Almost any woman over the age of 50 can remember playing with paper dolls as a child. Friends spent hours cutting out figures and dressing them in outfits or drawing costumes themselves. Children w… ...

This was a popular scene in many homes during the “Golden Age of Paper Dolls” (1930s-1950s). Throughout the 1900s, women’s and children’s magazines began including paper dolls in their issues.

Collected at long last by Zelda’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, in THE PAPER DOLLS OF ZELDA FITZGERALD (Scribner, 116 pp., $25.99), the dolls retain an intimacy that’s more piercing somehow ...

Artist David Wolfe will speak about the history of paper dolls in "Paper Dolls Past and Present" Saturday, Oct. 1, at Kent Memorial Library. An expert on the ever-popular paper playthings, he will ...

Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Sayre home in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1919, a year before the two were married. A new collection of Zelda’s paper dolls is being published on November ...

Pull out your bins of paper scraps and let your kids cut out dresses, shirts, skirts and pants that will fit the doll's body. Some kids will even want to add boots, hair bows and other accessories.