The girls and I have drawn and created these paper dolls and paper men to share with you. Our World History studies inspired many of these designs.
(We are happy for you to download these pages for your own personal use. Please give our link to these pages to others if you wish others to share in our creativity, but I humbly ask that you may not copy these pages to sell them! 
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Click on each title to see the original post with photos of the designs. Click below the title for your pdf download.
Paper dolls with modern clothes:
Click here for your download ~ PaperDolls
This was our first paper doll post and it features modern clothing.
The post gives detailed step-by-step photos of how we make our paper dolls.
Paper Dolls ~ Fashions Through Past Eras:
Click here for your download ~Paper Dolls & clothes
This download includes:
- Jane Austen fashions of the 1800′s
- Victorian era
- Edwardian eras of 1900′s
- Medieval era
- King Louis French fashions
- 1960′s fashions
- Romeo & Juliet 1500′s
- Romeo & Juliet
- Jane Austen 1800′s
- Jane Austen 1800′s
- Marie Antoinette French 1789
- Edwardian 1900′s
- Little Women 1865
- ‘Little Women’ 1865
- 1960′s Hair Spray
Paper Dolls of Ancient History:
Click here for your download ~ Paper Dolls Ancient History
This 4 page download includes ~
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Vikings
- Ancient Rome
- Elizabethan Era
Paper Dolls of Ancient Japan, China, India and North American Indians:
Here is your download ~ Paper Dolls Japan China India Native American Indians
This download includes:
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- Ancient China
- Ancient Japan
- Ancient India
- Native Americans
Paper Men of Ancient History:
Click here for your 7 page download ~ Paper Men Ancient History
This 4 page download includes ~
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Vikings
- Ancient Rome
- Elizabethan Era
- Ancient China
- Ancient Japan
- Ancient India
How do we make and use the paper dolls?
The girls colour in and cut out each piece out and then we laminate everything.
I just love the laminater – it really makes things last so much longer and prevents tearing when they remove articles or accessories.
The girls stick the laminated clothing on the doll with prestick (sticky-stuff).
You may want to add shoulder tabs as the vintage paper dolls have instead.
As I am constantly creating more paper dolls to add to our collection, please subscribe or click on my RSS feed under my Gravatar to receive notification of the latest posts.
Enjoy!
Blessings,
Hi, Nadene, well have a look at
http://web.mac.com/kuitenbrouwer/Paula_Kuitenbrouwer/Be_Creative_Blog/Entries/2010/5/26_Add_color_to_your_history_lesson.html
Thank you from Belgium.
How lovely! Thanks for sharing your daughter’s coloured-in paper dolls:)
How wonderful to find your site and so many neat ideas. My question is: what is prestick? Is it sold in the states?
Prestick is our South African “sticky stuff”
I don’t know your USA brand.
From my understanding prestick is like sticky putty, for hanging posters etc.
Thank you SO much for this! We have had so much fun with these paper dolls — just done with Ancient History — finally something my little boy (Sebastian almost 8) could get a hold of.
I feel silly to ask this, Nadene, but I can’t find the actual MEN paper dolls. In the men PDF, there is an Indian man and Chinese man, but for the other styles (Viking, etc) there are faces and clothes but no bodies. Do we just stick the pieces together to make the man or use the Asian men as the base?
We’re trying to act out King Lear.
The Ancient India man is our basic man. His features are ‘neutral’ and with the different hair styles he looks the part! We included bearded faces to stick over our neutral man and then he is totally transformed. (The Ancient Japanese man will work for the Ancient Chinese man.)
Have fun acting out Shakespeare!
thanks AGAIN for keeping your paper dolls available. my kids NEVER get tired of them! i have an 8 yr old boy and 11 yr old girl, who both homeschool. thank you, thank you, thank you!
jen
Thanks for sharing such wonderful creations. I have 2 boys (8 and 5) but love paperdolls myself so am wanting to include them in their history studies..
I just want to thank you for all of these wonderful downloads!!! You are a true blessing!
I love these!! Cannot wait to use this with my family this next school year! Are there any plans for early american paper dolls? 1700-1800?
Great idea! @Gina, I’ll add it to my list of other paper dolls I have on the back burner!
Thanks so much for sharing these. We will be using them with our geography/culture study this year!
Is it in your plans to make Biblical characters? I would be interested in that.
@Tricia, what a lovely idea! I’ll add it to our list!
How wonderful! Thank you so much. My children will love these! I’ll be sharing with my readers!
Found these. LOVE them! You’re one of the only people who draws guys. And it’s great to see someone else using Sonlight. Raised on that.
Great idea making paper dolls for that.
Hi Nadine, I just love these Paper-dolls. It was one of my favorites when I was a little girl. My little Princess(6) just discovered Paper-dolls, I cannot wait sharing this with her.
I enjoy your blog so much, it’s like walking through a garden, it gave me so much joy. Thanks for sharing everything for free, I pray that you will receiving back in abundance.
Love Merinda from Bellville (SA)
I love them. TY!! Shared your page on FB.
LOVE these!!! Thank you!
Wow these are so fantastic. My 6 year old girl is sooo excited and is right now busy cutting and colouring. Her 8 year old brother was excited to see there were some boy ones too and that now he gets to do some too.
Thank you so much for these! My kids are having so much fun with them and I love that they can go along with the history that we are learning
These will be a great addition to history or geography studies. Thank you.
Thanks so much for sharing these. They are fantastic!
my daughter just loves these paper dolls, and so do I. Thank you for creating and sharing them!
Thank you! My 6 year old daughter LOVES to color clothes, and play with paper dolls. What a blessing to find a free printable.
These are lovely! This reminds me of years ago for a Freshman English project on Elizabethan times I took store-bought paper dolls and made Elizabethan costumes for them. It was so much fun, and really a applied learning experience to do the research on what was appropriate clothing. I still have the project!
Hello dear Nadene!
I’m soooo excited to have found your amazing, wonderful, inspiring site!! YAY!!! SO happy!!! I was planning on Sunday night for my homeschooling week and GOd gave me this super idea of doing paper dolls for my younger girls in Edwardian style (we are studying The Titanic.) Without too much searching there you are…. your little wonder page of assorted dolls from ages gone by are right there… FREE for me to print! Oh thank you sooo very much!! The girls have LOVED them, totally LOVED them!! I’ve printed out at least 3 pages so they can have different coloured outfits (all at their request!) Even Esther my 2 yr old has had the best fun! My son wants one, it’s hard to find “guys” especially in Edwardian (plenty of Victorian era) I ended up making my own, thanks to your inspiration!!
Oh i really am sooo thankful for all the fabulous things you have to share here, I am now officially a follower and Praise God for your kindness!
Have a blessed day sweet Nadene,
Smiles Sharnee
i love the paper dolls
thank you so much for sharing these designs, I have already printed them all off and am eagerly awaiting the next ones! Please may you make a page of men for me? I would try myself but i’m afraid I’m not too good
thank you so very much, from myself and all of my paper-doll-obsessed friends.
Alice (12 years old)
Hello Alice, I have some paper men under construction and hope to post them sometime soon! Enjoy!
Thanks
Alice (12 years old)
Thanks again, Nadene, for a wonderful product and idea that you are willing to share with us. I received little books about Children of the World, and my mil still has a set of encyclopedias – Children of the World, that I was wondering how to bring alive to the boys. This will be perfect!
A good book to go along with the paper dolls is Costume, published by Dorling Kindersley, an Eye-Witness book . Sub-title: Discover the history and meaning of clothing-from loincloths to buckskins to the ever-changing fashions of today. Thanks for this project to work on as we listen to history read-alouds!
Thank you so much! These will be great for my Latin students when learning clothing. Any chance we could see some paper children?
Dear Nadine,
These paperdolls are wonderful! I am an ESL teacher and would like to use them with some of my classes. Would you mind my reproducing them often enough to do that?
Thank you!
@Rachel,thank you – yes, of course! Be Blessed!
My son loves the men dolls! (I’m so impressed with the details, btw.) He is very hopeful that you will also design a page for North American Indian men clothes.
These are wonderful!! My 7 year old is thrilled with them- thank you!
These are great! Thank you so much! Our whole family/boys and girls can enjoy and learn. Keep them coming.
Just amazing, love it!!
I’ll use it as a vocabulary game in my English lessons for children
Thank so much, it’s just what I was looking for!
Please check out: http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/nmop/2/3
It is a museeum and will help you with your studies of the world and history.
The left arm of your lady doll is slightly off. To adjust shorten above and below the elbow.
Thank you for sharing these! they are so thoughtful and artistic…beautifully done!
Thank you for sharing these. I am using the Roman paper dolls with my elementary Latin classes. God bless.
Your viking paper dolls are just perfect for my ELT year project on vikings.
Thank you so very much for sharing them.
Love from Argentina!
@Patri, my pleasure – enjoy!
These are so cool! My girls will love thanks!
can u add ancient and modern korea thx
my girls just love korea’s clothing