Review of Alex Toys Crafty Fashion Show

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The Alex Toys Crafty Fashion Show makes a great arts and crafts project, a wonderful rainy day toy and a perfect (and inexpensive) gift for little girls.

My daughter Ally, 4, loves doing craft projects and also loves fashion and dress-up so she was thrilled with this toy.

And as a mom who is not great at crafts, I loved that this kit is practically fool-proof. The kit includes four very-sturdy 14″ paper dolls as well as pre-cut clothes and accessories for each. Each doll’s outfit, as well as any and-on accessories like stickers, ribbons and pom-poms, are all packaged together into four separate kits inside the box, so you can work on making one doll at a time without making a mess of everything.

Everything you need to make the dolls is in the box, including a glue stick, crayons and very simple instructions.

But whether your child decides to follow the instructions exactly, or whether she decides to do her own thing, these paper dolls will turn out adorable either way. Ally followed some of the instructions, but also found ways to make them her own.

I love that the four dolls are ethnically-diverse and have a variety of clothing styles.

The dolls are certainly sturdy enough to hold up to being played with, but Ally likes to just display them as decorations in her room.