A Paper Doll Chain with your children

A Paper Doll Chain is a great activity for fathers and sons in an afternoon sleep. It 's simple and requires no time or money. More importantly, it is an exercise in creativity, the children love.

What you need:

Some or cardboard or paper hard
u Scissors
O pen, colored pencils, markers, crayons and
glue or
or colored paper or fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, sequins, and stickersdecorate dolls

Steps to make the doll chain:

Or cut a wide strip of cardboard or paper. This could be about 10 inches high and as long as you want to make your doll chain.

Fold or about 6 inches from one end of the strip. At the point where eventually folded overlap, fold the strip again, but in the opposite direction. Go to like, alternate lines, so that the entire strip panels folded accordion-style.

o Keep the panels folded tightly coupledwith the top up. Help your children to draw the outline of a doll that top panel, hands and legs that are so common on the edge of the panel.

or very carefully cut around the doll, paying attention to where the creases of the hands and feet touch the borders to keep.

Now, either open the tape to see your chain of dolls, accompanied by their hands and legs.

Let your children or decorate the dolls with crayons, markers, crayons, cloth, beads,Belts, etc.

o They can also help your child cut small shapes from scraps of fabric that you can create dolls for colored clothes.

You can decorate the walls in the chain stay. You could even stick a lampshade, attack or use it as a piece of furniture to decorate the door of your child.

Handmade-crafts are an instant success when it comes to gifts, which are not only beautiful but also most appreciated for their efforts into create it. Introduction Valentine 's Day craft ideas in your family and home become a place of business.