A fun activity that may end up being more enjoyable for you than for your children. To learn how to do DIY paper doll, you don’t need any special knowledge or effort. You can create many different funny characters, as much as your imagination and desire allow.
All you need to make a paper doll is a small list of craft supplies, mainly paper, scissors and glue. Plus a little imagination and you are ready to get creative. Here you will find paper cutting dolls and beautiful origami models, paper dolls for children and fun Japanese crafts Chiogami Ningyo. Choose what you like and enjoy making interesting crafts with the whole family.
Guitar for dolls made of cardboard
Having cardboard on hand, you can make a three-dimensional guitar from cardboard, which will suit not only paper dolls, but also baby dolls, dolls like Barbie or Monster High. Prepare:
- guitar cutting template
- white office paper or landscape sheets
- white cardboard
- pencil
- ruler
- marker
- scissors
- glue
- floss or silver threads
- beads
Template for a guitar made of cardboard.
- Download or draw a guitar template. You will need to break it down into parts.
- Transfer the guitar soundboard onto the cardboard. You need to do this four times: twice without the rosette (the round shaped hole on the guitar), twice with the rosette.
- The guitar neck requires two parts.
- Draw three or four parallel lines on the cardboard. The distance between them is about 0.7 cm. Draw the teeth between the two outermost ones. This detail is needed to make the deck voluminous.
- Carefully cut out the parts of the guitar. Start assembling the musical instrument as shown in the picture.
- Glue the part with the teeth between the two parts of the deck - with and without a rosette.
- Glue two more deck parts on top.
- Glue the guitar neck together and attach it to the soundboard.
- Paint the guitar with paint or nail polish in the colors you want.
- When the paint dries, draw horizontal stripes on the fretboard - frets.
- Using thread, beads and glue, make strings for the guitar.
- Decorate your guitar with stickers, patterns, glitter at your discretion.
Guitar made of cardboard: materials, tools and blanks.
Assembling a guitar from cardboard.
Cardboard guitar decor.
Cardboard guitars for dolls.
Dresses for dolls made of cardboard. Costumes for dolls made of cardboard
It is better to make dresses and costumes for cardboard dolls using paper. Then the valves will bend better, not break, and hold better.
- Take your doll, attach it to a sheet of paper and trace it along the contour with thin lines. You will have to circle as many times as you plan to make clothes for her.
- Draw the clothes. It can be in any style, for any season. Imagine!
- Draw valves on the clothes on the shoulders, forearms, waist, hips, and shins. Dresses and suits should stick well to the doll.
- Color and decorate your clothes.
- Carefully cut out the dresses and suits you have.
You can also use templates.
Clothes for a girl doll made of cardboard.
Clothes for a guy doll made of cardboard.
Clothes for a boy doll made of cardboard.
Clothes for a girl doll made of cardboard.
Clothes for a female doll made of cardboard.
Clothes for a male doll made of cardboard.
Glasses for dolls made of cardboard
For Barbie, Monster High and baby dolls, you can make bright and unusual accessories - cardboard glasses with colored lenses.
Shapes of frames, lenses and temples of glasses made of cardboard.
Prepare:
- cardboard
- transparent color film
- pencil
- scissors
- glue
- scotch
- felt-tip pens, markers, glitter pens, nail polishes, etc.
- ruler and measuring tape
Cardboard glasses.
- Face shapes and head sizes of dolls can be completely different. To make cardboard glasses fit, you better measure the distance between the eyes of a particular doll, the size of the eyes themselves, the distance from the eyebrows to the lower eyelid, etc.
- Look at the possible shapes of lenses, frames, and temples of glasses, choose the one that you like and suits the style of the doll.
- Draw a sheet of cardboard according to your dimensions, draw glasses and arms.
- Carefully cut out the glasses. If the cardboard is thin, duplicate the parts and glue them together.
- From transparent colored film, cut out parts to fit the size of the glasses lenses.
- Glue the “lenses” to the glasses.
- Color and decorate the glasses as you wish.
- Fold down the temples of your glasses.
Cardboard briefcase for cardboard dolls
To make a cardboard briefcase for a Barbie doll or cardboard doll:
- download and print the template (or redraw it to the size you need)
- transfer the outlines of the briefcase onto a sheet of cardboard
- cut the blank
- fold the blank, glue it in the places you need
- paint and decorate the briefcase
Cardboard briefcase: template.
Blank for a doll's briefcase made of cardboard.
Cardboard briefcase for a doll.
