Barbie Doll Throne (best-out-of-waste)

I love a good best out of waste project so when my 4-year old asked if we could make Barbie doll thrones, I immediately said yes. Why not give that a try?! We used an amazon cardboard box, spare foam from the trampoline repair and cloth and jewels from our recent Snow-White party.

How to make a Barbie Doll Throne from best out of waste materials.

Like I mentioned in the DIY Tamatoa Crab from Moana, it’s important to use whatever you have at home. I have given the step-by-step guide below the ingredients with pictures, but your project might be slightly different depending on your materials.

The foam. The foam would have been easier to handle if it had been thinner (this was ½ inch thick) but as always with a best out of waste project, I like to use what we have in the house already. If you don’t have any foam laying around, you could also use foam paper, new kitchen sponges more cloth or even teddy bear stuffing.

The ribbon. I had gold string from our restaurant menus at home which we used for the borders. Any string, cloth piece, ribbon or even beads and craft jewels could work to hide the cardboard borders.

The glue. It’s faster to use a glue gun for these projects so you can move on to the next step without waiting for everything to dry. Unfortunately this also means that smaller kids can’t be involved in the gluing part, as the glue gun quickly becomes very hot and can cause burns. So instead I try to do both. For this project the chair itself was easiest assembled with a glue gun (which also meant that my daughter could start painting it before she lost interest in the project all together). My 4-year old later did all the glitter work with fevicol glue while I made the borders with the glue gun.

Barbie Doll throne, the “ugly phase” of every project

Every artwork, cake or best out of waste project goes through what I like to call an “ugly phase”. It’s that time where the cloth is a bit untidy, the glue is seen or the paint doesn’t cover fully yet. So please don’t worry if the throne looks a bit un-neat at one time or another. Once it is done, it will look nice, I promise!