How to Make Baby Doll Thingns Out of Cardboard

Brand this adorable (and easy) DIY doll crib from an old cardboard box, your little one will honey to rock their dolls to sleep in this fun upcycled project!

A DIY doll crib from an old box? If yous've been here for any length of time, you know I loooove to make things out of cardboard. I made a sewing car. And a car. And a mailbox. I even made Thomas the Train. Is it a dear of the environment? Or a languishing honey of building random things from architecture school? I don't know! Merely it works!

This adorable fiddling DIY doll cradle took me about an hour to brand, and Baby Five is obsessed with it. She stood next to the table request every five seconds if information technology was finished yet the entire time I was making information technology.

And she'due south been playing with it nonstop ever since. It's actually the cutest thing ever. I hateful who wouldn't love a beautiful little toddler putting a doll to sleep in a cardboard doll cradle?

Anyway, I tried to brand this DIY doll crib projection unproblematic and quick and then brand certain you first out with a cardboard box that's the right size (length and width) for your doll. That will make the residual of it actually like shooting fish in a barrel! Hither's how I did information technology…

DIY Doll Crib Supply List

Cardboard box (mine was 8″ x xiv″ x half-dozen″)

Metallic ruler, pencil and craft knife

Hot gum gun

Cotton fiber quilting fabric

Ric rac (optional)

Fiber fill stuffing

Sewing machine (optional)

Rotary cutter or fabric scissors

Pins and thread

DIY Doll Crib Instructions

1. The offset part of the projection is the DIY doll crib itself. Observe a cardboard box that'due south the right length and width for your doll. Mine was  viii″ x fourteen″ x half-dozen″. The carefully disassemble information technology until it's flat. Nosotros're going to brand it shorter and and so reassemble it INSIDE out to hide all the marking and words.
2. I decided the sides of my DIY doll cradle were going to exist 3″ high. And then I marked that height forth three sides of the box, ii long sides and ane short side. Then I decided the other short side of the box would be the "headboard". So I left that total summit (vi″) and but traced a curved shape along the top edge for the headboard. Feel complimentary to make your headboard any shape you desire!
3.  I also had to cut a picayune flake of paper-thin the same shape as the headboard to go inside to comprehend up some graphics my box had. Practice that, if necessary. Or hey, if yous want to, you tin totally pigment your DIY doll crib when yous're finished, that works also! Only anyway, that extra piece is shown in the photo beneath. I but glued it on the headboard to comprehend the logos and arrows.
4. Next reassemble your cardboard box INSIDE out. Use hot glue.
5. I used the long flaps from the original box to make the curved runners for the cradle. First I stood the box on its short cease and traced the shape of it. Despite my first-class gluing skills, even my box wasn't 100% apartment along the bottom.  Then I drew the runner shape around that and cut out four versions of that same shape. I glued 2 together and the other two together. That made them a little sturdier.
6. Then I used hot glue to glue the runners to the bottom of the DIY doll crib and that's information technology! Your little doll cradle construction is complete!

But of course your DIY doll crib wouldn't be complete without some bedding. I made a quick mattress, pillow and coating for Babe V'southward doll and those are totally her favorite role. Of course, you can absolutely improvise with any blankets or tea towels you take hanging effectually, that's fine! But if you'd like to know, here's how I did it.

To make the mattress:

1. Mensurate the inside of your box and cut two rectangles of textile 1″ wider in each dimension. So my box was eight″ ten 14″ inside any my textile was 9″ x 15″.
2. Lay the two pieces right sides together and pin and then sew together a 1/2″ seam around the whole matter leaving a 6″ opening to turn it right side out.
3. Make certain to clip your corners, then turn correct side out and stuff loosely with fiberfill. Make sure you don't put too much in, you desire a mattress, not a puffy pillow!
4. And then using either your sewing machine or a needle and thread, stitch the opening airtight.

To make the pillow with ric rac trim

1. Cut two rectangles about 1/2″ wider in both directions than yous want your pillow to be. Lay them downward right sides together.
2. Before you pin the fabric together, put the ric rac between the layers along each border all the fashion around the pillow equally shown and pivot in place.
3. Then sew about a i/4″ seam (you want to be stitching downwards the center of the ric rac) effectually all sides of the pillow, but leaving an opening to turn the pillow right side out just similar you did with the mattress.
4. Clip corner, turn right side out and press. I found re-ironing at this point helped continue the ric rac and seams at the opening not bad and tidy.
5. Then stuff the pillow with fiberfill and either with your sewing machine or by hand, sew the opening closed being certain to marshal the ric rac halfway sticking out just similar the residuum of your edges.

To make the coating

To make the coating you basically follow the same steps as you did to make the mattress and pillow except do not stuff with cobweb fill up.

1. Cut two rectangles the size yous want your coating to be and lay them downwardly right sides together.
2. If you want to add ric rac to any sides lay it between ii edges every bit shown. I chose to only put along the top edge of the blanket.  Pivot in place all the style around.
3. Stitch effectually the blanket with a ane/4″ seam (or down the center of the ric rac if using) making sure to leave a 6″ opening on one side to turn it right side out.
4. Clip the corners, turn right side out and and then press.
5. Pin the opening closed and so topstitch around the unabridged coating to finish. Put the bedding in your DIY doll cradle.

And that'due south information technology! Your DIY doll crib is done, allow your fiddling one enjoy putting his or her doll to sleep! Night nighttime!

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