With its three pattern pieces – body with head, arm with hand, and leg with foot – you can design and create a multitude of dolls.
there are three steps you can follow:
making a pattern
- Use a 4 1/2-inch (cottage-cheese size) container lid and position it in the upper center of a large piece of kraft paper.
- Trace your circle. This is the doll’s head.
- Overlay a rectangular tissue box on the bottom of the drawn circle with the circle resting on the end of the box. Make sure that each corner is straight.
- Trace around the box for the doll’s body. The box corners are the doll’s shoulders.
- Draw lines on the inside sides of the circle so that you narrow the head. You don’t want it so round.
- Use a ruler to draw a rectangle 3 inches wide by 6 1/2 inches long on another piece of kraft paper for the doll’s arms and hands.
- Place a large tablespoon, bowl-side-up on the paper at the end of the rectangle, positioning the bowl area so that the handle is actually within the rectangle.
- Trace around the spoon.
- Draw a straight line on one side of the spoon-traced line to start forming a mitten shape.
- Draw the thumb off this straight line where the rectangle line and the spoon line meet.
- Draw another separate rectangle about 10 3/4 inches long and 4 inches wide for the doll’s legs.
- Make another smaller rectangle about 7 inches long at the bottom of this rectangle. Place the smaller rectangle on the bottom so that the two ends overlap and look like an “L.”
- Draw a curve at the toe area. Take the curve back about an inch at the baby-toe area.