Instructions
Draw the figure and underwear of your future doll. Do not press on the pencil; the lines should be barely noticeable so that they can be erased if necessary. Use a gel pen to outline all the contours. You don't have to use black at all. To outline the strands, use the pen that best matches your planned hair color. For the shadows on the body, take an orange pen. Now you can begin the final coloring.
To make the doll more realistic, you need to consider which side the light is coming from. Based on this, outline the shadows and highlights. It is best to color with pastels or pencils; paints can cause the paper to get wet and become deformed, and felt-tip pens will not give the realism that is achieved with pencils or pastels. Shadows should be made in a darker color than the main color, and highlights should be lighter. When the front of your doll is ready, use the same principle to create the back.
Glue both halves together. Now you need for your doll. It is painted in the same way as the doll itself, but when creating clothes you need to pay attention to some details. Consider the doll's pose; clothes should match the position of the body.
Outline the figure of the toy, draw clothes around this base. If the item of clothing is tight-fitting, it should fit the doll's figure exactly. Make rectangular fasteners to hold the clothes on the doll. These attachments should be on the shoulders, elbows and calves.
Dressing accessories should not be wider than the doll's parts, otherwise they will be visible. If your doll's hair is loose, use scissors to separate it from the shoulders, but do not cut the neck! This will allow you to thread the clothing fastener through. If desired, the doll itself can be drawn, and the hairstyles can be cut out and decorated separately. Dolls and clothes for them can be created in a variety of ways. You can make elves, fairies and other magical creatures.
For the first time, paper dolls with clothes for cutting appeared in the 18th century, but in those distant times they were used only by milliners, who found it convenient to use these affordable, inexpensive dolls to demonstrate new models of hats and clothes.
And then, at the beginning of the 19th century, paper dolls with clothes became available to girls, who cut out dolls and clothes for them, thereby having the opportunity to be creative from an early age.
In the 1830s, the American firm McLoughlin Brothers created many affordable children's paper dolls and cut-out clothing. Dolls with clothes sold for just a few cents, making them affordable for most girls.
Following McLoughlin Brothers, other companies began printing paper dolls. True, not all of their products had affordable prices. For example, dolls from the German company Raphael Tuck & Sons Publishing Co. were very expensive, because they were printed on thick paper, of excellent quality and packaged in colorful envelope boxes.
These dolls were collapsible, the dolls' heads were removable to make it easier for girls to change clothes. The dolls were produced in several sizes - large ones 20-35 cm in height, and small “postcard” versions that could be cut out and, if desired, used as postcards.
During the war there was no time for dolls, and no one worked with paper dolls. But after the war, dolls returned again and played an important role, because there was devastation everywhere, there was a shortage of the most basic things, including toys for children, and the production of paper dolls could be established very quickly and with minimal investment.
Soon the Original Paper Doll Artists Guild (OPDAG for short) was created, which operates successfully and still publishes paper doll fans for fans of paper dolls, plus its own magazine called Paper Doll Studio Magazine.
Modern paper dolls for cutting.
All photos of dolls can be enlarged by clicking and can be printed.
Soviet paper dolls with clothes to cut out
The USSR had a great idea, but there was a lack of basic things, including children's things and children's toys. Therefore, paper dolls with clothes were the most affordable joy for little Soviet girls.
The dolls were produced in special books and were also published in magazines. First of all, for children, such as “Funny Pictures”, as well as in magazines for women “Worker”, “Peasant Woman”. Later, paper dolls began to be sold in the form of high-quality books, from which it was necessary to cut out the doll itself and its clothes along the contours.
Particularly caring parents themselves drew and cut out dolls, new dresses, skirts, boots for dolls, thanks to this the girls had a huge wardrobe for their favorite dolls!
Today, the Chinese industry produces millions of dolls, from small baby dolls to 70-centimeter BJD dolls, one shoe for which can cost more than a pair of shoes for a real girl. Despite this, paper dolls are still with us and are not going to fade into history, because they have many advantages!
Advantages of paper dolls
One of the main advantages of a paper doll is its lightness and elegance.
There are countless outfits you can create for paper dolls. This will not require much of your time, and from a financial point of view, it is a completely affordable hobby that does not require financial investment.
Creating outfits for a paper doll is a real flight of creativity in which you can try yourself as a clothing designer. However, at first, you can simply redraw clothes from glossy paper magazines and from fashion Internet portals.
The doll can be created without hair, then in addition to outfits, you can also change her hairstyles by making wigs. Of course, there are wigs for regular dolls, for BJD, Moxie Teenz, but you can’t make their wigs yourself, and they aren’t that cheap.
If you wish, it is easy to create a whole world for your favorite paper doll - a house, a dacha, a car, an office, or even a servant. At the same time, a paper princess, even if she has her own palace, will not take up much space in the apartment. It can be stored in a large folder, but for ordinary plastic dolls, if they have their own palace, you will have to separate a corner in the room, or the entire room.
All photos can be enlarged by clicking!
All dolls can be printed.
Paper doll. This is a wonderful craft that you can do with your child. Of course, now in the store you can buy any doll, along with a set of clothes: cut it out, dress it and play with it according to ready-made templates. What about yourself?
Stages of making paper crafts. Just like we did when we were kids.
1) Take white cardboard and draw the outlines of the doll on it. Preparation. On it we will outline the face, hair... We cut out the doll, be sure to draw beautiful underwear on it. Now you can prepare your clothes.
2) Clothing blanks are outlined along the contours of the cut out template doll. To do this, you just need to attach the doll to the sheet and give the future clothes the required length and width. Or you can cut out clothes from magazines and try them on a doll.
3) Clothes need to have cuffs and fasteners, and we will attach all the wardrobe details to them.
4) Stand for the doll. She should still be standing. This can be made from a cardboard circle or rectangle; we simply cut it out and glue it to the doll’s legs.
I visually enclose approximate outfits for the doll and the heroine of our question. Fantasy will allow us to dress the doll in accordance with fashion trends. I remember that I made a house for my paper crafts from an ordinary notebook. The pages of the notebook were folded in the form of pockets and this was the house, closet and rooms of our doll. We drew wardrobes, a bathroom, a bedroom for the dolls... It was all so interesting, all by ourselves. This is a very good idea for the development of your daughter. Drawing a doll, outfits for it, creating room designs... All this is much better than a similar game online. Development of fine motor skills, development of imagination, development of a sense of taste.
Another option for making a paper doll
On a landscape sheet, draw a full-length doll. You color it. The doll should be drawn in a swimsuit or in a T-shirt and panties, and a large drawing looks better (using the example of Soviet dolls, not Barbie). Although I don’t rule out the Barbie option either. Ball gowns look very beautiful and fabulous on Barbie. Once you have drawn the doll, you need to cut it out along the contour. Place this outline on a thick sheet of paper (cardboard). The thicker the better. Trace the outline along the cardboard, cut out the doll on the cardboard. Then take glue and glue two contours of the doll from a landscape sheet and cardboard.
Cardboard doll templates. Disney princesses.
This is how you get a nice paper doll. For this doll from album sheets, you draw (model) any dresses, sundresses, jackets, trousers. Fantasy should be limitless. You can color these paper clothes according to your preferences. But in order to cut out an outfit for a doll, you need to make loops in the area of the shoulders, arms, legs and waist on both sides. Cut out the outfits, not forgetting to cut out the loops. These loops are needed to secure the paper clothes to the paper doll. Good luck to you! As a child, my friends and I often played with such dolls. Develops motor skills, imagination, aesthetics and many other good qualities.
Option 3
Dolls made from napkins
How nice it is to give someone a gift on March 8th with your own hands, and if they are dolls, then it’s probably doubly nicer. Dolls throughout the centuries have been the personification of something beautiful and inspiring. Therefore, it seems to me that everyone will like this gift. Who would have thought that such elegant dolls were made of napkins and wire!
When you look at them, it seems that they are alive, these beautiful ballerinas. And if you take very bright napkins, you will get wonderful toys as a gift. March 8.
It feels like these wonderful fairies will now fulfill your most cherished wishes. We need a good, but not stiff wire that can hold its shape well. PVA glue. Threads or fishing line, pliers, scissors and a needle.
Multi-colored napkins.
By twisting the wire we make a little man.
We tear the napkins into small strips approximately 1 cm wide. We wrap the doll blank with these strips and soak it with glue.
After completing this procedure, wait until the figure dries. For the dress, take a napkin and fold it as if we want to cut out a snowflake.
Cut out the skirt. And twist, slightly crumpling.
Such dresses can be made in different colors, they look very beautiful. We put on several skirts with a belt to create and make them fluffy. And one for the handles for the dress.
Paper dolls are one of the most popular hobbies of Soviet girls. However, even today they have not lost any of their popularity. Today we will tell you how to make a doll with your own hands that will definitely charm any little girl.
In this article you will find not only the history of this game, but also the most popular silhouettes, as well as paper dolls with clothes for cutting out, which are ready for printing. Some of them will need to be painted, while others are made in a ready-made color.
A paper doll is a very interesting toy because you can change its clothes in just a few seconds. Of course, little fashionistas really like it. However, this fun is not only exciting, but also useful. However, like any other role-playing game.
Why are dolls so popular?
Paper dolls, for which you can cut out a variety of outfits, quickly captivated Soviet girls. The thing is that they combined the charm of the game and accessibility. Not every family could afford toys, but dolls could always be drawn.
The girls cut them out of magazines and created dresses for them themselves. Of course, teachers and parents encouraged this. This is how children developed taste, artistic skills, as well as the ability to communicate, which is cultivated in the process of role-playing games. In a word, games with paper dolls were liked by everyone for their beauty and the absence of any shortcomings.
A little history
The first industrial production of paper dolls dates back to 1810. A famous British factory has released a cutting kit called “Little Funny”. The public accepted the idea with interest, and the process was put into motion. Exactly two years later, an American version of paper dolls called “The History and Adventures of Little Henry” was released. It is noteworthy that this version of the game was designed for children of both sexes.
The success of the first issues of “paper stories” became the beginning of the mass production of albums with various figures for cutting out. Factories from different countries began producing paper modeling albums with a variety of shapes for cutting. Some suggested cutting out clothes and a doll, others suggested assembling the characters piece by piece from scratch.
In 1959, the first paper doll not printed in a thematic album appeared in the major women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book. The publishers included a ready-made suit and an evening dress. The demand for the magazine has increased significantly. Later, the idea was picked up by other periodicals, and paper cutout dolls began to regularly appear on the pages of newspapers and magazines.
What types of dolls are there?
There are several types of paper dolls:
- Collectible. As a rule, these are images of different personalities. They are almost never used for games.
- Baby dolls. These dolls are usually large; Most often they are made on cardboard, since they are intended for the little ones.
- Standard. These are ordinary dolls that every Soviet girl had. They are still on the shelves today.
- Barbie. Graceful waist, long legs and gorgeous hair. These dolls usually come with the most beautiful outfits for carving.
- Princesses. Most often these are famous Disney characters. Standard recognizable costumes are cut out for them.
- Popular modern heroes. So, recently paper cutout kits with Winx fairies broke all records.
Of course, cutting kits can be different; This is just a conditional division. However, most dolls can be classified into these groups.
Dolls can be made of paper or cardboard. However, they are often glossy or shiny. We advise you to pay attention to interesting textures of papers like corrugation and velvet if you are going to cut out outfits for dolls with your own hands and further decorate them.
Templates
Little girls find it more interesting to play with large, large dolls and a minimal set of costumes. They will love the figures of babies and dolls, as well as the outfits that are attached to large fixing strips. Older girls prefer dolls that can be dressed up in chic ballroom or stylish cocktail dresses, adding handbags and shoes to their look. In addition, they are always delighted with recognizable heroines from their favorite cartoons. All this is also included in the sets of cutting templates that we have prepared for you.
You can choose any of the presented stencils, print paper dolls and outfits on one sheet, or split the image in a graphics editor and print each figure separately. The pictures are clickable, they are all in good quality.
Paper dolls with clothes to cut out remain as popular as they were when I was a child. Today I want to tell you how this game came about, how to make paper dolls with clothes. Now it has become much easier to find such toys, you don’t need to run to the store and look for new characters for a. Simply print out the doll you like with paper clothes and the toy is ready.
You can also print paper dolls for cutting without a colored base. Then little fashionistas will have to show their imagination and paint outfits for their doll.
A paper doll is a fun and educational toy. Changing clothes for such a fashionista takes just a couple of seconds! The game trains a child's fine motor skills - try how to cut out so many small details and decorations for paper clothes!
In addition, you can make new clothes for your favorite doll - just take a piece of paper, trace the outline of the doll and show your imagination. Maybe your child will develop his talent as a fashion designer with the help of this toy.
Why are paper dolls so popular?
Almost every girl in our yard had paper dolls with clothes that needed to be cut out. We walked around with whole folders of colorful outfits and cardboard dolls. Not every mother could afford to buy an expensive doll in a store, but cardboard beauties with clothes for cutting out were available.
In addition, we made new clothes for the paper dolls ourselves. Using glossy magazines and the doll itself as a template, we made beautiful outfits for our dolls.
This simple toy was enjoyed by both little girls and high school students, who happily helped the kids draw new outfits.
From the history of a paper doll
The history of the paper doll is quite interesting. In 1791, a new toy invention called the “English Doll” appeared in England. It was a 20 cm high doll figurine and a set of clothes to go with it. The doll had underwear, a corset, dresses and, of course, hats.
It can be assumed that the first paper dolls with clothes were visual aids for milliners of the 18th century, and only a century later a doll with paper clothes went on sale as an educational toy for girls. The first printed doll with clothes came out in 1810 and was called Little Funny.
And after 20 years, toys in the form of dolls with clothes were affordable to a wide range of buyers. Dolls for boys and girls, baby dolls with clothes, noble ladies and princesses with outfits to cut out, animals with clothes - a wide range of such toys has firmly entered the lives of children.
In 1912-13, three-dimensional paper dolls with clothes appeared. Time passed, fashion changed and clothes for paper dolls changed.
There was even a guild of paper doll artists created (The Original Paper Doll Artists Guild, abbreviated OPDAG), which operates successfully and to this day publishes paper doll fans for fans, plus its own magazine called Paper Doll Studio Magazine.
Paper dolls in chic boxes, sets of postcards with dolls, albums with clothes for paper beauties. Periodicals kept up with the factories. In every magazine you could find dolls with paper clothes to go with it.
Paper doll options
Among the variety of paper dolls, several types can be distinguished:
How to play with a paper doll
The process of playing with paper dolls always consists of 2 main parts.
1 is cutting out the doll itself and its clothes. As a rule, the doll is printed on thick cardboard and is colored on both sides. The paper beauty clothes have only 1 colored side and small white flaps that secure them to the doll.
Part 2 is the game itself. The child dresses up the doll to suit his taste and role. One set may contain clothes for several different seasons of the year, or it may consist only of elegant dresses (as in sets with princesses).
Many children like sets with paper dolls. However, parents should understand that even a large set of clothes for a paper doll will soon become boring and the child may ask to buy a new doll.
In this regard, modern children are very lucky. Now there is the Internet, where you can find thousands of different options for paper dolls with clothes to cut out. You just need to save the picture you like and print the desired sheet.
In addition, you can download and print paper furniture for dolls. This is also a very exciting activity for children.
We hope that your child will also like paper dolls with clothes!