Shoe Box Dollhouse Craft For Kids

Shoebox Dollhouse Girls Room

As you know from yesterday’s post, we’ve been busy making some shoebox dollhouse rooms, and I’m so happy to say this project was a huge success. My kids are even talking about building their own multi-story house from the shoe box rooms they’ll make. And, if one lets the child really do as much as they can on their own, this can be a truly creative project!

You’ll Need:

  • 1 shoe box, without the cover
  • colored paper
  • foam scraps, for the bed and pillow
  • small round mirrors in a few sizes
  • a paper doily makes a great rug
  • little medicine boxes (turn them inside out and paint them) for furniture
  • a crocheted blanket that you asked mom to make

How To: Glue colored paper to the inside of the box and make the room of your dreams using all kinds of little bits and pieces of craft supplies and recyclables. Do it all in one sitting or work on it over the course of a week or so. Enjoy, I know we certainly did! Whoops almost forgot there’s one more room to show:

Shoebox Dollhouse Boy's room

The light is made from a soap bottle nozzle, pretty great right? And that rug, well it’s just so lovely I’m trying to figure out how to make one life sized. And by the way, I forgot to mention that these two rooms were made by my 9 1/2 year old daughter, and I have a feeling these are just the first in a series of many!

 

 

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9 responses to “Shoe Box Dollhouse Craft For Kids”

  1. Therese Z Avatar
    Therese Z

    The soap nozzle light is the BEST!
    I am of an age that troll dolls were my “small doll” plaything and I sewed and crafted and played with those little people until I literally wore out their hair.
    I cut scraps out the hems of my clothes and made them matching clothes (glued much of the time, but I got better), I had a cheerleading outfit, they had one, I had a school uniform, they had one too.
    It is also an issue of the time I grew up that I made the pillow stuffings for their beds out of used cigarette filters I picked out of the family ashtrays, peeled, and fluffed up, because we didn’t have any cotton balls in the house….
    I think that doll size fires the imagination of many children more than either baby dolls or fashion dolls.

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  2. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Thanks for sharing Therese, and I think youre right about the small size fostering more imagination!

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  3. Meira Avatar
    Meira

    These are really sweet and colorful. I like the carpet. We’ve been working on doll house furniture too (we started with kitchen stuff using medicine boxes) . Our next plan is to use matchboxes for dressers and desk drawers and maybe socks for carpets.
    Thanks for by commenting on my felt hamentashen post.

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  4. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    Thanks Meira, sounds like youre having a great time too….will have to start saving more of those boxes for the kids as opposed to my own projects!

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  5. Giselle Avatar
    Giselle

    Uma graça!
    Vou fazer pra minha filha!!!
    Obrigada por compartilhar conosco.
    Abraços
    Giselle e Amanda(filha)

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  6. Sara Rivka Avatar
    Sara Rivka

    thanks so much Giselle, enjoy making this with your daughter! Would love to see what you do!

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  7. Suzana Avatar
    Suzana

    That is such a good idea I am making it right now!!!

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  8. Dream Child Organics Avatar
    Dream Child Organics

    Such a cute craft and nice and eco-friendly to reuse old boxes!

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  9. angela Avatar
    angela

    If you are interested in prettying up your shoebox dolls house with furniture and people, I have photo instructions for how to make simple furniture here: http://angathome.com/2013/07/17/wooden-clothes-peg-dolls-house-furniture/
    and people here: http://angathome.com/2013/07/25/wooden-bead-and-pipecleaner-peg-dolls-for-dollhouses/ and another type of dolls house in a shoebox for travelling with children here: http://angathome.com/2013/07/22/dolls-houses-in-a-shoebox/

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