Printable paper dolls with clothes and a dollhouse

Free printable paper dolls with clothes

Paper dolls are one of those toys that never go out of style: a pair of scissors, a few sheets of paper and an afternoon disappears into dressing, undressing and making up stories. On this page you can print free paper dolls with clothes — Mia and Leo, outfits and matching accessories for five adventures, a fold-up stand, and a paper room or a 3D dollhouse with a removable roof. Everything prints in color or as a coloring page, on A4 or US Letter, with no sign-up and no download.

The illustrations are soft and cozy: a flower dress with a lace collar, a denim pinafore, a striped top with overalls, a yellow raincoat, knitted cardigans, a quilted winter jacket with a fur collar. The dolls look like real preschoolers, not fashion models, which makes them a good fit for kids aged four to ten.

What is in the set

• Two dolls — Mia and Leo, each 12 or 16 cm (4.7 or 6.3 in) from the top of the head to the soles, plus a triangle stand that keeps them upright.
• Five themes — a walk, a rainy day, the forest, the beach and winter. Each doll has seven outfits in total.
• Accessories — 18 per doll: hats, bags, rain boots, an umbrella, binoculars, a water bottle, hiking boots, a beach bucket and spade, sandals, a warm hat, a scarf and mittens.
• A room or a dollhouse — a three-wall room with a floor, or a house with two gables and a roof that lifts off for play.

Use the quick-start buttons: Doll only, Doll and wardrobe, Doll and house or Color it yourself. Then fine-tune: choose a theme, untick what you don't need and see on the right exactly which sheets will print.

Clothes that really fit

The trouble with many paper doll printables is that the dress floats somewhere near the doll instead of on it. Here every outfit is fitted to the doll by three points — the shoulders, the neckline and the waist — so the collar sits at the neck and the hem ends where it should. The same fitting works in color and in the coloring version, and in both doll sizes.

Each outfit has white fold-back tabs on the shoulders and sides. Fold them to the back and the clothes hook onto the doll, come off and go on again — no glue on the clothes, ever. Use the fitting room in the settings panel to see any outfit on the doll before you print.

Five adventures, each with its own accessories

Every outfit belongs to a theme, and every theme comes with things for its story. Choose a walk for a sun hat and a little bag, a rainy day for a raincoat, rain boots and an umbrella, the forest for a hiking backpack, binoculars and a water bottle, the beach for a beach bag, a bucket and a spade, or winter for a warm hat, a scarf and mittens. Tick an outfit and its accessories are ticked for you.

Clothes from different themes never share a sheet, so you can print just the beach day now and the winter set later. Pick All themes to print the whole wardrobe at once.

A paper room or a 3D dollhouse

Paper dolls need somewhere to live. The room is three walls and a floor: a back wall with a window and curtains, decorated side walls and a wooden floor with a round rug. The dollhouse adds a front gable and a pitched roof with scalloped tiles. The front stays open, so little hands can reach inside.

Every join is marked with a letter. Tab A on the back wall goes to strip A on the floor, tab B to strip B, and so on up to G. The roof is never glued: marks K1–K6 show where it rests on the gables and walls, so it lifts off whenever you want to play inside. The house is sized to the doll — a 16 cm doll gets a bigger house than a 12 cm one.

Color set or coloring page

The color version has finished illustrations: print, cut out and play. The coloring version has the same pieces as clean black outlines on white, so kids can design their own fabrics — polka dots on the raincoat, a rainbow scarf, a striped roof. Coloring before cutting is easier, and kids get attached to dolls they colored themselves.

True size on A4 and US Letter

Pieces print at their real size, never shrunk to fit. A 16 cm doll is 16 cm tall on both A4 and Letter. Print at 100% / Actual size and switch off “Fit to page”. The first sheet has a 50 mm check line: measure it with a ruler, and if it is 50 mm, the dolls and the house will fit together as designed.

Use card stock (160–200 g/m², about 60–75 lb) for the dolls, stands and house — they will stand up and last longer. Plain printer paper is fine for clothes, which need to bend at the tabs.

How to cut out and assemble paper dolls

1. Cut along the solid outer line and keep the white tabs. A dashed line means fold.
2. Fold the shoulder and side tabs of the clothes to the back, line them up with the doll's shoulders and waist.
3. Stick hats and bags on with small loops of tape on the back so they can be moved.
4. Fold the stand into a triangle and glue it behind the doll's feet.
5. For the house, glue A first, then B and D, then C and E, and finally the front gable F and G. Let it dry before play.

Younger kids can color while an adult cuts the tight curves around fingers and hair. Children from about six cut most pieces on their own.

Why paper dolls are worth the scissors

Cutting along a curvy outline is excellent fine-motor practice, and folding a tab exactly on a dashed line trains careful hands. Matching letters on the dollhouse is a first taste of following a diagram. And then comes the best part: pretend play. Kids decide where the doll goes today, what to wear for the weather, what is in the backpack. They tell stories out loud, act out conversations and invent problems to solve — a forgotten umbrella, a lost mitten, a picnic on the beach.

For a story-themed afternoon, combine the dolls with a printable mini book where kids write down the doll's adventure, or a fill-in-the-blank story.

More cut-and-play printables

If your kids love scissors and glue, try templates to cut out, origami for kids and nets of 3D shapes to fold into boxes. For quiet play on a rainy day there is a printable board game, pencil and paper games and step-by-step drawing. Pretend shops go well with printable play money.

Frequently asked questions

Pick a doll, choose the outfits and print your paper dolls.