Use Files to Make Dolls House Fence Pickets From Stir Sticks

Make Miniature Fence Pickets In Dolls House Scales

Fence pickets have been grouped in a curve and cut to length in order that they can be glued to a wall as fancy wainscoting.

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Inexpensive (or free!) wooden stir sticks can be used to make a variety of miniatures. Here they are shaped with a miniature file to make dolls house scale pickets for a picket fence. The fence pickets can also be used to make a unique wainscoting for a dolls house nursery.

• Make Miniature Fence Pickets In Dolls House Scales
• Materials Needed to Make Dolls House Scale Fence Pickets From Stir Sticks
• Clamp Sticks Together to Work On Multiple Pickets At Once
• Draw the Picket Shape On the Top Stick In the Stack
• Use a File to Shape Your Miniature Pickets
• Work on Both Sides of Your Clamped Stack of Stir Sticks
• Check the Final Shape of Your Miniature Pickets
• Make Copies That Match Your Originals
• Lay Out Curved Lines for Groups of Pickets for a Fence or Wainscoting