Furniture made of cardboard for the dollhouse: we master the interior from improvised means (54 photos)

DIY furniture made of cardboard, will not only please the kids, but also help parents get closer to their child during joint work, better understand each other. On the one hand, such an activity contributes to saving the family budget, because, as a rule, prices in specialized stores do not differ in loyalty. On the other hand, doing crafts instills in children perseverance, accuracy, patience, helps the development of spatial thinking.

So, it’s decided, we make cardboard furniture with our own hands: then we will tell you what materials and techniques will be in place.

An overview of the materials available in every family

If you want to complement toys and houses with “real” headsets, give dolls comfortable and original furniture sets, do not throw away the following household waste that is familiar to us:

• matchboxes - they will be needed if you want to make full-fledged drawers in cabinets, dressing and bedside tables, dressers;
• plastic bottles;
• plywood trimmings and wooden blocks;
• foil, flexible wire of different thicknesses;
• threads for knitting and embroidery;
• cardboard boxes for cosmetics, household appliances, shoes;
• sponges for washing dishes, viscose napkins;
• scraps of leather, fabric - the more beautiful patches, the better;
• plastic food containers, egg cells.

If there are people engaged in needlework in the house, cardboard furniture for dolls can be decorated with beads, rhinestones, polymer clay, beads, lace - all this will help to create a bright, colorful interior of the doll house.

For example, patches will be needed in order to sew soft doll furniture in addition to the cabinet. From a variety of triangular trimmings, you can assemble a motley bag-chair, so demanded in real life. The same material will be needed to create sofa and bed pillows, sheets, blankets and bedspreads. A room with a cardboard furniture set can be decorated with an LED garland - such lighting is appropriate in the game, moreover, it is fireproof.

Box dressing table

Crafts made of paper and cardboard - this is the easiest option for arranging a toy interior, they will become a kind of warm-up before developing complex projects. To make such furniture for dolls with your own hands, you will need:

• a small box, for example, from under the hair dye;
• pencil and ruler;
• glue;
• stationery knife and scissors;
• foil;
• colored paper or white (the product can later be painted with pencils, felt-tip pens or paints).

First of all, you need to find out the future height of the dressing table, it should be such that the doll can be planted in front of an impromptu mirror. If we take into account the standard parameters, the box should be cut at a height of 6-8 cm. From the remaining material, it is necessary to form a blank for the mirror with a height of 15-16 cm, it can be either rectangular or curly. It must be greased with glue and fixed on the base of the table.Then the whole structure should be pasted over with white or colored paper, draw doors and drawers (they will not open). In the area where the mirror will be located, the foil is glued.

Subtleties of manufacturing volumetric functional models

If you are interested in the question of how to make cardboard furniture so that it turns out to be soft and as much as possible matches real sofas and armchairs, it is worth taking on the corrugated material usually used in the manufacture of packaging boxes. If you take an armchair as an example, the first step here is to draw up drawings of parts - side slats with armrests, a bottom and a back. By gluing to each other several identical cut blanks, you can achieve the required volume and proportionality, then you just need to glue the assembled craft with thin foam rubber and cover it with a cloth.

The result is upholstered furniture made of cardboard, from which you can assemble a real set: a pair of armchairs, a sofa, an ottoman. The latter, by the way, can also be glued from the same parts, pasted with a cloth and foam rubber. To achieve a greater resemblance to the “original”, a small quilted pillow stuffed with cotton should be placed on top.

Cardboard furniture can be decorated with an elegant and unusual addition in the form of a wicker back or bent legs made of wire. The solid seat of a chair or bench is combined with openwork elements, the whole composition is painted in a single gamut - this is how you can make an impromptu garden composition or a Victorian-style home set. In the same way, you can create “forged” backs and legs for a doll’s crib, cardboard blanks will serve as a frame, the mattress and bedding are made of shreds and foam.

Possibilities of using plastic and aluminum bottles

They allow you to make curly and volumetric elements for which the cardboard base is not suitable. In particular, children will be interested in chairs made of plastic bottles of 0.5 l: the soft seat will be located at the bottom, the back and curved armrests are made by a seamless method. To do this, they cut the neck, cut the blank in the front part into about a third of the “circle” - this is the place where the doll will sit, the armrests are bent on both sides and the formed “rollers” are fixed with the help of a stapler, the oval back is cut out. At the bottom of the bottle lay a high soft cushion seat.

Chairs from aluminum bottles are also assembled around, but here you can make delicate and more complex additions, as the material bends and keeps its shape perfectly. Such products will become successful companions for furniture made of cardboard, and so that crafts fit into the toy interior, all fabric elements should be made in a similar style from one material.

Table with mosaic top

If you do not know how to make furniture for dolls, start with this option - it is quite simple, and the result will please with brightness and originality. The shape can be rectangular or round, in the first case, standard legs are glued to the countertop, they can be cardboard or openwork wire, in the second case it will be more convenient if you make a leg from two pieces of cardboard connected crosswise.

For decorating the upper plane, ordinary colored cardboard is suitable: from it, small elements should be cut, which later, with arbitrary bonding, form a beautiful ornament on the countertop. Using the same principle, you can assemble a table with checkers (a rectangular surface imitates a playing field), the active elements in this case can be replaced with large beads of the corresponding colors or flat beads.

The furniture for Barbie decorated with weaving looks interesting. The frame is made using toothpicks, instead of the vine, knitting threads of medium thickness are used, for additional bonding, PVA glue is used.To hide the joints and seams, the craftswomen decorate these areas with rope pigtails.

Matchbox toy chest of drawers

It is very easy to make such doll furniture with your own hands: you only need boxes (4-6 pieces), cardboard and glue. First you need to decorate the front surface of the "drawers": they are removed and pasted from one short end with colored cardboard, scraps of cards or a cloth of your choice. Empty shells are connected to each other and trimmed with cardboard on all sides except for the zone into which the boxes will be inserted. Handles are made of beads (they can be put on glue), they will also become wonderful legs for a chest of drawers.

In order for the dollhouse furniture and interior crafts to last as long as possible, they can be covered with acrylic varnish - it is safe for children, does not wash off when dried, gives a glossy shine and enhances strength. A mandatory safety measure is a firm fixation of all small and decorative elements on the surface of the products - this will reduce the risk of injury to children. It is important that moisture does not get on the toy environment made by hand, and to keep the original color it should be kept away from direct sunlight.