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Playtime

Bonkers1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:09:47 GMT

When I was a kid I remember my favorite indoor pastimes were paper dolls and coloring. Does anyone remember paper dolls?

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tansy — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:12:03 GMT

McCall's magazine had a paper doll in each issue.

I liked the sturdy Color Form ones with the peel and stick clothing.

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JYWilliams — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:12:12 GMT

Yes, I remember paper dolls and enjoyed playing with them. That brings back memories. LOL...

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50Mickey — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:12:39 GMT

Oh yes especially Betsy McCall.

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cindyNC — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:54:02 GMT

I remember playing with them. Also remember candy cigarettes..........LOL

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GingerHead — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:56:00 GMT

@Bonkers1

I loved playing with Paper Dolls, Barbies, any kind of Doll and Stuffed Animals and I spent hours playing with fashion plates:

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Bonkers1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:57:43 GMT

@GingerHead

What were Fashion Plates?

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GingerHead — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:12:37 GMT

@Bonkers1

It's a kit with different plates that you mix and match different tops, middles, bottoms and patterns to get different outfits and looks.

You then put them in the holder, place a piece of paper over it and emboss it with a crayon or similar to get the outline and then you can use the other side to emboss different patterns or designs and then you remove and color it in....

I copied and pasted below a better discription, that was from the listing with the picture I posted above:

1. Choose which model's head and hairstyle you fancy
2. Select a top or blouse
3. Select a bottom (slacks, shorts, or skirt)
4. Slip a piece of paper over the plates but under the plate’s frame
5. Hold down the frame and rub over the plates with the crayon to get the outline of the figure
6. Turn over whichever plate(s) you like the texture on (there's all kinds of options, from plaid to flowers, etc.)
7. Use colored pencils to color the outfits and give them whatever unique design you prefer
8. Voila...you have just created your very own fashionista!

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jlkz — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:38:59 GMT

@Bonkers1

Yes...paper dolls ! We even progressed to drawing our own basic dolls and using flowers, petals, bark, etc to create accessories: billowing skirts with bows, big hats with flowers and leaves, etc.

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Bonkers1 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:03:11 GMT

@GingerHead

That could be my new adult pastime - looks like fun lol.

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Roscoe the Rascal — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:20:19 GMT

I loved paper dolls. My aunts took the magazine and I always got them.

My sisters never like playing with dolls and I was crazy for them. I have no idea what they did like do to be honest. I could tell you what my brothers liked. Funny. I will have to ask my sister that question.

I loved playing with jacks and also color. I still do color now and then.

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DottieBlue — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:44:15 GMT

I loved paper dolls, and coloring, too. My sister and I would play "jacks" and "pickup stix" for hours. Just good, simple fun.

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just bee — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 00:46:13 GMT

Liked my Spirograph -- in addition to coloring, dolls and paper dolls.

But my mother bought us a set of World Book Encyclopedias as well as a set of Childcraft books.

With that came the Cyclo-teacher!

Spent hours studying different subjects.

I think my mother worried about us all getting evicted so she kept us supplied with books and other "quiet" activities. (It worked.)

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shoekitty — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:45:20 GMT

paper dolls were a favorite. I must have used them around 4 til I was 10 or so.i think sometimes I woukd find paper dolls in magazines? Maybe McCall's. And another magazine. Otherwise at the Ben Franklin there woukd be a whole rack of all kinds of paper dolls, Doris day, , baby, teen ones. Take your pick. Along with jacks and pick up sticks erector sets were fun. Jacks and marbles were a favorite of mine. I was good at jacks and marbles. We took these to school and played each other at recess.

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MoJoV — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:09:07 GMT

I loved paper dolls. Cutting them out, they had the little tabs to fold over to hold the "clothes" on. Never heard about any in magazines. They always came in a book of them. Loved Colorforms, too. And I still color with colored pencils in adult coloring books occasionally.

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Elodie2 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:20:55 GMT

Another Colorform girl, here. But, what I really loved doing was cutting out pictures of rooms from mom's magazines and designing a house. Sometimes it would have two or three kitchens if I couldn't make up my mind. We were quite creative back then and I'm grateful for it.

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lynnie61 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:23:02 GMT

I loved paper dolls. I had Barbie, That Girl, and Liddle kiddles. I bought my sister a Spirograph a few years ago. She had one as a kid, and she loved that new one! My grandma sent me the Betsy McCall paper dolls every few months in the mail.

I had a kiddle kiddles tracing board. Lit with a light bulb. We would trace pictures provided, to have more to color. It was one of my favorite toys in the 60's.

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Junebug54 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:41:39 GMT

For those that like coloring there are coloring books for adults. Instead of crayons there are colored pencils and of course much more details. I think they're called "Art of Coloring".

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Bonkers1 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:56:12 GMT

@MoJoV

So funny you would mention adult coloring books - I just ordered some online.

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Bonkers1 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:59:28 GMT

@just bee

Kids today would have no idea what the Encyclopedias were.