Originally Posted by Up North
Oh my gosh at Grandmas house we used to cut out paper dolls. But we made our own from the catalog finding outfits we could cut out too. We glued them to lt wt cardboard with her bottle of Mucilage that golden colored glue in a bottle with an orange rubber top with a slit in it. You can still get paint by number, Walmart has a few. Grandma also had a can of wallpaper cleaner that was a lot like playdough I don't think playdough was invented yet. We made things with that too. And remember the regular kind of clay? Not playdough but it stayed soft. I know you can still buy it, I have some here someplace,
Weren't paper dolls great. I used to hold the clothes on using my Mom's bobbi pins. In the 40's most ladies wore their hair up or back (using bobbi pins) either because they worked in the factories during the war or because it was the style.
We also used to cut out rings and watches from the Sears catalogue and tape them on. We really believed that our "watches & rings" looked real.