24 March 2022
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Candy Chappill gets you in the mood for summer with this adorable little dolls house beach hut project for your miniature scene. Are you ready to get started? Shell yeah!
Seas the day with this DIY miniature series – a day at the beach, where Candy Chappill shows you how to create a quintessentially British seaside scene (but with better weather!)... Up first, learn how to create a miniature beach hut! Download the template for the beach hut below...
Miniature beach hut tutorial
You will need
- 10x10mm wooden dowel
- 18x4mm wooden dowel
- Pale blue paint
- White paint
- Black paint
- Paintbrush
- Coarse grade sandpaper
- Superglue
- Saw
- Sign
- Split pins
Instructions
1. Using 10x10mm wooden dowel, cut, assemble and glue a house frame using the measurements from the template provided.
2. Cut some 18x4mm wooden dowel into 170mm lengths. Start by gluing one length to the bottom of your frame, and then glue them on top of each other at 15mm intervals. When you get to the front of the hut, leave a gap for the door.
3. Once you have clad your whole beach hut, paint it with your desired colour. In this tutorial a thin coat of pale blue paint was used so the wood underneath showed through.
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4. Using more of the 18x4mm dowel, cut two strips 155mm long and one strip 40mm and assemble into the top trim of the beach hut, but don't glue onto the beach hut at this stage.
5. Once you've assembled your top trim, paint it white.
6. Once the paint is dry, glue your trim onto your beach hut.
7. To complete the roof, glue some coarse-grade sandpaper to the top frame of the beach hut.
8. Print (or write) a sign for your beach hut. Use a couple of split pins to decorate the edges. Once complete, glue to the front of your beach hut.
9. Using some black paint, paint the glued sandpaper, to resemble roofing felt.
Enjoy making a miniature beach hut? The fun continues in the next part of our miniature beach series, where Candy makes a miniature surfboard using polymer clay. Surfs up!
