DIY a Gas Stove Top and Oven for Barbie's Family

       My kitchen stove top and oven at home is gas, so I chose to craft a similar model for Barbie's family and friends. The example below is just the right size for 12 inch fashion dolls; I have listed the exact measurements just in case you can not find a box with similar dimensions.

• You may like to visit Lena Wiese at YouTube to see a similar DIY of a modern stove for Barbie. Her stove is made from a plastic box.

Imani and Rachel love this gas range and oven. What fun they will have baking and cooking for all the other doll
family members! Imani thinks this oven has plenty of space to bake a large turkey for Thanksgiving.

Supply List:

• aluminum tape
• black acrylic paint
• a variety of buttons for oven temperature dials
• black rectangle bead for digital temp. display
• wooden tooth picks
• Velcro tabs (black if possible, or dots)
• recycled plastic sheet for oven window 
• hot glue gun
• small cardboard box the shape and size of an oven with cook top for Barbie and Ken dolls
• black construction paper
• wooden dowel and ball point pen cap for drawer pulls
• silver paint (spray or acrylic)
• masking tape

Step-by-Step Directions:

1. Collect a box or cut one that measures approximately 5"long, 7"tall, 3 1/2" wide.
2. Cut a door separately, 5"long, 4"tall.
3. Cut a window opening, 2 1/2'' long, 1 1/2'' tall.
4. Cut a piece of clear plastic slightly large and tape to the backside of the door with silver aluminum tape.
5. Cover the rest of the door with the same silver tape both inside and out.
6. Cover over all of the surfaces of the outside of the oven with silver aluminum tape.
7. Mask the interior of the oven with plain masking tape completely.
8. Paint the interior with black acrylic paint and let it dry.
9. Using the aluminum silver tape, tape the lower end of the oven door at the bottom only to cover the opening to the oven. The tape should extend to the inside of the oven from the door.
10. The Velcro tabs (or dots) should be positioned at both the top left and right corners of the oven door and also to a cardboard piece running across the interior top of the oven opening. The tabs should meet at both ends so that the door will remain shut when it is shut. (see placement below)
11. Now you are ready to add any details that you would like.
12. I cut my square gas burners from black paper and hot glued four tiny black buttons to the center of each burner where the gas flame would be on a real stove top.
13. Then I hot glued black painted toothpicks down the center of the stove top to mimic a grill.
14. You can hot glue buttons across the front of the oven, just above the oven door to act as burner dials and glue a black square bead to act as a digital clock and temperature gauge for the oven.
15. I also cut a cardboard shelf for the inside of my oven. It measures slightly under 3"x5"to fit the interior. 
16. I used white school glue to add toothpicks. Let these dry and then spray painted my shelf with silver paint. 
17. I had to glue in extra cardboard pieces to hold the shelf up. Don't forget to paint these extra cardboard attachments with black acrylic paint.
18. Wrap a wooden dowel the approximate length of the oven door with silver tape and hot glue it where you think the oven handle should be located.
19. Remove the silver clasp from an old dried out, ball point pen and hot glue this to the drawer panel below just beneath the oven door. I chose to ad this detail for looks only. The drawer doesn't actually open.

Left, Collect a box or cut one that measures approximately 5"long, 7"tall, 3 1/2" wide.
Center, Velcro placement, Button placement, Door attachment.
Right,  I used white school glue to add toothpicks. Let these dry and then spray painted my shelf with silver paint.

Left, I cut my square gas burners from black paper and hot glued four tiny black buttons to the center of each burner
where the gas flame would be on a real stove top. Center, You can hot glue buttons across the front of the oven,
just above the oven door to act as burner dials and glue a black square bead to act as a digital clock and temperature
 gauge for the oven. Right, I also cut a cardboard shelf for the inside of my oven. It measures slightly under 3"x5"to fit
 the interior.