Below are four coloring sheets for stained glass windows. Sometimes large Victorian mansions even had stained glass windows in the front parlor. Print, color and cut them out before pasting them onto your dollhouse or doll sized church walls.
Stained glass includes spiral designs and 3 panes.
I restored this image of a stained glass window for those of you who would like to construct a doll sized church. I depicts Jesus as The Good Shepherd, with a staff, sheep, lamb, wilderness, and breaking daylight in the background. Doll crafters may also search our other collections of stained glass clip art at the Christian Clipart Review blog linked below. Those images may also be used for personal crafts like: model buildings, dollhouses and journals as well.
Cut and paste pictures of the outdoors from magazines. Then paste the views inside the window frames below, trim off the excess typing paper and adhere the windows to the inside of your dollhouse. The windows are from the Arts and Crafts movement from 1910 to 1925. Dolls like Samantha might have stained glass inserts put into windows in their home.
Printables at our blog are not to be redistributed from any other online collection or sold for profit. They are the property of kathy grimm and are for personal home use only.
This printable door hardware is for 18" dollhouse crafts. The sets include: door knockers, bolt chain locks and letter box plates. All designs come in both pewter (silver/nickel) and gold (brass) colors. The printables are for home use and student crafts only. Do not redistribute the clip art from alternative websites folks.
Door hardware for 18" dollhouse crafts in greyscale.
Door hardware for 18" dollhouse crafts in brass color.
Above you can see the collaged windows in comparison to a 18" doll. The garden view was clipped from a magazine and the horses in a field were cut from a book. The larger you make your windows inside of a dollhouse, the harder it will be to find nicely printed resources to cut for the scenes.
This particular window design may be moved from room to room in your doll's house. You can also switch out windows like these for paintings or doors. They are backed with foam board so that they are super light weight and then attached with poster tack. (gum rubber) Our sample windows measure 10"x10" and we use them in multiple displays for different sized dolls. Typically, the larger a window is in comparison to the doll, the lower it should be hung nearer to the floor of a dollhouse. The windowpanes cut into our cardboard examples measure 3"x3".
For this super simple craft you will need: magazines, thin cardboard (for the window panes), glue stick, paint or decorative paper, an Xacto knife, foam board, a ruler and poster tack for hanging the windows temporarily to the walls of your dollhouse.
A Fashionista looks outside her window to see horses in the field. Our child loved horses
when she was young so this is the view she
chose for our window.
You may choose to collect photos clipped from a magazine or recycled book prior to cutting a window template from cardboard. A dollhouse window may be any size you like. But the view out the window should be of something your doll loves to look at.
Clip out the picture you want and mount it onto foam core using a glue stick.
Cut a thin piece of cardboard 10"x10" or any size you desire as long as it is the same size of your magazine clipping.
Using a ruler and pencil measure across and down the cardboard, evenly drawing a grid in order to cut out the window panes.
If you cut the panes out using an Xacto knife, you most definitely need the supervision of an adult. These kinds of craft tools are sharp and can easily hurt a child who is underage. So adults or older teens will need to help out. Otherwise, a small sharp scissor may be used to cut out the panes.
Paint or decoupage colored paper onto the window template prior to attaching it directly on top of the magazine or book photograph.
You can use any glue stick or white school glue to attach the window template after altering it to the color you desire.
Apply more white glue or Mod Podge to the window afterwards to give the craft durability.
Use a poster tack to hang the window anywhere inside your doll's room!
Make a joyful sign from cardboard text, scrapbook paper, and magazine clippings for your doll's Christmas decor this coming holiday season. You can copy my contemporary version below using similar supplies or use this same idea to craft the words of your own favorite Christmas hymn.
Above you can see that I used pre-cut cardboard letters for my "joy"
On the right is the finished letter art for a dollhouse wall.
Supply List:
Christmas scrapbook paper
pre-cut cardboard letters (optional)
recyclable magazines
cardboard
white school glue
hot glue and hot glue gun (optional)
wire or ribbon for hanging
Christmas tree cookie cutter (optional)
tracing paper (optional)
Mod Podge
For this craft you will need to cut the word "joy" from cardboard and then paste a decorative paper onto the word to make it 3 dimensional. (use Mod Podge in layers) I've included some Roman alphabet letters below for those of you who would like to draw or trace your own letter versions on cardboard and then cut them out.
Print and cut out the tree template from below and cover it with Christmas scrapbook paper. Mount the word joy onto the tree with hot glue. Or, if you have a tree cookie cutter at home, you could trace around it's shape onto cardboard alternatively.
Layer words and letters, "to the world the LORD has come" cut from recycled magazine text with Mod Podge below the "joy" letters.
Bend and attach a wire or hook for hanging on the backside of the tree with glue or tape.
Hang this contemporary letter art on the wall of your American Girl Doll house for Christmas.
Christmas tree template by kathy grimm for the "Joy to the world" text art.
Simple windows with blinds that will fit into any style of doll house or room. Color the shades and window trim in any color to match your doll's room decoration. If you are careful, you can even cut the blinds out and insert a picture from a magazine behind them.