The other day, the girls were playing with these miniature shoeboxes that their back-to-school TOMS came in (deeply discounted TOMS, I might add- because I love ’em, but 50 bucks for kiddo shoes? Yipes), and my budding environmentalist asked if we could turn them into something.
We chose dollhouses, because good LORD there aren’t enough places in which the girls’ cadre of dolls can live/work/reside.
However, I cannot resist dollhouses. And these shoeboxes are seriously teensy tinesy and adorable and just begging to be transformed into smallish residences.
So here’s what we did:
We chopped the lids from the eco-friendly and mucca sturdy shoeboxes. If this were a regular shoebox, you could just,you know, remove the lid. Just sayin’. |
Do, however, have her help you prep the walls and floors of the houses with a glue stick. None better. |
Voila: an awesomely small dollhouse, just right for two of your Russian nesting dolls. (Russian nesting dolls sadly not included.) |
And there you go. High quality dollhouses (I dig Nora’s circular “portraits” on the walls of hers, right next to a square still life of a bowl of pears) which will last for generations.
Or until the shoebox bulldozers come trampling in the name of eminent domain.
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