DIY monster high doll repair

One of the most common doll breakages Monster high - a pin on which collapsible hands are held. It often happens that the hand breaks off, and the pin remains inside the mount. Alas, no matter how careful we are, sometimes it can happen completely by accident - for example, as a result of a doll falling from a shelf. But with the desire and due diligence, everything can be fixed. It's relatively easy. I shared my experience Nesladkaya_N on the forum With her permission, we publish a master class.

• Toothpick
• Universal adhesive. The author used a second super glue. It may be easier for those who are not so confident in themselves to take the usual one.
• Soldering iron
• File (or fine sandpaper)

To begin with, the stuck pin is neatly removed; for this purpose, nippers from the manicure set are suitable.

In the hand, in place of the pin with a red-hot tip of a soldering iron, make a hole for a new pin. Important: to make point movements, so as not to accidentally melt too much. Allow to cool well and file the edges of the hole, making them even.

Now a toothpick comes into play. Wood adheres well to plastic, besides, it is available - and therefore excellent for replacing a pin. So, at the tapering end of the toothpick, cut off the narrowest part. Then a part is cut off, which will be a new pin. In length, it should correspond to the old one with a margin for a hole in the brush, plus quite a bit more just in case.
Dip the tip of a new pin in glue and insert into a brush. Excess glue will flow outward. If it is superglue, then you should not try to erase it right away, as well as wiggle the brush. You need to give time to stick together.

After complete drying, you can already cut off the excess skin. The glue flows into the cracks, impairing mobility - in order to restore it, you need to carefully cut them with a blade, then bend the brush and develop a hinge.

Now you're done! The repaired limb can be inserted into place - it will actually be like new.

Yesterday we had a misfortune ... One of my daughter's Monsters broke a leg. Sadness knew no bounds ... But after thinking a little, I found a way to cure the poor thing. And I want to share with you, I hope someone will find my experience useful ...

Here it is - a broken leg:

First, using a clerical knife, cut out the broken part of the "anchor" from the lower leg:

Then we make a duplicate of this "anchor" from plastic:

Trying on, adjusting and fixing the workpiece. At first I wanted to use a toothbrush from a doll's hairbrush. it matched the tone, but then decided to use a pushpin needle:

We make a hole in the thigh. I did this using a hot nail of a suitable diameter. We adjust the workpiece pin to the resulting hole

When the parts came together, she fixed the pin in the hole with superglue:

After this difficult operation, our girl was given a few hours of rest. This allowed the glue to adhere well.
And now our monster Draculaura is with us again healthy and cheerful.

I really hope that my experience will be useful to someone.

I can: I am working on the image of an antique doll: I sew wigs, shoes, underwear and an outfit. I sew to order.

I can: I will help make your doll personalized and loved)

Monster High dolls are very popular now, and for sure the daughters of our readers have these funny beauties. It is very important for girls to provide their favorite dolls with conditions for a beautiful life, including furniture. A bed for a Monster High doll can be bought in the store, or you can make an exclusive item yourself, avoiding unnecessary costs.

There are many ways to make toy furniture, including beds. We will tell you a few of them, simple and quick. The most important thing in our case is the correct styling, and the base is done quite easily and even in a standard way.

It is very important that the exterior of the bed is designed to match the style of your doll.

Whichever type of bed you choose for the Monster High doll, you may need the following materials and tools in your work:

• a suitable cardboard box (for example, from under the shoes);
• paper - colored, velvet or corrugated;
• scissors and a paper knife;
• stapler;
• ruler;
• pencil;
• colored markers;
• gouache or watercolor paints, brushes;
• PVA glue, scotch tape.

And now let's proceed directly to making the bed. We will describe in detail several methods for you, and you choose the most suitable one.

For this crib, you need to take two small cardboard boxes and two colors of viscose napkins.

Please note: when choosing boxes for making a bed, rely on the fact that the doll in the lying position should completely fit on the bed, and in the sitting position - freely reach with its feet to the floor.

Thick cardboard or shoebox is a great base for a crib

We will proceed from the dimensions of the box 29.5 cm long and 6 cm high.

1. Carefully glue the ends of the box, cover all sides with a viscose cloth of the same color. Try to keep everything smooth. Cover the box with a cloth or rayon napkin
2. From the second box, cut a rectangle for the headboard. Its width is 10.5 cm, and its length is 14 cm. The shape can be any: rectangular, pointed or round. Cover the back with a napkin in the same color as the bed.
3. Now you need to think over the design of the crib. In this case, it is advisable to rely on who your monster doll is. For example, for the daughter of a werewolf, you can depict the footprint of a wolf's paw on the back of the bed. Cut it out of a different colored napkin and stick it on the back.
4. Cover the end of the bed with glue and attach the headboard. Decorate the back in the style of your doll and glue to the end of the bed
5. To keep the bed from looking rustic, cover the folds with narrow lace or satin ribbon. Use PVA glue for this. Thus, you will hide sloppy napkin joints.

Try to make a simple ottoman in the same way as in the picture.

Simple doll ottoman

To do this, measure on a cardboard box with a ruler and draw a line with a pencil, retreating 2 cm from the top and 1 cm to the sides. Cut out the bed like in the photo.

Cut the base for the bed out of the box

Paste the blank with colored or velvet paper. You can use magazine clippings and decorate with beads and rhinestones.

Cover the blank with paper and decorate

Cut the back from thick paper or cardboard. Make it tall and shape, color it to match the style of your monster doll. Glue the headboard to the bed and make the bed.

Cut out the back and paint to match the style of your doll

Such a bed is not so difficult to make. It will be just right if your daughter has a whole collection of Monster High dolls. You will need:

• shoe boxes;
• synthetic winterizer;
• the cloth;
• glue;
• wooden sticks, skewers or sticks for sushi.

Bunk bed option

Cover the boxes with colored paper. Fasten the sintepon inside in several layers, which will serve as a mattress, cover with a piece of fabric of a suitable size.

Glue the sushi sticks to the bottom box at the ends. From the side of the bottom, they should protrude slightly, literally by 1 cm, outside the box - these will be the legs of the bed.

Attach the second box to the tops of the sticks. Your doll bed is ready!

If you have free time and desire to use your imagination, you can use the ideas below. Your doll will receive a very interesting and unusual piece of furniture.

It can be made collapsible without using glue.It is enough to fasten the parts with pieces of tape if you want the bed to be more stable.

Cut a 30x15 cm rectangle out of cardboard.This will be the bed sheet. Make four details that will become the legs and side borders at the same time 6x6 cm and 6x12 cm.And two more details - the backs 15x7 cm and 15x5 cm.

Diagram of the details of the bed-constructor

First mark with a pencil the future places of the cuts as shown in the photo, retreating everywhere from the edge of 1.5 cm.Then cut the side backs by 1.5 cm. Cut the bed sheet by 3 cm and the borders also by 3 cm and 1.5 cm ...

Assemble the bed and secure the joints with tape. Now it can be decorated with any patterns, painted, pasted over with rhinestones and ribbons. Make the bed and put the doll, tired of waiting, to sleep.

Everyone knows that Monster High Draculaura loves to sleep in a coffin. Let's make her such an extreme bed.

Coffin bed for Draculaura

Take a shoebox, wrap the edges and secure them with glue and tape. Cover the coffin with black and red colored paper.

Staple four chains to the corners, line the coffin and invite the doll to try out the bed.

The coffin bed can be made and not suspended. Take another box, cut out the side, paint and cover it.

If you love making crafts with your own hands, then furniture for dolls, especially such unusual ones as Monsters High, will become just a klondike of ideas for you. It is especially fun to make such cribs with the whole family: your little daughter will learn to do needlework with you, and over time she will provide furniture for her doll friend herself. Share your ideas with us in the comments. Good luck and easy work!

Orlin Alexander Andreevich

How to make a house for Monster High with your own hands

Monster High dolls deserve great popularity among girls, which surpassed even the beloved Barbie. Parents' views on these original toys were divided. But the majority still support the tastes of their children. The dolls that have gained popularity thanks to the cartoon "Monster School" are very expensive. And if you still managed to please your daughter with a doll, then help her in creating and arranging a house for Monster High. You can do it yourself with your daughter, having received from this process a lot of pleasure and positive emotions.

Before you start making a dollhouse, you need to study the features of the special style of these toys. After watching the cartoon, you will notice that there are cobwebs on the walls of the house, furniture and accessories also have their own characteristics: skull lamps and much more.

To create the house itself you need:

paper of various colors or pieces of wallpaper;

There is a cardboard box in every home. When choosing it, it is worth considering the size of the dolls themselves, for which you will make this house. It is important that they fit easily into it.

Having decided on the number of floors you want, you will understand how many boxes you need.

It is necessary to cut one side in all boxes and, placing them one on top of the other, glue them tightly together. We make a roof from the remnants of cardboard and glue it to the main structure.

Now let's get down to decorating walls... They must either be treated with acrylic paints or pasted over with fabric blanks, pieces of wallpaper or colored paper. We diligently grease them with glue, attach them. We do this carefully, making sure that there are no air bubbles between the wallpaper and the wall. Perhaps you want to make wallpaper, stylized for the features of the cartoon of the same name.

Ceiling and floor finishing works

We measure the dimensions of the floor and cut out the necessary pieces from paper. This can be done from colored, patterned or white paper. then we glue the cut out piece to the ceiling of our house. You can lay a thick fabric or a printed tile or parquet on the floor.

External finishing works

You can decorate the outer walls of the dollhouse in one of the following ways:

1. paints
2. paper of various colors
3. the fabric you like.

If you wish, you can paste over the outer walls of the house with blanks imitating brickwork.

Making windows

You can draw the windows yourself, and then glue them. Then you will make curtains from lace or beautiful fabric.

When the finishing work is completed, proceed with the interior furnishing of the house with furniture and other interior details.

For more interest of your children, try creating yourself Monster School... You can make it according to the principles described above. And use desks, a teacher's table, a board on the wall as details of the interior.

Having mastered the basics of creating a house for Monster High, you will cope with this task quite simply and quickly.

The word OOAK, which has become popular among our teenagers, is just an abbreviation of the English phrase “One Of A Kind”, which translates as “one of a kind”. Who doesn’t want to be the one and only, especially in youth. Today we will try to make our own hands ooak for a monster high doll, a kind of master class on a new image.

In 2010, adorable monsters conquered the puppet world. We, of course, will not be able to compete with the manufacturers of these dolls with original figures and tiny hinges. But we can conduct a master class to give ooak status to one of the dolls.

For this we need:

• acrylic paints;
• very thin brushes;
• transparent nail polish;
• solvent;
• cotton swabs and discs;
• and, of course, the face itself.

1. The biggest and only problem is the presence of the face and the doll itself. You can take old Barbies, Kenes and Cindy. You can use an existing Monster High doll, but then you will have to say goodbye to its real appearance.
2. We erase faces. Dip a cotton pad in the solvent and wipe the doll's face.
3. Take a photo of all the Monsters and decide which face you want to reproduce.
4. Apply the paint gently to the eye area. Draw first a white eyeball, then a brown or blue (preferably multi-colored) iris and a black pupil in the center. Place shadow and color on your eyelashes. Don't forget to draw your eyebrows and lips. You can add two flirty fangs. Apply colorless nail polish on top.
5. Don't stop at Monster High's face. Now you can make her ooak, injecting any tattoo, drawing moles and scars.

Any woman changes beyond recognition:

I will share my own bitter experience and give advice: never cut a doll's hair. Her hair doesn't grow back!

So, let's start a lesson in hairdressing (doing hair).

1. Take strands of hair from your temples and braid two long braids.
2. Secure them with a thin elastic band at the end.
3. Tie the braids at the back of your head with an elastic band.
4. Unbraid the ends and braid again with one common braid.
5. Wrap it at the back of your head in a "cookie" hairstyle and secure with a safety pin.
6. If you want to make a haircut for Monster High with curls, and you don’t have curlers of this size, do not be discouraged. Braid several braids tightly, tying at the ends of the elastic. Then dip your hair in warm water with the addition of hairspray (literally 2-3 puffs). Dry, untwist, comb and get a "lamb" hairstyle.

The final ooak, as we have already decided above, should be done by clothes. No matter what class the girl goes to, she can do dresses, skirts and blouses for her Monster High. Difficulties always begin when you have to make shoes.

The manufacture of shoes begins with the preparation of raw materials: PVA glue, napkins, an eraser, scissors, thick threads or thin braid.

1. Cover the doll's leg with wet pieces of napkin in 2 layers. Let dry. After lubricating PVA, stick another 3-4 layers of napkin. Examples of papier-mâché techniques can be found on the Internet.
2. Let dry again, carefully cut near the heel and remove.
3. The original ooak needs high-heeled shoes. Cut out the heel along with the rubber sole.
4. Now you need to do the main work - connect the parts. We glue them, threading the braid, and paint them with acrylics.

The master class on ooak creation is over.