Craft for the month of November

One of the joys of having a 1 ½ yr. old daughter, is trying to make her paper dolls that she can play with. Of course she doesn’t play with them the same as a 4 yr old would, but the dresses and dolls fascinate her.

Here is one project I did. I call it `A laminated Paper Doll Book’

This would make a good gift for a little girl 3yr and up.

the only reason my 1 1/2 yr old can play with things like this, is she has been taught not to put things in her mouth and to be gentle with books and her paper dolls.

you will see many other paper doll crafts and such from me in the future as I do a lot with paper dolls!

Items you will need:

Printable paper doll set. (I used this one from this website)

Laminating sheets (I got mine from the Dollerama)

Scrapbooking paper

Coloring pencil crayons

Scissors

Adhesive Velcro

 

 

I cut out the dolls... didn't bother coloring them, I liked them black and white, but do as you wish

and I put them on a colorful background.

Next, I laminated them.

Using the laminate pages from Dollarama, all I needed to do was put a fold in them to form a book that would stand up. one side of these sheets is plastic and the other is laminate.

I traced my own patterns for the dolls, which I cut out and used to make colorful clothes from scrapbooking paper.

I laminated the cloths and cut them out, leaving plenty of room around the edges for the laminate to stick. this protects them from little hands that don't know how to handle paper gently.

the above books were for a friend, this below book was for my daughter, as you can see, I put her dolls in the same book, so there are lots of ways to do it.

now it's time for the Adhesive Velcro.

you want to put them on the doll and on the clothes so you can stick the clothes onto the dolls.

I placed them in two spots as I realized that I would be doing shirts and skirts and would need two.

I also put it on the edges in places so the book can be closed.

the clothes that come with the dolls I also colored, cut out, laminated and cut out again

and I keep this set all in a Ziplock bag.

 

I did make a pocket on the outside to store the clothes, but it didn't work very well. However, you can see what the outside of the book looks like.

 

Happy Crafting.

 

 

 

 

 for a boy and girl paper doll, go here