How to make a table for dolls

Little princesses love to play with their dolls and are delighted if their charges have new outfits or their own car or house. You can make a house for a doll with your own hands from scrap materials. Let's look at how to make a table for dolls from scrap materials.

Furniture options for dolls

Before you start creating furniture, you should talk to your child and find out what result would satisfy him. Imagine together, because you can make any furniture and it will be quite simple.

There are a lot of manufacturing options, it can be a design made from matchboxes or cardboard, it is very easy to make a product from paper or newspaper tubes. The decor is also at your discretion; you can use various materials, beads, buttons, ribbons and much more.

Be patient and have a positive mood, decide on the design and collect all the necessary materials. After this, you can safely begin creating future furniture for the doll.

Take a closer look at what such furniture can be made from:

1. Popsicle sticks.
2. Wire.
3. Cardboard or paper.
4. Matchboxes.
5. Plywood.
6. Wooden sticks.
7. Bottle caps.
8. Felt.

In general, if there is a desire, the materials will be found.This process does not take very much time, and your child’s emotions are priceless.

Making a doll table from cardboard

Cardboard toy furniture is the most convenient and frequently used option. The products are very durable and stable. To create, you do not need to purchase any expensive materials; as a rule, the necessary materials can be found in the house.

To work you will need to prepare:

• Pencil and scissors, PVA glue and ruler.
• Thick cardboard.
• Four caps or other suitable items for the table legs.

When you prepare the necessary materials, your actions will be extremely simple.

1. Choose a product diagram that suits you; you can draw it yourself or find it on the Internet.
2. Transfer the drawing to cardboard and cut out the necessary parts.
3. Glue the parts together with glue and let them dry.
4. Decorate the product.

How to make a paper doll table

The table can be made from paper, or rather, from thin paper tubes. This material allows you to imitate rattan or wicker, therefore, the product will come out in an environmentally friendly and modern style.

The following materials and tools should be prepared:

1. Thick cardboard.
2. Thin paper.
3. An awl or a thick needle.
4. Stationery knife.
5. Wooden sticks.
6. PVA glue and acrylic paint.
7. Brush.

Your actions should be as follows:

• Cut out two pieces of table top from cardboard. Use an awl to make holes for the legs in one piece. In another piece, make holes for paper tubes around the entire perimeter.
• Using glue, you need to secure the wooden legs in the corners of the structure, and insert paper stands into the remaining holes.
• Cover the second element with colored paper and then glue the two parts together.
• Weaving must be done from paper tubes. Thread them from top to bottom, alternating each row.
• Braid the last row.
• The finished product is varnished.

REFERENCE. Paper tubes must be made in advance from strips of paper, which are tightly wound diagonally on a thin knitting needle. Use glue to secure each tube.

Doll furniture made from matchboxes

There is a very simple, inexpensive and quick way to make furniture for a doll. If you have a few matchboxes on hand, you can quickly implement this idea. For fastening, use PVA glue, which is usually found in every home where there are children. The algorithm of your actions should be as follows:

1. Prepare 5 matchboxes and PVA glue.
2. Glue the boxes together as shown in the picture below.
3. Cover the glued structure with colored paper.
4. Leave to dry.

The manufacturing process is extremely simple, even a child can handle it.

NOTE. You can also make all other furniture from matchboxes, which you will use to furnish your new home in the future.

We decorate non-standard furniture

After the furniture is assembled, you can move on to the decorating stage. There is no need to limit yourself here, and there can be a huge number of options. Starting from simple ones, among which we can highlight pasting with colored paper, to unusual decoration options, where we can mention painting with varnish and much more.

You can decorate assembled furniture using various techniques. Are you good at drawing? Don't deny yourself the pleasure of creating your own creation.Paint the surface some base color, and when this layer dries, apply a pattern or color image to it.

It can also be decoupage. Use multi-layer napkins with suitable patterns. A thin thread glued in several folds will look interesting.

NOTE. This process can be turned into a creative process and useful time spent with your child.