How to Make a Doll Cradle Mattress

Build a doll's cradle yourself - wooden cradle for the dollhouse

• Building instructions for a cradle made of wood
• material list
• Additional required material
• building plans
  • front view
  • sideview
  • Horizontal cut
• building instructions
• This construction manual is presented by Alpina colors
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Building instructions for a cradle made of wood

Playing children like to imitate the adult world and practice in a psychological role play important for the development. The little ones often take over the role of adults, their own is replaced by dolls. In order for these but also get an appropriate environment, matching doll furniture should be available.

From a few Plywood boards, squared lumber and possibly some wood residues you can make a doll's cradle yourself. All you need is some tools that are available in most homes anyway.

material list

number	designation	Dimensions	material
2	Round end parts	∅ 33.0 cm	16 mm MDF board
2	skids	35.0 x 8.0 cm	16 mm MDF board
2	Sidebars below	50.0 cm long	20 x 60 mm pine
2	Sidebars above	50.0 cm long	20 x 30 mm pine
18	rods	12.0 cm long	∅ 8 mm beech
2	Mounts for fabric sky rod	4.0 cm long	20 x 20 mm pine
1	Round aluminum bar	80.0 cm long	∅ 6 mm
1	ground	50.0 x 20.0 cm	6 mm plywood

Additional required material

• A wooden ball 20 mm
• A mattress made of 3 cm foam
• Fabric for the sky
• wood glue
• superglue
• wood file
• dowel aids
• Screw and clamping clamps
• Universalgrund
• Colored paints of your choice

building plans

front view

sideview

Horizontal cut

building instructions

Head and footboard and the runners of the cradle become from a 16 mm thick MDF board sawed out with a Bosch jigsaw. It can be sawed safely and accurately when the workpiece is clamped to the work table with a screw clamp (Lux). Head and foot parts as well as the skids are - after any necessary reworking of the sawing edges with a wooden file or sandpaper - rounded off with a router all around.

In the sidebars need the holes for the nine rods each be drilled. With the drilling machine clamped in the drill stand with depth stop, they can be worked in precisely vertically and evenly deep. The round rods (smooth 8 mm wooden dowels) were cut to a length of 12 cm with a Lux saw in a matching miter box (all miters not only have guides for the 45° cuts, they also have notches for right-angled cuts).

To the 60 mm wide sidebars use a double or cleaning planer (for example Lux) to plan the slope removed from the drawing, so that the floor can be glued down later. Then glue the sidebars up and down with the round rods with UHU coll express. The finished side parts and the upper edges should also - like the MDF parts - be rounded off with the router. They can be pegged with the round head and foot parts. Helpful are the Lux dowel inserts with central tip, with which the drill insert points can be transferred exactly to the counterparts. Then glue with UHU coll express and press with Lux screw clamps.

The runners are glued from the inside to the end parts, the bottom of the obliquely planed edges of the side parts. Become now the mounts for the sky glued with solvent-free UHU coll express - wood screws produce the necessary contact pressure. The aluminum rod is bent around a round wood at right angles and inserted into the holes of the brackets. (see drawing point A).

So that the fabric canopy, which has been pushed from the bottom back onto the removed aluminum pole, can not slide down to the front, UHU plus becomes immediately fixed here 2-component adhesive, the wooden ball glued.

All wooden components are painted before painting with environmentally friendly Alpina Acrylic varnishes with Alpina Universalgrund precoated, which forms an ideal bonding layer for the paints. This is followed by a two-time order of the "Blue Angel" eco-labeled Alpina Acrylic varnishes, which are available in many bright colors in leading home improvement and DIY stores.

This construction manual is presented by Alpina colors

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How to Make a Doll Cradle Mattress

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