How to make a dollhouse for Barbie, Monster High with your own hands? Dollhouse from a box, plywood, cardboard, wood: diagrams and drawings with dimensions. Do-it-yourself lighting for a dollhouse How to make a light in a toy house

Do you want to please your daughter and give her a doll house? Read how to make a house for Barbie, Monster High with your own hands from cardboard, plywood and MDF.

What girl does not love dolls and does not dream that they have a real house with spacious rooms and furniture? Such a toy will not only entertain the baby, but also make her director's game more complex and varied. As you know, while playing, children learn and develop, and parents should make efforts to organize the conditions for this development.

Do-it-yourself dollhouse for barbie: diagram, photo

Of course, there are simpler options to make a daughter's house for a doll:

Buy ready. But they cost sky-high money. At the same time, the plastic parts are fragile, they are poorly attached to each other, the house is constantly falling apart.
Organize your home in a closet, nightstand or bookcase. Probably, parents in their distant childhood did this themselves. The option is good because, firstly, you do not need to spend extra money, and secondly, the child will learn to use objects in the game - substitutes. The downside is that sooner or later the daughter will say that the house is not real, she will want to have something more believable, with wallpaper, windows, etc.

Then mom and dad will have to decide how to make this toy themselves. First of all, decide on the size. If the house is intended for a doll like Barbie or Monster High, it will turn out to be dimensional. The height of each room will be at least 30 cm, width, so that you can put a doll bed in the house, 40 cm or more. For baby dolls and toys - figures, you can make a more compact "housing".

House for Barbie made of plywood, made by hand.

IMPORTANT: In practice, the doll house takes its place as a full-fledged piece of furniture. Having decided to make one, you need to think about where it will stand in the room.

The next step is the choice of materials. As a rule, dollhouses are made from:

Cardboard boxes and cardboard. Budget option, you do not need to spend a lot on the purchase of materials. Also, you do not need to think about what fasteners to assemble the house with, you will only need any glue and adhesive tape. The big minus of the house is that it is fragile, hygroscopic, easily dirty. You can't put heavy furniture on thin shelves. The cardboard house for the doll is not suitable for small children who do not know how to calculate strength during play.
Plywood. A more practical and also cheaper option. A sheet of plywood is covered with do-it-yourself parts for a toy house using an ordinary jigsaw. The toy is getting better. But porous plywood must be painted or glued so that it does not absorb dust and moisture, does not swell, and fungus does not start in it. Another drawback of this material is that thin sheets of plywood are not easy to connect with each other so that they hold tight, the house does not fall apart.
Wood, MDF. The most practical and costly option. The house will turn out to be very high quality and durable, stable and safe. It will not fall apart even if the child hangs on it with all its weight. MDF is easy to process, structural elements are firmly connected to each other with self-tapping screws, and their caps can be drowned in the thickness of the material. MDF gives absolute freedom to house decor ideas.

IMPORTANT: It must be remembered that a child will play with the house, and, most likely, this dimensional toy will stand in the children's room. Materials for it must be hygienic, environmentally friendly, hypoallergenic, non-toxic. If after priming or painting the house exudes a smell, you need to let it weather.

Although the house is intended for children from 3 years old, that is, the age at which the director's game has already been formed, you need to pay attention to the presence of small details in it that you can choke on.
Before proceeding with the purchase of materials for the dollhouse and proceeding directly to its assembly, it is necessary to make a plan or diagram. It will help you calculate how much material you need to buy. The details will match each other, they will turn out to be firmly connected. A stable and beautiful toy house will please the child and will not spoil the interior of the apartment.

Diagram of a doll house with dimensions.

How to make a dollhouse out of a box?

The girl really asks for a dollhouse, did you decide to urgently and cheaply make it out of cardboard boxes? Well, then you need:

the boxes themselves (according to the number of rooms, from 2 to 6 pcs)
thick cardboard
scissors
stationery knife
ruler
PVA glue or any other for paper
paints, colored paper, self-adhesive wallpaper, kitchen oilcloth, corrugated paper, ribbons, braid, bows, other handy material for decorating a house

IMPORTANT: Boxes will fit any, if they are the right size and tight enough. For dolls the size of Barbie (29cm or 31cm, scale 1:6) or Monster High (26-28cm), it is best to take drawers from under household appliances.

Boxes are stacked in two floors of two rooms. On the second floor, you can also equip one room and a veranda.
The boxes are fixed with glue and adhesive tape. In order for the parts to stick well, they organize a press from ordinary clothespins.
The roof of the house can be made from a box by cutting it in half diagonally, or cut out from sheets of cardboard.
In the side walls, they measure out, draw and cut out windows with a clerical knife.
The interior decoration of the house is in progress. Ceilings, floors and walls are glued with colored paper, wallpaper residues, self-adhesive or oilcloth. From improvised means, you can also make cornices, window sills, baseboards, and other surroundings.

House for a doll from boxes: tools and materials.

House for a doll from boxes: manufacturing steps.

How to make a do-it-yourself doll house out of cardboard?

Details for the doll house can be cut out of thick cardboard, perhaps all from the same boxes of household appliances.
Here a drawing is definitely needed, for example, this one:

The scheme of the house for Barbie from cardboard.

You will need:

cardboard
scheme
pencil and ruler
glue, tape, tape
stationery knife
paints, felt-tip pens, old wallpapers, oilcloth, corrugated paper for decorating the interior and exterior of the house

The drawing is drawn or found on the Internet and printed. The details of the house are cut out.
Make markings on cardboard. It is better to cut cardboard parts not with scissors, but with a knife, then their edges will be even.
Sections that will not join can be trimmed with tape or electrical tape.
The cut parts of the house are assembled into grooves or glued together.
Create the interior of the house. If mom and dad are creative, they can paint the house by hand.

A simple cardboard house.

House made of cardboard for toys.

Cardboard house.

Cardboard house, assembled into grooves.

Cardboard house for small toys with a drawing.

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Drawing of a plywood dollhouse with dimensions

Making houses out of plywood is no longer so easy. Most likely, mom alone can not cope. You need to attract dad, the little princess will definitely thank him for the unique toy with her incomparable happy smile.
To make a house for Barbie prepare:

plywood
jigsaw
a hammer
sandpaper
wood glue or PVA
masking tape
nails
wood primer, paint
scissors, pencil, ruler
house interior decoration materials

Plywood dollhouse drawing.

Scheme of assembling a plywood dollhouse.

From plywood, the details of the house are very carefully cut out. They must exactly match the drawing. Also cut out window and door openings, if any. Windows can be made rectangular, round or triangular.
All plywood parts are carefully sanded with sandpaper so that the child does not drive a splinter during the game.
Connect the details of the house with construction glue, PVA glue or hammer together with nails. It is necessary to make a reservation, the glue gun with silicone will not hold plywood.
Primed and painted plywood.
Think over and create the interior of the dollhouse. The walls in the rooms can be painted by hand with paint, painted in one color, decorated with the remnants of wallpaper, wrapping paper.
The floor is also painted, shreds of carpet are laid on it, and so on.
It is recommended to make a staircase to a two-story housing for dolls from wooden rulers sawn to size.
Furniture in the plywood house will be any - bought specifically for dolls in toy stores, made with your own hands from cardboard, the same plywood or improvised means.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 1.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 2.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: stage 3.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: the back side.

Making a house for Barbie from plywood: rooms.

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Do-it-yourself wooden doll house: drawings and dimensions

The doll house will be played by a girl from 3 to 10-12 years old. This toy, if it is beautiful and of high quality, will stand in the house for many years, invariably delight the baby and surprise guests. It is definitely worth the effort and investment. Therefore, the best option would be to make it from MDF.

At the first stage of work, they think over the design of the house. You need to decide on the size, number of rooms, their shape, roof configuration. A universal solution is a two-story house with 4 rooms with a shed roof and an attic.
For such a house, the main details are needed: a back wall, two side walls, two strips for the ceilings of the first and second floors, two vertical lintels between rooms, a strip for the roof slope. It is better to order the cutting of these parts in a furniture or carpentry workshop. Under them all take MDF of the same thickness. Or you can make the back wall and sidewalls, that is, the supporting parts of the structure, thicker, and the rest, auxiliary, thinner.
In the side walls, and, if desired, in the back, window openings are cut.
It is better to order window frames in laser cutting, then they will turn out to be perfectly even and already chamfered.
MDF is a heavy material, glue or ordinary screws will not take it. Connect the parts of the house with self-tapping screws. Hats are drowned in the material and then masked with shavings with glue or polymer clay.
On the roof, the attic with a round window looks beautiful. It is also better to order it in laser cutting. A plywood attic is attached to the roof of the house with glue.
To imitate tiles and decorate the roof beautifully, they buy thin bamboo roller blinds, cut them to the size of the slope and glue them on it. The attic is decorated in the same way. If the roller blinds are on one thread, they can crumble when cut. Then they must first be glued with ordinary PVA.
The roof of the house is conveniently mounted on hinges so that it can open. In the "attic" then it will be possible to store the pupae and their dowry.
Window frames are planted in openings.
Next, move on to the design of the walls. The simplest thing is to prime them and paint them the same color. You can also make an imitation of brickwork. Bricks are first marked with a pencil, then cut out with a wood router. Primed MDF and painted in the desired color. After the soil has dried, the recesses between the bricks are isolated with a simple pencil or marker. To make the masonry look natural, color heterogeneity is betrayed with the help of crayons.
“Bricks” of various sizes are cut out of porous egg trays and glued around the windows.
They complete the exterior decor of the house with artificial small flowers. They are glued at the base of the side walls, on the roof and attic.
The ceilings and floors of the house are painted in the right colors.
Barbie doll is a conditional model of a person 1 to 6, respectively, and her house. Scraps of old wallpaper or gift paper will look rough in it. A good solution is to find a wallpaper with a pattern you like on the Internet for everyone, reduce it proportionally in a photo editor and print it at a printing house. It is important to choose good paper. A conventional copier will soon wipe off, glue may appear on it, or it will wrinkle during pasting. Photo paper may not adhere well. Glue wallpaper on PVA.

Blanks for a dollhouse made of MDF.

Window layout.

Assembled house frame.

Window frames laser cut.

Round attic window.

Roof top attic.

Decoration of window openings and imitation of bricks.

Wallpaper 1:6 in the children's doll room.

House interior decoration.

Finished roof with imitation tiles and flowers.

The girl will play in such a house for hours.

IMPORTANT: The girl will play in the barbie house for a long time. To make it more convenient for her, it is better to make it on a leg. The raised design also makes it easier to clean the toy.

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How to make a do-it-yourself doll house for monster high?

The relationship of moms and dads to Monster High dolls is ambiguous. Some cannot stand them, they consider them crippling the psyche of the child. Others tend to think that stylish monsters stimulate the child's cognitive interest in myths and legends, and also raise his self-esteem. Be that as it may, girls love monster dolls. And at some point, the daughter may ask her parents to make her a house for them.

House for Monster High from whatnot.

IMPORTANT: The dimensions and construction of the Monster High house are different from those intended for Barbie. But with the finish will have to tinker.

Before you design a house for monsters, you should learn more about the Gothic style.
Monster High likes an interesting color palette: they combine gloomy black with rich pink, fuchsia, neon yellow and green. The same combination of colors should be used in the interior of the doll house.
You need to think about how to beat the glitter and black lace. Monster rooms should have gold and silver.
Elements with imitation of artistic forging also complement the interior of the Monster High doll house: chandeliers, candelabra, fireplace grates, stair railings.
The interior and exterior of the house use Monster High symbols.

House with symbols of Monster High. Dollhouse lighting.

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Perhaps for many it is very simple and obvious - but when I first wanted to make a dollhouse with light, it was a big problem for me: I took apart Christmas tree garlands, arranged short circuits and broke dozens of pocket lanterns. In this master class - the method that I eventually came up with (although, for sure, there are others - easier and better), a method that is suitable for those who, like me, know little about electricity and do not know how to solder.
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We will need:

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1. stationery knife
2. thin wire
3. micro switch. You can buy it at the Chip and Dip store, like all other similar things from this master class.
4. Case for batteries. You can also buy it at Chip and Dip. Here I use a case for 4 AA batteries, but you can use another one - it’s just important to know that there are 1.5 volts in one battery, which means that if you have a case for 4 batteries, you need a 6 volt light bulb, and if for 2 - then 3 volts. When buying, make sure that this is a case with two wires already sticking out of it.
5. electrical tape.
6. small threaded bulb. I buy them in the same store, there is a large selection and you can consult with the sellers.
7. Bulb holder. It is very important here that, firstly, it should be the size of a light bulb, secondly, also with a thread - so that it is screwed into it, and thirdly, that it has two "ears" with holes on the base (on this This is not visible in the picture, it will be seen in the following).

So, first cut off two pieces of wire and clean the ends with a knife:

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Carefully cut away the plastic (or is it rubber? what is it called?) and you will end up with a small piece of bare wire.

Insert this wire part into the "ears" of the chuck and tighten carefully:

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Then take the other two pieces of wire and insert them into the two extreme "ears" of the microswitch in the same way:

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And spin:

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Insert the cartridge with wires into the hole in the ceiling of your house:

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Attach the battery case to your chosen location in your home. I fixed it with hot glue, but you can use something else - for example, "Moment - Liquid Nails".

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Now it remains to connect three elements to each other (cartridge, switch battery case) as shown in this diagram:

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To do this, strip the ends of the wires with a knife and connect them by tightly twisting them together:

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and wrapping the joints with electrical tape:

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Then fix the microswitch in such a way (hot glue is also very good for this) that the door of the house, when closing, presses the switch foot - then when the door is closed, the light will go out, and when the door opens, the light will turn on. Of course, you can also fix it so that the light turns on, for example, when you open a window - but you never know what else you can think of. If you want the light to turn on regardless of opening the doors, the microswitch can simply be replaced with a very small switch (they also come in Chip and Deep).
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That, in fact, is all - now you can make a lampshade, and the lighting is ready!

Again, the options are endless. Perhaps you'll work all the wires on the outside of the house, poking holes here and there, and sticking the light up from the inside. Perhaps you will work all the wires inside the house and tape them down or cover them with another layer of cardboard. I did a bit of both.

Whatever you decide, I recommend holding the light in place with duct tape until you get a configuration that fits the way you want. And then start poking holes for the lights to get through.

I did not do it. And my house has some extra holes. Oh. Fortunately, most of them are covered with wallpaper.

At least I was semi-smart making the floor between the first and second floors. Since I didn't want the wires for any of the bottom of the overhead lights to be visible, I took a large piece of cardboard, scored two lines down the center (about ½" apart) and then folded over the won lines. Now I could hide the wires between the "ceiling" and the "floor". I glued the "ceiling" part in first, poked the lights in place (and threaded the rest of the string through the hole outwards)...

...and then pushed the "floor" part down over the wires and glued that in place as well. (You can see the floor on the left hasn't been glued down yet.)

and how about battery? I hid that in the chimney.

side note: I was lucky I didn't have to make that wide taper to a narrow piece of cardboard to cover the back of the fireplace and act as a chimney; I found it among the cardboard placeholders when I unpacked a recent purchase. So, keep your eyes open for interesting shapes to reuse!

The chimney door has a small cutout so the light switch can be turned on and off...

... and so the door can be opened when pulled out it's time to change the batteries.

And finally my favorite part:

dress up the bulbs with some light fixtures.

And options...? Yes, limitless! Here are some of the possibilities:

Use medicine cup like lampshades.

For the bedroom, I cut the rims from a large NyQuil cup to make them a bit shorter, poked a small hole in bottom parts of the cup for overhead light or in side for wall sconces, hot glued tape around them, and then just pushed them on each open bulb.

For the reading corner, I cut out a section from the side of the cup, also cut the bottom completely, hot glued layers of lace on, then hot glued the cut sides of the cup straight to the wall. To make this look like a floor lamp instead of a wall lamp, I'm planning to hot glue a piece of stick to the button, spray paint it silver, and install it underneath.

Use wire and beads make chandeliers.

Use sticks and tissue paper to make fire for the fireplace.

Use empty tape roll .

I'd rather glue the rounded side on the wall so it would look like a drum lampshade, but that didn't work in one of the places I left. So I just glued a piece of tulle on the open end and then glued it directly to the wall. Not my favorite lamp in the house, but the girls like it just fine.

Use ping pong ball wrapped with dental floss to mimic paper tint, like this one at Ikea.

This is what I wanted to do for the lamp that was tucked in the corner, but I didn't have ping pong so I took another medicine cup, but this time I just used the bottom. Glued a piece of tulle on it, so it will match the other light in the room, and then hot glued the edge on the wall.

In a dollhouse, everything is usually reflected as in the present, only in a miniature version, but there is no light. Agree that with light it will look more realistic and it will be much more convenient for children to play in it. In this lighting option, everything will be as realistic as possible - it will be possible to turn the lights on and off in each room with switches, and LEDs will perform the functions of light bulbs.

materials

To make lighting for the dollhouse with your own hands, prepare:

wires;
LED bulbs;
box with switches;
soldering iron;
solder;
thin hook;
AA batteries - 3 pcs.

Step 1. Wiring

In all rooms of the dollhouse, it is necessary to make grooves for light bulbs. It is better to disguise the wiring as much as possible by running the wires through the grooves on the walls and ceilings. To make it more convenient to pull the wires through the grooves, use a thin hook.

Be sure to seal the grooves by restoring the covering of the walls and ceiling. Of course, it is better if the grooves for wiring in the dollhouse are provided in advance. This is possible if the house is made by hand. Otherwise, the wiring will have to tinker.

Solder the LEDs to the output wires, tighten them back, masking the attachment point with the insulating coating of the cable.

Bring all the wires to the back of the house, place the box with switches there.

Step 2. Assembly of the structure

Solder the exposed wires to the switch box. The switches are small, so solder them to the wires carefully.

Batteries will become the power source for the LEDs, also install all the connectors for them and connect them to the wiring of the doll house.

The box with switches for convenience can be fixed on the wall of the house.

Lighting for the house is ready. You can check its performance and change the interior again, as artificial lighting of doll rooms exposes all the gaps in the decor.