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, Uglydolls 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 1915 Cracker Jack baseball cards 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.

Japanese Animation

Usually, we look for various things to get us out of our bored state. One of the best things to do Dell comics to watch cartoons, but ordinary cartoons have lost their taste and we are now turning to new forms of animated cartoons which are drawing more people all the time. Japanese Animations are these kinds of cartoons that are getting great interest.

Though most of these Japanese Animation are hand drawn you will find that nowadays they are more of computer generated or animated as well. Most of these animations are a mixture of fantasy, Batman comics and some facts. You will find that they can involve characters like those of old stories, such as fairies and elves but they are more in the modern times with cars being involved as well as cellular phones.

You will find that Japanese Animation include several 1949 Bowman baseball cards backgrounds of the Japanese with samurai's being headline features in many of the cartoons that are featured on the internet or on television. The storyline will probably not be dated such as the cartoon Naruto, which is not dated but the setting is clearly of olden times in Japan, however they use modern instruments sometimes and most of the characters do not look like Japanese at all.

Many of these Japanese animations are really cool to watch because even though they are not all in English but in Japanese, they captivate us with ever series and episode that you do not want to stop watching. Though when the anime is in English, it kinda spoils the plot of the show because it loses its originality and plot.

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