Doll Groceries for Craft and Play

Just a few of the crafts included in our grocery index for doll play.

       A grocery store in North America, or a grocer or grocery shop in the United Kingdom, is a store primarily engaged in retailing a general range of food products, which may be fresh or packaged. In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is a synonym for supermarket, and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries. In the UK, shops that sell food are distinguished as grocers or grocery shops, though in everyday use, people usually use either the term "supermarket" or, for a smaller type of store that sells groceries, a "corner shop" or "convenience shop". 

       Under this index we will list both grocery items and playsets for your dolls. Some of these posts are of things we have collected and some are of things we have made. Grocery storage such as kitchen refrigerators and pantries, plus fruit/veggie stands are also included among our artifacts.

• Cooked Pretend Food Crafts are Located Here.
• Food, Plants and You! - articles about food for kids

Groceries for You To Craft or Collect For Your Dolls:

1. Sculpt Luncheon Meats and Cheese - These 18" doll trays are 3 dimensional and so fun to make they remind me of of the Lunchables our kids used to take to school...
2. Newsprint Cinnamon Buns - These delicious looking sweet buns made to fit our doll's oven; these also come with a recycled tin container.
3. Chenille Stem Lollipops - Kids love to bend these furry craft wires into all kinds of shapes. Here is an easy lollipop craft they can give to their American Girl dolls.
4. Make faux rock candy for your dolls...  - These doll treats are made using tribeads.
5. Soft Braided Pretzels - This salty treat looks to real! 
6. DIY Doll Sized Jiffy Pop! - A fun craft made with Dollar Store art supplies and tinfoil. 
7. DIY Durable Boxed Foods for Play - Learn to layer and paste cardboard to make doll food crafts that won't breakdown with rough play.
8. Sculpt Paper Mache Pumpkins - are easy to sculpt and paint for Fall
   
9. Coconut Drinks for 18" Dolls - made from walnut husks look just like real coconuts in miniature!
10. DIY Cotton Batting Carrots With Feather Tops - A very old-fashioned craft; your great grandmother probably made these for her Easter Egg Tree!
11. Craft Candy Bars for Your Dolls - More printable crafts for a doll's sweet tooth...
12. DIY Doll Sized Candy Apples - We made ours using turned wooden parts.
13. Craft Cotton Candy for A Doll - Be on the lookout for pastel shaded cotton for this craft. It is frequently sold at Dollar General during the Easter Holiday Season.
14. Craft contemporary doll groceries using ads and coupons - Hostess cakes, Snowballs, Twinkies, Bird's Eye frozen veggies, Chips Ahoy, Famous Amos Cookies etc...
15. DIY Basmati Rice for American Girl Dolls - recycle, cut and sew smaller versions of burlap rice bags for your doll's kitchen or restaurant.
16. Bread Loaves Sewn from Socks - learn to reverse applique for this project...
17. How to make pasta boxes for a doll pantry - These have tiny windows and sculpted, oven-bake pasta inside each one!
18. DIY Doll's Farmer's Market Stand - Fresh Summer fruits and vegetable for doll play and display. (These varieties are typically found in the Mid-Western U.S.)
19. How to craft white sugar bags for a doll's pantry or store shelves
    
20. DIY Doll Dairy for Play - See how I made milk containers, butter sticks and cheeses.

Doll Sized Grocery Related Playsets: Crafts and Reviews:

• How I Restored An "Our Generation Gourmet Kitchen Set"
• Build a Market Booth for Your 18" Dolls

Food Related Crafts for Child Sized Play Kitchens:

1. Craft Jams & Jellies For A Pretend Kitchen - You will need to collect baby food jars for this craft.
2. Papier-mâché Two Delicious Pretend Pies! - yum, these are so adorable.
3. Crafting burlap coffee bean bags and purchasing a burr mill... - an easy beginner sewing project
4. Crush and Craft Pretend Potatoes - a student's first introduction to paper mache craft...
5. How to sew a gathered canopy for a child's market stall - dressing the nursery furniture to match your child's decor
6. Chalkpaint a Wooden Slat Basket - very nostalgic and sweet chalkpaint project, you will need to acquire a wooden basket from resale or garage sales
7. Refinishing a Table and Chairs for a Child's Kitchen - how I refurbished unwanted childhood table and chairs for our playroom
8. How to Clean a Vintage Copper Coal Scuttle (for dramatic play) Learn something new about something really old...

Printables for DIY Doll Grocery Store Products:

1. Printable Candy Bar Wrappers by kathy grimm - candy wrapper covers duty free, in color for doll play
2. 30 Vintage Labels for Crafting Doll Foods - for making your own vintage doll play groceries in color
3. Soda Fountain Clip Art Pages (3) - DIY a 1950's Americana Retro Diner (or kitchen) for doll play, journal, or scrapbook pages
4. Bakery & Deli Food Clip Art - paste these on a shelf inside your doll's bakery!
5. Fancy Chocolates Clip Art Pages (4) - would be cute for Valentines or Mother's Day cards ect...
   
6. Strawberry, raspberries and bread graphics for games and number books - these are in greyscale and black/white
7. Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, and turkey graphics - for games and number books, all in black and white
8. Antique honey jar labels for your doll grocery collections...
9. Templates for Bakery Boxes - Both Barbie and American Girl sizes
   

Because the crafts here are multiplying, I have decided to move our new holiday/festival related food crafts to their own indices. I will also include literary selections and additional interesting materials from other websites under the following similar topics as well: Halloween, Thanksgiving , Christmas, New Year's Day, Saint Valentine's Day, Saint Patrick's Day, Easter and The U.S. American Federal Holidays (Visitors will need to check for current updates to these categories at each unique Index in the future.)

      I've included the cutest vintage grocers windows here for those of you who would like to design a food mart or grocery store for your dolls. Paste these on to the outside of a shoe box after wrapping it with white butcher paper. Then decorate the interior of the box with shelves of food. We have plenty of printables above for this. Don't forget to cut an opening for the entrance/exit inside of your doll shoebox.

Print these restored, vintage grocery store windows from 1930 for crafts.

 

Dramatic Play in The Grocery Store:

• Grocery Store Dramatic Play by Jamie White 
• How to set up a grocery store dramatic play area at Early Learning Ideas
• Grocery store supplies and ideas from Teachers Pay Teachers

Fun Doll Grocery Store Video at YouTube:

• Froggy makes a doll grocery store
• DIY: Miniature Grocery Store, made with a cereal box
• DIY Kids Play Grocery Store Marquee