Things to do when you don't have money to spend on AG

[AvalonsBlueRose]

Here's one of my favorite things to with dolls period: PHOTOSHOOTS!

If you have a digital camera it doesn't cost anything to develop the pictures, so the only possible expense is batteries, but you can always borrow them from a remote in a pinch. Come up with a theme or a story and snap away!

Right now I'm working on a mug shot album and another album of the girls modeling their outfits. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Felicity_Fan85]

I can't remember if this has been said or not but...
~make little crafts (swaps in the Girl Scouting world) for your dolls to trade with each other.

~make some doll sized jewelry.

~start a pen pal or epal program with your doll and someone elses doll

Have your dolls form an AG club or any other club.

[angelnise]

With some glue and paper scraps, you can make paper cups, plates, and napkins for your doll. Take the paper and crumple it up in your hands and unfold it several times to make it soft like a regular napkin. Then you'll have a place setting for an outdoor party, or bbq, or picnic...endless possibilities. What's neat about this is that the paperware will all match, and you can make your own designs.

[moderator]

Fun for younger girls: Have the dolls write one another notes. When I was young, one of my friends and I used to have my Kirsten and Molly dolls pass notes to one another and sneak them into one another's school bags. This would be something fun for a mother and daughter to do together.

[moderator]

Knitting needles for dolls:

Take a pair of unused, small bamboo (wooden) knitting needles (around size 3) and cut off 1/2 or 2/3 (using 1/3 of the original size of the needle is a good size for AG, whereas 1/2 is good for My Twinn). Take the portion with the knobbed end and sharpen the other end slightly in a pencil sharpener. Do this with both needles, and you'll end up with two doll-sized knitting needles.

On normal-sized knitting needles, knit a bit, then transfer the knitting to the smaller needle when you have knit as much as you'd like to be on the needle.

This is really easy and fun to do. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[trvnbrn]

My dd misses Kit while she is at school all day. I often will go in her room, dress Kit (she's a late sleeper [img]graemlins/sleepy.gif[/img] ) and pose her for dd. It's so much fun for her to see what outfit Kit is wearing or what she may be doing. She was wearing her Christmas red dress & holding a Valentine on Feb. 14th. I know years from now that Hannah will look back w/ fondness on the times I did this...and it didn't cost her or I a thing but time. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Bren [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ February 25, 2006 09:44 AM: Message edited by: trvnbrn ]</font>

[MissCurlyCat]

Send a doll out on the traveling doll program! Or host one, like mine! I'm sending Kirsten out today! PM me for more info.

[moderator]

Although I made this for my [img]graemlins/cat.gif[/img] , it would work well for AGs, too, and is free! When you sew, keep all your scraps. You can also cut up old cotton clothing or sheets. Use these with a scrap piece of batting or piece of an old blanket (as a substitute for batting) to make a quilt. Easy piecing designs are simple squares, or triangles sewn together for flying geese and windmill patterns.