Are you working on a weather unit in your preschool themes this year? Then check out these awesome paper doll template pack that includes paper doll dresses, paper doll cutouts, season themed activities that focus on Fall, Winter, Summer, and Spring. These dress-up printables could work for your seasons and clothing unit too!
Printable Paper Dolls
Our Winter Paper Dolls dress up busy bag was SO popular on the blog that I had so many requests for a spring and summer version. I’ve done even better than that though! I have created a full activity pack that includes a coloring page worksheet type of activity and incorporated more season learning. Read on for further details!
Materials Required
- Cardstock
- Laminator with pouches.
- Magnets
- The printable activity at the end of this post.
- A magnetic surface. You can use a cookie sheet, magnetic whiteboards or even a metal container.
What’s included
This time, the paper doll dresses and paper doll clothing you receive are themed for all the four seasons!
You can laminate and add magnets to these paper dolls, and use on a cookie sheet or any other magnetic surface. Here is an example from the winter dress up pack:
You can find the new Seasons Printable Paper Doll Dress Up Pack at the bottom of this post.
I wanted to enhance the learning of seasons, so I’ve added some seasonal backdrops. Children can use the printable paper dolls on horizontal or vertical backgrounds, or use the small cards to dress the dolls with the appropriate clothing for the season.
Here are some examples of questions to ask during the activity:
- What would you wear in the summer? What would you wear in the spring?
- If you wear shorts in the winter, how would you feel?
- What does fall look like? What does fall feel like?
You can also use the backgrounds and add in some printable paper dolls for storytelling activities. This paper doll template pack really has SO many options.
I’ve created a lot of variety in the printable paper doll pack so that you can print out what is most suitable for your class.
The seasons printable pack includes two sizes of paper dolls. The bigger size is almost the size of a normal piece of paper. This is for children who may have difficulty working with small pieces and need bigger ones.
I have also included printable worksheets/coloring pages so that children can choose a doll and create the doll and dresses according to their own imaginations. This worksheet was ADORED by my children.
Here is an example of what the worksheet looks like once you cut and color it. You can either leave it so that children can interchange the clothes, or you can have them glue on their outfits. This activity is wonderful for a creative child.
I have included a few dolls that already have seasonal clothing on. You can use these as a visual perception activity. Have children add on the correct clothing items. The summer ones are easier since they are normally just a dress and shoes, but as you progress to winter clothes, there are multiple items including boots, pants, a top, a hat, and a scarf.
Here are what the Season pages look like. Children can match the clothing to the season.
The image below shows you the sizes of the printable paper dolls. The one on the right includes the size of one of the options on the Seasons Dress Up Dolls Pack.
Here you can see an example of one of the dress-up doll worksheets where children can create their own dolls.
I love our Lakeshore Learning People Colors for skin tones. I purchased the colored pencils version. I have not tried the crayon version so I can’t say which one is better. I do love that the colors come in a wide variety of tones so that we cover all skin tones! Crayola has a marker multi-cultural skintone version here, which I just purchased to try out. There are Crayola Crayons and they have a classroom set of markers too.
For the clothing, we tried out crayons and markers. Crayons are on the left, and Markers are on the right. I think the markers were much more vibrant, so I am really keen to try out the skin tone markers above. I do like that the Lakeshore crayons gave the skin tone a softer look, as skin should look. I might just opt to do the hair in marker instead. These would ALSO be amazing to use with some watercolor paint.
andrea
hello,
I love your paper dolls, I work in a special education school in Argentina.
can you send me the dolls for print?
thanking you in advance
andrea