Lisa Frank Cassie & Tatey Bug Dress-Up Dolls With Over 275 Stickers

My daughter wanted paper dolls so badly that she had started making her own on rules notebook paper. I wanted to get her some that were sturdy, stylish, and could be punched out rather than cut out. These dolls ticked all of those boxes.

Two Caucasian paper dolls (one blonde, one brunette) in identical poses share half a dozen short dresses, about a dozen each tops and bottoms (including skirts, shorts, and slacks) and a variety of boots and shoes, as well as a pair of pajamas with slippers. The clothes and dolls are on good card stock and are punch-outs. Additionally, a few more full-color card stock garments are printed on the back cover and can be cut out with scissors. The color scheme is the usual Lisa Frank mix of garish pinks, purples, electric blues, yellows, etc. Along with the dolls themselves are three dogs and a teddy bear (meant, one must presume, to perhaps tastelessly "accessorize" these fashionistas, but suitable for play nonetheless). The 275 stickers boasted of in the description are nothing remarkable; they are very tiny (though filling out two full pages altogether) and do not seem made for use with the dolls themselves (not reusable). They do, however, include a girl-friendly variety of unicorns, hearts, cute animals, and miniatures of the doll characters, all in the usual Lisa Frank style. What I liked about the set was that it didn't stop here. There are also twelve coloring pages in the center of the book (some having nothing to do with the dolls, others showing the characters at play) and more interestingly to me, two black and white pages (ordinary paper) at front and back with an additional twenty garments for your dolls to be colored as desired and cut out with scissors. It would be only one step from the inspiration of these to using plain paper to trace the dolls and create all your own doll clothes, as my sister and I did in childhood.I picked this up for only three dollars at one of the dollar chain stores (precisely because I was looking to see if any modern manufacturers make inexpensive paper doll sets like the kind I remember from long-ago makers like Whitman) but think the nice variety of coloring, stickers, and dolls (with punch out, cut out, and color your own clothes) would probably entertain a child recipient even at a higher price. All in all, kind of a nice little set.

I love these Lisa Frank paper dolls. The book includes pages of pre-colored clothing that fits both of the paper dolls included a blonde and a brunette. You use scissors to cut them out everything except the stickers. There are also bonus pages of clothes you color yourself. The bonus pages are on thinner paper. In addition you get pages of Lisa Frank stickers and some coloring pages. You can cover the pages with clear adhesive vinyl before cutting them out to make them sturdier.