Do-it-yourself plywood house: drawing up a drawing, cutting and assembling

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If you want your child to give you a little break from time to time, you can do this by giving him an activity that he will enjoy. For girls, for example, this could be a game of dolls, which can be expanded with additional items. You can assemble a doll's crib yourself using available material - plywood. In this article we will offer several options along with drawings, so in your free time you will only have to transfer them to a template and cut them out using a jigsaw.

We make a cradle and a bed for a doll with our own hands from plywood

Below you will learn how to make a cradle for a doll and a regular crib. The first differs from the second in the possibility of its swinging. There is nothing complicated in either the first or second case; you will need a minimum of materials and tools, as well as some patience. The price of crafts will be minimal, and much cheaper than in the store.

Pros of DIY

The advantages of making a dollhouse with your own hands from plywood include the following:

1. A product made according to an individual drawing involves the use of its own dimensions, design and functionality. The main advantage of such a toy is its uniqueness and the ability to take into account the child’s wishes when arranging and decorating rooms, choosing layout and furniture, accessories and decor.
2. The house can have the necessary and convenient size, which is selected taking into account the free space in the children's room and the wishes of the child. This can be a tabletop or floor-mounted design.
3. You can involve the child in decorating and arranging the interior space even at the stage of drawing development - joint work brings the child together, allows him to reveal the creative potential of the child, teaches him to make independent decisions and bear responsibility for them.
4. Working with plywood is a creative and fun process that the whole family can participate in.

If you make it yourself, you can give the house any appearance.

Furniture options for dolls, plywood models and how to make them

"Doll life" should be cozy and comfortable. In order for the game to bring joy, and for the child to have a desire to fantasize about doll relationships, it is useful and easy to construct furniture for dolls from plywood yourself. This will allow you to take into account the child’s character, the size of his toys, harmoniously fit the doll corner into the overall design of the room, and begin to instill a sense of taste and aesthetics.

Advantages of plywood

Any materials can be used to make a dollhouse yourself, but plywood is used more often, as it has a number of advantages:

1. A whole category of toys for children are made of wood, in particular plywood, due to its pleasant to the touch, warm surface.
2. The light weight of the material allows you to create large structures that even a child can move from place to place.
3. Plywood is a durable material, so structures made from it are reliable and durable.
4. The material is affordable, which allows you to make a toy no worse than the one sold in the store, but for much less money.
5. Working with plywood is easy, it is easy to process and does not require the use of special tools or professional skills.
6. After assembly, the house can be painted or left as is, covered with transparent varnish - the surface of the plywood is smooth, with a pleasant natural pattern and shade.

Plywood has an attractive appearance and natural shade

Note! E0 grade plywood is an environmentally friendly and safe material. This type of material is used in the manufacture of goods for children.

How to make furniture for dolls from plywood?

To create a stylish interior in a dollhouse, the easiest way is to make furniture from plywood with your own hands.

In addition, doll furniture made by yourself will certainly satisfy all children’s needs: it will fit perfectly in size to a room in a doll’s house or to the cabin of a model ship, will correspond to the height of the baby doll and will look original in comparison with standard sets.

Preparatory work

At the first stage, you will need to decide on the dimensions of the structure. To do this, you should take into account the size of the doll the child is playing with - the toy should fit freely at full height with a margin of a few centimeters to the ceiling. There should also be enough space for arranging toy furniture - a crib, a table with chairs, kitchen furniture.

Houses for Barbie

The number of floors in the house depends on the size of the toys and the height of the child. If the figures do not exceed 20 cm in height, then the house can have up to 3 floors. If the structure is assembled for a standard Barbie doll, then it will not be possible to make more than 2 floors - then it is better to arrange the rooms horizontally.

Floor-mounted 3-storey house for playing with small figures

Having decided on the concept, you can begin to develop the project in more detail by drawing a design drawing to scale on a piece of paper.

Project details

Drawing

The drawing of the details of the house must be done to scale - you can draw it on a sheet of paper or in a special computer program. This will allow you to reflect the dimensions of the product, the number and sizes of parts, and determine the methods and locations of fastenings. Also, at the stage of creating the project, you should decide on the internal layout, shape and design of the house. This stage of preparatory work should not be skipped, as it allows you to determine the required amount of material and the sequence of assembly of the product.

Basic elements of a dollhouse

Note! To make a house, you can use a standard drawing. It is worth remembering that when changing (increasing, decreasing) one size, a proportional change in the remaining sizes follows.

When developing a drawing yourself, you will need to consider the following:

1. The shape of the rear wall is a rectangle or pentagon, which allows you to make a gable roof.
2. To make the assembly process easier, the base is made slightly wider than the space inside.
3. The ceilings of the upper floors should have smaller dimensions than those at the base.
4. The main structural elements also include sidewalls, interior partitions and roof parts.

Sketch diagram of the house

Design

Whatever the size of the room where the child plays, it is always necessary to remember: the place for doll furniture should have a convenient approach, not be located on the aisle, be easily accessible for cleaning, and well-chosen in terms of lighting. When playing in a doll house, a child can sit in such a place for hours, moving from one game to another (feeding, putting to bed, activities, dressing and undressing, preening, etc.). Therefore, he should be comfortable and comfortable. This is on the one hand.

On the other hand, for a rich, interesting game, it is better to provide a full set of furniture, so that there is room for imagination to run wild, for a girl to feel like a real mother or for a boy to feel like a dad. Perhaps this will be the construction of an entire dollhouse with your own hands.

Having chosen a suitable place, we begin to measure it. Having a total area, you need to immediately decide which part will be occupied by large furniture (wardrobe, bed, sofa, other elements). The remaining centimeters or meters (everyone has their own situation) - for placing chairs, armchairs, shelves, and other parts for dolls, as your imagination is capable of.

Having completed the first stage of design - “placement on the ground” - we begin to draw up a project for the doll furniture itself made of plywood.

We break down each proposed instance into its components:

• table - on legs, tabletop;
• chair - legs, seat, back;
• bed - on the bottom, ribs;
• cabinet - on walls, legs, shelves.

We calculate furniture elements for plywood dolls based on the final dimensions and draw up their drawings on paper. It is more logical to carry out such schemes immediately in true dimensions, taking into account the dimensions of each part.

Schemes must contain:

• designations of joints of furniture parts;
• marks on cutting out patterns (if present);
• differences in right or left-handed elements.

Tools and material

Making a plywood house is carried out in several stages. Particular attention should be paid to acquiring the necessary tools and materials.

List of materials and tools:

1. Plywood sheets, the number of which is calculated in accordance with the drawing, taking into account the size and number of parts. The resulting value is rounded up. On average, it takes 3 sheets of plywood to make a dollhouse.
2. The roof of the house is made of plywood, corrugated or regular cardboard.
3. To ensure strong fixation of plywood parts, use quick-drying wood glue.
4. For temporary and additional fixation of parts, you can use mounting tape.
5. Sandpaper is used to sand parts. Particular attention should be paid to the ends of the elements.
6. The parts are cut using an electric jigsaw.
7. The parts are fixed when assembling the house using self-tapping screws.
8. At the stage of preparing the material for cutting, you will need a ruler, tape measure, and pencil.

Required Tools

After assembling the house, it needs to be decorated. To do this, use scraps and other remnants of finishing materials: wallpaper, film, colored paper, pieces of linoleum, fabric, felt, laminate. Window openings are filled with transparent plastic or plexiglass.

What do you need to know when working with plywood?

Children's furniture should first of all be safe for play. When cut, plywood forms many sharp burrs on the edges.

To avoid injuries and splinters on your child’s fingers, be sure to sand all edges before assembling the product. This measure allows you to eliminate hangnails and make toys safe.

When making doll furniture, you can do it differently: transfer the patterns of the product parts onto plywood and trace all the contours with a sharp knife.

Sawing after this leaves significantly less burrs on the edges, but final sanding with sandpaper still does not exclude it. Even the edges of fiberboard parts become neater and more attractive after sanding.

The joining of parts in the manufacture of doll furniture is done using glue. Cleaning the contacting surfaces is a mandatory step in this case as well. Apply a thin layer of glue to parts of the product, connect and press the parts together, then wait until dry under a load.

To make children's furniture with your own hands you will need:

• plywood or fiberboard up to 5-6 mm thick;
• a jigsaw and a set of files for it;
• glue “Moment-Crystal” or similar;
• pencil, ruler;
• sandpaper with medium and fine grain;
• scraps of fabric for upholstery, acrylic paints and varnish;
• decorative elements as desired.

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Small workshops on making pieces of furniture for dolls will help you master this type of home crafts and independently create an environment for playing in a dollhouse.

Step-by-step instructions for making and assembling a plywood house

The sequence of making a dollhouse from plywood is as follows.

Table 1. Making a dollhouse

Note! The method of fastening plywood parts depends on its thickness and the size of the elements. When the material is thin and the house itself is not large, the elements can be fixed using wood glue or using special grooves.

Assembling a small house

Video - How to make a plywood dollhouse

Features of manufacturing products for children

It’s worth making furniture for children on your own because during the manufacturing process a piece of our soul, warmth, and parental care are put into it. The child will always be warmed by your love and feel confident. But in order not to cause harm, it is necessary to take into account a number of possible problems:

• quality of raw materials and consumables. Everything is taken into account here: from the background radiation of wooden plywood to the chemicals with which it may have been treated. Regarding glue and paints: what is the basis of the active substance? Do chemical elements exceed the maximum permissible concentrations? You can get a positive answer to all these questions by purchasing materials in serious construction stores, checking the manufacturer’s accompanying documentation;
• quality of work and structural strength. Very often, children aged 2-4 years sit in such furniture themselves, especially if its size allows. Then only the adhesive base or glueless connection of furniture elements may not hold up, and the child may fall. Therefore, when making furniture for dolls from large-sized plywood, it is better to strengthen the joints additionally, for example, with metal corners;
• careful processing of edges, corners and edges of furniture is necessary. Any roughness in the wood plywood can cause injury. Especially in this sense, it is useful to cover furniture with fabric, bending the edges over sharp parts. Another smoothing option is wood putty. To do this, you can use a special device - a putty gun.

Features of product decoration

Paint the dollhouse with environmentally friendly paint, such as acrylic. You can get a bright, rich or soft, pastel shade by adding tinting paste to the base composition.

Material for painting plywood

After the house is assembled, you can begin to decorate the interior walls, floors, and arrange plywood doll furniture.

Internal filling of the dollhouse

To make the structure more realistic, it is electrified using autonomous lamps powered by batteries, which are secured with double-sided tape.

Autonomous lamps

Conclusion

What can you say about the above models? They are quite simple to make, even though they look very similar to the real thing. Most likely, the child will like them, and he will play with them much more often than with purchased options.

These original models will certainly meet all environmental requirements, so you will not need to worry about the health of your baby. The video in this article will provide additional information on the above topic. If you have questions about the article, we will be happy to answer them in the comments.

Plywood growth house

This design can be used both outdoors and in the apartment. The house is easy to assemble, literally within 5 minutes it can also be easily disassembled into convenient fragments that can be stored in the pantry.

On a hot day, such a house on the site will provide comfortable conditions for playing outdoors.

Play structure for home

In essence, it is an enlarged copy of a dollhouse. Therefore, its production takes place using the same technology.

Table 2. Step-by-step instructions

Particular attention should be paid to the interior decoration of the house. The design may provide for a bench and a folding table, or a shelf on the wall. Furniture can also be portable plastic or wooden.

When operating the house outdoors, it is necessary that the base be dry, so the structure is placed on a podium or dry grass

Plywood is often used in the furniture industry and for the manufacture of a large number of boxes of various sizes and other very beautiful and functional crafts. What plywood products can you make with your own hands? Read in the special article.

Inside the house, you can lay a soft mat or mattress on the floor, on which the child will feel comfortable.

General information

Nowadays, children's toys are not in short supply, so you can satisfy any child's wishes. However, the price of good toys, as a rule, is quite expensive, and cheap Chinese analogues are often unsafe for health. Therefore, independent needlework has obvious advantages.

In addition, a girl can be involved in this work.

This will allow her to develop such qualities as:

• perseverance;
• accuracy;
• love for handicrafts.

I must say that the process of making plywood products is very exciting, so it will certainly bring pleasure to both the child and his parents.

The photo shows an example of the interior of a dollhouse