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Clothing Designer

Materials:

• Paper or bags for covering table
• art supplies

Directions:

You've probably never thought of your kitchen as Savile Row. Well, here's an activity tailor-made to keep your child busy creating while you're busy cooking.

On a table covered with a large sheet of paper, your child can draw life-size clothes—fit for a life-size paper doll.

First, he or she can lie on the paper (put it on the floor first) while you quickly trace his or her body. Once the outline is back on the table, your child can fill in the clothes. The attire can be as fanciful or as fancy as your child's imagination allows. What about a knight in shining silver armor? A princess at the royal ball? Or even a mermaid or a centaur?

Another alternative is to take a jacket, pair of pants, or some other article of clothing, lay it on the paper, and trace around it. Then your child can color in the clothes and cut them out. Or he or she can draw in a head, hands, feet, and other features to make a colorful paper person.

Of course, your designer can tape the clothing to him- or herself. Voilą! A walking, talking paper doll!