D is for Dolls

This week we are continuing with the #ABC123Challenge hosted by Karen from Two Tiny Hands and delighted to bring you our interpretation of the letter d. My girls have many things they like beginning with d such as rubber ducks and eldest sometimes creates her own den using her table and a few cushions placed underneath. The one thing that springs to mind that they both thoroughly enjoy doing though is playing with dolls. While my eldest has expressed interest in her dolls house being in her new bedroom once it's finished my youngest loves to play with dolls both at home and toddler group. 

We have discovered that there are also numerous books featuring dolls such as Julia Donaldson's book The Paper Dolls as pictured above. This book is one of many of the authors pieces of work that we own.  I think it may be one of the lesser well known of her books. It talks about how one girl creates a set of paper dolls with her mother. I won't tell you what happens next as I don't want to spoil it for those who've yet to read it.  

To Create This Handmade Paper Doll Bunting You Will Need:

• Paper of various colours
• Scissors
• adhesive e.g. glue or double sided tape

Now for the Fun Part

Grab a piece of paper and fold it to create a concertina shape. Then draw out your doll design. Cut out the design and fold out your bunting. I think eldest thought this was magical. Then cut out little pieces of coloured paper. I've collected a lot of scrapbook/memory book keeping papers over the years so we used a few of these. I soon discovered that by cutting little rectangles and adding a little double sided tape it made it easy for little hands to stick the clothing on.

Once my daughter had stuck the clothing down I carefully cut around the doll shape and the piece of clothing appeared. We kept going till all the dolls were fully clothed. We stopped here due to the fact that we made our dolls out of sticker paper from my daughters sticker album she'd pulled apart and I had no sticker eyes to put on. However, if you use normal paper then it would be even easier to do the features by drawing them on.

Why don't you join us in making paper dolls. We'd love to see your makes.