How To Cook for A Doll

 

       Are you interested in crafting and collecting doll foods for your dolls? Well, a doll's got to eat doesn't she? Here you will find all kinds of posts about "cooking" that special breakfast, lunch or dinner for your dolls. This index is reserved for everyday cooking for the most part. Visit our holiday listings to find more dishes and doll foods for festive occasions. 

Prepared, Displayed Foods for Dolls: See groceries here. and Food, Plants and You! - articles about food for kids

1. Mini Breakfast Skillet for Dolls 10 - 12 inches - Made with a bottle cap and wooden tongue depressor.
2. Sew a Stack of Felt Pancakes - and attach them to a paper plate...
3. Craft Doll Sized Cookie Sheets and Sugar Cookies  - Every doll sized kitchen needs cookie sheets.
4. DIY Miniature Vegetable Salads - Easy to make using craft foam.
5. Make Miniature S'mores - For your doll's family fun night or a sleepover or camp...
6. DIY Movie Theater Popcorn for Dolls - Take your dolls to a movie and make them these cute little accessories to play with.
7. Doll Gingerbread Hornbook Craft  - A true Colonial craft made with faux gingerbread!
8. Craft a Foam Pumpkin Pie - made with craft foam
9. Scrap Fabric Pumpkin Pie - The whipped cream is made using old lace, the pie from layered fancy orange fabrics!
10. Oven Bake Clay Pumpkin Pie - This doll sized pie, plus individual wedges looks too good to eat!
11. DIY a Clay Pecan Pie for American Girl Dolls - For a sophisticated doll palette, eat this Southern, nutty treat any day of the week.
12. DIY Doll Sized Jiffy Pop - Looks just like real Jiffy Pop! AG size
13. Craft Spaghetti and Meatballs for Your Dolls - made with twine, beads and acrylic paints
14. Veggie, Chips and Cheese Trays for Doll Parties - two part craft for trays and appetizers
15. Craft oysters on the half-shell for a doll's party - make these raw and serve with lemon wedges or cooked with a colorful "Oysters Rockefeller Sauce" your dolls will love it!
16. Leafy Green Salads for AG Doll Dinners - Greek and Spinach varies made using oven bake clay
17. The doll's Full English breakfast... - Clay doll sized breakfast from England for American Girls dolls
18. Craft doll sized deviled eggs - serve up this unique food craft at a doll's party anytime! 
19. Dolls can grab a bagel to go - sculpt these whole or in halves, top them with avocado or cream cheese...
    
20. Sculpt French toast for a dolly's breakfast! - Just the right size for American Girl dolls, this French toast craft is topped with strawberry syrup and a served with a bowl of puff cereal on the side.
21. Our Top 10 Mini Pizzas for Dolls - Made using a variety of mixed media, these delectable pizzas look good enough to really eat!
22. English muffins for a delicious doll breakfast - Avocados, smoked salmon and one runny egg served in a stack along with a small dish of grape jelly and English muffins.
23. Craft an easy melon ball salad for your dolls... - cute watermelon bowl and mixed fruit salad from Styrofoam art materials
24. How to make Dutch Crunch Doll Bread - Learn to craft this unique bread loaf using papier-mâché and cork.
25. Make a lemon flavored Bunt cake - simply delectable looking!
26. How to make single servings of doll foods... - these servings may be individually plated
27. Sculpt Shish kebab for your doll's grill... - pineapple, lemon, tomato, jumbo shrimp
    
28. Paint a bur acorn to look like a blue Hubbard squash! - again, more to craft with bur acorns...

Prepared Beverages for Dolls:

1. Assemble Italian Spumone Sodas - using Communion cups and pom-poms
2. Coconut Milk Drinks for A Hawaiian Luau Party - You'll need walnut husks for this unique looking little doll accessory.
3. Craft Cups of Hot Cocoa - This version uses actual doll porcelain cups and saucers.
4. How to fill doll goblets with a permanent resin 'beverage...' - adult craft only
5. DIY 8 Malted Milkshakes for Dolls - printable malted milkshake display too!
6. How to craft a coffee maker, pot and grinder for your doll's kitchen

DIY Doll's Food Displays: 

1. Craft a Cupcake Stand Using Wooden Spools - A lovely way to display all those festive cupcakes your doll dreams of eating.
   
2. Transform a Curio Cabinet for Barbie - Feature your Barbie doll's favorite china in a curio display.
   
3. Distressing a Sideboard or Buffet for Barbie & Family - Furnish a Barbie dollhouse with a place for her to show off all her cooking skills!
   
4. Elegant Bird Printed China for Dolls - This set of bone china by K & A Krautheim Selb Bavaria Germany
5. Doll Sized Fruity Porcelain Plates - and hand sculpted porcelain bowl of fruit thus far...
6. Blue and White Chinaware for Dolls - plus printable Blue Willow Plates, including the legend about the printed transferware...
   
7. Crafting a Herb & Spice Collection for AG or other 18" Dolls - This includes a spice label printable for tiny jars.

Craft & Collect Your Doll's Dishes, Bakeware:

1. DIY Decoupage Dish Craft - Transform child size dishes using a decoupage technique.
2. Shape and Decoupage Coffee Mugs for Your Dolls - Made from cardboard tubes and fancy scrapbook papers.
3. Craft Jams & Jellies for A Pretend Kitchen - Save up tiny baby food jars to make these adorable, child size pantry goods.
4. DIY Cardboard Plates for 18" Dolls - Paper plates may be fashioned into any theme for doll holidays and special occasions.
5. Make Doll School Cafeteria Lunch Trays - It's back-to-school again with hot lunch trays for dolls.
6. Floral Printables for Dollhouse Dishes - Use this printable to decorate with decoupage or to make cardboard dishes from scratch!
7. Decoupage a Spool Canister Set - This version made from wooden spools for Our Generation Diner.
8. Cut, shape and paint doll sized silverware... - A cardboard version, for older children to craft, pattern included
9. Make a few trivets for a doll's kitchen - trivets to protect tables and counters from hot dishes in your doll's kitchen
10. Decoupage recycled coasters into dinner plates... - upcycled plastic coasters into 18" doll dinnerware
    
11. Learn to craft cooking pots, pans and skillets - for the doll's stove top
12. Pottery and cookware for pioneer doll kitchens
13. 3 Printable Doll Dish Patterns - Old European, Persian Rose, or Spinning Star Pattern
14. How to sculpt a doll piping bag for cake decorating...
15. DIY an AG doll outdoor grill... - made using a salt box and cute plastic compass
16. How to Craft 18" Doll Casserole Dishes - samples corn bread and brownies 
17. Craft a cake stand for a doll using a plastic wine glass... - adult supervision and/or help
18. Craft a vintage toaster to stand on your doll's kitchen counter or island - two style examples are shown
    
19. How to Make Utensils for Your Doll's Kitchen - includes: potato masher, whisk, types of spatulas, kitchen knives and tongs
20. Make a loaf pan for your doll's kitchen - She will need one to make lovely, shaped bread loaves for the dollhouse kitchen pantry and table...
    
21. Blue Rose China Pattern Printables - both large and small sizes for dinner plates and desert or salad plates
22. Paper mirrored serving trays for doll parties...

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