Printable Treehouse Playset

I was captivated by this printable treehouse playset offered on the Brother Creative Center website. My children would have really been into something like this when they were younger. The three level treehouse has a room (complete with furniture!) on each level. Think of it as a stackable dollhouse. The six residents of the dollhouse are deer, rabbits, and owls. Hats off to Brother for creating such an imaginative papercraft!

Other Papercraft Playsets:

Pirate Ship
Santa's House
Star Trek Bridge
Dukes of Hazzard
Ecofriendly Pop-up Dollhouse

Easy Printable Pirate Ship Playset

The old family.disney.com website (later known as "Spoonful") had lots of great papercraft projects parents could do with children. But alas, the Spoonful website shut down in 2014. One of the Spoonful projects I liked, was this easy printable pirate ship. The playset included a 3D ship, cannons, and some 2D pirate figures (including a few skeleton crew members!) An archived copy of the playset's PDF template (along with instructions) may be found at this: download link. Besides paper, what else is required to build this ship are some drinking straws to hold the sails to the masts.

Other Spoonful Paper Projects:

Princess Paper Dolls
18" Jack Skellington Figure
3D Nemo Papercraft
Wonderland Easter Diorama
Teardrop Mickey

Vintage Western Fort Paper Model

This paper model of a "western fort" was published in 1979 in a German children's magazine. Included with the model are a covered wagon and a canon. The template for the fort may be downloaded here. Palisade type forts such as this have been romanticized as part of the USA's "wild west" past. Build photo by SarienSpiderDroid.

Other Vintage Papercraft:
1934 Eiffel Tower
1962 Dollhouse
1978 Cinderella Castle
1934 Village

Papercraft Star Trek Playset

Here's a fun little papercraft playset of the Star Trek TOS bridge. The playset features hand drawn art and comes in an easy to assemble 2.5D format. The various pieces of the diorama may be found in the DeviantART gallery of MadunTwoSwords.  The floor and walls work better when they are glued to cardboard or foamcore.

Previous Star Trek papercraft:
Mini Shuttle Collection
Kirk and Spock Paper Models
Type II Hand Phaser
Voyager Medical Tricorder
Klingon Knife

UPDATE 7/2/2019: Madun's DA account has been deactivated. :( The link above now points to an archived version of his page. Low res images of the playset parts may be saved by right clicking on the images and selecting "save image as".

Vintage Dukes of Hazzard Papercraft Playset

The Dukes of Hazzard television series ran from 1979 till 1985.  In 1982, a Dukes of Hazzard "Punch-Out Fun" book was published. The papercraft set inside the book included:

• 2D Cut outs of the show's main characters
•  A 3D model of the Hazzard Garage
• 3D models of cars seen in the show including the General Lee Dodge Charger, Daisy Duke's Jeep CJ-7, and Sheriff Coltrane's police car.
• Miscellaneous 3D accessories including hay bales and a road block.

Scans of the book may be viewed at Reis O'Brian's blog.