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Bobble Head Dancing Dolls

These adorable Dixie cup bobble heads love to dance just for you. Give them a shake and watch them boogie.

After the popularity of our bobble head bat for Halloween, we felt inspired to make more bobble head projects.  These bobble heads are so much fun that we just couldn’t help ourselves. These dancing dolls are so cute. Make a bunch of them and watch them dance with each other.

Dancing Dixie Cup Bobble Head Dolls with printable template. Fun arts and crafts for kids

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Felt Diapers

Felt diapers for pretend play - kid's life skills - arts & crafts

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My daughter really has such a lovely way with babies & smaller children. She is very gentle, protective and nurturing. It is very sweet.

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She behaves this way with her dolls as well. She pretends they are sick and takes their temperatures. She feeds them, reads to them, even pretends to load them in their cars seats. It is wonderful to watch & listen to. She found an old doll while cleaning out her toys the other day. It is one of those dolls that wets itself if you squeeze its belly. My daughter, of course, needed to make sure that she cleaned up her wet baby and asked me for something to use as a diaper.

It gave me an idea.

I am not much of a seamstress, but I thought that I could make her some cloth diapers with Velcro tabs. I had a little bit of felt and thought this would be perfect for her diapers. Again, I am not a seamstress, but I was pretty excited about how these came out & so was my girl.

I measured out a piece of felt by holding it under the doll to see how big I would need to make it. I cut the felt into a rectangle that slightly flared at each end.  I folded the long edge on both sides of the diaper and then sewed both edges & pulled the thread snugly so that they gathered just a little. Then I folded in the edges again, but this time only sewed the center portion so that the diaper had a sort of hour-glass shape.

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I cut a tab to sew along the front edge of the diaper. I sewed the tab into place & then used a fabric marker & wrote the word diaper across it.

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I sewed two tabs to the upper sides of the back-end of the diaper. I stuck Velcro to each tab & then added the coordinating Velcro pieces to the edges of the front tab that says Diaper.

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I showed my daughter how to use the diaper & let her play. She even asked me to make more, so that she could change all her dollies.

Felt diapers for dolls & pretend play - kid's life skills - arts & crafts,

Felt diapers for dolls & pretend play - kid's life skills - arts & crafts

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Chalkboard Paper Dolls

Most of my friends & family know how much my daughter & I love to do arts & crafts. Many times, I receive unused craft materials or gifts of new ones.

Chalkboard paper dolls - fun for kids to draw on the faces & clothes and erase again. Arts & crafts ideas & activities

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A few months ago, we were given a gift of chalkboard tape. I put it away & forgot all about it. I found it yesterday & thought it was time to put it to good use.

I did a simple sketch on a piece of heavy poster board & then cut around the sketch as close as I could get.

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Flip the poster boards over & cover them with the chalkboard tape in strips.

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Cut the figures out.  It is as simple as that.

Chalkboard paper doll cutouts for kids - arts & crafts

Grab a piece of chalk & draw away.

Chalkboard paper dolls for kids. Use chalk to draw 7 erase - Arts & crafts

Chalkboard paper dolls - fun for kids to draw on the faces & clothes and erase again. Arts & crafts Chalkboard paper dolls - fun for kids to draw on the faces & clothes and erase again. Arts & crafts..

These were very simple to make & we still have a lot of tape left. My daughter asked me to make a dog. Maybe we will add in a house too.

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Chalkboard paper dolls - fun for kids to draw on the faces & clothes and erase again. Arts & crafts ideas & activities.

Yarn Wrapped Craft Stick Dolls

 My 4 year old loves to play with yarn. Many of our favorite activities and crafts are wrapped or threaded with yarn. We  made lovely yarn wrapped hearts earlier this year & my daughter loved it.

She loves the yarn because she loves to unravel & cut it and I love it because it is great for her fine motor skills.

Yarn Wrapped craft stick dolls. A cute craft with fine motor skills. Kids will love to make & play with these. Arts & Crafts for children

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This craft is fun to make & is fun to play with after you are finished, at least my daughter thought so.

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