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Dolls, just like people, need furniture. Of course, now you can easily buy doll furniture in any toy store, but it will be much better if you make it together with your child. As the main material, waste material such as matchboxes is suitable. By covering it with beautiful paper and decorating it with decorative elements, you will get an original table, wardrobe, sofa or dressing table in a short time, and practically for free.

Necessary materials:
- red thick paper;
- silver paper or candy wrapper;
- office glue;
- 6 matchboxes;
- Double-sided tape;
- brush;
- a simple pencil;
- white gouache;
- white half beads;
- scissors;
- ruler.

matchbox dressing table


Stages of making a dressing table:
1. Take matchboxes and use double-sided tape to fasten 3 boxes together.

matchbox dressing table


2. Now cut out two strips from red double-sided paper with parameters 17 x 5.2 cm.

matchbox dressing table


3. Attach pieces of double-sided tape to the boxes and paste cut out strips of red paper around them.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


4.To connect two bedside tables together and form a ladies table, you need to take red double-sided paper and cut it out
rectangle 11.5 x 5.2 cm.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


5. Attach double-sided tape to the top sides of the bedside tables.
6. Glue the rectangle onto the bedside tables.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


7. Now we will make the vertical side of the dressing table where the mirror will be placed. To do this, cut out a piece of red paper with a vertical length of 6 cm and a horizontal length of 9 cm.
8. Using a simple pencil, draw a semi-oval.
9. Cut with scissors along the marked lines.
10. Glue it to one side of the table with office glue.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


11. Attach a mirror to the wall. To do this, take a candy wrapper or shiny paper and draw a circle with a pencil and cut it out with scissors.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


12. Glue the mirror in the middle of the vertical wall of the dressing table.
13. Let's start decorating the boxes. Take white gouache and apply paint to the front sides of the drawers with a brush.
14. Cut out six stripes for the drawers from red double-sided paper, the sides of which will have dimensions of 3 x 0.7 cm.
15. Glue small strips with office glue.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


16. Glue tiny white half-beads in the middle of each strip. These will be the handles for the drawers.

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table

matchbox dressing table


17. Now the beautiful dressing table made from matchboxes is ready. It's time to please your dolls with new furniture.
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