With this everything-you-need kit, your child's friends and cousins can have hours of fun dressing up their own dolls - an activity their parents will be grateful for when the postholiday blues set in.
Half the fun in giving this gift is selecting all the different trimmings at a fabric or discount store before packing everything prettily in a little plastic "suitcase." The more kits you make, the easier and less expensive each one will be; buy a bag or two of baubles, a sack of pipe cleaners, and a yard each of a couple different trimmings and fabrics, then divide them among several kits.
Materials
- Lunch-box-style box (we bought a plastic one from A.C. Moore)
- 1 dozen old-fashioned wooden clothespins
- Glue stick, bottle of tacky glue, or low-temperature glue gun
- Scissors
- Pipe cleaners (for arms and adornment)
- A couple of skeins of embroidery floss (for hair)
- Small pieces of beautiful fabric, tied with ribbon into little bundles
- Wide eyelet ruffle trim (this makes excellent skirts)
- Rolled lengths of wide satin ribbon
- Feathers, buttons, beads, gemstones, small silk flowers, and other gorgeous little things
Instructions
- Clothespin Doll Kit ItemsIn a lunch-box-style box arrange the other items.
- Have your child make a sample clothespin doll to include in the kit or to attach with a ribbon to a colorful card that hangs on the outside that reads "A dozen dolls-to-be. We belong to..."
