Crafty things - doll chair from oatmeal box

Feb 19, 2015 09:18

I think I'm going to have to make another chair (once I finish off the new box of oatmeal) so I can photo-document how I did this but ...

Hill is very loosely strung, when she's standing in the doll stand, she slumps. With the addition of Nikita, the house-like wine/doll stand isn't big enough so I need to re-organise doll storage. I thought, perhaps a chair.

That's a lie. I thought, this is a nice box, too bad I have to throw it out. I wonder what I can make with it? And THEN I thought of a chair for Hill.

I took the empty oatmeal box, took off the plastic on top (which I always do because ... recycling), drew a line 3 inches from the bottom and cut along that line. I cut open the remaining 2/3 of the box (along the edge of the Quaker guy) & wrapped it over the upside-down bottom third (that's the seat part of the chair. I then cut the larger part of the box across the edge of the seat and rounded the arms of the chair. When the arms were rounded to my satisfaction, I used duct tape to secure the back to the seat.

I may make a seat cover for it, but at the moment, I "covered" it with a cloth napkin (a tea towel or folded pillowcase would also work) and Hill is sitting quite nicely in it.





This is something that a child could do, quickly and imaginatively, on her own. It's not a professional or perfection type of chair that looks omg real, but for fun.

When I was a kid, my older sisters and I would raid the linen closet for towels and washcloths. We'd lay the towels on the floor to designate different rooms and fold the napkins into chairs, couches and beds. And then we'd play Barbies. Sure, we drooled over the Barbie doll houses and even now I daydream about those wooden doll houses for my 5 inch doll but I wouldn't actually want one. For one thing, Miki is career Navy and she's more at home under the waves in her sub than on the land.






crafts, dolls

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