Baby Doll’s Crib
It’s that fourth dimension of the calendar month again! We are completing our 2d calendar month of the Home Depot Gift Challenge. This month, it was my plough to direct ONE production as well as ONE recipient. I chose to convey everyone purpose wooden dowels inward a gift for a child. My hubby as well as I were already planning this projection for our friends’ daughter. I’m thence glad I could brand our Baby Doll’s Crib fit into the challenge perfectly this month!
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I promise that I volition non ever consummate projects that are this difficult! I would NOT convey been able to create this on my own. But if you lot convey intermediate woodworking skills (or access to individual similar me!!), Then you lot definitely tin create it!
Everything You Need to Make This DIY Doll Cradle:
Materials:
1 4’x4′ 1/4″ thick plywood
3 7/18″ dowels x 48″ long
1 1/2″ dowel x 48″ long
1 3/4″ thick – 12″x96″ pino shelf board
8 1 1/4″ screws
wood glue
Plus the tools you lot run across below!
If you lot would similar to try this projection out for yourself, download the doll cradle plans here:
The crib plans pretty much say the story, but I wanted to include pictures of the procedure to, thence hither are a few collages to plough over a step-by-step photograph guide.
Start yesteryear making the headboard as well as footboard.
Next, nosotros cutting the forest slats for the crib rails.
Then nosotros did the drilling as well as sanding for the crib rails.
This side yesteryear side footstep is optional. We used the router to cutting a grove into the wood, that would precisely fit our slice of trim. This was ALL my husband’s sentiment as well as he was right, because it looks amazing on the lastly product!
Here’s where those amazing dowels came into play! We cutting the dowels to fit perfectly into the drilled holes as well as glued them inward identify betwixt the side rails.
You could easily but boom or screw the flooring into the bottom of the crib frame, but nosotros routered out slots to side the flooring into :)
One lastly spot for those wonderful wooden dowels to shine! We used them to plug the holes from drilling the rails into the headboard as well as footboard.
Then, you lot tin purpose all of the templates inward the Doll Cradle Plans (downloadable above) to cutting as well as grade the forest pieces to add together the rockers to the bottom.
Add the rockers on, gum them inward place, as well as hold off for it to set!
This was our lastly production earlier nosotros stained it. Soooo happy amongst the lastly product!
Since this was a gift… mightiness equally good roll it the means a kid would like! We formed a identify shape out of some huge cardboard pieces that were lying unopen to the garage, as well as thence nosotros covered that amongst kraft newspaper as well as used sharpies to decorate our wrapped upward identify :)
The lastly crib!
We cutting this catch shape out of the footboard, which I LOVE!
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She may live a fleck immature for it now, but I’m certain our friends’ miss volition convey a lot of fun amongst her babe doll’s crib over the years :) There is something thence particular close edifice DIY babe doll slice of furniture for kids!
We also made this beautiful DIY Craft Station for our girls an they LOVE it!
I’m non the alone i that had fun amongst wooden dowels this month. Check out these other AMAZING projects! I’m SO blown away yesteryear the inventiveness inward this group!
Click the pictures below to notice out how they made each project!
Check out this Copper Wine Rack that I made for our lastly DIY challenge!
And follow the links for to a greater extent than nifty projects :)
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