Last post we promised that we would give you some ideas for crafting your dollhouse room by room from ordinary household objects. For this first post, we will start in the heart of the home, the kitchen.

Start with an empty orange juice carton for the counter and make the sink using pudding cups and a bendy straw faucet. Use two pudding cups for a double-wide sink. Bottle cap tops and liners and buttons make excellent dishware.

For a handy-dandy stainless steel stove “set a tea box on end, then cut off and discard the top half. Cut a door opening with a window in the front panel and wedge plastic berry basket ‘racks’ in the oven. Glue on pieces of cardboard for a stove top and control panel, then cover the entire stove with aluminum foil. Attach paper fastener ‘controls’ glue on bottle cap ‘burners’ and tape on a paper clip ‘door handle’.” Picture included.

For kitchen chairs use sections of a paper towel roll as the base and use a section of an egg carton as the chair, you can even make a milk jug cap the “cushion.”

The table is simple as well. You can use the bottom end of a plastic drinking cup cut in half or a box or carton of some kind and cut out in a rectangle table shape, then paint to cover the carton design. Use foam for the table top.

For the refridgerator use a tea box set lenthwise. Cut out doors and then create shelves by cutting straws into sections and make shelves out of clear plastic berry boxes. Once again, use paperclips as door handles.

These are just a few ideas to get your homemade dollhouse kitchen started. You can also make a floor mat using scraps of fabric or lightbulb casings.