As kids learn to dress they acquire a basic life skill while developing dexterity and hand-eye coordination. These dolls provide plenty of practice with buttoning, zipping, snapping and velcro.
If we've missed one you love, feel free to share a link in the comments:
1. Learn To Dress Dollie, $42 from Etsy seller Nifty Kidstuff
2. Alex Toys Learn To Dress Kitty, $25.07
3. Dressy Bessy and Dapper Dan were discontinued by Playskool but new and vintage dolls are still readily available.
4. One Step Ahead Dress Up Dolls, $24.95 each
5. Alex Learn To Dress Monkey, $23.87
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I had a Dressy Bessy as a kid & loved her!
My husband's uncle has a Dapper Dan from the 1960s that my daughter loves to play with whenever she's over.
We have Alex the Monkey, my boys are not even two yet so we haven't really cut the things that attach the clothes. They LOVE the monkey, though, he's cute and cuddly and he regularly joins us at Lunch, goes down the slide and gives kisses to the dog. I am also told he is "stinky" and presented with a cloth diaper to change him. I can see Alex being a friend for a long time to come, and hopefully once we're ready for dressing he can actually be used for that, too.
Okay, this is how ignorant I am... I thought this would be an article on how to dress dolls, as in, how to put clothes on dolls. I thought it would have some kind of secret tip for getting Barbie's skimpy outfits onto her. It was something I always had trouble with as a kid. That, and getting the gummy clothes onto my little sisters' Polly Pockets for them.
And I was expecting the tip to somehow involved corn starch.
Clearly, I was wrong. =)
confounded, thank you for making my day.