Comments on: DIY Paper Dolls

By: Wendy Young @Kidlutions

Wendy Young @Kidlutions — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:57:38 +0000

Melissa,

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I sooooooo remember doing this as a kid!

Wendy

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By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:36:36 +0000

My mother sewed all of our clothes when we were growing up. My sister and I used to make paper dolls from the models in old pattern books that the fabric store gave us when they got new ones. We would find a figure that had a beautiful face and we would cut out her head, shoulders and upper torso. We would cut off her arms. Then we would cut out outfits for her from similarly sized figures by cutting tabs on the shoulders and cutting off the model’s head and then cutting out all of the rest of the figure. A single pattern book could yield a large number of dolls (heads) and outfits for women, men, children and infants…A veritable city of dolls.

Those of you who sew will remember that the newer patterns in the front of the books are full page large illustrations, but in the back of the book, the older patterns are half page and smaller. You could have two sizes of dolls that way with proportional clothing and the small dolls were great for playing in a small area—like your bed when you were sick and had to stay home from school!

To make homes for our dolls we scoured the women’s magazines like Woman’s Day and Better Homes and Gardens for full page ads that showed a room in a home. Eventually we netted kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms. On a rainy day we took over our entire living room at home and spread out our “houses” all over the floor. Then we populated the “houses” with whole families of paper dolls in wonderful designer clothes who went visiting back and forth for hours!

I wish I had kept my homemade paper dolls. I have such fond memories of the time spent making and playing with them.

By: E M S

E M S — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:17:37 +0000

I love that… I remember doing that when I was a kid!