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Do you love looking at tiny things and making tiny things? Illustrator, toy maker, and storyteller Suzy Ultman welcomes you to her tiny world and shows you how to transform an ordinary cardboard box into an extraordinarily cute dollhouse cafe. Find out how to trim down your box, cut out little doors and windows, and paint on colorful details to give your cafe character. You can add a second floor inside as well as whimsical wall paper. Your dollhouse cafe will be ready for business when you complete your set by making cardboard cafe tables, miniature menus, paper rugs, trees, and animal friends. Suzy designed this project to be easy-to-create for all ages. Younger crafters will need help from an adult to cut corrugated cardboard, but everyone can have fun designing, painting, and making their cafe unique.
Learn how to:
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Shipping box approximately 9x7x4”
- Two cereal or cracker boxes
- Heavy duty scissors
- X-Acto blade
- Regular scissors
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Craft paint
- Brushes
- Favorite coloring tools such as paint pens, markers, crayons, or color pencils)
- Art or masking tape
- Glue
- Double-stick tape
- Optional embellishments such as Avery stickers, glitter, googly eyes, construction paper, pom poms, yarn, and paper ephemera
Downloads:
- Make a dollhouse cafe with a cardboard box
- Draw and cut doors and windows
- Paint exterior details like a geometric roof, scalloped trim, striped awning, and decorative tiles
- Use tape to mask off shapes while painting
- Make cardboard shingles
- Add wall paper and a second floor to the cafe interior
- Paint and assemble characters, furniture and cafe accessories
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![Sustainable Play: Make a Dollhouse Cafe](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1952/jjfawpua9v8vifdrstbp.jpg)
![An image of the inside of a doll house made out of cardboard from Suzy Williams's Sustainable Play: Make a Dollhouse Cafe class on Creativebug](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1952/images/r9slrkgt75gmcven8wny.jpg)
![An image of a smiling doll house made out of cardboard from Suzy Williams's Sustainable Play: Make a Dollhouse Cafe class on Creativebug](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1952/images/5ke6jjq6jnwqihuk5phh.jpg)
![An image of a hand painting the outside of a doll house made out of cardboard from Suzy Williams's Sustainable Play: Make a Dollhouse Cafe class on Creativebug](https://www.creativebug.com/pimage/dynamic/feed-248~storage/public/images/tutorial_thumbnails/original/1952/images/krsnc5ghcobxkvwzyhqi.jpg)
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Sustainable Play: Make a Dollhouse Cafe Reviews
57 users recommended this class to a friend
Kaylee Martin
i don't like dolls but this would be a great craft for my 5 year old friend
More than 3 months ago