Pippi Longstocking Paper Doll

November 14th 2007 was the centenary of the birth of Astrid Lindgren, author of popular children's bokk character Pippi Longstocking. Pippi, and her creator Astrid, are respected and love throughout the world but nowhere as much as in Sweden, their birth place. There you'll find a whole theme park devoted to Astrid and characters from her book, Astrid Lindgren World, located in Vimmerby in south-east Sweden.

The Astrid Lindren World web site has this cute Pippi Longstocking paper doll available in color and black & white. Click on "For children" to find them or go directly to this page. The set includes three pages of clothes for Pippi and her faithful friend, Mr. Nilsson the monkey!

Roman soldier paper doll from Ancient Rome

This paper doll does a good job of accurately describing what soldiers wore in Ancient Rome. This is a clever way of teaching ancient history to kids, letting them play with paper dolls!
The Roman soldier paper dolls comes from the Birmingham museum and art gallery school liaison service.

Do-It-Yourself paperdoll template

How cute is this? Kiddley.com has these fantastic templates that you can print out and then design your own paperdolls! There are two templates, one regular with a girl and the basic, standard wardrobe. The other, a tad more whimsical, has a bear costume, a tiara, and an 80's bubble skirt. The paperdolls are in PDF format and can be downloaded here.
Tip: the dolls don't have faces so you can either draw them yourself or print out somebody's face and clue it on!