The Doll House

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Welcome, this page includes all our personal tips and tricks on all the handmade elements of our dollhouse. You can get a tour of the full doll house on youtube by clicking here: Our Doll House Tour. We hope you get inspired and try it out. Feel free to send us comments on how you upgraded or made your doll house by using this site. We love getting ideas from other girls for our doll house!

The Kitchen

The Refrigerator
YOU WILL NEED
-shoebox
-silver paint or paper
-scissors
-sticky notes
-notebook paper
-stickers
-an AG magazine

Step 1: Remove the folded in edges of the shoebox, so that the lid no longer folds in

Step 2: Cover shoebox in silver paper

Step 3: Put  strips of colored paper on the top of the shoebox 

Step 4: Place letter stickers that spell cooking words on the colored paper

Step 5: Find a website with calendars or make your own on Word or Pages and print out three in smaller size to fit dolls 

Step 6: Make one calendar breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner then write down the breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals on the calendars

Step 7: Cut small pieces of notebook paper out and write a reminders on them, use stickers as magnets to attach them to the lid of the shoe box, a.k.a, the door of your fridge

Step 8: Put pictures of your doll on the fridge with stickers- cut pictures of your doll out of the American Girl Doll catalog 

Step9: To make post-it notes you can can cut a doll sized piece off the top of a real post-it note

Step 10: Make a coupon case by cutting a rectangular piece of colored paper and folding it in half, taping the two smaller sides and leaving the largest side open. Attach it to the fridge with tape, glue, or glue dots

Step 11: To make coupons you can ether use the library cards and coupons AG makes or cut out doll sized coupons from colored paper

Step 12: Place a thumbtack on the side large side of the fridge that opens up.

Step 13: Make a small chain of paper clips and glue it to the refrigerator door at the same side that you attached the thumbtack. you can now open and close the fridge by putting the last paper clip on the chain on the thumbtack

Step 14: Your fridge is complete! Place it in your kitchen in your dollhouse or doll room

The Sink

YOU WILL NEED

-lid from a large jar (like a jam or pasta sauce jar)

-blue tinfoil or paper

-a small travel shampoo with tape and markers or a small travel dish soap bottle

Step 1: Shred blue paper or tinfoil and place in lid

Step 2: This only need t be done if you do not have small dish soap Make a dish soap label and place over the shampoo label

The Oven/Stove

YOU WILL NEED

-black craft foam

-tinfoil

-hot glue or glue dots

-open thin container (pencil box, jewelry box, etc.)

-permanent marker

-colorful paper

Step 1: Cover one long end of the box with tinfoil

Step 2: Cut out craft foam circles and attach them to the tinfoil as burners

Step 3: Using hot glue/ glue dots, attach two pieces of craft foam into one side of the open side of the box. This will make your shelf fro the oven and divide the oven from the toaster oven

Step 4: Create an oven door with crag foam, colored paper, glue, and tinfoil. Fold a tiny bit of the bottom end over and tape it to the side opposite the burners, so that it can open and close

 Step 5: Using tinfoil, colored paper, the permanent marker, and glue, make a toaster oven or microwave door. Fold a tiny bit of the side over and attach it to the side of the box so that it can open and close outward like a door

Step 6: Your oven is complete! Place it on a counter up against a wall in your doll kitchen

Food

Condiments: Find small condiments at hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores

 

Cereal Box: Look for small cereal boxes at grocery stores, hotels, and buffets

 Yogurt Cups: Glue crumpled up kleenex to the bottom of a small sample cup or creamer cup. Add beads fro granola and berries

 Eggs and Bacon: Cut and glue craft foam into the shape of eggs and bacon

 Pizza: Cut a circle of brown craft foam, and glue it to the bottom of a slightly smaller circle of re craft foam. Add chopped up pieces of craft foam, shredder pieces of paper, beads, pieces of yarn, and other tidbits for toppings

Sandwich: Cut out two pieces of brown craft foam for bread, and glue multi colored pieces of crafts foam, shredded of crumpled paper, and yarn between them. Cut a toothpick in half and stick the top end in the sandwich. Cut circles of brown paper out for chips. 

Pancakes: Cut out brown paper circles for pancakes

 Omelet: Cut out a yellow piece of craft foam and an orange piece of craft foam. Glue the orange on top of the yellow and fold them in half, the yellow on the outside. Put inside some chopped pieces of other colored craft foam and glue shut.

 Toast:  Cut out two brown triangles of craft foam, one slightly smaller than the other, and glue them one on top of the other. Add a circle of red on the top for jam and a square of yellow on the top for butter.

 Potatoes: Crumple tinfoil into a small ball

 Burritos: Cut up multicored pieces of craft foam and glue them on the top of a brown or white paper circle along with yellow yarn. Roll up the paper circle with the filling inside and glue shut.

 Fries: Cut thin strips of yellow craft foam and a blob of red craft foam

 Sushi: Cut out rectangles of green, white, and orange and glue them one on top of the other in that order. Roll them up with the green outside and roll it up. Glue shut.

 Stir Fry: Chop red, yellow, orange, and green craft foam into small, irregular pieces.

 Spaghetti: Glue red and white yarn into the bottom of a tangerine cup. Glue on black beads and green pieces of craft foam if desired

 Veggies: Stick cucumber stickers onto green craft foam circles for cucumbers, and cut orange and green craft foam into strips for celery and carrots.

 Fruit: Attach apple and peach shaped stickers to craft foam and felt and cut around the shape.

 Muffin: Glue a crumpled ball of brown paper to the bottom of a mini cupcake wrapper.

 Croissants: Cut brown craft foam into triangles and roll. Glue the end down.

 Blueberry Scones: Crumple a cream piece of paper into a rectangle sort of shape. Glue blue hole punches craft foam circles to the top.

 Cookies: Cut out dark brown craft pieces and attach them to a light brown circle.

Lunch Boxes

Doll lunch boxes can be hand sewn, or made out of small jewelry gift bags. Attach stickers for some extra personality. Make lunch box hooks to hang on the walls out of paper clips by pulling one end out. Attach to wall with a label printed from the computer.

Kitchen wear

Caddies: Use extra small tea caddies to house food

Frying Pan: Tiny frying pans can be purchased at stores

Cookie Pan: Make a cookie pan out of tinfoil

Baby Bottle: Baby bottles are easy to buy at toy stores

Lasagna Pan: Buy a very small one from a kitchen store

Measuring cups: Use a real set of measuring spoons as doll sized measuring cups

Plates: Old tea set plates work well

Tea Cups: Use old tea set cups

Bowls: Small bowls can be found at toy stores with other play kitchen wear for small children

Spoons: Save your ice cream taster spoons

Cups: Sample cups, recycled creamers, and plastic shot glasses work well

Pizza Pan: Use an old metal jar lid

Floor Mat

Cut out a piece of patterned fabric

Centerpieces

Centerpieces are easy to find just by looking around the house. Change them up in response to different holidays or seasons.