Playing with a doll is a traditional and perhaps the most attractive activity for girls. They take the script from life, films and books. An indispensable part of your favorite pastime is a new dress.
Young children, who do not yet have access to sewing and knitting, are great at making paper clothes with their own hands.
Creative skills acquired in this way help develop imagination, taste, and understanding of the properties of various materials.
Dresses for paper dolls step by step
Which doll can be dressed up in paper costumes? First of all, the classic cardboard one. However, non-woven outfits are also suitable for fashionista Barbie. A paper dress for a doll is not only a game, a children's craft, but also a type of decorative art.
It is interesting that fashion designers have come up with such exotic dresses even for real models: they appear on the catwalk in complexly constructed costumes made from any type of paper, for example, sheets printed in a printing house.
Bloggers offer master classes on designing doll outfits with step-by-step execution: using the origami technique, appliques, from napkins, paper - corrugated and colored.
Cardboard doll
It is painted on thick material and comes with clothing. This fun is still popular: kits for children's creativity are on sale. They make it possible to cut out costumes and dress paper girls, boys, princesses, brides, and athletes. And even study the history of fashion of the twentieth century!
It’s interesting to design a doll yourself and make dresses for it. There are no limits to the imagination here. Creating your own character, giving it a name and dressing it up in accordance with everyday situations is a very interesting task for girls.
Both the doll and the dresses are made one-sided or two-sided. The clothes are drawn after the doll is placed on the paper - measurements are taken along the outline. The fastenings that will hold the dress are drawn immediately over the shoulders and at the waist (little children, when cutting out an outfit, often forget about this).
The two sides of the dress are made by folding the paper on top of the drawn garment. Cut out the outfit along the contour of the already drawn part. There are some little tricks here:
- the doll's shoulders should be straight;
- There needs to be a slit on the back of the garment.
Dresses are easier to make than the doll itself. It must not only be made of thick cardboard, but also secure the weakest points with tape: the neck and arms are most often broken during the game. Find a suitable template on the Internet or come up with it yourself: any option is the beginning of an exciting game.
Outfits for Barbie and her friends
Barbie is a doll designed to be dressed up. No matter how many dresses there are, this fashionista is never enough. They buy new clothes for her, sew them, knit them. But there is a great way to dress up a toy using paper.
For this you will need:
- colored paper;
- corrugated;
- scotch;
- glue;
- elastic bands;
- sequins, sparkles, ribbons.
For the youngest children who do not know how to use scissors, a simple method is suitable: fold the paper like an accordion and secure it to the doll’s waist with an elastic band.
The result has been achieved: the toy friend is no longer naked. You can further improve your skills and move on to more complex designs.
Doll outfit made from napkins
White napkins are an excellent material for Barbie's wedding dress. The first stage is to make a cone from plain paper. It is rolled up like a bag and secured with tape or glue. Then you have to use scissors to level the bottom of the paper structure - it must be stable. The top of the cone is trimmed a little.
How to make a skirt from napkins:
- In the standard way, napkins folded four times are cut in the center (based on the principle of paper snowflakes).
- Having unfolded each of them, they see a small diamond in the middle.
- Each napkin is strung on a paper cone, their edges are arranged in a free order.
- You may have to use up a whole pack by the time the entire base is covered.
- The last napkin strung is the top of the dress: with the help of glue it becomes neat (folded on the sides, like a scarf thrown over the shoulders).
Then they proceed to the top of the dress: a napkin folded in three times (slightly shortened) is fixed to the doll with glue. Nothing prevents you from showing your imagination: making the dress openwork by cutting out the likes of snowflakes from napkins.
Or use colored napkins for “cocktail” outfits, dark blue ones for “evening” outfits. It’s nice to decorate the model at your discretion - with small beads, artificial flowers.
Corrugated paper
Corrugated paper is ideal for children's creativity; its bright colors and stable waviness (“compressedness”) are combined with plasticity.
Just a few steps are needed to make it dress for Barbie or any other doll:
- take measurements for the toy (blouse and skirt separately);
- make a cardboard cone for the skirt;
- cut two rectangles (large and small) from corrugated paper;
- attach a cone covered with corrugated paper to the doll’s waist;
- fasten a small piece (blouse) and tie it with a ribbon at the doll’s waist;
- straighten the bottom of the skirt and blouse (about 0.5 cm) in the form of a flounce or ruffle.
There is a super idea for dolls whose heads can be removed to change outfits. Little girls who have just learned to use scissors will easily make a new costume for them. A circle is cut out of corrugated paper (the diameter depends on the height of the doll).
It needs to be folded in four and a small hole cut in the center. Nearby there are small slits for the hands. A tunic (sundress, ball gown) worn around the doll’s neck is decorated with a belt or flower.
It's all about personal imagination. Based on this method, it is worth developing a wedding, evening, and beach outfit for dolls of any size and type. The colors of corrugated paper promote the development of imagination. If the head of the toy cannot be removed, it is enough to make a cut on the back of the dress.
You can find cute and easy ways to make your own outfits on the Internet, and then improve them. Perhaps your own ideas will appear. Masters create real masterpieces: they model hats, fabulous jewelry, charming umbrellas and handbags. The game becomes a real art.
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