
A step-by-step instruction on how to make beautiful dolls from cardboard with your own hands.
We all remember the cardboard dolls for which wecut out colorful dresses, overalls, pants from paper. This is a pretty old idea, our parents played with such a cardboard doll. So why don't we make the same for our children, but even more interesting and modern. You can make different versions of the doll: a baby, or, on the contrary, a princess, a boy or an animal.There is nothing complicated about it, you just need toa sheet of cardboard, paper, a little imagination, and here you have a wonderful unique doll to the delight of the child. This doll is also good because older children will be able to dress it up themselves as they wish. The scope for imagination is simply enormous. All you need to do is help the child at the initial stage, interest him and captivate him. And then give him complete freedom of action. The process of a kind of “sewing” doll clothes has a beneficial effect on children, they learn to concentrate, focus, develop fine motor skills of the hands. You can find patterns for cardboard on the Internet, in any other sources, or come up with your own.
If you are not good at drawing, you can print it out.on a color printer the doll's face and body and glue them to cardboard. In this way, you can make a series of several dolls, even of different genders and ages, and the child will be glad that his doll is not alone and has a family, maybe children or even pets. In the same way, you can make clothes for the doll by printing out the templates you like on a printer, or draw it yourself, together with your child. For decoration, you can use anything: beads, beads, pieces of fur, various fabrics, threads, wool.
If you and your child have mastered cutting out clothes, thenYou can go further and create a house for the doll, of course, from cardboard. Then, make furniture, decorative elements and various household items from it. A cardboard doll does not necessarily have to be used only as a toy. It can be a completely independent decorative element that will undoubtedly decorate your home.
This doll can be placed on a standor hang it on the wall. Such a doll can also be made as a gift, into which you will put your warmth and positive emotions. Your friends and relatives will appreciate it, because it is known that the best gift is considered to be the one that you created with your own hands.