Some nursery furniture for the paper doll house

      The two pieces of paper doll's furniture published today are a crib for the paper doll infant and a rocking chair for a somewhat older paper child. Cut out both pieces and paste them on cardstock to make them stiff enough to stand up. Fold on the lines indicated by the arrows and thrust the small tabs through the little slits. These small slits are more easily cut with the point of a knife than with scissors.
      If you have not made the paper doll's flat, which was described when the furniture series was begun, you may now make a paper doll's nursery from a box, which should be about eight inches long, seven inches wide and four inches high. Take away one side of the box so that you can arrange the furniture easily. The floor of the box should be stained with water color paints or colored with crayons. The walls may also be stained a pale color, pale blue, pink or yellow being the nicest for a nursery. If you prefer, you may paper the walls.
      Make a rug for the floor by pasting a square or oval piece of felt paper in the center of the room. A blue and white nursery is very pretty and you may have dark blue paper  for a rug. Cut a window out of one side of the box and curtain it with white tissue paper.
      The crib will need a mattress, which you can make of white tissue paper. It will take many thicknesses for a good soft mattress which will be comfortable for the paper doll infant. Tissue paper sheets are very nice, and then you should have a little coverlet of white lace paper over pale blue or pale pink. Make a little flat pillow of tissue paper.
      You can cut tiny pictures of animals from magazines and papers and frame them in white letter paper and paste them on the nursery walls.

Miniature Paper Kitchen Furnishings for Your Paper Dolls

      Three pieces of kitchen furniture for paper dolls from 1911 are being published this week. You may color them before cutting them out, according to your own taste, but naturally the stove should be dark gray or black. The other two pieces are a table and a chair, which will look well if colored yellow or white and blue. The table may have a white top with blue supports.

      Paste the entire sheet of furniture on letter paper so that the different pieces will be stiff enough to stand up. Then cut out each piece neatly by the arrows. Cut the straight slits, which you see, into which are to be thrust the tabs. The slits are most easily cut with a knife. When this has been done thrust the tabs through these slits and paste them down.

      If you did not make the box apartment as described in this series of publications, you may wish to display the pieces in a separate cardboard display measuring at least eight inches long, seven inches wide-and four inches high. the floor may be stained a dark brown or painted yellow, which is a good color for a kitchen floor of during the time for which the furniture designs were common in an American home. The walls may be colored in any tint that you prefer. The floor may have a square or oval of colored paper pasted in the middle of the floor representing a rug. Cut a window in one wall and a door in another and take one of the long walls away and the top off, as then the furniture will be more easily placed and the scene conveniently played with.

Designing Doll House Interiors:

• Illustrated Objects for Designing 1880 Something Doll Houses
• Paper furnishings from Hattons Gallery
• 1894 The Kitchen Lithographed
• Doll House Paper Craft Pinned from Petra Harris