Thursday, July 15, 2010

Felt "Paper Dolls"

Paper Dolls have been a favorite childhood toy for hundreds of years.  The history of them is really quite remarkable.
 
 My playful toddler is a bit young for paper dolls though, so I decided to make an alternative.  These Felt "Paper Dolls" are perfect for her little hands.

There is a Flower Fairy,
a Princess,
and a Ballerina to dress-up and play with.

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11 comments:

  1. Oh my Jennifer, this is the best idea yet! I love it! and Lydia seems to be very careful and gentle with them! I bet you could sell these. Did you use patterns from a coloring book for the shapes or just free-hand. Not sure I could make it as good as yours but little Ella's 2nd birthday is right around the corner! Great Idea!

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  2. Shirley,
    Thanks. I did some of the patterns free-hand and then others were modified cut-outs from my Cricut. If you decide to make some for her, I would love to see pictures of them. Or...if you tell me what she would like, I can cut some for her. We could consider it a gift from Lydia to Ella. :)

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  3. LOVE THIS!! You make wonderful crafts!! You could make the tutu I have on my blog - no problems!! Ck out the link within the text - it links you to a tutorial!!

    Thanks for stopping by!

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  4. VERY CUTE!! My nieces would LOVE LOVE LOVE this! What a great birthday present idea for them! :)

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  5. This is adorable! I have something similar, just not as cute in a quiet book I made for my daughter. Great job, it's beautiful!

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  6. Oh my two year old would love this! She really likes the ones at church with the bible characters:)

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  8. I love this idea! I will be featuring it on somewhatsimple.com on Tuesday, Aug 24th. Thanks for sharing!

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  9. This is great! I would love to know where or how you designed the shapes of everything??? I would love to make these I'm not that great at free handing though. do you have a pattern?
    Thanks so much!
    Jen

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  10. So cute, and I do remember playing with sets like this when I was little! I loved dolls of ALL kinds back then, and still do!... Have a great weekend! ~tina

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  11. How do you make the felt stick? What a neat idea..

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