Paper dolls so pretty you might play with them yourself

by Susan | DIY, Toys + Playthings

I’m a sucker for beautiful vintage-y paper dolls; they’re the perfect antidote to the plugged-in life my kids are living. And beautiful vintage-style paper dolls that help kids with disabilities? Sold. TinyUs is a creative charity set up to raise funds for...

Vintage paper dolls turned beautiful children’s clothing

by Cool Mom Team | Baby, Kid Style

Recently I attended a Brooklyn mommy event and discovered one local indie kids clothing designer whose pieces were being oohed and ahhed over by eager parents. I suppose the innocent 1930s, ’40s and ’50s paper doll-inspired clothes were such a refreshingly...

Paper dolls meet building blocks

by Barbara | Toys + Playthings

My go-to standard baby shower gift was, for a long time, either a baby bathtub, or infant footie sleepers. Useful, and admittedly a little uninspired. These days, I want to give something unusual, beautiful and creative: both moms and babies deserve them. My latest...

Paper Dolls: There’s an app for that

by Stephanie Slate | DIY

When it comes to iPhone apps and kids, I’m a big believer that simple is better. Too many bells and whistles usually means too many “Mom, come fix this!” calls from the other room. (And it’s usually far more dire sounding and less polite than...

Paper dolls that will blow you away, not the other way around

by Cool Mom Team | Toys + Playthings

I’ve become a strong advocate of paper dolls since realizing that my girls can spend hours entertaining themselves with them. The only issue? That whole paper thing. Let’s just say freak decapitations are are not an uncommon occurrence. So when I saw the...

We found wonderfully diverse dollhouse dolls: Multicultural, multiracial, differently-abled and more.

by Christina Refford | Toys + Playthings

If a dollhouse is on your kids’ holiday wish lists, don’t forget to include some dollhouse dolls so that they can get right to the business of playing (while you clean up wrapping paper).  But unlike dollhouses which come in lots of different styles, from...

Adorable magnetic paper doll sets mean no more paper scraps in the carpet, huzzah!

by Ellyn Exley Dvorkin | Toys + Playthings

Every day is a good day for superhero pretend-play. So I couldn’t be more excited to discover these magnetic dress-up paper doll kits by a company that we already love, Petit Collage. (Psst…did you catch their adorable mermaid playset in our list of the...

Easy, fun Halloween papercrafts for kids that don’t require anything you don’t have in the house already. (You have scissors, right?)

by Liz Gumbinner | DIY

If your kids are like mine and Kristen’s, they started counting down to Halloween…oh, November 1 of last year. Now that they’re in full Halloween commando mode, I’ve been looking for some easy crafts to distract them from asking me for the...

Custom dolls from your kids’ drawings. Now that’s a keepsake.

by PJ Feinstein | Toys + Playthings

My three-year-old son brings artwork home from nursery school by the armful — if you consider a couple of paint drops on construction paper to be art, that is. Every so often, however, he creates something that actually resembles a person, place, or thing, and I...

World’s cutest wallpaper and wall decals for kids’ rooms? Entirely possible.

by Liz Gumbinner | Art + Decor

For a while we’ve been fans of the creative wall decals and wallpaper from Pop & Lolli made just for kids’ rooms –and so have our readers. So much so, they’re always getting requests for more designs, more styles, more colors. So...