Karen here and I am so excited to share my Inspired by Lea craft today. I am a huge fan of mini dolls and I ordered my Mini Lea from The Book Depository last week and I can not wait for her to arrive. I have made this beach hut for her and my other mini dolls while we await her arrival. You can create this beach hut for your mini dolls with items you find at the dollar store along with items you may already have on hand.
To make your own you will need:
- A Dollar Store basket (mine is a 9X9 by 4 inch deep basket)
- Wooden Bamboo Skewers
- Scissors
- Dollar Store tropical flower stem
- Hot Glue and Glue Gun
- Fun Foam/Felt
- Toilet Paper tube
- Pipe Cleaners
- Hair elastics or ribbon
Step 1- Assemble all your supplies, Plug in your glue gun and stand your basket on it’s side. Take one skewer and thread it through the basket weave on the left hand side, pushing it along until you pierce through the other side making sure it is level. Repeat this six times to create the sleeping loft.
Step 2- Use your glue gun to secure the skewers in place by dabbing glue around them on both sides of the basket. Let dry and then bend or use scissors to remove the access skewers sticking out of each side.
Step 2- Remover the flowers and the leaves from the stem of your dollar store flower. This will be used to create the swing! You should have at least three branches coming from the stem, I bent them into a swing shape and wove them together with green pipe cleaner. I then bend the stem into an S shape and I glued it to the top left corner of the basket, then covered it in flowers and leaves which I glued into place with the hot glue gun.
Step 3- Create the table and the sleeping bag with felt and fun foam. I used colorful elastics as trim. You can also use ribbon. To create the sleeping bag cut a piece of felt the same width and length as the sleeping loft, add a second piece as the top of the sleeping bag, glue it into place. Make a pillow and decorate it as you wish.
Step 4- The table is made from a piece of toilet tissue tube and fun foam. I measured the tube against the mini doll and cut it at 3.5 inches. I then cut snips in the top and bent ever other one forward. I added glue to these pieces and I had cut a table top free hand from some brown fun foam. I pressed it into place and let it dry. Next I covered the base with pink felt and slid on some hair elastics for color.
The table is made so that the mini dolls can use it while sitting in the swing chair and it easily fits under the sleeping loft as well. You could create another sleeping bag and place it on the bottom as bunk beds too!
I hope you enjoyed my inspired by Lea mini doll craft! I can’t wait for min mini Lea doll to arrive.
Super cute!
Great idea!
This is a adorable! I’m going to have to add this to my to do list!
We really like this, easy to make very cute for small dolls.
Love it, Karen! I was going to check Michael’s today but after a couple of stops today, I was too tired. BUT now I have some ideas ticking in my head & need to write them down now. Thanks for sharing. Where is my pen, uh oh sketch book at home oh, well a lined paper works as well. Now to get to the stash!
Never would have thought of it!
Darling!
Adorable! Looks great. Thank you for the idea, inspiration, and instructions.
So cute and such fun for the dolls to play with the minis! This is a great craft, Karen.
This is cute, just right for girls to make for their dolls. I know I would have loved it when I was young.
Can’t wait to try this!
Cute! Great idea!
Such a cute and clever craft! My minis have been looking for a place to live, so I may have to try this out 🙂
– Ellie
http://ontheothersideofrealitynew.blogspot.com
Totally cute and easy to make Karen – love the little touches!
I am currently working on 18″ Lea’s hut, so stay tuned for that as well ^_^.
Wow this is really awesome! I just made a mini doll bakery! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Karen, this is adorable! It’s a superb idea, and one that all of us can do. I will have to try it out.
Karen, your mini beach hut is awesome! Love it! : )
I like this idea, Karen. How fun!
I’m envisioning a hammock in lieu of the loft and maybe…..the possibilities are endless! Thanks for sharing. ?
Karen, I made Lea’s hut today. It was such fun! I really liked how it turned out; thanks so much for the grand idea! Please click on the link below to see pics.