DIY plywood dollhouse: diagram and step-by-step instructions. Dollhouse How to make a house for dolls with your own hands

Your little princess is growing by leaps and bounds. And now you have already equipped her nursery, in which there are many toys. But as always, something is missing. Or maybe make a dollhouse with your own hands from plywood? Its scheme is simple. With such a house, the daughter will play much longer than dad or grandfather built it.

Piggy bank of creative ideas

Every girl dreams of having a real dollhouse in her room. It is easier to buy such a design in a store, but not cheaper. Moreover, the quality of many toys lately leaves much to be desired. If you are going to make a do-it-yourself dollhouse, you will need the drawings to cut out individual parts.

Plywood is a versatile material. It is durable, ergonomic, has an acceptable price category, and it is a pleasure for the master to work with it. You can come up with a unique plywood dollhouse. Drawings are easy to find on the global network. Fortunately, progress has provided us with such opportunities.

Here are some ideas for building a dollhouse:

• simple sketch;

• complicated option;

• new year's dollhouse.

The complexity of the structure being erected depends on your skills and abilities. First, all the parts are cut out of plywood, and then assembled together. The dollhouse can be small or human-sized.

Take care of cutting out doors and windows. Children can be involved in the design process. They will be able to decorate the dollhouse as they see fit. Your imagination also plays an important role. A dollhouse can be a miniature replica of a real home with stairs, bathroom, bedroom, living room, nursery and furniture. Try it, because it's very interesting and exciting.

Let's make a gift to the little princess

Handmade items are always valued more. If you decide to present a gift to your daughter, try making a plywood dollhouse with your own hands. Step by step instructions will be for you visual aid... Start by building a drawing. After taking all measurements, calculate the required amount of plywood. Go to the store and buy everything you need.

One side of the house, the facade, is always open. It should be comfortable for the child to play with this design. If you want to make an exclusive dollhouse, think over everything to the smallest detail, including the decor, and also equip it with lighting.

Necessary materials:

• drawing;
• plywood sheets;
• electric jigsaw;
• drill with various drills;
• heavy-duty glue;
• yardstick;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• water-based or decorative paint;
• brush;
• self-tapping screws;
• LED lamp;
• power unit.

A step-by-step description of the creative process:

1. We start by building a drawing. We place all the details on a sheet of paper separately. We indicate the desired size. You can take the dimensions given in the photo.
   
2. We transfer the drawing to plywood sheets. For convenience, we will use a ruler and a simple pencil.
3. After we have drawn all the details of the future dollhouse, we proceed to cutting them out. You can conveniently and quickly cut out parts from plywood using an electric jigsaw.
   
4. This stage is the most important. We measure all sizes carefully and very carefully. Better to measure it seven times. Otherwise, the house will not turn out nice and even. The details should fit together perfectly.
5. We will immediately cut out all the details of the dollhouse. Here we have such a mountain of individual pieces of plywood.
   
6. In order not to get confused when assembling the house, we will sign each detail in accordance with our drawing.
7. To make the house look like a real one, and your princess is happy to play with such a structure, we measure and cut out doors and windows. Without this, nowhere.
   
8. And to make it more convenient to cut out small windows and doorways from plywood, we first drill four points.
   
9. Now, starting from the hole, we will cut out the window and door using an electric jigsaw.
   
10. We need to decorate part of the wall of the house and the balcony. To do this, draw two parallel lines and make symmetrical points on equal segments.
11. Let's drill each point to make a through hole.
    
12. Cut the distance between the holes using an electric jigsaw. It turns out this is such an original thread.
    
13. When all the details are ready, take sandpaper and we will grind the plywood on all sides so that no splinters are afraid of the little princess.
    
14. Now we start assembling according to the sketch.
15. We process the side cuts of plywood with wood glue, and then fix them additionally with small studs.
16. Make sure that the nails do not pierce through the plywood, otherwise the baby may get hurt.
    
17. After we assemble the frame, we will fix the floors on the floors. If you have measured correctly, then these parts are perfect.
    
18. The finished house can be painted with water-based or decorative paint.
    
19. After completely dry, you can start lighting in the dollhouse. This requires LED bulbs minimum power as well as a power supply.
20. We connect the wires, and put the lamps into the holes made in the plywood.
21. We install the power supply on the back wall of the dollhouse.
    
22. Let's not forget to install a switch so that your daughter can turn on and off the light for her dolls on her own.
    

1. Why plywood
2. What to look for
3. What to look for
4. Let's get to work
5. Additional functions
6. Let's summarize

Apartments for dolls are often expensive; they are made of plastic - a fragile, quickly breaking material. The article describes how to do toy house do it yourself.

To fulfill a child's dream of a house for a favorite doll, you don't have to go to the store. You can make a cottage from plywood according to your own project.

Arguments in favor of DIY

Why you should build a homemade plywood dollhouse:

• Individuality. The project will be unique.
• Collaboration with the child. Helps strengthen family relationships.

• Development of creativity, skills, motor skills, acquisition of new experiences by children.
• The ability to create a home of any size.

Why plywood

Dollhouse made from different materials. The best way- plywood:

• The use of plywood for construction ensures the strength of the future home. With good fastening, the parts do not fall apart, do not break off.
• Plywood can be easily processed with conventional tools.
• Wooden toys are pleasant to the touch.
• Nice appearance wood allows you to do without additional decoration, surface design.
• Low material cost.

What to look for

Formaldehyde is used in the production of plywood. They are part of an impregnating adhesive for bonding fibers. To avoid poisoning, the ingress of hazardous material into the nursery, you must pay attention to the labeling of the sheets:

• E0 - less than 6 mg of formaldehyde per 100 g of the product;
• E1 - 7-9 mg per 100 g;
• E2 - 10-20 mg per 100 g.

Furniture and its components must be made of the safest class of plywood - E0.

How to make

Making a house for dolls from plywood is a multi-stage process. It is required to follow a certain sequence of actions. To facilitate the work, you can use the step-by-step instructions.

Stage 1. Preparation of the sketch

The diagram should show the layout, the dimensions of the floors in length, width, height.

You can find a sketch on the Internet, correct it. The photo shows several basic schemes for a toy dwelling.

The most important thing is the observance of the proportions of the dimensions to scale. This is necessary in case you want to change the dimensions of the product during operation.

The design can be thought over in advance to purchase and prepare necessary materials for decoration.

Step 2. Prepare accessories and tools

For assembly you will need:

• Plywood. To determine its amount, a drawing is used: the number of parts, their dimensions are calculated, and the total surface area is obtained. Based on the result, they acquire the required number of sheets. For a desktop house, 2-3 blanks will be needed, for a large mansion it can take up to 7-10 sheets of plywood.
• Corrugated cardboard for the roof.
• Tool for cutting wood. An electric jigsaw is recommended. It will help you quickly, accurately cut parts of the desired shapes, dimensions.
• Wood glue to fix the assembly elements.
• Assembly tape as an aid for fastening parts.
• Fine sandpaper.
• Roulette, ruler, pencil for marking.

For registration you will need:

• PVA or silicate glue.
• Wallpaper, colored films.
• Self-adhesive tape for imitation of flooring.
• Colored cardboard or paper for decoration of individual elements of the premises (optional).

Stage 3. Transferring the image

To assemble the wooden parts into a single whole, they must be cut from a blank sheet. To do this, scale sketches are transferred to paper, finished parts are cut out of it, and later used as a template.

If windows are not indicated on the diagrams, they are drawn when transferring patterns. On a flat-looking house without a front wall, window cuts are not needed.

Stage 4. Assembly

Step-by-step assembly instructions:

1. An electric jigsaw is used to cut out the parts transferred to the plywood. They try to do this carefully, without going beyond the contour lines: in case of a design error, they may connect incorrectly.
2. Sand the edges to make the parts safe and avoid injury.

Cutting and edging should be done by an adult.

1. The assembly begins by combining the interior space. Ceilings are attached to the vertical end walls with glue and mounting tape and internal partitions according to the scheme. To strengthen the connection inner corners glued with thin strips. They will add rigidity to the structure. At this stage, a child may be involved in the work.
2. Stairwells are made of wooden rulers. They are placed in the form of slides or cut one, glue a real staircase out of it.

1. Attach the back wall.
2. Assemble the roof. Solid slopes can be cut out of cardboard and glued. Another option is to assemble the roof from individual pieces in the form of shingles.

The finished frame of the house is left for several days until the glue dries, the structure acquires sufficient strength.

After assembly, proceed to the design.

Stage 5. Design

The finished frame is decorated and furnished with doll accessories. Recommendations:

• The floor can be left in its original form or decorated. Plywood has a wood pattern, so it is not advisable to cover it with a similar ornament.
• You can make swing windows, doors. To do this, fit the canvases onto pieces of cardboard or use small metal door hinges... The passages are closed with fabric curtain cuts. Windows are sometimes replaced with cardboard shutters.
• The ceiling and walls can be pasted over with colored films, wallpaper, or painted.
• Furniture for toys is placed in the rooms.

Additional functions

Not only the aesthetic, but also the practical side of the house is important: toys must be stored somewhere, accessories must be removed, something must be hidden. Additional built-in drawers can be made in the upper or lower tier. This is appropriate if the house is large and takes up significant space in the living space.

Boxes are also made of plywood... The drawing provides for a place for storing things. The sides of the box are cut out of plywood, glued together. Screw on the handle, insert it into the department.

You can make a hinged door as in the photo. To do this, the cut out canvas is screwed onto metal loops.

Conclusion

A DIY plywood toy house will be a good gift for any child.

The construction process will take 2-3 days, taking into account the preparation of blanks, their cutting, and drying of the glue... The child can decorate the premises independently.

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In this article, we'll look at how to make a plywood dollhouse. Of course, you can always go to a toy store and buy a ready-made model there, but there are several reasons not to rush to such a decision and still pick up the tools in order to create a little miracle for your child. So let's get started.

General Provisions

First, let's figure out the motivation, why it is generally worth taking on making a house for dolls with our own hands:

The advantages of hand-made

• Saving. The price of factory models is quite high, while homemade ones will significantly save the family budget;
• Uniqueness. The project you have implemented will be one of a kind, your daughter will definitely not meet the same toy from her friends;

• Compliance with desires. Your dollhouse will have just such rooms, such shades and such decorations that the child wants to see;

Tip: connect your child to work, this will allow both of you to have more fun and make the homemade toy even more beloved.

Benefits of choosing plywood

So, why it is worth taking up work with your own hands, and not running to the store, we figured it out. Now let's define the material.

A wood-laminated board consists of several sheets of wood veneer glued together, which determines the presence of the following advantages:

• High strength characteristics. Durable children's toys always last much longer than their flimsy counterparts;
• Ease of processing. Plywood is easily sawn, painted, drilled, milled and fixed with nails or self-tapping screws;

• Aesthetic appearance. The top veneer has a beautiful original textured pattern and a warm shade pleasant to the eye;

• Low thermal conductivity, thanks to which it is warm to the touch. For a child, this is an important factor;
• Relatively low cost. Wood-laminated board is not very expensive, moreover, you will need very little material to complete the task under consideration.

But speaking about the advantages of plywood, it is necessary to mention its possible disadvantage, which is of no small importance. The adhesive used in the production of wood-laminated panels may contain formaldehyde, which is highly toxic.

Therefore, be sure to pay attention to the appropriate labeling and choose an environmentally friendly product, because your child can contact with it, and the following labeling will help you with this:

Getting Started

The instruction begins, as in most cases, with the preparation of all the necessary accessories that you may need in the process of implementing the conceived project:

Step # 1: prepare supplies

• The required number of plywood sheets with a thickness of 5-7 mm;

Any girl dreams of a house for her dolls. Now there are a huge number of them on store shelves. But such a pleasure is not cheap, and the assortment is the same.

We offer to please your child with a handmade gift. This will not only save you money, but also make the house one of a kind.

In addition, it will be a great pastime for the whole family during leisure hours.

There are many special tutorials on how to make DIY doll houses. You can use a wide variety Construction Materials: boards, plywood, chipboard, laminate, cardboard, etc.

As a rule, the front wall on doll houses is not made, or it is made removable or openable so that your child can put dolls there, change the decor in the rooms, and clean up.

Choose the material - and we will teach you how to make a dollhouse with your own hands!

Doll houses made of plywood and laminate

These are the most popular materials. Distinctive feature from "brothers" - stability and longevity. It is easy to decorate both outside and inside. But making such a house requires masculine strength.

If you try, then such a house will not be distinguished from the store version.

Diagrams and drawings can be found on the Internet, but if there are technical inclinations, you can try to draw it yourself. There are also photos of finished doll houses on the Internet.

To make a house, we need:

• thicker plywood (from 7 mm.);
• electric jigsaw;
• glue;
• self-adhesive for the floor;
• pieces of wallpaper;
• tape measure or ruler;
• pen;
• scheme;
• a little imagination and patience.

Let's get to work, before that we have decided on the size of the dollhouse (they will depend on the dimensions of the "tenants"):

• we cut out the walls of the future house from plywood or laminate;
• we cut out windows and doors in them;
• we glue the walls together, it is also fashionable to use construction nails or staples;
• we make a roof, it can be flat or sloping. To give a real look, you can use corrugated cardboard, and then paint it;
• we fasten the resulting structure to the foundation - a sheet larger than the house itself. On an unused site, you can make flower beds, sidewalks, a playground, parking;
• we glue the wallpaper and lay the floors;
• we furnish the house with furniture;
• you can also add curtains made from pieces of fabric, bedspreads, rugs, etc.

Plasterboard dollhouses

After renovation, many household parents leave the remaining building materials to gather dust on the balcony in the hope that they will someday come in handy. Their time has come! Drywall can make a great dollhouse.

A good house made of this material is that it turns out to be very light and easy to assemble. But, at the same time, it will need to be handled more carefully - it will be quite fragile.

The scheme of such a house is no different from a product made of plywood or laminate. But it is much easier to assemble such a house, and there are much more layout options - with the help of partitions, rooms can be divided among themselves.

Styrofoam houses

To assemble such a house, we need:

Note!

• sheet polystyrene;
• glue;
• canapé sticks;
• rulers;
• bamboo sticks;
• cardboard;
• pieces of wallpaper and fabric;
• dye;
• sponge for washing dishes;

Pieces of plinth for the ceiling

Getting started:

• making a diagram;
• we cut out the walls from the foam;
• we make doors and windows in them;
• we connect the walls with toothpicks, then glue the walls together;
• for the strength of the roof, first we install bamboo sticks over the walls, and only then we glue the roof to the walls;
• we make a staircase from wooden rulers or the same foam;
• you can also use toothpicks for the railings;
• in addition, if you wish, you can also make a balcony, massandra or even a terrace from polystyrene;
• painting the house;
• inside we decorate the house as in the previous description.

Houses from bookshelves and cabinets

House from old furniture it will not be difficult to do - after all, the walls are already ready.

It remains only to cut windows and doors into them, and think about what to make a roof from, if it is necessary.

It can also be made from the materials described above. We arrange furniture, let the cat in - with a housewarming party!

Houses made of cardboard

For such a construction we need:

Note!

• cardboard;
• home detail templates;
• scissors and a stationery knife;
• gouache or watercolor paints.

Building a house:

• if you have a large piece of cardboard, then we do not cut it, but bend it in places according to the diagram, and then glue its component parts together.
• install interior partitions made of cardboard, they will serve not only to delimit the space, but also to hold the frame structure together.
• we start repairing and furnishing!

House of boxes

The easiest and fastest option. It is enough to select the required number of boxes (depending on the number of rooms), fasten them together with a stapler, after placing them on the side so that the top of the box serves as an exit.

This will allow you to open the front wall at the right time to make a rearrangement, tidy up, etc.

We cut out windows and doors. Let's start designing the frame.

Note!

House of folders for papers

It needs four folders. We glue them from the inside with wallpaper or sheets printed on a printer with decor items and household appliances in the plane.

We cut out the windows in the folders, set the folders vertically, fasten them with the clips that are available for each folder. Your house is ready.

House made of fabric

This option is good because it practically does not take up space, it can be folded down altogether.

With the help of a dense piece of fabric, we make the back wall - it will serve as a foundation. We sew a rectangular base for the house. We make pockets, to which the cardboard for the floors will then be attached. We attach ribbons to both corners of the pockets.

It remains only to sew pockets with a rectangular base from one edge so that the ribbons are on back side... Floors with tapes and sew tapes to the back wall. We decorate the house and start playing!

You can also make houses from other materials - the main thing is to show your imagination! It will be a great gift for a boy too - after all, you can build a garage, parking, etc.

DIY dollhouse photo