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Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids

 

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Making a Paper Doll Chain With Your Kids

Making a paper doll chain is a perfect activity for dads and children on a sleepy afternoon. It is simple and does not require either time or money. Most importantly, it will be an exercise in creativity that the children will surely enjoy.

Things you will need:

• Some cardboard or hard paper
• A pair of scissors
• Pen, crayons, markers, and color pencils
• Glue
• Colorful paper or fabric scraps, buttons, beads, ribbons, sequins, and stickers to decorate the dolls

Steps to make the doll chain:

• Cut out a broad strip of the cardboard or paper. This could be about 10 cm high and as long as you want to make your doll chain.

• Fold about 6 cm of one end of the strip. At the point where the folded end overlaps, fold the strip again, but in the other direction. Go on making similar, alternating folds, so that the entire strip is folded into accordion style panels.

• Hold the folded panels bunched up tightly, with the top panel facing you. Help your children to draw the outline of a doll on this top panel, with the hands and legs spread out so that these extend to the panel borders.

• Carefully cut around the doll, taking care to retain the folds where the hands and legs touch the borders.

• Now unfold the strip to see your chain of dolls, joined by their hands and legs.

• Let your children decorate the dolls using the crayons, markers, color pencils, pieces of fabric, beads, ribbons, etc.

• You can even help your kids cut out little shapes from fabric scraps that they can use to create colorful dresses for the dolls.

You can use this chain to decorate the walls of your living room. You could even stick it around a lampshade, hang it as a mobile, or use it to decorate your child's door.

Hand-made crafts are an instant hit when it comes to gifts-they not only are beautiful but also appreciated more because of the effort put into creating them. Introduce Valentine's Day craft ideas in your family and convert your home into an activity center.

Paul Banas is a founder of GreatDad.com. He writes articles on crafts and kids, camping with Kids, traveling with kids, skiing and kids and many more topics related to dads.

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Children have already started making their Christmas lists. Yes, okay, Christmas is about sharing, but children see Christmas as the time of getting presents. The rest are mostly adults' preoccupations. Sometimes parents have difficulty finding great presents for their little ones as they hardly know what is in fashion or a great hit with children. If you need help this year then you are at the right page. We give you the top 10 Christmas toys which are great for boys and girls of all ages. This year you can actually satisfy your child more than you can imagine. Let's take a look at these top toys.

1. Kidizoom Digital Camera Pink from Vtech. If your little girl is all about taking pictures and is always nagging to get your digital camera then this is the best present for her. She can take as many pictures as she likes and all that with a very sophisticated camera. This Kidizoom camera is designed for small hands and is also very sturdy so no matter how many times it falls down it will survive. If it is too early for your little girl to have a normal digital camera then this is what you should get her.

2. Rubik's 360. This new puzzle craze  has the shape of a sphere. This is a large plastic sphere which has six coloured domes around the main surface. Inside the large sphere there are two more spheres which are smaller, one inside the other. Just like the original version of the Rubik's cube this one will also get you hooked up and you will not be bale to put it down. This is a very clever gift that anyone will like and you will make them use their brains a little bit. This is for children above 8.

3. Transformer's Bumblebee Helmet. If your child likes Transformers then he actually be one with this new helmet.  The helmet is very detailed so that you look just like Transformers Bumblebee and apart from that there are also the phrases from the movie. You can also make your voice sound like Bumblebee. Get ready to eliminate all the Decepticons as you become a real Transformer.

4. Bop It Extreme 2. This is a great game for children above 8 but adults can also have tons of fun with it. This looks like a wheel but it is a lot more than that. The game sounds easy but are you able to handle it and follow the instructions as you listen to them? As you play the instructions come out faster and you need to be really quick to keep up. You can play on your own or have your friends over and have lots of fun.

5. Tomy Pop Up Pirate. This is a classic game that can be played by the whole family and it is great fun. You have to push the sword into the barrel and hope that you will not be the one that will make the pirtae pop up. Because if this happens you lose. And this game doesn't need any batteries so this is the all the better for you and your pocket.

6. Picooz Radio Controlled Helicopter. If you are into flying but you are far from becoming a pilot then this is your chance to practice. You can have your very own helicopter and fly it even indoors. This is a great pastime as it will give you lots of fun and action. The helicopter is  very light so it will not damage any furniture or walls that it might hit on. If the weather is good you can also fly this outdoors. It is also very affordable for what it offers.

7. Screature Dinosaur. Screature has  a bad nature and is not afraid to show that. If you pet him on the wrong place he will show and may even attack you. But if you pet him right he will be your trusted friend. He will even be your guard, of the room and your stuff. This Christmas this will be a big hit as all children like dinosaurs as they are huge and mighty.

8. Fluffy Go Walkies. This is a little dog that you can take out on walks. It can also bark if you press the right button. The head glows and sparkles. This is more than a walk dog, it is a friend. If you can't take a little puppy for your child then this is the next best thing.

9. Battle Strikers Tournament set. The Battle Strikers are spinning tops which you can control with magnets. You just wear the magnet on your finger and you lead where you want to the tops to go. With the launchers you can send the tops very far and the battles can begin. The arena can be any surface that you choose. There are 16 spinning strikers that can be customised. This year the battles will fiercer  than ever before.

10. Barbie and the Three Musketeers. Now the stylish fragile Barbie becomes a ninja with matching clothes. She can use her necklace and hairpin to destroy the enemies. And she has her friends as her trusted companions. They all have very stylish outfits. At first they are ball gowns but they can become musketeer outfits. They have capes and boots and everything they need to be stylish Barbie warriors. They are able to destroy the enemies as it is only  natural. Barbie dolls are classic so another version of them is always welcomed.

You can find a lot of toys in the market but it is always useful to know which toys are the [http://www.topchristmastoys.org.uk/]top Christmas toys for 2009. This way you can pick something that your child will definitely like. After all, it is all about the [http://www.topchristmastoys.org.uk/top_10_christmas_toys.php]top 10 Christmas toys this year and you can see them right here on our website.

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