Magnet dolls are one of my girls’ favorite toys. They love interchanging all of the outfits and can be occupied for quite some time doing it. Another one of their favorite things is to change their own clothes. I swear, they are constantly switching outfits. That wouldn’t be a problem, except for the fact they haven’t quite mastered putting clothes away. So, at the end of the day, their room always looks like every single clothing item they own is thrown on the floor. I decided I wanted to have a limit to how many outfits they could take out in a day. My mommy solution was to make the girls into their own magnet dolls. The concept is that every time they change their clothes, they put one article of clothing on their doll. Once the doll has 3 items of clothing, they are done changing outfits for the day.
Materials Needed to Make Personalized Magnetic Paper Dolls of Your Child
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- Markers
- Mod Podge
- Foam Brush
- Plain Paper
- Pencil
- Picture of Your Child Printed onto Paper
- Magnet Paper
How to Make Personalized Magnetic Paper Dolls of Your Child
The first thing I did was take a picture of the girls in their bathing suits posed like a paper doll. Try and take it straight on at their level. Also, try not to get heavy shadows.
I cut a rough area around the girls so I could know how much magnet paper to cut. I then cut off the magnet paper big enough to house the picture.
The girls set to work Mod Podging the images to the magnet paper. After the Mod Podge was completely dry, I trimmed off the excess magnet paper fairly close to their bodies. I wrote an article with tips on using Mod Podge that I hope you will check out to help you with this project.
To make the clothes, I first took plain paper and held it over their picture so I could trace custom sized clothes for their bodies.
I used these traced images as a stencil. I traced them onto the magnet paper and cut them all out. The clothes you see on the paper plate were the final product on magnet paper before coloring began.
Next, it was time for the girls to get to work coloring the garments with markers.
Is this the solution I’ve been looking for in our clothes situations around here? Maybe…just maybe.
If you want to see another fun craft we did with pictures of our kids, I’d love you to see how we made our kids into interchangeable blocks.
That’s just an amazing idea!!!!!! BRAVO!!!
What an awesome girlie craft idea! I’ll have to remember this for when my daughter is a bit older … duh … I’ll pin this so I rememeber 🙂
What a great Getting Dressed activity!
Another great idea! Pinned this one too 🙂
We did something similar using the makingfriends.com paper doll body and clothes and my son’s face. I haven’t posted about it yet, but someday, when my kids are in college and I have time again, I hope to 😛
What a wonderful idea…so cute! I would love for you to share these at my weekly linky party at http://cupcakesandcrinoline.com/2012/09/its-time-to-party-weekly-linky-party/
I hope to see you there and have a wonderful week! mb
Such a fun idea! My daughter would love this. Thanks for sharing!
I featured your adorable dolls on my blog today, come on over and check it out: http://www.artsyfartsymama.com/2012/09/pinteresting-features-n-shtuff-51.html
Thanks so much for featuring me and your kind comments. I would love to see a picture if you do it!
Wonderful! I can imagine the many happy hours your girls could spend enjoying these! Patsy from
HeARTworks and
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My girls would go NUTS over these! What a fun and creative idea! I would love to have you stop by ‘Or so she says…’ and share your great ideas at the Saturday link party (runs until Tuesday night…tonight!) I hope to see you there! http://www.oneshetwoshe.com
Not only is this a great idea, but you also made it so much better by enlisting your daughter’s help. This should be in the top ten of kid’s crafts-it’s that good.
Wow – What a compliment. This is one of those posts that has kind of gotten buried. I never thought it got as much attention as I had hoped. We had so much fun with it. I might try making a more vertical picture so that it gets some better traction on Pinterest. Thank you so much for bringing it back to the surface. I’m glad you like it, and I hope you’ll be doing it with your own kids. 🙂
My daughter passed away on December 9. Her heart just stopped beating. We don’t know why. She leaves being 2 small children 5 and 7. I just woke up with this desire for then to have a mommy magnet so to dress and accessorize everyday. Are you the one that can help me? This would mean so much to them and to me. We are having such a difficult time.
Oh my word. I’m so sorry! I can’t imagine the pain you are going through. Praying for your family right now. I don’t do the magnet dolls as a business. This is just a craft you can follow to make your own DIY version. I hope you find healing!