Here are our collection of paper dolls and paper men that my daughters and I have created for our World History studies, Social Studies, Unit Studies, as well as for re-enacting Shakespeare plays, our favourite passages from classical stories, novels, plays, and movies.
You may freely download these pages for your own personal use. I humbly ask you to respect my copyright. Please link back to my blog when you share with others.
Paper Dolls of Ancient History
This 4-page download includes paper dolls with clothing and items from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Vikings, Ancient Rome, & the Elizabethan Era. Read the original blog post.
- Here is your download ~ Paper Dolls of Ancient History
Paper Men of Ancient History ~
This 7-page download includes paper men with clothing and items from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Vikings, Ancient Rome, Ancient Japan, Ancient China, Ancient India and the Elizabethan Era Read the original blog post.
- Click here for your 7-page download ~ Paper Men Ancient History
Paper Dolls of Ancient Japan, China, India & Native American Indians
This 5-page paper doll download of Ancient Japan, China, India and Native American Indians includes their clothing and common items used in each culture and era.
- Here is your download ~ Paper Dolls Japan China India Native American Indians
Medieval Paper dolls and men
Theses Medieval downloads have been completely refreshed, labelled and given paper doll tabs. There are 3 files ~ Medieval Men, Medieval Women & Knight.
- Here are the 3 Medieval downloads ~Medieval Lady, and Medieval Man, and the Medieval Knight
Women Paper Dolls Through the Ages ~
This 10-page download covering women’s clothing during the following eras ~ Medieval era of the 15thC, Marie Antoniette’s French fashions of the 18thC, the Victorian era, Jane Austen and Edwardian fashions of the 19thC and more modern 1960’s fashions.
- Here is your download ~ Paper Dolls Through the Ages
Paper dolls with modern clothes ~
- This is how the paper dolls all started ~ My girls spontaneously created a set of paper dolls with modern clothing which they generously agreed to share with you! This post gives detailed step-by-step photos of how we make our paper dolls.
- Click here for your download ~ Paper Dolls with modern clothes
How do we make and use the paper dolls?
My children color in and cut out each piece out and then we laminate everything. It really makes things last so much longer and prevents tearing when they remove articles or accessories. The children cut out around the edges of the laminated dolls and clothing. They 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.
Enjoy!
Blessings, Nadene
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This is my favorite when im still a kid! Thanks for sharing, I can download these paper dolls for my kids 🙂 so happy!
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You are so welcome, @Kamile! Enjoy!
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I remember printing these out years ago for my older kids. . . And recently found them again. My 5 & 8 yo have been making paper cities and soldiers and dolls all week.
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@Alexandra, how wonderful that these paper dolls and paper men are doing a 2nd round! My daughters have such fond memories of coloring and playing with them! Thank you for sharing! Enjoy!
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Your paper dolls are quite brilliant! The links for the mideval dolls seem to be broken though. they lead to the comments and not the download. I thought you would like to know, and wanted to thank you so much for sharing!
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@Mixed Media Mess, thank you for your lovely compliment. I re-checked and all the links are working ~ click the download link just under the title before the comments and your pdf. file will open. (I really don’t know why WordPress opens the link this way?) Blessings.
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Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing! Keep up the great work and have fun!
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We have had so much fun with these paper dolls. Thank you for creating them. After having fun coloring and cutting out the dolls, they love playing with them. We have colored the same time period paper dolls multiple times.
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@Kimberly Muhtar, Thank you so much for sharing the fun and joy your children had with my paper dolls! My children also loved to use & re-use the same dolls and colour them differently each time. Blessings!
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These are AMAZING!! I loved the Native American one especially, and I was wondering if you could create a South American one, or a African or Middle Eastern?
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@Ainsley, thanks for your kind comment and I would love to try make sets for each major country or culture … I’ll add your suggestions to my list. Blessings
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Still loving your stuff, Nadene! I used to frequent your blog a lot. I’m using your Shakespearean paper dolls in a co-op, where the kids are making a Globe Theater and use your paper dolls as the characters for a Shakespeare puppet show!
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Thank you so much for sharing how you use the paper dolls in your Shakespeare co-op classes, @Julie Seidel! I am delighted that your group enjoy them in creating puppet shows. Wishing you every joy in the new year!
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Thanks a lot for this wonderful work. I’m a french teatcher and my pupils don’t like history, I’m sure that your paper dolls will make them happy.
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Absolutely perfect!! I’ll work with my esl high school class middle ages THANK YOU!! greetings from Chile 🙂
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My pleasure, @Romina! Enjoy!
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I absolutely love these! We are about to go on a road trip and I am surprising my older 2 (age 4 and 6) with these. I am especially excited about your Jane Austen attire! Would you consider doing a mens version of the “women through the ages” I really think my son would love it.
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@Rachel, thank you, the men are on the “to do” list! Enjoy!
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Beautiful Dolls! I love them! 🙂
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Thanks for sharing all your work it is really appreciated
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I am an elementary art teacher and this year I am teaching the history of art, from cave men to the Renaissance. I include the Ming dynasty in my curriculum, so your ancient Chinese dolls will be great for our upcoming unit. The Egyptian, Roman, Viking, and Middles Ages were awesome for my students! One suggestion – we will also be studying the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas – the Aztec eagle warrior and jaguar warrior would be cool for that. Next year I continue with art history, from the Renaissance to modern art. The last time I taught that curriculum I made your dolls available to my students for the appropriate time periods in art. Thanks so much – what a great resource!
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Thank you so much for sharing this resource! You are so creative and I used this activity with the girls in my classes as we studied Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt. They loved it 🙂
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Hi Nadene
Love these but was hoping you might have some of South African early settlers? I am trying to teach our children the South African heritage 🙂 We are currently living here in the USA.
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@Suzanne de Beer, what a wonderful suggestion! I’ll have to add it to my list of paper doll sets I still would like to create!
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FYI There are many different tribes of Native Americans and the dress from one tribe to another varies, especially depending on the climate each tribe lives in, like a desert region and a colder climate like Alaska would wear totally different clothing. I would like to suggest that you label which tribe(s) you have included in your Native American paper dolls. It’s an absolutely fantastic set but…
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@Edwina, thank you for your observations, but I created generic pages, not realistic representations of specific tribes or cultures based from our Sonlight Usborn History books.
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I just wanted to let you know I think your paper dolls are absolutely wonderful! We homeschool our 12 year old autistic son who is also a kinetic learner. Although I haven’t started using your dolls yet, I have plans to use them this year, when we start with ancient history! I love that you have BOTH men AND women and even include underclothes to period! I’ve included your website on my blog and also listed it in articles I’ve written for kinetic learners on the Teacher’s Toolbox, so hopefully I’ve shared your pages well. lol I’m hoping to create backdrops and bases so our son can act a few things out as we study as an optional activity to drawing, so I appreciate when you’ve included little accessories to your dolls too. Although we’ve already studied American History last year, I’m wondering if there’s any chance you would consider adding at least some basic paper dolls for American history?? Also, have you thought of including slaves to your ancient history collection?? The dolls I have looked at so far seem to be from the higher classes. Maybe I’m wrong?
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@Edwina, I’m delighted that the paper dolls fill such a wonderful place in your planning! I am sure that your son will love to create the worlds of ancient history with your backgrounds and bases! What a delightful addition! I have several other paper doll and men themes that I would like to develop when I make time. Most of the paper dolls do include several “classes”, essentially they wore the simpler colthes such as the tunics and first clothing layers, and did not have the rich, decorative fabrics, cloaks and jewelry. Check the Medieval Lady for some examples.
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Thank you so much for sharing these! My girls loved them and they really added to our studies! 😊
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These will be so awesome for our homeschool! These will be a great way to liven up our historical and cultural studies! Thank you so much for sharing!
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Nadine, thank you so much for your time, creativity, and generosity for sharing your materials. I’ve been your fan for many years now and have loved all your materials! My children love them too! Please keep them coming!! Your posts are inspiration to all educators!!
May I ask……will you have ancient Greek paper dolls? That would complete our ancient history set! Just wanted to ask….because we love your drawings!
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@terry, thank you for your kind comments! I have a long “to do” list for the paper dolls … and I hope to add the Ancient Greek dolls to the list and try plan in some creative work … 😉
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Thanks Nadine, once again for your creativity. We are using the Elizabethan dolls to go alongside our Elizabethan unit study. Thank you so much for generously making them available for free. May God bless you abundantly!
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Thank you so much for sharing.
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I printed these last week and since then it’s ALL my girls (ages 4 and 6) want to do–color and cut them out! What a blessing! I’m going to use them in our homeschool, too. Thank you so much!
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Thank you for the paper men! My son loves this kind of thing and we are doing Ancient Egypt—- so, perfect!
God bless!
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How fabulous are you!! Thank you these are just wonderful!!
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Gracias, tu material me servirá para entretenerme con mi hija, en estas vacaciones, de por si ya estamos haciendo una muñecas, God Bless you Nadene, from Mixco, Guatemala
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Thank you. Your dolls are a great addition to my theater class. We will use them in our costume unit. I feel as though you have given me a wonderful gift.
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@Leslie, my absolute pleasure! What a wonderful application for our paper dolls! Enjoy!
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Wow! Great job. I loved all the dolls. I am fond of doll making too. They are so much fun and always turn out to be pretty. I want to try your ideas with my new doll stencils. You must have them too, they are a real fun!
http://www.amazon.com/Mixed-Media-Collage-Doll-Stencils/dp/B00IQRT4N8/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1407748209&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=Mixed+Media+Doll+Stencils
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Thanks for these wonderful paper dolls, I’m going to work on Romeo and Juliet with my pupils and I’m thinking of using these dolls!
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LOVE THESE! My little lady will be using them in our ancient studies units this year! Thanks!
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I love the dolls! Thanks for creating them. Have you thought about Ancient Greece?
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thank you for this impressive work
I adore this
Maï from France
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Thank you for adding men and boys! I have a mixed crowd at my house, and my boys LOVE costumes. We are using this with our Sonlight World History.
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Thank you so much for creating these. I used the Ancient Roman paper dolls in my sophomore English class this year for a fun project. I assigned each of my students a role from “Julius Caesar” and then had them create their character using the paper dolls. They glued them to a card and then wrote a character sketch of their person on the back. We then hung each of the cards from the ceiling. As their character dies in the story we cut them down. This gives the students a great visual to go along with the play and has helped to keep them more interested in it as well. I hope to do this next year with my juniors when we read “The Crucible” but I will need Puritan styled clothing for it, which I don’t see. Do you have any plans to create anything for that time period? Again, thank you so much. The paper dolls are awesome!
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@Jennifer, what a fantastic visual aid! I’m sure that the class was utterly engaged! Sorry about the lack of Puritan-style dolls. It will have to go on my”to do” list!
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I just have to say that I am soooo excited to find your website. I recently started homeschooling my four kids and it has been a bit overwhelming. I printed off your animal science worksheets yesterday and did a fun project with them today. They wanted to get online and find all sorts of animals and figure out where they came from. It was pure joy for me to watch!! Thank you SO much for the time and effort you put into this site. Thank you for sharing it with newbies like me! 🙂
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@Arian, Welcome! Enjoy and be blessed!
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Even though I teach high school, my students will love these. Also thinking about using the women’s printables for a women’s studies course. Thanks!
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@Robin Smith, you’re so welcome, Robin! Enjoy!
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Lovely. Absolutely lovely. Bless your heart for all you share here on your delightful blog. While my 2 sons are now grown, and I’m not blessed with little ones around right now, I do consider myself somewhat of a Grandmother-in-waiting 😉 and your crafts and projects are wonderful, truly worth sharing and saving!
With appreciation, Gina
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Hi I’m a student teacher and we are studying the Vikings, and I was wondering whether it is okay whether I use your Viking clothes to show the children in class? As they are a great way to show all the different things that they wore. Please get back to me soon thanks!
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@Heather, you are most welcome to use the Viking paper dolls for your lessons! Blessings!
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Fabulous work. I would love to see some ancient greek clothing.
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Thank you @Lori, I hope to expand my collection … when I get time! I’ll make a note to create some Ancient Greek paper men and dolls!
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Thanks! That would be awesome. Let me know when you do.
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precioso material,gracias por compartirlo.Tengo una sobrina a la que le encantan estas muñecas. Mariel Argentina
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Tengo el placer!
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Hi,i was looking for Armour of God paper dolls and outfits and came upon your page. Really creative.
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my girls just love korea’s clothing
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can u add ancient and modern korea thx
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These are so cool! My girls will love thanks!
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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!
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@Patri, my pleasure – enjoy!
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Thank you for sharing these. I am using the Roman paper dolls with my elementary Latin classes. God bless.
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Thank you for sharing these! they are so thoughtful and artistic…beautifully done!
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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.
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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!
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These are great! Thank you so much! Our whole family/boys and girls can enjoy and learn. Keep them coming. 🙂
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These are wonderful!! My 7 year old is thrilled with them- thank you!
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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.
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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!
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@Rachel,thank you – yes, of course! Be Blessed!
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Thank you so much! These will be great for my Latin students when learning clothing. Any chance we could see some paper children?
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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!
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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!
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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)
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Hello Alice, I have some paper men under construction and hope to post them sometime soon! Enjoy!
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Thanks 🙂 Alice (12 years old)
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i love the paper dolls
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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 🙂
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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!
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Thank you! My 6 year old daughter LOVES to color clothes, and play with paper dolls. What a blessing to find a free printable.
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my daughter just loves these paper dolls, and so do I. Thank you for creating and sharing them!
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Thanks so much for sharing these. They are fantastic!
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These will be a great addition to history or geography studies. Thank you.
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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
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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.
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LOVE these!!! Thank you!
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I love them. TY!! Shared your page on FB.
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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) 🙂
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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.
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How wonderful! Thank you so much. My children will love these! I’ll be sharing with my readers!
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Is it in your plans to make Biblical characters? I would be interested in that.
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@Tricia, what a lovely idea! I’ll add it to our list! 🙂
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Thanks so much for sharing these. We will be using them with our geography/culture study this year!
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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?
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Great idea! @Gina, I’ll add it to my list of other paper dolls I have on the back burner!
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I know you are not American, but if you ever add this era… it would be great. 😉 We are studying American History this year. It would be especially great for the boys.
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@Melinda, I appreciate the suggestion! Early American settlers would make a good set. I’ll add it to my future drawing plans.
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I just want to thank you for all of these wonderful downloads!!! You are a true blessing!
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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..
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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 🙂
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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. 🙂
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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! 😉
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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.
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How wonderful to find your site and so many neat ideas. My question is: what is prestick? Is it sold in the states?
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Prestick is our South African “sticky stuff” 🙂 I don’t know your USA brand.
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From my understanding prestick is like sticky putty, for hanging posters etc.
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For those who are only reading this post now, I believe is the same as Blu-Tac in Australia; Plasti-Tac (from hobby Lobby) or clay stuff/tack in US.
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@Carriesue, yes, and some American friends told me they call theirs “sticky tacky”.
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Think Ticky tac (comes in white/blue/yellow ) available at Dollar Tree
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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.
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How lovely! Thanks for sharing your daughter’s coloured-in paper dolls:)
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