How to make a sofa for dolls?

Psychologists argue that, as a child behaves in the game, so he will be in life. Do you dream that from your little daughter grew a real woman with a delicate taste, an excellent hostess and a caring mother? So - her dolls should have all the best - beautiful clothes, dishes and a cozy room with elegant furniture. It is not necessary to spend all this crazy money in branded stores. In fact, you can do a lot with your own hands - you just need to think carefully and try to do everything neatly. How to make a sofa for dolls? About this important matter, read in our article.

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Age and dimensions of

The daughter grows, but the dolls she plays with are getting smaller. So first you need to think about which furniture you want. In the doll's corner, where almost real friends of your three-year-old daughter live, on the sofa can easily fit and dolls, and a big bear, and even their mistress. All items are almost like real ones, just a little bit smaller.

You can build a sofa for dolls from your own materials:

• plywood;
• polystyrene foam;
• remains of wallpaper or newspaper sheets - if there are many.

In addition, you need:

• fabric for mattress and pillows;
• thick foam rubber, sintepon or batting;
• adhesive according to the material;
• small nails if you are going to make a sofa for plywood dolls;
• fret saw;
• sharp knife;
• scissors;
• sewing accessories;
• burner;
• acrylic or oil paints.

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The easiest puppet sofa

How to make a sofa for a doll, if the daughter is small and the doll is big? It is easiest to make a sofa from two wooden highchairs. They should be the same height, while lower than your child needs for growth. Still, it's doll furniture, although at times it can be used by a small landlady.

In addition to the chairs, you need:

• 2 slats 50-60 cm long;
• 2 piece of plywood for sidewalls;
• a piece of thick foam for the seat and back;
• thick fabric for upholstery;
• screws or screws;
• screwdriver;
• sewing accessories.

Important! Before making a sofa for dolls with their own hands, the chairs should be fastened with racks from the bottom, and from both sides attach the side panels. As for the sizes, they are largely arbitrary - the sidewalls should be lower than the back, that's all. It is enough, if they will rise above the seat of centimeters by ten.

We connect the chairs:

1. On the lower parts of the chairs, mark the places for the fastenings.
2. Similarly, mark the slats.
3. Drill holes - on the slats they will be through, on the chairs - of sufficient depth.
4. Screw the rail with any fasteners, which is at hand - for the correctness, you can screw or screws to the glue.

Sidewalls

Sidewalls are just two sheets of plywood that cover the space under the chairs and a little above the seats. The only thing that should be taken care of - that the front corners were cut off. This is most easily done with a jig saw.

Important! By the way, if you own this tool a little, nothing prevents to make carved armrests - then they will not have to be covered with upholstery. Spills must be thoroughly treated with sandpaper, so that the child did not have the slightest chance to plant a splinter. It's a great idea to cover these parts with lacquer.

You can make a puppet couch yourself without wooden armrests. For example, it is possible to supplement the structure with foam rollers, which are put on the sofa when necessary, but can be used for other purposes.

A sofa for dolls with their own hands - the master class continues

Sometimes young mothers ask a question how to sew a sofa for dolls. It is not the sofa itself that is sewed, but only its soft parts, and, approximately the same for small furniture and for large.

Sofa cover

Cut 2 pieces of thick foam rubber to the size of the seat and backrest. They can be dealt with in two ways:

• stuck to the chairs, and then all together with a cloth;
• first make 2 identical mattresses, one - attach to the backrest, the second - put on the seat.

The use of this or that method depends on the shape of the chairs. In some children's chairs, the backs are bent back, and the front edge of the seat is down. In this case, the first option is preferable. In all other situations, the second is more interesting, since it turns out something like modular furniture, when removable parts are used for a variety of purposes.

Important! First you need to glue foam rubber on the back, then - on the seat.

We sew mattresses

For mattresses old blind or unnecessary coverlet is quite suitable. You can cut it directly on the fabric, but if you are not very sure of yourself - do the curves from the graph paper.

For each mattress you need:

• 2 rectangles equal in length and width to the seat or back of the sofa, plus allowances of 1 cm on each side;
• strip - its length is equal to the perimeter of the mattress, and the width - foam thickness, plus allowances of 1 cm on all sides, you can cut it by a skew.

Important! To the mattress was very similar to the present, between the strip and the basic details you can sew a crochet - it is sold ready in stores for needlework. Each mattress requires 2 pieces, the length of which is equal to the perimeter.

When manufacturing it is important to follow a certain order of actions:

• Mark the strip of the corners of the future mattress on the strip - do it better on both long sides.
• Press the corners of the corners by folding the strip with the front side outward.
• Fold the strip and one of the rectangles with faces to each other, sweep the parts, leaving one short side open.

Important! If it is supposed to be a rope, it is necessary to enclose it between the details with a rope on the front side.

• Stitch details on three sides.
• Angles cut obliquely very close to the seam.
• Similarly, attach a second rectangle to the strip.
• Cut off the corners.
• Remove the workpiece.
• Insert foam rubber and open the edge by hand.

If the chairs are sloping

The sofa cover with glued foam rubber is a simple matter, but it requires some skill to work with a hammer and wallpaper nails:

1. To begin, cut out the rectangle. The width is easy to define - it is equal to the width of the chairs, plus allowances of 3 cm on each side.
2. As for the length, then everything is somewhat more interesting. The piece of cloth should completely cover the space under the chair, seat, back and back, plus again the allowances - but they can be smaller, 2 cm will be enough.
3. The allowances that will adhere to the sidewalls, press on the wrong side.
4. The allowances on the front and back sides are sewn by folding twice on the wrong side and press.
5. Nail the cloth to the seat and the backrest at a distance of 2-3 cm from the side, with a step between nylon nails in 5-7 cm
6. Nail the cloth also to the top of the back and bottom of the seat.

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Sofa for medium-sized dolls

The girl of the senior preschool age also has dolls, but they are much smaller than their mistress. It can be medium-sized dolls or small. Accordingly - furniture for them will be small, but it can be made from improvised means.

See if the apartment is not littered:

• electronic device boxes:
• shoe boxes;
• juice cartons;
• packing carton;
• rectangular plastic bottles;
• material for legs;
• pieces of foam rubber;
• shreds of different sizes.

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Boxes for juice

For making a doll's sofa you need 2 identical juice boxes and 2 pieces of thick cardboard:

1. Cut the caps from the cans.
2. Put one box on a large rectangle, long side to yourself.
3. Lubricate the long side frame of the second box with glue.
4. Attach it to the first box so that the long sides coincide, and the boxes themselves are glued at right angles.
5. For sidewalls, cut out 2 identical rectangles from the packing cardboard.
6. Glue them to the sides of the boxes.

Important! You can make the legs - this is suitable plugs from plastic bottles, which are glued to the bottom of the sofa with a universal adhesive.

Workpiece for a folding sofa

How to make a sofa bed for dolls? And from what? Yes from the same boxes of juice, only to glue them together is not necessary. To create a folding sofa for dolls with their own hands, you need a book-type design with a spine from a leatherette or a dense fabric:

1. In size, each part of the "cover" is equal to the area of ​​the box.
2. Glue the boxes to the inside of the "cover".
3. Attach 8 legs - 4 of the plugs to the seat, and 4 of the thick cardboard, bending it at a right angle - only one part is glued to the back.
4. To the back, glue 4 plastic paper clips - under them the legs will be removed when the sofa is assembled.

We make a soft gasket

The sofa from a cardboard by the hands is almost ready, it is necessary to make a soft layer and an upholstery. For laying fine thin foam is fine, but you can use both a sheet of sintepon, batting and even a soft but sufficiently thick fabric.

Important! It is better to glue the workpiece from all sides, trying to make the layer as flat as possible. It is not necessary to cut the gasket from a separate piece, it is possible and from pieces, the main thing - that there were no noticeable protuberances and depressions.

We make upholstery

Upholstery is better to cut from large pieces of fabric:

• First it is necessary to hang sidewalls so that you can close the allowances with the main piece. It is more convenient if it is a strip, equal in width to the length of the sofa, plus small allowances on all sides.

Important! The strip should be such that it completely covers the lower part of the sofa, the seat, the front and back of the back.

• Allowances for short edges should be immediately bent on the wrong side, smooth and glued to the part of the seat that will be facing. The allowances on the long sides are glued completely.

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Box from under the

technique Very interesting models of doll furniture can be made from cardboard cubes or parallelepipeds, in which all kinds of electronics are packed. By the way, often in the box is another wonderful material for the sofa - polystyrene. But first let's look at the box:

1. Open it and get all the contents.
2. Do not cut off the lid - from one open side in it you need to make a semicircular cut, then the bottom will become a seat, and the lid and side walls - the backrest and armrests.
3. At the bottom, glue a piece of thin foam or sintepon.
4. Space near the side and rear walls, too, fill it with foam rubber or an sintepon - you can attach the gasket to the walls with a few drops of glue.
5. Pour the sofas on all sides with a cloth.

Important! For this design, of course, you need the legs - cubes from the depleted construction designer, kegs from the lotto. Suitable even caps from tubes with toothpaste, if the box is small.

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Matchboxes

An excellent sofa for Barbie and her guests will come out of matchboxes. You will need 6 boxes - 2 per seat and seat and 1 per side. If you do not have a suitable material for the legs, you can make the seat double or even triple:

1. Glue all match boxes so that the drawers do not extend out of the lid.
2. Make a workpiece for the seat - glue together 2 boxes with short sides.
3. Do the same in the same way.
4. Glue the seat and backrest at right angles.
5. Sidewalls glued vertically on both sides.

Sealing workpiece

Soft pad for such small dolls is not really necessary, so you can immediately do upholstery. For this purpose:

• paper;
• self-adhesive film.

Varieties of paper - a great variety. What prevents, for example, make a velvet sofa for your favorite doll? Or marble? With self-adhesive film, the situation is even better - it happens to be of all kinds of colors, so you can make sidewalls, for example, under a tree, and the seat and backrest - under silk. And you can make the entire sofa wooden.

Important! By the way, if you are still interested in how to sew a sofa for dolls, if it is very miniature, you can do it, and even with a soft layer. You can sacrifice a pair of brand new hygienic pads for a puppet corner, only those are needed, in which the adhesive layer is applied to the entire surface. From one we make a soft part of a seat, from another - backs, we cover all this with a cloth. A wonderful sofa turned out. As the legs - any round lids of the same size.

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Foam pack

A piece of foam plastic in which, for the time being, an electronic device has slept perfectly - a practically ready-made sofa or chair. A square or a rectangle with a notch in the middle is easy enough to cut in half to make a circle out of the circle, and here's a ready-made sofa, and a very modern shape. It remains only to glue it with paper or a self-adhesive film. The foam plastic itself is thick enough, so even the legs are not needed.

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How to make a bedroom for dolls?

In the bedroom, even in the puppet, there is not one sofa. There is a table, wardrobes, and even a dressing table. And all this can be done from what lies in the apartment without any business and even thrown away:

• The cabinet with drawers is made from the matchboxes put on each other and glued together.
• For the table is enough piece of plywood and four legs - for example, bars from a scattered builder. You can even make a table with one foot in the middle.
• Styrofoam pieces are perfect for armchairs.
• And just from the packing cardboard you can do anything at all - you just need to think about it.

As you can see, there are a lot of ideas. Therefore, you only need to choose more interesting for yourself and put it into practice. And as soon as the interior of the house for dolls bothers your child, you will already know other options, in order to change it in a few days.