Things You'll Need:
- Magazines, catalogs or photographs
- Light cardboard or card stock
- Scissors
- Crayons or markers
- Paste or glue
- Popsicle stick
- Yarn (for hair)
- Glitter or sequins (optional)
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Step 1
To begin, trace the shape of a person. A simple man with a T-shirt and a pair of jeans or a woman with a skirt is the easiest. Make it about 4 or 5 inches tall. Cut out this person and retrace the outline exactly. Retrace the outline again on a piece of light cardboard or card stock.
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Step 2
Draw and color your outline into a realistic-looking person---perhaps a historic African-American for Black History Month. Alternately, you can use images of a real person from magazines, catalogs or photographs.
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Step 3
For the second outline of a person, draw or cut out a photo of the back of the person you just drew for the first outline, or just create another copy of the first. To add some fun, make it another front side but doing something different.
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Step 4
Paste your cardboard cutout on a Popsicle stick. Paste the two paper cutouts onto each side of the piece of cardboard, facing opposite directions. You now have a paper doll with either a face on both sides or one with a front and a back.
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Step 5
Draw different shaped clothing accessories, adding small tabs on the outlines of shirts or pants, or cut them out of magazines with extra tabs on the side. Paste or fold the clothing over your paper doll, using the tabs to bend around your doll so the clothes stay on.
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Step 6
Give your doll more accessories if desired, and use some yarn to give your doll hair. To embellish your doll's clothes, add glitter or sequins.
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Step 7
Make more dolls to represent other historic African American figures, and use the dolls to teach or learn about Black History Month.
