Little House Peg Dolls

Mary, Pa, Ma, Laura and Carrie

 A couple of years ago a friend of mine introduced me to peg dolls.  I made a few and a house which my daughters still play with.  I decided to make a new Ingalls family set along with a house for the upcoming Little House birthday party. 

I bought the peg dolls at Micheal's for less than $2.00 for a set of three.  The dolls come in three different sizes.  I started by painting all the doll's faces skin tones and the bodies white.  I used a pencil to lightly draw the clothing shapes and painted them on.  I used my smallest acrylic to make the fine details and then used fine point sharpies for some of the outlining and eyes. 

 

For the log cabin I used our copy of "Little House in the Big Woods" as inspiration.  My husband cut the pieces of the house out of MDF and screwed the pieces together.  I painted the whole house brown first and then whited out the sections I added large details.  All of the details were free-hand painted by looking at the illustrations from the book.  I finished the house and dolls by spray painting them with clear acrylic spray paint.