Free pattern for plastic wardrobe to hang up your doll clothes

Free Pattern For a Doll Dress Wardrobe Made From a Plastic Tote

The finished wardrobe

Need a way to hang up your doll dresses? Here are directions for making a practical and playable doll wardrobe your child will have fun with - or a practical wardrobe that will hold your own collectible doll dresses. It has just one drawback, it is only tall enough for dresses and blouses. Long dresses and nightgowns will hang down onto the bottom of the tub.

Using only ordinary tools found around the house, these directions will take a common 18-gallon plastic tote and easily turn it into a charming wardrobe. Plastic hangers for children's clothes will be transformed into doll-sized hangers. Once we are done, the tote lid will still fit onto the top of the tote to keep the dust out and you can stack several of these totes for storage or play.

Start with a common 18-gallon plastic tote.

I choose the Sterilite brand because their totes have a hole inside the tub on the very top of the area that forms the handle. Look inside the tub and you will see the hole. (Other brands may also have a hole or you could put one there if not.)

Draw a large rectangle on one of the long sides of the tub. This will be the opening in the side of the tote where your child can reach through and hang up the clothes. Cut out the hole using a large kitchen knife, a box cutter or a pair of kitchen shears.

Take a dowel and measure it so that it fits across the top of the tote. Score around the dowel with garden shears and cut it off. Cut two pieces of bendable wire about 4" long with wire cutters. Take one piece of wire and wrap it around one end of the dowel. Put the ends of the wire down through the hole in the tote. Wrap the wire around the other end of the dowel and stick the ends through the other hole. Spread the wire ends apart under the hole. This will form the rod to hang the clothes on.

Take a set of children's plastic hangers and cut them with your garden shears to make them shorter.

Now how easy is that!

Free Pattern For A Plastic Doll Dress Wardrobe

Free Pattern For A
Plastic Doll Dress Wardrobe