homemade HALLOWEEN paper dolls

This is probably a weird time of year to get immunizations (we call them Kindergarten shots… makes them sound more fun), but that is just what Little M did this week.  She was so brave, and cried only a little.  The shots where not too bad, but the next couple of days were HORRIBLE!  Poor Little M limped around for two days, with a fever and tired eyes (she we didn’t sleep the night she got the shots because of sore shot spots and a fever.)  Well I am happy to report she is back to her singing, twirling self this morning and I think we will head outside for the day!

Proof that we did a lot of snuggling and lying around.  Of course we also did some art!  Homemade Halloween paper dolls.  She even told me I was allowed to participate! Oh I am a lucky mommy.

what you need:  paper ~ markers, crayons or colored pencils ~ scissors

Little M started by drawing a person on a foam sheet (paper actually would have worked better but there was no taking it away once I brought it out).

She added some spooky teeth.

“You can’t help, you don’t know what I want to do.”  Silly me!

Little M has great cutting skills, but for paper dolls the cutting has to be right on the line.  So we switched roles.  I did the cutting she did the picture snapping.

We made a template (so we knew what size the clothes would need to be) and traced it onto construction paper.  *** I should have added the paper doll tags (you know the part the folds around the doll) onto the template. ***

For the second paper doll Little M did the drawing and the cutting.

I did help cut out the Halloween costume.

She even asked me to make a costume… yikes she must have been sick!

This post is a part of the HALLOWEEN lesson plan.

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