Anyone Remember Little Kiddles Dolls?

The I'm New post got me thinking about a favorite childhood toy of mine, Little Kiddles. There were made around 1966 - 1972.
I did a search on e-bay and found a really nice collection of them. The link is below. There is a close up picture that has my childhood favorite - the blond in the lavander dress. I really wish I had saved some of these toys. Even though they would not be in perfect condition, it would be fun to look at them. That is one reason I am planning on saving DD's AGs even if she loses interest. I think one day, far in the future, she might become interested again.


I was always family oriented when I played with my dolls as a child. Today, our AG dolls are usually just girlfriends hanging out, going to school and having sleepovers. Sometime the big 23" MyTwinn serves as the "adult" - either a teacher or a Mom. Alas, there is never a Dad.

When I was a kid, my doll play almost always consisted of:
Barbie was the Mom.
Ken was the Dad (poor Ken- he only had a tuxedo and a swimsuit to wear.)
The Dawn dolls were the older kids (dark haired Angie was my favorite - I thought Angie was such a cool name when I was a girl).
The Little Kiddles were the babies. My favorite Little Kiddle had white/blond hair and a lavender dress. It came in a lavender plastic "locket" and I think it smelled good - like the doll was scented with lilac.

I looked on e-bay for these dolls awhile ago and the pictures on the auctions really brought back some fond memories.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...580343959&rd=1

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ May 13, 2005 03:46 PM: Message edited by: judiaci ]</font>

My daughter was born in 1964 and she had these dolls and the Sunshine Family. What great memories.

OH MY GOODNESS! I have not seen these dolls since I was a little girl. Mind you, I am still young (only 22) but my mother had saved her dolls from when she was a child. I remember the one with short blond hair, pink/flowered dress, and the blue locket. I think she had a headband too. My mom also saved her barbie house from the 60s and my dolls would play there, even though the workout center, modern fridge, and remote-control motorcycle didn't quite fit in with the homes decor! Thanks you for posting this. It brought back a lot of great memories! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

I had one Little Kiddle. She came with a pink four-poster bed and I believe she was Sleeping Beauty or some such person.

I always wanted a Kiddle that came in the perfume bottle and smelled yummy but I never got one. There were also ones that girls would wear to school around their neck; I never had any of those either. I was so happy just to have my one. I wish I still had her!

Judi, you must be close to my age! (Or, maybe younger.) I received a little kiddle for my 9th birthday in 1966! (I can't remember if she was in a 'locket' that was worn around the neck though. I want to say mine was 'pinned?') I was so excited, because the little kiddles were the new rage that year! I also remember receiving 'Heidi' for Christmas that year. (She was in a red plastic pocketbook, and you pressed her tummy for her to 'wave.') She had long whitish blond hair.

Ahhh, the memories of childhood dolls. Did you ever have a 'Penny Brite' doll?

Judi! I had lots of those! OH my....I really could almost cry when I look at them. I used to go to the dime store and buy them. I loved them all.....

I had some too! I remember mine coming in a little bottle and they did smell good. There were lots of different colors. Jenny when you said you went to the "dime store" that really took me back to when I was young and my Mom would take me to the dime store (Woolworths or Kresge's) and we would sit and the counter and have lunch.

Now when she mentions going to the dime store, my kids will ask "do you mean the dollar store Grandma?"

I had the Lilac doll in the perfume bottle. I also had Penny Brite. There was a thread the other day (here or AGE) about Betsy McCall I think. I thought I had one as a little girl but now I think it was Penny Brite. I had so much fun with all those dolls as a little girl. I wish I'd saved more of them!

This is the one I had (scroll down to sleeping beauty on her bed): http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...y+Kiddle&hl=en

Your post really got me thinking so I did a search on the web to see if I could find "my" childhood Kiddle.

Since several of us are from the same "era," did anyone have Chrissie and/or Velvet? I had Velvet. I sold her on eBay several years ago. She was in practically mint condition and I had her original box, etc.

How about a Kenner Easy Show? I LOVED mine!! I used to sit in my closet and watch Superman. I may have also had The Three Stooges.

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Was Chrissie the doll that had hair that you could make grow out of her head? I had one like that and I think Chrissy was her name, and was there another one like her?

Yes, her hair did grow. Chrissie and Velvet were cousins. Velvet had blond hair and Chrissie had red hair. They had buttons on their stomachs that if you pressed,their hair would "grow," and they had a bigger thing on their backs that you'd wind to retract the hair to make it shorter.

I remember the Little Kiddles. I was telling my 9 year old daughter about them not long ago. I only had one, I was more of a Barbie fan. I had Barbie, Ken, Francie, Skipper, Ricky (Skipper's boyfriend), Stacy (Barbie's English Friend) and Tutti and Todd (Barbie's youngest sister and brother.) I also did the family thing.

Thank You for that link because now I know I had Sleeping Beauty! My eyes about popped seeing that! I haven't seen a Liddle Kiddle since I was little and seeing Sleeping Beauty brought back a heap of memories of my sisters and I playing. [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

I had a coloring book about Liddle Kiddles that I spent hours on. I don't remember what the cover looked like but there was a page where the Liddle Kiddles slid down a spoon handle into a bowl of Cheerios. I'd give anything to see that coloring book again and read the cute story.

I still have my Crissy doll and all the gorgeous clothing my mom sewed for it and the trunk my dad made to hold everything. I'll have to get it out sometime and take some photos for you all.

Julia

Amy Jo, yes, there was another doll like Chrissy. Her name was 'Tressy,' and I think she had a key, that you twisted (hidden in her back?) as you gently tugged at her hair to get it to 'grow.'

I never had any Little Kiddles, but I think they're really cool! I love late 60's/early 70's stuff! My mom thinks she used to have some, but she defintely had Penny Brite. She also said she had the Penny Brite doll house, and she rememebers there was a hair salon in it. She thought Barbies were scary looking, and only owned one from 1965, when Barbie got a make-over, and twist-and-turn waist.

I didn't know they had a name, but I remember we had one or two of them too, although I don't remember where we got them from.

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Judi, you must be close to my age! (Or, maybe younger.) I received a little kiddle for my 9th birthday in 1966!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, I was born in 1963 and I had a Chrissy doll. She had hair the color of Felicity from what I remember. She was thin and hard bodied and had the long pony tail coming out of her head when you pushed a button on her abdomen? When I was a young girl I had a friend in the neighborhood about my age. My neighbor's mom was a great seamtress. She sewed a huge and beautiful wardrobe for my friend's Chrissy dollincluding fur coats and ballgowns. My friend was somewhat of a tomboy and grew out of dolls at an early age. She didn't take care of her Chrissy or the clothes her Mom sewed for her, so one day her Mom gave me all the Chrissy clothes she had so loving sewed for her daughter. I was thrilled and didn't know the real story behind this gift - that my neighbor and her Mom had an argument about her poor caretaking of her toys.

I played Chrissy and the clothes a lot and kept them in great shape. The years went by and my neighbor and I both grew up and had our own kids. My neighbor happened to have 2 daughters when I had only 2 sons (my DD was born years later). I went into my storage and found the Chrissy and all her pretty clothes and gave them back to my childhood friend after having kept them for about 20 years. My friend was so amazed and happy. Her Mom died shortly afterward of colon cancer. This is my "Chrissy" story.

I had Chrissy's friend or cousin? Her name was Mia. I still have her. She had dark hair, and is the same size as Velvet.

DH's grandma lived across the street from me. When he was little, his family lived in another town about four hours away, and they would come up on weekends and stay with his grandparents. He has a sister that is three years older than me. She had Chrissy, and scads upon scads of clothes that her mother made for her. She would bring all of it, and we would play for hours. Her mom, ( now my MIL) would make Chrissy clothes for craft sales. She'd make matching outfits for her daugher, and her daughter would wear those outfits to the craft sales. My SIL still has all of that stuff. I love it when she takes it all out, and we look at it.

Mia is my very favorite childhood doll. My mother picked her out, but my dad gave her to me for Christmas one year.

By the way...I thought DH was irritating as a child. He thought the same thing of me. He says he remembers that I had long, "stringy" blonde hair. I remember we went shopping downtown one time, and I had the audacity to ask him for some of his money! He gave me a nickle, and said, " That's all....don't ask for more." That should have been a sign of things to come. LOL.

I remember the ones in the perfume bottles. A few years ago when we went to Salvation Army to look for an "Old fashioned" dress for a school project, I ran across one in a display case. It sure brought back memories. Disturbed me a little though, because only the "Antiques" are kept in the display cases. [img]redface.gif[/img] I still have a brown-haired and a blond Dawn doll and a few dresses. I had the fashion runway, but Dad threw that out years ago. [img]frown.gif[/img] This summer I plan to get out all my barbie/dawn dolls and show the girls what kind of toys I had growing up.

I had little kiddles too-I think a few of them are upstairs in my Barbie cases. I had one in the locket in 6th grade and I remember keeping it inside my desk to decorate it. I thought it was so cute. I also had a Cinderella little kiddle that came with a fold out castle. One side was her house with the fireplace and the other side was the prince's castle with the staircase for her to lose her slipper on. I took pretty good care of my toys, but my nephew loved that castle and played with it a lot, so if it's still in my folk's house, it's probably pretty trashed. I still have some of my trolls, and my troll tree house-you guys are making me want to go through the attic the next time I go home!

My family never throws away anything, so I'm lucky enough to have all of my old Barbies (not to mention most of my other old dolls!) I had Barbie (with a head w/3 wigs) Alan (I never had a Ken doll-poor Alan married everyone) Skipper, Ricky, Francie, Casey, Tutti, her friend Chris, and Stacy. I also had the Twiggy barbie, but gave it to Toys for Tots in high school when student council was having a toy drive. I gave her because she looked new and had her original gogo boots, dress and earings-dumb, dumb, dumb! My daughter and her friends actually liked playing with my old Barbies better than their new ones, because with the hard plastic/non-bending legs the clothes went on so much easier.

One of my favorite dolls when I was little was the Baby's Hungry doll-anyone remember her? It would have been about '69 or '70. It was the first animated doll-she didn't actually eat food like the ones in the '90s, but when you put the spoon in her mouth, her mouth would move up and down like she was eating, and her eyes would look around. When you put the bottle in her mouth, it would look like she was sucking. I thought she was the most amazing doll ever. She is still in my parents house, but she looks pretty scruffy and obviously doesn't work anymore.

I also had the Mrs. Beasley doll, from the tv show Family Affair. She would talk when you pulled the string at her neck.

I never had the Chrissy doll, but the girl I babysat for did. I remember she also had a ballerina doll that I loved. You pulled up on the crown on her head, and she would spin around in pirouttes and her leg would swing out. They had so many more cool dolls in my day. No wonder AGs are so popular-there really isn't much else out there for girls but Bratz and Barbies. [img]frown.gif[/img]

Great memory jogger! I and my best friend spent hours playing with her Little Kiddles during the midsixties! She had an incredible collection and we took good care of them. A couple of years ago I enjoyed looking at them on Ebay. This friend of mine passed away last November from years of struggle with MS. I haven't had the heart to look at them since until now. It's amazing how long it takes for our hearts to heal! So..here's a toast to wonderful friendships that last many, many years and sweet memories of playing with dollies growing up! I still miss you Michelle!

Janabanana - I am so sorry you lost your dear friend. Life can be very heartbreaking. [img]graemlins/broken_heart.gif[/img]