Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids

Making a paper doll chain is a perfect activity for dads and children on a sleepy afternoon. It is simple and does not require either time or money. Most importantly, it will be an exercise in creativity that the children will surely enjoy.

Things you will need:

o Some cardboard or hard paper
o A pair of scissors
o Pen, crayons, markers, and color pencils
o Glue
o Colorful paper or fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, sequins, and stickers to decorate the dolls

Steps to make the doll chain:

o Cut out a broad strip of the cardboard or paper. This could be about 10 cm high and as long as you want to make your doll chain.

o Fold about 6 cm of one end of the strip. At the point where the folded end overlaps, fold the strip again, but in the other direction. Go on making similar, alternating folds, so that the entire strip is folded into accordion style panels.

o Hold the folded panels bunched up tightly, with the top panel facing you. Help your children to draw the outline of a doll on this top panel, with the hands and legs spread out so that these extend to the panel borders.

o Carefully cut around the doll, taking care to retain the folds where the hands and legs touch the borders.

o Now unfold the strip to see your chain of dolls, joined by their hands and legs.

o Let your children decorate the dolls using the crayons, markers, color pencils, pieces of fabric, Beads, ribbons, etc.

or you can even have your children cut out small shapes from scraps of fabric that you can create colorful doll clothes.

You can decorate the chain on the walls in the living room. You could also stick a lampshade, hanging a mobile or use it to decorate the door of your child.

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