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Does Anyone Remember Paper Cut Out Dolls?

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Fairycakes Sat 13-Jan-24 13:17:04

When I was little (in the 60s) my mum would often buy me a book with a paper cut out doll. I would spend hours quietly playing with it, dressing it up in different outfits with matching handbags and hats. I haven't seen them on sale for a long time. Maybe today's children wouldn't find them so absorbing. I did manage to buy a wooden one for my granddaughter, but she wasn't interested. I think she prefers her kindle, ha! ha!

Does anyone else remember them?

LesLee7 Tue 16-Jan-24 17:58:07

Yes we must be of an age. I used to love them and believe I still have mine in the loft - which I'm supposed to be sorting out while I can still get up there, but it's a struggle.
When I get round to it they will go on ebay as I'm on my own and no one to leave them to. Surprising how nostalgic people are for some things.

Onthemoors Tue 16-Jan-24 17:58:36

I used to receive Bunty then Jackie. I was so obsessed with Ballet, I used to cut out ballerinas and stick them in a big scrapbook. I would take the book into my ballet class each week, expect the teacher must've got quite bored with that scrapbook!! But I adored it.

Labradora Tue 16-Jan-24 18:03:24

Yes I remember them. Cut out the clothes then hang them on the dolls by wrapping around the dolls small paper tabs designed into the clothes. Haven't seen them in 50 years.

Whiteanemone Tue 16-Jan-24 18:03:32

I loved them too. Seem to remember them on the back of Kellogg’s cornflakes packets…….?

Fairycakes Tue 16-Jan-24 18:04:26

There are paper cut out dolls on ebay, but not of the style I remember. And they are really expensive 😳

PaperMonster Tue 16-Jan-24 18:07:53

You can get these nowadays. My daughter’s a pre-teen and she used to play with them!

Fairycakes Tue 16-Jan-24 18:08:23

Amazon has one called Ballerina Lisa for only £3.99 😁. I'd like to buy it but I doubt very much that my granddaughter would play with it 😔

Nannan2 Tue 16-Jan-24 18:50:37

Yes i had those when i was little. They had them on back of some comics but you could get dress up cut out doll books also.

harrysgran Tue 16-Jan-24 19:11:30

Loved them my favourite memory is receiving a large cardboard one with lots of cut out clothes I also remember the ones on back of the Bunty comic

ALANaV Tue 16-Jan-24 19:21:23

Used to love them ! when I had finished with those free from a comic or magazine, my friends and I made our own, cut out dresses from coloured paper......spent hours with them !

Linda48 Tue 16-Jan-24 19:22:34

Loved them - spent many happy hours cutting out & dressing/redressing - my little brother was sadly not as enthusiastic as me. How I miss him 😥

Bella23 Tue 16-Jan-24 19:33:12

Yes I had them and loved to make up stories with them,
I also remember having a cardboard one that had a cut between the legs and you put another piece of card through and it stood up. I also had one with a magnet on its tummy and you stuck small magnets on the clothes which gradually slipped down the doll.

Lindy56 Tue 16-Jan-24 19:49:15

Remember the cut out paper dolls from the early sixties. Kept me amused for hours. Also looked forward to my Bunty and Judy comics every week.

annodomini Tue 16-Jan-24 20:09:00

I never had Bunty which wasn't published until I was 18, but did have those cut-out dolls with cut-out clothing so they must have been in another publication or in books. I think I remember trying to draw and cut out dresses I designed myself.

Sarahr Tue 16-Jan-24 20:58:38

I loved playing with my paper dolls and even had a go at making my own. Grandad used to help me cut the dolls and clothes out when I was little.

Gwenisgreat Tue 16-Jan-24 21:16:29

Yes, I did like playing with them until I got fed up with them!

Lucyd Tue 16-Jan-24 21:18:04

I loved those cut out dolls. I once was given some very posh ones. A family my mum knew were emigrating to Australia and they had one child who was a couple of years older than me. I was given some of her toys including some dressing up dolls made of sturdy cardboard and they had nylon hair. I was delighted. My little grand daughter is only 15 months but I hope she will enjoy such simple toys. Her daddy loved imaginary games especially dressing up, cuddly tots and crafy activities ( probably because I was so enthusiastic!) Most of his contemporaries ( he is 25) were into tech but he was quite happy without it.

daisybooh Tue 16-Jan-24 22:07:12

Great memories played for hours and made up stories ect better than today’s tech games

Wilm Tue 16-Jan-24 22:09:04

I can remember cutting babies out of Gratton catalogue plus the blankets & playing with them. I can vividly remember coming home from school & my mum had thrown them all out….i was sooo upset.

JuBut Wed 17-Jan-24 07:43:32

I loved playing with them! Such a lot of different outfits x

Nanniejude Wed 17-Jan-24 09:07:47

Loved them, had a whole pretend school! They were on the back of Bunty every week. As I got older they started to get boyfriends and kiss!!

Fairycakes Wed 17-Jan-24 10:03:27

Nanniejude
As I got older they started to get boyfriends and kiss!!

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Bella23 Wed 17-Jan-24 10:47:27

My DDs learned to use scissors cutting baby pictures and clothes out of Mothercare catalogues and dressing them.
My mum must have let me cut her magazines as I remember making a Fairground peep show with photos of the film Cleopatra with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor.

Daddima Wed 17-Jan-24 10:54:23

Mollygo

Norah and Tilly in Woman and Home magazine. We had to wait ages until Mum had finished reading the magazine.

Those are the ones I remember, a wee bit before Bunty.

Cyclone Wed 17-Jan-24 21:35:19

I loved them, wish I could buy them for my
GD who is 4 year. I remember them on the back of Bunty.