Please!
Posted by: Retha on: September 1, 2009
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Skater girl puppet
Posted by: Retha on: July 21, 2009
Paper dolls & Paper Play Alphabet: D
Posted by: Retha on: June 20, 2009
Ben 10 Watch
Posted by: Retha on: June 14, 2009
Tony Hart’s Draw it Yourself
Posted by: Retha on: June 6, 2009
Tony Hart’s Draw it Yourself was a feature that appeared in South Africa’s Your Family magazine years ago. The idea is to first draw the basic shapes in pencil in their relative positions, then change the basic shapes into the animal drawing, then to go over it with pen and erase the pencil markings.
Paper dolls & Paper Play Alphabet: C
Posted by: Retha on: May 13, 2009
C is for Cavemen: (Cave kids, in this case!)
C is for Christmas:
C is for cowboy: 
C is for Cuba: (The doll can be found at “A for Argentina”)
Paper dolls & Paper Play Alphabet: B
Posted by: Retha on: April 2, 2009
B is for Baby:
This baby is from Peck Aubry’s “Baby Tender Care.” The book include a Babysitter paper doll too. Find more of the book here. (You need to register to be a member of the group in this link. This group is truly the best source for as many paper dolls as you may want, as varied as you can imagine.)
B is for Ballet:
B is for Bird:
B is for Box:
Wigwams/ Tepees
Posted by: Retha on: March 22, 2009
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Me and my seven-year-old nephew made this American Indian village, after something similar from “The Big Ideas Book” by Susan Stranks.
For the wigwams, we put a saucer upside-down on cardboard and drew circles, which we cut out. We cut them in half, and then stapled the half-circles into cone-shapes. For the large wigwam, we used the half-circle from a larger bowl. We cut and folded a tent flap on the front of each, and decorated it with pens and stickers. (Susan Stranks had felt-tipped pens for her tent decor, which we lacked. We used stickers, which Susan lacked.)
The totem pole is just a cardboard cone with faces, and a cardboard birdface with wings on top.
The fire is orange paper and a few sticks.
If you want to put little figures of Indians in between, you can get some to print out on this page, and the next few pictures after it.
Susan Stranks suggested an Indian baby cradle from string and cardboard, here pictured with a totem pole.
She also suggests arrows, bows, crosses, eagles, canoes, etc. as decorations. Here is her Indian Village:
Paper dolls & Paper Play alphabet: A
Posted by: Retha on: March 22, 2009
I came upon the idea of publishing a paper doll alphabet, with four dolls to represent every letter. Today, I’m starting with A:
A is for Africa:
The doll book with all outfits is for sale here.
A is for Angel, by Yuko Green:
A is for Argentina:
A is for Art Nouveau:
The doll book with all outfits is for sale here as “Paper dolls in the style of Mucha.”
Be my Valentine
Posted by: Retha on: February 14, 2009
2 Dolls for today:
