How Do You Make A Life Sized Paper Doll?
Making a life-sized paper doll is a great activity to do at parent’s day or grandparent’s day at preschool or kindergarten. The grown-ups draw and cut out the paper dolls. The children color or paste on the clothes and the features. Then the classroom or corridor walls can display the self-portraits of each student. Unroll the sheet of brown paper or butcher paper. Use masking tape to stick the corners of the paper to the floor. Ask each student to lie down on top of the paper and to be in a relaxed position with their arms and legs spread wide enough to leave a gap between the trunk and the arms and between the legs. Ask each grown-up to draw an outline of their child with a marker. Allow the child to get up. Untape the paper from the floor. Engage the students in an activity that will give the adults time to cut out the life-sized paper dolls. Tape the cut-out paper dolls to the floor again. Provide crayons, construction paper, yarn, fabric scraps and buttons for each collaborative p
