Make Your Own Doll House from Odds and Ends and a Shelf

These are a couple more rooms we made, and actually these rooms are made from cardboard boxes. They are covered inside and out with scraps of fabric held in place by Elmer's glue. We go to a warehouse the sells scraps from local textile companies. We buy wood scraps, fabric scraps, you name it!! If you don't have anything like this, you can pick up lots of stuff at most thrift stores. We actually found scrap pieces of wood to glue in place and make a wood floor in two of our rooms!

When you glue on layers of wall paper samples and fabric, the house becomes sturdier. You don't want a box so big that the roof caves in, but one small enough to keep its shape.

Here are more pictures:

1) This is the den, complete with a fire place that goes up through the roof. It is made from a paper towel roll, painted by mom with marker! The pictures on the wall: one is a "pastoral" cut from a noodle box (LOL!!). The others are price tags that my daughter colored on and we hung them from upholstery tacks twisted into the cardboard. If you look to the right, you can see the windows on the outside of the dollhouse mounted to the wall.



2) Here is the bedroom. Notice the doll reading the Abraham Lincoln book we made!! The beds are made from empty boxes covered in fabric with lace glued around as a bed ruffle.



3) Here is all the house as it looks. We tried to arrange it into a "play center." Two of the rooms sit on her clothing storage units.




Note of caution!! These dollhouses contain many small parts, so make sure your child is beyond putting things in his/her mouth. Always supervise when using scissors and arts and crafts materials!

Have fun!

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