A cooler, portable ice box, icebox, cooler box, cooler box (in New Zealand), or esky (Australia) is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cold. I found an empty heavy duty plastic box that used to turn nails into an ice chest for dolls.
Ice cubes are commonly placed in it to help the contents inside stay cool. Ice packs are sometimes used, because they either have melt water inside, or they contain a sealed gelatinous substance that stays cold longer than regular ice (it absorbs heat during the phase change). I decided to fill the doll version with plastic pellets; This looks like ice! Plastic beads will also be in disguise if you want to use them.
Coolers are often taken on picnics and on vacation or vacation. When the summer is hot, they can also be used just to get cold groceries from the store, such as preventing ice cream from melting in a hot car. Our 18 inch dolls will use their version on picnics and also to carry food items to the beach.
Even without adding ice, this can be beneficial, especially if the trip home is long. Some coolers have cup holders built into the lid, so I cut two holes in the lid for the same purpose.
Support list:
- Recycle a plastic nail container
- white school glue
- masking tape
- Acrylic paints: white and blue
- mod podge
- Clear acrylic beads or doll pompoms (for pretend ice)
See the pictures to show how I made the icebox:
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| On the left, I found a nail container with the best shaped lid for our doll camp cooler. Well, I cut out an extra layer of cardboard to add on top of the container In order to make the cup holders a little deeper. |
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| On the left, I used white school glue to cover the doll’s icebox with blue paper and then me Use Mod Podge to seal these papery areas and make the surface look more like a Heavy-duty plastic is frequently molded into modern ice chests. Right, see Inside the icebox is lined with white parchment paper and treated with Mod Podge. |
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| To the left, the plastic pellets we use to imagine ice cubes. In the center, see the cup holder Details on the icebox. I cut these holes with a Xacto knife; To have a parent do that part of the craft. To the right, look at the heavy rope I used for the handles. This looks like a rope 18 inch doll. To make these knobs, punch holes in the sides of the plastic box with a nail and hammer. Then tie a knot on both ends of the wire inside the box after pushing them in through from the outside. |
Ice chests are usually made of inner and outer plastic shells, with rigid foam in between. They come in sizes ranging from small personal to large family sizes with wheels. Our doll version includes rope handles instead of wheels, so dolls will need to carry their own picnic supplies.