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How to Make Dollhouse and Play Scale Food or Food Jewelery

This list of free photo tutorials for making dolls' house miniature food and play scale foods or jewelry covers everything from comfort foods and main courses to desserts and snacks. Not all the projects are made with polymer clay. Some use air dry clay, florist's foam or other materials. The tutorials are all clearly explained with photos to make them easy for beginners.

1. Make Kitchen Staple Foods in Miniature, Dollhouse and Play Scales

Dollhouse waffles with buter, syrup and blackberries

Lesley Shepherd

Comfort foods and everyday dishes are a staple for dolls' house miniaturists and re-ment or play scale kitchens. Here are a range of techniques used to make them.

Make Miniature Pancakes and Waffles - polymer or air dry clay

Make Miniature Muffins - polymer or air dry clay

Make Miniature Cookies - polymer or air dry clay

Make a Miniature Lemon Meringue Pie - polymer or air dry clay

Make Scale Bread, Toast and Toppings - polymer or air dry clay

Make Wobbly Jellies - meltable resin, such as Scenic Water

2. Design Your Own Miniature Cookies

Dollhouse scale cookies with distinctive shapes and textures.

Scale miniature cookies can be made in a range of designs that mimic home made and commercial baking. Try some of the methods below to extend you range of miniature accessories for parlor, kitchen or shop scenes.

3. Make Special Holidays and Celebration Food in Miniature

Decorated miniature sugar skull in dollhouse scale made from a polymer clay bead.

You can make a wide range of scale miniature foods for displays for special celebrations. Here you'll find everything from birthday and Mother's day cakes, to Haggis for Burns Suppers and Sugar Skulls For Day of the Dead Offrendas.

Make a Miniature Haggis - polymer clay
Make a Mother's Day Hat Cake - polymer clay or air dry clay
Make Sugar Skulls Polymer or air dry clay or marshmallows
Make Miniature Candy Corn Kernels - polymer clay
Make Croc en Bouche Towers of Cream Puffs - polymer or air dry clay.
Make Hanukkah Cookies - polymer or air dry clay
Make Cupcakes or Fairy Cakes - polymer or air dry clay
Miniature Dollhouse Cookie Swans - polymer clay or air dry clay
Make Photo Birthday, Father's Day or Retirement Cakes - printables and florists's foam.

4. Make Miniature Fruits and Vegetables

Photo of 1:12 scale miniature blackberries in a fruit basket and unpicked on the cane.

These projects introduce you to a range of simple techniques for making highly realistic fruits and vegetables in miniature scales.

Make Miniature Blackberries or Raspberries - use micro beads (or tiny balls of polymer clay)
Make Realistic Peaches with Fuzz - polymer clay
Make Lemons and Lemon Slices, Oranges, Limes or Grapefruits - polymer clay canes
Make Onions and Onion Slices - polymer clay canes

5. How to Make Miniature Chocolates and Candies

Panorama Easter egg in dolls house scale.

Miniature chocolates and candies can be used for a range of miniature dollhouse shops and special scenes.

Make Miniature Chocolates - polymer clay
Make Valentine's Day Chocolates and Chocolate Boxes - polymer or air dry clay
Make Decorated Chocolate Easter Eggs - polymer clay or air dry clay
Make 'Chocolate' Panoramic Easter Eggs - polymer clay or air dry clay
Make Miniature 'Chocolate' Easter Bunnies From Molds - polymer clay, air dry clay
Sculpt Custom Miniature 'Chocolate' Easter Bunnies - polymer or air dry clay
Make Candy Floss or Cotton Candy - Fiber

6. Make Dollhouse Baking and Pantry Supples

Vintage printable macaroni packet, tin of salmon, and fruit crate label in dolls house scale.

You can make dolls' house scalefood packaging from printables, and you can make very realistic spills and and items like raw eggs from standard art supplies.

Make Miniature Raw Eggs or Spilled Water, Coffee, Milk or Juice - acrylic art mediums and paints
Make Miniature Pasta - polymer clay
Printable Food Labels and Packaging - paper
Cellophane Food Packages - recycled food packaging or cellophane
Fruit and Vegetable Crates - Craft Wood
Fruit Baskets or Berry Punnets - wood veneer or recycled envelopes
Make Clear, Fillable Jars - clear acetate sheets
Printable French Bakery Boxes - paper
Pastry, Muffin and Chocolate Cases - tissue paper
Fillable or Solid Cast Resin Bottles and Jars - two part epoxy resin, epoxy putty, or liquid Fimo (deco gel)
Victorian Valentine Boxes - paper

7. Make Miniature Junk Food and Fair Foods

Miniature French fries in dollhouse scale made from lightweight air dry modelling compound.

Of course miniature scenes need junk food or fair food for special scenes. These tutorials have everything from ice cream cones to popcorn,, bread, chips, french fries, cotton candy and mini donuts.

Make Assorted Junk and Snack Food for Miniature Scenes - air dry or polymer clay
Make Miniature Ice Cream and Ice Cream Cones - polymer or air dry clay
Make Candy Floss or Cotton Candy
Make Miniature Popcorn and a Printable Popcorn Machine

8. Special Techniques For Molding Miniature Food Shapes Over and Over

Dolls house scale wine bottle, flagon, perfume and fillable bottles cast from clear epoxy resin.

Silicone moulds make it easy to make some miniature foods over and over in endless variations. Here are some special uses for two part silicone mold putty