Hand Painted Wooden Peg Dolls
Hand painted peg dolls make great gifts to mark occasions, celebrate a person’s work or passion or to start a collection. If you are stuck for a present to give to a friend, a tiny toy person that represents their interests will always go down well with people of every age.
Peg Doll Painting Ideas
Some of OutlinesArt customers have told us about their Peg Dolls and the designs they have dreamed up.
Royal Peg Dolls
Princess peg doll by Debbie’s Peg People
Worker Peg Dolls
Health workers
Key workers
NHS and Key Workers by DollyPegs
Sue’s note: “With so many of my friends and colleagues on the front line during this awful time, and being furloughed, I made them keyworker pegs, (nurses, doctors, midwives, shop workers, delivery drivers, teachers, shop workers and borders force).
The pandas are keyworker nursery nurses where I work.”
Panda Peg Dolls by DollyPegs
Services people like firemen, Workers in Shops
Drivers and Delivery People
Office people, Managers and Secretaries, all these people’s work is important.
Sports and Games Peg Dolls
Characters in Games
Peg dolls in helmets by DollyPegs
Sue’s note: These are Power Rangers that I made for my grandsons.
Characters in Fairy Tales
Fairytale Characters by DollyPegs
Motorcycling
Running, Jumping,
Hockey, Golf, Tennis, Football,
and even whole teams!
Peg Dolls for Occasions
Wedding Couples
Wedding Framed by Debbie’s Peg People
Anniversaries
Exam passes
Christmas
Christmas Peg Dolls by DollyPegs
Family tree decorations by Debbie’s Peg People
Debbie make Personalised Peg Dolls in various shapes – even trees!
Christmas by Debbie’s Peg People
Peg Dolls about all sorts of Hobbies
Gardeners,
Camping,
Fishing
Peg Dolls about people’s Passions
Rainbow peg dolls
Rainbow Peg Dolls by Debbie’s Peg People
Saint peg dolls
Our Lady and St. Cecilia by DollyPegs
Angelic Peg dolls
Angel Prayers by DollyPegs
Fairy Peg dolls
Animals
Seal Polar-Bear and Penguin by Debbie’s Peg People
Indulgences
Framed Dipsomaniac Triangle by Debbie’s Peg People
Debbie’s note: This is a group of three women who have named themselves the “Dipsomaniac Triangle” and a dipsomaniac is someone who drinks a lot of alcohol.
Peg dolls can be placed in scenes with trees and other props.
Making scenes with little fretwork trees and houses and painted in jolly colours make good activity toys for children. You can set the scene for games like football or indoor activities such as dolls houses and toy shops. I have seen a busy market scene full of tiny people going about their business – Quite an ambitious project!
Popular Peg Doll Painters
These customers, Sue Bashall and Debbie Churcher, have told us moving stories about how and why they started Painting Peg dolls.
Sue Bashall
Sue Bashall’s Rocking Horse
About me and Dollypegs.
My brand name is all about my dad who used to call me Dolly and sing the song and then got his painter who did work on his businesses to do the same. Shaun my hubby calls it me now.
My dad died in 2011. He was an amazing man and built a rocking horse as did my uncle. He was a joiner and my uncle a cabinet maker.
I had asked him to make me a rocking horse the year before he died. He had carved the head and body and bought all the leather but hadn’t finished the horse when he died and so my uncle finished her for me and she is called “Dollys dream”. My birth colour is Amethyst hence the purple logo colour.
My grandchildren inspired me to paint the pegs for imaginative play.
My full title is Dollypegs.handpainted as no pens are involved in the process. All my pegs are handpainted with Outlines paints and All my pegs are EN71/3 and CE certified toy safe.
I have a passion for painting each peg with amazing paints and I can personalise each peg from photographs.
You can contact Dollypegs by email:
dollypegs.handpainted@gmail.com
Sue belongs to a Peg doll Group and has been using Outlines paints for some time. She first wrote to me when the British Toy Standard was updated in 2019. She encouraged me to have the paints re-tested, saying that peg doll painters need to have total confidence in the paints they use.
Now that I am able to provide the new documents Sue has written several times saying:
Love the paints !! I have been recommending your paints to lots of people. I love working with them.
I’ve mentioned you in my peg doll group again.
Debbie Churcher
Debbie Churcher – Debbie’s Peg People
In 2018 I took some wooden pegs and painted them like superheroes. A friend saw them and asked me to paint some for them to give as a wedding gift and that’s how Debbie’s Peg People began.
For the past few years I have made frames for families, weddings, births and lots of other celebrations. Each one individual and personal.
Whilst I love making these frames I’ve been asked many times to make them as toys and I have always refused as they are not CE Marked. Lockdown has given me the opportunity to follow that path. I am so happy to have found Outlines Acrylic Paint, a range of toy safe paint which has great coverage and blends so well. It has given me the confidence to send my pegs for CE testing and I am now excited to be developing a range of pegs for children.
You can contact Debbie’s Peg People by email: debbiespegpeople@gmail.com
When Debbie bought our paints, she signed up to our Newsletter and was kind enough to send an email saying:
I’m really enjoying your paints and I am loving your emails sharing your painting techniques.
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What paint do you use on peg dolls?
Children love peg dolls and there lies a problem for peg doll painters who sell their work. When you are selling painted items that could be used by children they are classified as toys and they must conform to EU and British Standards. This means they must be safe for children to use, including being safe when they put them in their mouths or suck them!
Peg dolls are toys, whether intended as such or not.
A Hit With Peg Doll Painters
Outlines paints are Non-toxic and have the necessary certification needed to pass the tests relating to the paint used to decorate toys. Peg Doll Painters are confident on that score when they use our paints. They also love the consistency of the paint and the colours they can make.
Painting on Wood
Non-toxic Acrylic paints can be used to make hand painted jigsaws and puzzles for small children or you can use them to decorate a special chair or a trunk for kid’s toys. The paint takes to raw wood very well and can be used thickly for solid colours or thinned with water to show the wood grain.
Anyone painting wooden toys or furniture for children can have the same confidence in Outlines paints, whether their items are for sale or not.
Do you paint peg dolls or children’s furniture? Perhaps you make other painted toys? Let us know what inspires you in the comments below.