One of our readers, Aunt Karen of North Vancouver, Canada has made some of the cutest shoes for her nieces dolls. She has offered to share her instructions for making your own doll shoes.
What you will need to make to make your doll a pair (or several pairs of shoes)
- 1 felt board (can be purchased at Michaels or other craft stores for about $1.29)
- Ribbons (I used ribbons I had left from Christmas and ribbon I bought at Michaels in the $1.29 bin)
- Glue (I used a hot glue gun, if you are doing this as a party activity I recommend that you use craft glue or have a lot of adult supervision with the hot glue)
- paper (to trace your dolls foot or existing shoe)
- pencil
- scissors
- *optional small buttons, beads or accessories to decorate the shoes
How to make doll shoes to fit American Girl dolls
Step one – Trace your doll’s existing shoes or trace your doll’s feet on to a piece of paper.
Step two – cut out the tracing, this is your pattern for all the shoes you will ever need to make.
Step three - place the pattern on to your chosen color of felt board, trace two for each shoe and cut out.
Step four – cut 2 – 3.5 inch strips of ribbon, (I used ¾ inch wide ribbon)
Step five – using glue (I used hot glue as it is faster but white craft glue will also work) attach the ribbon approximately ½ inch from the toe, to the bottom side of the top part of the Shoe top. Then pull over the top and place shoe on dolls foot to measure tightness and angle of the ribbon, then attach with glue to the spot desired.
Step 6 – Once you have the ribbon in the spot you would like, apply glue all over the bottom and use the second felt piece to sandwich the ribbon. Hold and press down so that the felt pieces stick tight together.
Step 7 – make sure the shoe fits your doll and then if you wish to add more decoration then glue to the ribbon at this time.
Step 8 - repeat step 1-7 for the other shoe.
NOTES:
- For the sandals with two straps cut two pieces of ribbon for each shoe.
- The felt board will be enough to make about 12 pairs of shoes. With all the colors available the possibilities are endless. Fun and easy to make!
This is such fun craft idea and would be perfect for Girl Scout meetings, birthday parties, slumber parties or rainy day fun.
hi! i got an email from ag saying rebecca will come out in spring! yay!
WHERE IS EVERYONE?????
I was wondering the same thing…
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ok,peyton! i will!
pk,u prob don’t care,but…here’s my wishlist-
Kaya
2009 girls
maplea Leoni
Ruthie
Camp outfit
I probaly won’t be getting any of it,but still….
oops,i meant 2 say ok,not pk!
you guys don’t think i’m spoiled, right?
hello
priscilla…………………….
No, Antha, you’re not spoiled.
i don’t think i will get any of the stuff unless i pay for it but still.
no,ur not spoiled..but u do hav more stuff than me…
hi,r u still here,Antha? i’m sorry.
i did’nt mean that ur spoiled bcuz ur not.
btw-luv ur name! Ant-ha! luv it! ok,gtg,bye!
thanks lena. some people i know call me spoiled one day and then the next they say i’m soooo nice. its kidda werid. i thought i made that impression when i made the wishlist. you guys are just the only people i can talk to who really understand my love of dolls. i think when i am way older i will still be a doll collector.
No I don’t think you’re spoiled, Antha.
oh, and priscilla.
If it helps, I’ll post my wish list and you’ll see there’s A LOT more stuff than on yours.
lets just forget i ever said that, okay? thanx
i just don’t want to talk about me. yeah g2g
Am I all alone again?
hi!
i know antha,they do it 2 me 2…well,not about being spoiled…actually the opposite,u know,poor? people are mean,if someone hurts u,they are probaly horrible people.
Is anybody still on?
people bully me all the time.
i’m on marcia! hi!
where’s selena,tara,and jess and zoe? boo-hoo,i miss them.
ok,bye!
I am too!
try 2 find the n!
mmmmmmnmmmm
Hmm yeah I don’t know where Selena, Zoe, jess and tara are… maybe they’re really busy or something.
im on the new post,see u there!
never mind,i’m back!
I found the n, but all those m’s make it confusing!
marcia,try 2 find the 1!
IIIII1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
good job! it actually took me like an hour! i have REALLY bad concentration!
I found the 1 too. That was a little bit easier.
geuss what this means!
i m grn wit n v!
My concentration can be really bad too, if I’m doing something I don’t like. Then my concentration is the worst!
gtg!
I’m green with envy?
Oh okay, bye.
chrissa says hi!!!! she wishes she could tipe but she’s a doll!!! ha ha don’t tell her i said that!
hello……………
am i alone…………………
i spelled type wrong!!! chrissa’s mad at me. Ha HA!!! SHE JUST FORGAVE ME! i gonna stop typing in caps now.
Sonali says Hi back to her friend!
While Lena glares at her cause she’es trying to do Latin.