Tips to Make Your Own Doll
If you're interested in doll-making, or one of your main hobbies is arts and crafts, then you'd likely enjoy being able to make your own doll. Here's a secret- it's as simple and easy as you want to make it, or as complex and difficult as you want to make it. It's up to you, because it's your doll!
Doll-making is a fun craft, and when you create a doll, you're creating both a masterpiece and an heirloom. You can make a doll from something as simple as old rags and buttons, a "rag doll" or you can use store bought doll arms, legs, and heads to create your own stuffed doll. Any type of doll can be made with minimal amounts of cash or you can spend as much as you'd like.
Most arts and crafts stores carry dolls already made, whether it be a stuffed "baby doll" or a "fashion doll" in heights anywhere from 5" inches to 30" inches high. Stuffed baby dolls are wonderful to make children's gifts with, and you can make special outfits for them. Or you can make a "fashion doll" and make outfits made from crocheted or knitted yard, fabric outfits, etc. Again, when you make your own doll, the sky's the limit. Use your imagination and see what you can come up with.
Hand-made dolls can be given as keep-sake or heirloom gifts, or they can be sold at craft shows or art shows for a pretty chunk of change. It's your choice what you do with the dolls you make. There's nothing like hand-crafting something with your own hands, using your own imagination and materials you have on hand. Soda bottles or dish-soap containers can be covered with fabric and "granny dolls" made, using an old dried apple for a head.
A "rag doll" can be made using a hand-sized towel and a wash-cloth. Simply roll the hand-sized towel and then roll the wash-cloth, fold the hand-sized towel over, tie off the top part for the "head" with a piece of yard or twine, and then put the rolled up wash-cloth in the next section down, then tie off again just below the wash-cloth, now you've made arms! "Rag dolls" can be given to older children as gifts, and if pretty fabrics are used, with pretty buttons for eyes, then you've made an heirloom.
When you make your own doll, there's a sense of satisfaction about it, and when you give hand-made dolls that you've made yourself as gifts, they are wonderfully appreciated and will become treasured for many years to come. Any hand-made gift is appreciated, but hand-made dolls are one of the best. They can be displayed prettily, they can be played with, and they can even be hugged and cuddled with.
Make your own doll, and enjoy the simple beauty of making something beautiful!
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