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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?

Chestnut Wed 17-Jan-24 23:56:11

They even have one called
Grandma's Cut Out Paper Dolls Book

Chestnut Wed 17-Jan-24 23:46:14

Cyclone

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

I posted a link to Belle & Boo earlier in the thread.

Fairycakes Wed 17-Jan-24 21:52:15

Cyclone, they have some for sale on Amazon. Probably Ebay too.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

🤣🤣🤣

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!!

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😥

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 !

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

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.

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 😔

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 18:04:26

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

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

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