe colored.
3. We also cut out the same parts from cardboard and glue the same paper blanks on both sides. To make the structure more stable, it is better to put wire between the paper and cardboard.

IMPORTANT! The smaller the bed, the more stable the entire structure will be.

Collapsible doll bed

In order not to bother with glue and other tools, you can make a model that will be disassembled. And when the child gets tired of this bed, it can be easily replaced. There is nothing simpler:

1. Draw a rectangle on cardboard; you can take the dimensions that you need. For example: 14×35, 7×16 - 2 pcs., 8×14, 6×14.
2. Next you need to make cuts and assemble the product.

The finished bed should look like this.

The dimensions of the entire structure can be anything, such a product is made in the shortest possible time.

Decorating a doll's bed

Decorating and decorating a bed for dolls is a fascinating process that will bring a lot of pleasure to the child. Here the imagination is unlimited, and you can use anything: beads, ribbons, beautiful braid and beads.

A wooden crib can simply be varnished or painted in any color you like. You can use spray paint; the layer will lay smoothly and beautifully.

A plywood product can be covered with paper, fabric, or decoupaged. To make it comfortable for all the toys to rest, it is necessary to sew bed linen, pillows and bedspreads. Use natural fabrics, they always look advantageous, and it’s convenient to sew even small details from them.

What could be more interesting than creating together with your child! Spend time together doing a fun activity, crafting from scrap materials, and you will save money on doll furniture, but you will get a lot more!