Paper Dolls

These paper dolls could be a fun and easy art project for grades 3-6 or it could be adapted for high school age children by asking them to make it an accurate scale model of themselves!

Materials

• Card stock paper (recycled file folders)
• White glue
• Hole punch
• Toothpicks
• Pencils
• Blender pen (optional)
• Faces printed on printer paper

1. Cut out shapes to be the head, neck, arms, legs, and torso of your paper doll keeping in mind that the body parts will overlap.
2. Arrange the body parts how you want them to look.
3. Hole punch the edge of the body parts that you want to be behind the ones they connect with in the joint.
4. Cut out small rectangles or circles just a bit larger than the cut out circles.
5. Arrange the two body parts how you want them to fit together and then, using the toothpick, place a small dot of glue on the front body part where you would like them to connect inside of the hole punched area. Be careful not to get glue on the back body part or the joint will not move.
6. Place a small rectangle over the glue and press down with the eraser end of your pencil on the small rectangle for 1-2 min.
7. Repeat steps 5-6 for every joint.
8. (Optional) Use a blender pen to transfer a picture onto the face of your doll.