Free Printable Paper Doll’s House Craft for Kids
Make this super cute paper doll’s house from one sheet of paper!
Kids (and adults!) will love adding colours and drawing features on to their doll’s house before following easy instructions to fold it into a standing paper doll’s house ready to play with!
This free printable paper doll’s house craft even comes with little paper people to live in the dolls house! It’s a fun doll’s house craft and perfect for lots of imaginative play too!
This origami doll house is easy to making using our printable template and video instructions, and it’s lots of fun to play with too!
This is a fun beginner origami project as it’s simple to fold with only a few steps, and the doll’s house printable makes it even easier.
This paper doll’s house is a great craft project to keep the kids busy on a rainy day, or any time. You could design and make a whole town of paper houses, each with their own residents.
Once completed this cute paper doll’s house is great for imaginative play, or story telling. You could even design your house and make characters to live in it that match your favourite story or fairy-tale!
How to Make a Paper Doll’s House
This cute little origami doll’s house is made from one A4 sheet of paper (if you are using US Letter sized paper just be sure to select ‘shrink’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options) and it is super quick and easy to make.
Supplies for Making a Paper Doll’s House:
To make this paper craft project you’ll need:
- paper doll’s house printable template (download below)
- matte photo paper or light cardstock
- coloured pencils or markers
- glue or double sided tape
- scissors
We used our basic inkjet printer to print the paper doll’s house pdf onto matte photo paper ready to make.
Decorating the Doll’s House
Once you have printed both pages of the dolls house pdf you are ready to start coloring in and adding your own designs. Start by colouring in the people, Mr and Mrs Pickle, then cut them out and attach a folded paper tab to their backs so they can stand up.
You could also use this same technique to design your own characters to live in the house. Simply draw a character and attach the paper tabs from the printable to help them stand up.
Next, add some colour and details to the house. You could use coloured pencils, markers, or even watercolour paints to add colours and details to the house.
When it is folded the side with the tiled roof will become the outside of the house, and the other side will become the inside. So don’t forget to add a garden out the front and some furniture inside.
How to Fold the Origami Doll’s House
When you are done colouring and decorating the doll’s house printable simply follow the easy step by step instructions in the video below to fold your house and you are ready to play.
Free Printable Paper Doll’s House
This free printable paper doll’s house template includes a printable house template, and a page with Mr and Mrs Pickle.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Please remember that the printables at picklebums.com are for personal use only, you may not sell, share, or link directly to these files.
My kids loved making this cute origami doll’s house and we had a little village full of paper doll’s houses all made in an hour or so one afternoon!
If you make your own folded paper house, and Mr and Mrs Pickle, we’d love to see how they turn out. You can share your image on my facebook page, or post it on instagram and tag @picklebums.
More Easy Paper Crafts for Kids
If your kids love simple paper crafts they might also love these ideas:
This fun kid’s craft is part of the Kids Crafts 101 Series, 14 easy children’s crafts made with everyday materials. Pop over to Red Ted Art to check out the other projects.
This is such a cute idea. My daughter loves paper dolls and to add a house she is going to be in heaven. I am going to print this and take the instructions with us when we head to Children’s Hospital this week. This will give her something fun to do while my son is doing his testing. Thanks for sharing this.
These are adorable! They make me want to play!
I love this and so will my girls. The video is awesome! Thank you for all that you do!
Hi! You are just so smart!!!
It tickled my child-longing heart to hear the music! Soooooo cute!!!
I have a 61-, soon to be 62-y-o sister, who is 13 years my senior.
Since she has the mentality of a 5-y-o (grandmal seizures from age three to seven), this will be right up her alley!!!
Thank you sooooooooooooo much for all you do and share so lovingly!!!
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Thank you for this template, it is so cute. My 4 year old just got into making paper dolls and this will be a perfect addition. I also wanted to add that I found some 90lb printer paper that works so much better than the standard 20lb. It’s quite a bit stronger and holds its shape much better for paper dolls.
Thank you so much for sharing the lovely template! Is it ok if my daugter and I build and play with it and share it on youtube? we are japanese and not famous at all but I’m looking for something to do with my daughter^^
Sure. I’d love it if you’d include a link to my blog post and tell people where they can get the free printable in your video :)
Hello! I used some of your stuff last year. I love it! I had no idea you were Australian. I lived in Australia for 16 years (my 2nd home & part of my heart & soul forever) but my mum passed and I moved back to the states to take care of my dad. I even went to Sydney Uni for a while to get my teaching credentials. I felt inclined to write. I used your doll house activity as I needed a short-cut for my interactive read-aloud activity last year for the book The Doll People by Ann M Martin (great book – the kids love it). I had originally planned for the kids to make an actual doll house after reading the book. This was a more doable activity with 2nd graders (translation Year 2) and we made our own town. If I can find my sample I will take pictures of it and post to you. You will love it – I completely changed the look of Mr & Mrs Pickle to look like kids or teenagers from memory. I added longer hair and Ear Phones on one of them. Anyway – I love your stuff and wanted to say thank you. I’m just going to print off some crazy glasses as I have someone subbing for me today and need something fun for the kids to do. I did these last year as well.
The download never generates to the email. I’ve done it twice with 2 different email, I still have nothing
You don’t need to enter an email address to get the printable. Just click the link under the photo of the printed pages and it will prompt you to save the pdf file on your computer.
You are correct i apologize, I had 2 different web browsers open to the same spot, I mixed the comments I tried to delete this one but I have yet to find a way to do so. Can you do so from your end. I love your little house. My daughter and i were up at 2 am playing with it