When buying a doll for a child, parents do not always think about what expenses this purchase will still incur. A toy man will need clothes, shoes, furniture, a house, dishes and other household items that are so necessary in the game. You can spend a substantial amount on all these parts, or you can do needlework with the children, at the same time save money and develop fine motor skills.
Fashion outfits
The first thing a doll needs is clothes. It is not difficult to make it by reducing the patterns of ordinary clothes or by searching on thematic sites for patterns for certain dolls. Scraps of fabric or old things will be used. You can decorate ready-made outfits with embroidery, decals, applique.
However, not all mothers love sewing, especially if very small pieces of fabric need to be sewn. Materials will come to the rescue, the edges of which do not require processing, which significantly reduces the time to work. Multi-colored felt, depending on the thickness, will serve for the manufacture of outerwear or business suits. Supplex, which stretches in two directions at once, is useful for sewing dresses and other light clothing. The simplest thing is to cut a circle out of it, the radius of which is equal to the length of the future skirt, and make a small hole in the middle. This is how a sun skirt is obtained. The supplex top is also easy to make without threads and needles. It is enough to wrap the doll's torso with a long ribbon of fabric and tie it on the back.
Decoration for legs
Shoes for dolls are also easy to make yourself, for example, from polymer clay. It is convenient to mold shoes or sneakers right on the foot so that they can be removed without problems, and then bake them according to the instructions on the package and, if desired, paint them with acrylic paints.
Another option is to use papier-mâché, which is a more time-consuming process. The doll's legs must be wrapped with cling film and carefully pasted over with PVA with torn pieces of thin paper. When the first layer dries up, apply the next one. Depending on the size of the doll, such layers can be from four or more. When the paper slippers are dry, they are carefully removed, the film is taken out, the uneven edges are trimmed and painted.
Cozy home
Furniture for dolls is more difficult to make, but the result is worth it, because each item will be unique and suitable for your favorite toys. For palm-sized dolls, you can use the classic Soviet method of making tables and chests of drawers from matchboxes. Such work is within the power of even preschool children; children can be trusted to do it on their own.
It is also not difficult to make conventional toy furniture, almost any child can cope with this, and adults can correct a possible defect. It is enough to pick up boxes of the right size, paste over them with colored paper and draw cabinet doors on a narrow tall box, chest of drawers on a wide squat box, and so on.
Functional furniture is more difficult to manufacture. In order for the cabinet to open, you will have to glue its frame made of thick cardboard, make the bar inside from a bamboo skewer, and use pieces of fabric as door hinges. Real craftsmen are able to make the base of a sofa out of plywood, a mattress and pillows out of foam rubber, and cover it all with fabric so that the finished product looks like a real one. Chairs for pupsikam can be twisted from wire, and the seats for them can be cut from corks.
Household details
To make various little things, you will have to master the skills of modeling and buy polymer clay. Plastic of different colors allows you to make dishes, copies of products, etc. Or you should turn on your imagination, then the lids of cream tubes will serve as saucepans, vases will represent perfume caps, and transparent caps for pens and felt-tip pens will become cups. Foil perfectly plays the role of a mirror, The undoubted plus of this option is a noticeable economy.
