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Which Baby Alive Doll Do I Get? Kids Toy Review
Baby Alive Review
One day my two-year-old daughter tells me that she wants a real baby that poops. I immediately think that she wants a little baby brother or sister. We were at the store and she says “look, mommy, the pooping baby, can I have that?” There it was, a Baby Alive that actually poops. While looking at these dolls, I noticed that there were so many different types. Talking with some of my friends with kids, I learned that a Baby Alive is a pretty popular doll among girls. I have to admit these dolls are pretty amazing. Some of them can crawl, talk, pee, poop, be styled. With so many types, it can be difficult finding the right one. We at www.kidsplayandcreate.com composed a list of some of the most popular types of Baby Alive dolls. We hope that this list helps you on your journey to finding the best Baby Alive doll for your little one.
History of Baby Alive Dolls
Baby Alive Dolls first came onto the market in 1973. They were produced by the Kenner company. The dolls came with little packets of food that needed to be mixed with water. Once the food was mixed with water you were able to feed that doll with the included spoon. Once you spoon fed the doll you have to use a lever on the back of the doll to make the mouth go up and down and eat the food. After the doll ate the food, the food would go through the doll and come out into the diaper.
In 1992 the first talking Baby Alive Doll came out. The doll automatically ate the food, there was no more lever on its back. The doll didn’t sell very well as it made a lot of gear noises and the doll had an adult female sounding voice.
In 1995 a new version of the Baby Alive doll was released. This doll did not talk and came with a potty , snacks and juice boxes.
After Hasbro took over the Kenner company the Baby Alive Doll was re-released in 2006. A variety of Baby Alive Dolls came out. They produced ones that talked and had a baby voice, they have ones the poop, eat, crawl and even some just to snuggle with.
Check out all the different types of Baby Alive Dolls below.
Baby Alive Super Snacks Lily
If your little one is asking for a doll that poops, this is what they are talking about. This doll comes with special reusable food. This baby comes with a big appetite. Your child will enjoy making the food with the included food shaper (kinda like a play-doh mold). After they make their baby food, they will get to feed her with the special spoon that comes with the doll. Oh no, the baby has a poopy diaper, time to change her. Yes, the food comes out the bottom and yes, they will need to change her diaper. The food can be used again and again by re-molding it in the food shaper. This doll encourages imaginary play. It is a great gift for your little one who likes to play mommy. This doll can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), 2 diapers, 2 one ounce containers of the reusable non-toxic food, bowl, spoon, and a food mold.
This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including 2 diapers, pretend food, spoon, bowl, food mold
- Make food for the baby with mold
- The baby will eat the food your child made
- The baby “poops” out the food
- Your child will get the chance to change the diaper
- 14-inch doll
- Comes in blonde, brunette or African American
- Encourages imaginary play
Baby Alive Super Snacks Sarah
Baby Alive Super Snacks Sarah is the super version of the Super Snacks Lily Doll. She is slightly bigger (16 inches) Not only does she do the same thing at the Lily doll, she also talks and comes with more accessories and she can say 30 phrases and sounds in English or Spanish. The doll will tell your child when she is hungry, sleepy or full. She says phrases like “ready for a nap”, “Mommy, snacks please,” “I’d like some juice.” You can change between languages at any time.
It is a great feature for a child learning English or if you want your child to learn some Spanish. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), 2 diapers, 2 one ounce containers of the non-toxic reusable food, 3 food shaping tools, roller, plate, pretend juice box. She can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American. This is a great doll for children 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including pretend food, 3 food shaping tools, roller, plate, pretend juice box, 2 diapers
- Make food for the doll to eat.
- Feed the doll
- Doll “poops” out the food your child fed her.
- Your child can change the doll’s diaper
- This doll can speak 30 phrases and sounds in English or Spanish
- 16-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or as African American
Requires 3 AAA batteries, not included (does come with demo batteries)
This is one of the more popular Baby Alive dolls and it does a lot.
This is a fun active baby. If your child really enjoys pretending to be a mommy, then this is the doll for her. Baby Go Bye Bye can crawl, talk and pee. Your child will have fun tickling baby’s tummy and watching her crawl towards her. This baby can also come along on an adventure as she comes with a baby carrier. With all that action, a baby becomes thirsty, time to feed her, her bottle. Oh no, baby peed, time to change her diaper. This is the real mommy experience doll. The arms and legs do straighten out so you hold her. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), doll carrier, bottle, diaper, rattle and a brush. Great doll and promotes imaginary play. This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including diaper, rattle, brush, carrier, and bottle
- Crawls
- Reacts to included rattle
- Your child can tickle her
- Speaks over 30 sounds and phrases in English or Spanish
- Drinks from bottle and pees
- Has an on and off switch
- 15-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
Requires 4 AA batteries, not included (does come with demo batteries)
This is the Baby Alive to get if your child likes to play doctor.
She is a cute doll that encourages imaginary doctor play. Bailey is sick and your child will love giving her a check-up using the included stethoscope, thermometer and ear checker. Now, that Bailey is feeling better, she is thirsty, time to feed her a bottle. After giving Bailey a bottle, your child will notice that her diaper is wet. Bailey also pees. Your child will enjoy changing her diaper. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), stethoscope, thermometer, ear checker, diaper, and bottle. This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including a stethoscope, thermometer, ear checker, diaper, bottle
- Pretend doctor play
- Feed baby a bottle
- Baby pees
- change diaper
- 14-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
This is the Baby Alive to get for your little fashionista.
I actually want to get this one for my little girl when she gets a little bigger. Play N Style Christina is a cute doll with long hair. Your child will have fun pretending to blow dry her hair, then actually being able to brush it, style it with braids or ponytails. Christina comes with a colorful hair extension that your child can put in the dolls hair. What’s super fun about this doll is being able to style and restyle her hair over and over again. You can even purchase hair chalk or extra hair extensions (available at dollar stores or Wal-Mart) that your child can use on her doll or her own hair. Some moms I spoke to said they let their daughter’s style the dolls hair while they were getting their own hair brushed and styled and it helped limit the whining and crying. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), hair dryer, hair extension, barrette, and comb. This is a great doll for children ages 4 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including hair dryer, hair extension, brush, and comb.
- Style Christina’s hair
- Play with her pretend hairbrush
- Comes with hair dryer, comb, hair extension, and barrette.
- 14-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
Baby Alive Snugglin Sarina is a good Baby Alive to get for a young girl as their first doll. She doesn’t have any fancy features like some other Baby Alive dolls, however, she is super cute and her thumb fits in her mouth. Sarina comes with a hat that is attached to her head and is wearing a onesie outfit. Sarina is great for holding, snuggling and playing mommy. It is recommended for girls 18 mts and up, but I think you can give her at 12 mts. This doll comes with the doll only.
Features:
- Soft to snuggle (except for the head, which is plastic)
- Great first doll
- 10-inch doll
- Can be purchased with light, medium and dark skin tones
Comes with: Doll
Baby Alive Luv N Snuggle is a great first-time doll.
She is a soft, sweet, cuddly little baby doll. This was actually the first baby doll I bought my daughter. Like Baby Alive Snugglin Sarina, there aren’t any fancy features. Which is good in my opinion, because if it did, then you would probably be the one changing the diaper. This doll can put her thumb or toe in her mouth, just like a real baby. She is a cute doll. My daughter loves this doll so much that we ended up getting all three versions (blonde, brown and African-American). This doll comes with a blanket and a bottle. This is a great doll for children 12mts-4
Features:
- Soft to snuggle (except for head, legs, and hands, which are plastic)
- Great first doll
- 6-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
Baby Alive Twinkles N Tinkles
This Baby Alive is different from the others because it has a plastic reusable diaper instead of the throwaway one.
After feeding Baby Alive Twinkles N Tinkles, your child will notice that baby’s diaper is lighting up. That means that it is time to change her. Simply remove the plastic diaper, wipe her and don’t forget to put on the pretend baby diaper cream that comes with the doll, then put the diaper back on and click in place. What’s good about this baby is that you won’t need to purchase extra diapers. This baby also makes over 20 sounds and phrases in English or Spanish by tickling her tummy. This doll comes with an outfit (already on the doll), bottle, pretend diaper cream, wipe, wipes box. This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including bottle, pretend diaper cream, wipe, wipes box
- This Baby Alive pees
- Plastic diaper (reusable) lights up after she pees
- Speaks over 20 sounds and phrases including drinking sound,
- Your child can feed her bottle
- 14-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
This is the perfect doll for your child that likes to have a tea party or play with pretend food.
Your child will love having a tea party with Baby Alive Teacup Surprise Baby. She comes with a tea set changes color when you fill it with ice water. After the baby drinks her tea, she wets her diaper. This doll comes with a dress, diaper, teacup, teapot and a sippy cup. This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including teacup, teapot and sippy cup
- Tea sets change colors when filled with ice water
- Baby drinks and wets the diaper
- 14-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
Baby Alive Ready for School
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Every baby eventually grows up and has to start school. This is a great baby to get for your child who may be starting preschool or Kindergarten. Your child will have so much fun pretending to get her baby ready for school. They can learn ABC’s and read together.
Baby comes with a tiny picture book. This doll comes with outfit (already on the doll), brush and a picture book. This is a great doll for children ages 3 and up.
Features:
- Comes with accessories including brush and a picture book
- Style her hair
- School themed dress
- Comes with a Picture book
- 14-inch doll
- Can be purchased with blonde hair, brunette hair or African American
Can you purchase additional products for Baby Alive?
Yes, You can purchase extra diapers, snack packs, clothes, and bottles. You can also purchase preemie sized diapers. Check out some accessories listed below
Baby Alive Diapers Pack
Baby Alive Diapers Pack
This refill pack comes with 6 diapers and they can be used with any size Baby Alive Doll that pees or poops. You may want to purchase extra diapers if you are purchasing a Baby Alive that pees right away as you go through diapers rather quickly depending on how much your child plays with the doll.
You can reuse the diapers for the dolls that poop.
Baby Alive Clothes Packs
Children love dressing their baby dolls. Luckily there are plenty of clothes available to purchase online and in retail stores so your child will never get bored of their doll wearing the same clothes. There are many outfits to choose from. This adorable set features a cute tutu skirt, shorts, pants, dress and three t-shirts. These outfits fits Baby Alive dolls between 12-14 inches.
Baby Alive Super snacks Noodles and Pizza Snack Pack
Children often lose the food that comes with the doll or wants to try new foods. This snack pack comes with 3 containers of reusable food.
Baby Alive Sippy Cups and Baby Carrier Bundle
Baby Alive Doll Car Seat and 2-Pack Sippy Cup Bundle for 16″ Dolls (Pink)
This pack of 2 sippy cups is made especially for Baby Alive Dolls. They can be filled with water.
These sippy cups are not magnetic, you must squeeze the water into the baby’s mouth. These are for pretend play only. They are not made for your child to drink from. This bundle also comes with a baby carrier that can hold dolls up to 16 inches. Children can use the carrier to carry their dolls around or use it as a feeding chair when it is time for their baby to eat. Great add-on gift.
No, You can only use the special food that comes with the baby. Also, make sure your child knows that the special food is food baby only and not them. The food is non-toxic however, you do not want your child to eat the food. Also, it is important not to fill the Baby Alive doll’s sippy cups or bottles with anything besides water. Filling the cups or bottles with anything else could cause mold or bacteria to grow inside the doll if not cleaned out properly. Water is the only liquid that should be used.
Is it possible to use regular Play-Doh as food?I have not personally tried it, but after some research, I found that people have tried using Play-Doh and it worked well with the food shapers.
It also went through the doll pretty well and did not get stuck. Make sure when making the food with the included food shapers, that your child only uses a little at a time. Placing big chucks inside the doll’s mouth could cause it to get stuck and not work properly.
This depends on the type of Baby Alive you purchase. For younger girls 1 – 2 I would choose Baby Alive Luv N Snuggle or Baby Alive Snugglin Sarina, they are great first time dolls. For girls 3-9 I would choose one of the other Baby Alive dolls that have more features such as eating or peeing.
Are Baby Alive dolls made well?yes, Baby Alive dolls are pretty amazing. They are a great quality doll and worth the price. If you take care of them, they will last a very long time.
Can Baby Alive dolls be cleaned easily?Most of the Baby Alive dolls can be cleaned easily. They are made from plastic that can be wipes down with soap and water.
The Snugglin’ Sarina Doll and the Luv N Suggle Baby Alive Doll has soft bodies that make it a little harder to clean.
Remembering the Baby Alive Toy Fad of the 1980s
Long before “Baby Yoda” captured the collective hearts and imaginations of kids and adults everywhere, a different infant seized the attention of popular culture. In the early 1980s, Kenner sold up to 1 million Baby Alive dolls annually.
Unlike other plastic babies who boasted only of clothes or strollers, Baby Alive simulated the perils of caring for a child by forcing children to cope with its eating, drinking, and urinating needs. Or worse.
Since its debut in 1973, Baby Alive enraptured kids with its mechanical mouth that could “chew” a special kind of food that came in a packet and had to be mixed with water. Down the infant’s torso it would go, until it came out as plastic doll waste—and often colorful plastic doll waste.
Disgusted? That was what Kenner was hoping for. Like a prototype Garbage Pail Kids character come to semi-life, the company banked on what it called the “eww factor.” Unlike most dolls, adorable and bespoke in their finest doll attire, Baby Alive was meant to repulse.
When the idea of a doll that could “eat” was circulating at Kenner in the early 1970s, then-president Bernie Loomis knew it could be a big hit. But there was an urge to go further—to present the reality of spoon-feeding in such a way that a child would have to endure the gastrointestinal conclusion of ingesting concoctions like Cherry, Yummy Banana, and Sweet Pea. These dried packets, while easy to package, were reminiscent of astronaut food. Mixed with water, the paste slid through Baby Alive until it plopped into their doll Pampers. Later, Kenner marketing director Laura Pugh would refer to this as the “diaper-dirtying aspect.
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While it seemed like Baby Alive would best be gifted only to children you disliked, the doll’s action seemed to be a hit with girls. Kenner’s focus group subjects expressed a kind of glee, declaring it both disgusting and irresistible.
As Baby Alive’s popularity grew, so did Kenner’s keen marketing sense. If a girl had a Baby Alive doll, she would obviously need to keep it fed, which meant parents were constantly returning to stores for the food packets. And if the doll kept fulfilling the diaper's purpose, it would need more of those, too. In this way, Baby Alive resembled nothing so much as an analog Tamagotchi, another toy creation whose sole purpose in life involved eating and pooping.
Kenner took particular marketing joy in this, cheering on Baby Alive’s prolific defecations in its advertising, which was splashed all over print and television to keep the price of the doll at a reasonable $10.
87 even though it cost retailers $9.90. Like Baby Alive, they dealt in volume. “Oh-oh! Baby Alive needs a diaper change! She really dirties it!”
By 1992, Baby Alive no longer needed Kenner to be a mouthpiece. The doll began speaking on its own, notifying girls when it had detonated yet another Sweet Pea bomb in its increasingly sagging pants. Mercifully, Kenner added a potty to the line, where Baby Alive could presumably unwind.
Baby Alive is still on sale, though now under the Hasbro umbrella. One model, Baby Alive Real As Can Be, is diapered but makes only pretend messes, not real ones. Curiously, her 1970s counterpart seemed more advanced. It brought a glimpse of a future where we not only played with artificial intelligence, we had to clean up after it, too.
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As a result of a house robbery initiated by some intruder, a young woman, Lisa, suffers a serious head injury, and her young son Jude, who was a direct witness of the robbery, receives psychological trauma, due to which he withdraws into himself and refuses to talk to anyone. Jude doesn't say a word even when his parents are around.
Now the boy speaks with the help of sheets and a pen. And so for a very long time. Lisa, along with her husband Sean and Jude, decide to briefly move to a country holiday home, relatively far from the city's infrastructure. Wandering through the nearby forest, Jude notices on the surface of the earth either a hand, or another part of the body, apparently a large doll. Jude's curiosity gets the better of him and he walks up to the place that beckons him, starting to dig. So Jude digs up someone buried porcelain doll-smiling boy that no longer rested in a pit, but in a kind of grave. Lisa sees Jude's find and allows him to take it with him. At home, Liza cleans the doll of dirt, tints the face in some places and generally brings it to its original appearance, as if the doll had just come off the production line. Lisa and Sean notice that Jude is very often with the doll and does not want to part with it. As Jude explains, the doll's name is Brahms, saying that she herself told him the name.
Parents believe that their son has found a suitable friend, replacing the real one until his mental recovery. Lisa and Sean consult a psychotherapist and are advised never to take the doll away from their son. Liza begins to notice some oddities in the doll, reminiscent of children's horror stories about demonic dolls coming to life. And the doll, meanwhile, really shows signs reminiscent of children's horror stories: while no one sees it, it moves its head, changes the position of the body, or even moves from room to room ...
Liza learns from her son, who is still in contact with others with sheets and pens, that now the doll is the master of the situation, and she will set the rules for how their family lives. Lisa and Sean don't like what their son tells them. And if Sean believes that his son is viciously, but deliberately fooling around, then Lisa, who was a witness to the paranormal, tends to believe in the demonic origin of the doll. Sean thinks that his wife has a little mental problem, so she supposedly sees something that is not really there.
In other words, he involuntarily imagines. Jude, meanwhile, sometimes talks, in the future he will finally begin to do it fully. Lisa does not want to calm down and conducts her own investigation. So she learns that the doll is indeed demonic, and is able to manipulate its owner, forcing him to kill and make sacrifices. It also becomes clear that the doll is more than a dozen years old, and, apparently, it has undergone repeated restoration. In general, Lisa understands that the demonic doll wanders from family to family for a very long time, and over and over again manages to outlive its owners. In addition, Lisa witnesses how the heavy dining table located in the house overturns. Sean does not believe his wife that the doll or their son did it, besides, the son would not have been able to do it corny due to insufficient physical strength. Sean thinks that Lisa herself knocked over the table, playing with her paranormal investigations. Seeking to be right, Lisa discovers an ominous notebook with illustrations of murders in Jude's room, where they also draw her and Sean's bodies.
Jude himself is depicted as the killer, unquestioningly fulfilling the will of the doll. Adding mystique to all this is Jude's laconic statement addressed to his mother: "Don't piss off the doll."
Joseph, the groundskeeper, confronts Lisa for a moment. He is not happy that she sniffs out the history of the doll. Joseph says that he once also restored the found doll, that is, Brahms. The doll seemed to be asking him to do it. Subsequently, Joseph fell under the absolute control of Brahms. According to the caretaker, Brahms knew that Jude would appear in the area. The main goal of the caretaker, entrusted to him by the doll, was that he should properly control the merger of the weak-willed Jude and Brahms into a single being. Lisa escapes from a clearly inadequate Joseph and hastily searches for her son. She finds him in a nearby house in the basement. Jude, with a porcelain mask on his face, is in a kind of trance, but at the same time he is semi-conscious. Clearly by deceit, Lisa is trying to convey to her son that everything will be fine, and that there will be no happiness in their family without Brahms.
Lisa convinces Jude that it's time for them to go to their home and take the doll with them. Sean, who was simultaneously investigating the history of the doll, enters the basement. He smashes the head of nearby Brahms with a croquet mallet. At this time, Joseph enters the basement. Joseph panics at the sight of the broken Brahms and begins to fight in hysterics. Brahms shows his true essence, that is, demonic. Behind the broken porcelain shell of the head, we see a terrible creature - a bloodthirsty, charred demon. Brahms kills Joseph. Jude manages to calm Brahms, take him in his arms and throw him into a fiery furnace, where he finally dies. After a nightmare, the family returns to their home. It would seem that peace and harmony have come in the family, but one night Jude gets up from his bed and puts on a Brahms porcelain mask, with the phrase that followed, as if merging with him into a single being.
Almaz
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May 20, 2020
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Definitely not Horror.
This movie is more for fun!
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movie is nonsense because the dog died
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Very empty, weak ending. Part 1 is better and more unexpected
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frankly weak script, the actors actually have almost nothing to play, and as a result, a very mediocre film. It's not worth watching, it's just not interesting.
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If you are looking for a serious horror movie, this is not about this movie. Light, dynamic, creepy 2 out of 10. But I liked it. All the characters are cool, especially Katie Holmes
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How tired of this film with a banal plot and an infernal doll, are there really no more ideas, except for these buggy dolls, huh?
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v120600
How actors agree to act in such films. Boring about nothing.
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ka1924
The film is average, there are scary moments, there are some that you foresee.
For a moment it's okay.
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mcsimova
I was delighted with the ending of the first part, when the whole film was filled with mysticism, and the end turned out to be very rational. I am equally disappointed by the ending of the second film. Technically qualitatively, the script is weak and trivial.
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I didn’t quite understand, I pay for watching movies, and there are ads, why is this happening? Shit movie
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Living history in holidays and dolls
Folk doll is an amazing phenomenon, many-sided, bright, alive. A doll made of fabric, grass, straw or flowers by a mother for a child or a girl for a younger sister or brother contains secret generic information, love and protection live in it.
Lyudmila Dmitrievna Batirova devoted more than one year to making dolls. Working at school, then at the House of Children's Creativity, she taught girls and boys not only to make beautiful dolls with their own hands, but also to remember that through a folk doll a connection is established between generations, ancestors and descendants are united.
We decided to find out from her what meaning our ancestors put into dolls and whether we can decipher folk puppet wisdom.
— Tell me, Lyudmila Dmitrievna, how did our ancestors play with dolls?
- Dolls were by no means always intended for games. In the life of the Russian village, a patchwork doll was the most common toy. Even in poor peasant families, where children's toys were bast shoes, spoons, wooden eggs, rag dolls were a must. Both boys and girls played with dolls up to about 7-8 years old, until they had differences in costume. But only the boy dressed in trousers, and the girl in a skirt, their games and playing roles began to differ strictly. From that time until her marriage, the girl's play interests narrowed around the doll and were increasingly intertwined with traditional needlework. Playing with dolls, the girl learned to cut, embroider, spin, and sew.
- Could you play all year round?
— At Svyatki they tried to stop puppet games. This borderline time, associated with the winter solstice, was considered dangerous.
The dolls were removed and hidden - away from any evil spirits from the "other world". These ritual actions protected the house and offspring. Toys were never left on the street, they were not scattered anywhere. They were stored in baskets, boxes, boxes. Dolls were often kept until marriage, taken with them as a dowry, and then passed on to children. Mothers, grandmothers, older sisters sewed dolls for small children. With incredible busyness, they found time for this. The child was specially taught the traditional methods of making a doll, and any girl could make a simple rag doll. She judged the skill and taste of the hostess. Therefore, for "gatherings" girls, along with a spinning wheel, often took a cart with dolls. Making dolls and playing with them were strongly encouraged. It was believed that a girl who knew how to make toys well would be a good mother. Even the "young woman" who came to her husband's house after the wedding was allowed to play with dolls.
Your dolls don't have faces, is that right?
— Yes, it's a tradition.
In general, a real charm doll is made without needles and scissors, and the fabric for it is torn off by hand. It was believed that if a doll has eyes and a mouth, then through them evil spirits can harm or damage the house.
-Is it like they put video cameras on laptops now so that they can't watch you?
- You can say that (smiles). Of course, such dolls were not beautiful, but they performed their function. Previously, every peasant girl could make a simple twist doll. When the mother went to work in the field and left the girl for the mistress, she could cook food with the help of dolls. For example, my mother took her dolls, put them in height and said: “You pour grains on this doll, pour water on this one.” The girl measured the right amount and could cook, for example, porridge.
— A folk puppet calendar that you made is presented at the exhibition in the House of Children's Creativity. This work does not leave indifferent everyone who comes to the exhibition.
Tell us more about it.
— Continuously observing the change of seasons, the movement of heavenly bodies and the cycles of the moon, people have created a calendar — an amazing treasury of folk wisdom. And since the dolls were made for a certain holiday, I decided to make my own folk doll calendar.
So, the goat doll comes first. The twelve days after the feast of the Nativity of Christ are called Christmastide. The Goat is an indispensable participant in the Christmas Christmas tour of the courtyards of the mummers. It has long been considered among the Slavs a symbol of fertility. Doll Goat - the embodiment of vitality. She is always cheerful and carefree. Traditionally, the Goat doll symbolizes prosperity, wealth, health, vitality, inspires good spirits and joy.
Next is Maslenitsa, a calendar doll. Two types of this doll should be distinguished.
The ceremonial Maslenitsa was made of straw or bast, but a tree was always used - a thin trunk of a birch.
The doll was decorated with ribbons, artificial flowers. On her hands they put dishes used in the preparation of pancakes, hung ribbons, tying which people made wishes. These ribbons, in order for wishes to come true, had to burn down along with the doll, which was burned at the stake, performing the rite of purification.
Maslenitsa home was also called Maslenitsa's daughter. She was not burned, but kept all year in a red corner, this doll is not a toy. If a wedding was planned in the house, then the doll played an important role - the bride and groom were greeted with it, it symbolized prosperity in the house and healthy offspring of a young family.
Cuckoo doll. Before the Trinity, the ancient rite of the "cuckoo's funeral" was held. This is a celebration of the 12th anniversary of girls becoming girls and their entry into the world of adulthood. The girls went into the forest and made sure that no one followed them. So they led round dances, sang songs and made friends.
As a sign that two girlfriends became godmothers for one year, they exchanged wreaths and dolls specially made for this purpose.
March 9 (22) — Magpie Holiday — spring equinox. For the second time, they begin to call Spring-I live. Magpies are a holiday of the coming spring: on this day forty birds arrive, day and night are measured, equal. On this day, it is customary to bake images of larks from dough, coat them with honey, and gild their heads and wings. At the same time, they made the national final doll "Karkusha" for fun for children. The doll will watch over them and carry away bad news.
Easter is a beloved and revered Orthodox holiday by all. Not only Easter eggs, Easter cakes, but also simple do-it-yourself dolls were a symbol of new hopes and desires, kindness to loved ones and strangers. These dolls were presented, they decorated the house. They made such dolls a week before Easter on Palm Sunday. They were placed on the window to show that they were waiting for the onset of the Holy Palm Sunday.
Later, the dolls were placed on the table near the Easter gifts.
Amulet doll Kubyshka, a herbalist, looks like a housewife who collects and stores medicinal herbs. Previously, it was believed that such products are able to protect the owners from diseases. According to tradition, the herbal pod should contain six knots: a large knot-torso, reminiscent of a tumbler, a head-knot is tied to it, one knot is tied to the handles, these are two more, two more knots form the chest. The doll is made mainly without a needle, all elements must be formed by tying with threads. The pupa must be filled with grass, which is why it is called an herbalist. Such a talisman was always in the sick bed, as it was believed that the Herbalist would help a person regain health. The capsule was often given to children, because they believed: the more a child plays with the coast, the stronger his health will be.
On the feast of Ivan Kupala and Agrafena, the Bathers made a Kupavka doll on a cruciform basis, dressed her in beautiful women's clothes (shirt, sundress, belt).
Doll Kupavka is a ceremonial doll of one day. Ribbons were hung on Kupavka's hands - cherished girlish desires. Tying each of the ribbons, the girl or woman mentally said goodbye to some of her troubles or sorrows. Each mountain needed its own strip or ribbon.
The size of the doll is approximately the length of an adult hand. Kupavka must be done in such a way that no one distracts, does not interfere with concentrating on the process of speaking the doll. Ritual doll Kupavka is intended for purification.
According to the traditions of the Slavic peoples, in every house there should be a rag doll filled with some of the cereals. This is a charm of prosperity and wealth in the family. There are two types of dolls - Krupenichka, which was filled with buckwheat, and Zernovushka, which was filled with rice, oats or barley.
Krupenichka was the main doll in the Old Slavic family. At harvest, this doll was filled with grain. Traditionally, the rag doll was filled with buckwheat or wheat.
When sowing, the first handfuls of grain were taken from a bag sewn in the form of a chrysalis. The grain in it symbolized the saved forces of the nurse of the Earth. After the harvest season, the chrysalis was again filled with selected grain of the new crop. She was dressed up and carefully kept in a conspicuous place in the red corner. They believed that only then the next year would be full and there would be prosperity in the family, that it was Krupenichka who would bring prosperity and well-being to the house. In times of famine, they took grits from the chrysalis and boiled porridge from it. It was believed that such porridge transmits the forces of mother Earth. A guest entering the hut could determine by the chrysalis whether the family lives well. If the doll was thin, then the family was in trouble ...
And today this doll will help you to have prosperity in the house. Meanings of cereals: buckwheat - satiety and wealth; rice (the most expensive grain) - for a holiday; barley - for satiety; oats - for strength.
Autumn in Rus' has always been considered a season of weddings. The field work was over, the harvest was harvested, there was something to feed the guests. According to tradition, at the head of the wedding train, carrying the young couple to the groom's house after the wedding, a couple of dolls were hung under the shackle of the harness - the Bride doll and the Groom's doll, so that they would avert unkind looks at themselves.
Lovebirds - a pair of dolls - a talisman of family happiness. It is given to young couples for a wedding or already married couples to strengthen their union. At first glance, these are male and female dolls that seem to be just a couple holding hands. But if you look closely, you can see that they have one hand and is made of a whole stick, and therefore they cannot be separated. The doll was a symbol of strong family union and ardent love. When a couple had a child, a loop of red thread or a little man made of thread was attached in the middle.
When our ancestors finished their sowing and harvesting work, the so-called "autumn seasons" came - the time for holidays, weddings and handicrafts. Handmade gatherings began with the manufacture of an amulet doll - an assistant to "Ten Hands" on October 14 on Pokrov Day.
This helper doll is made from bast or straw. A mandatory attribute of the doll, in addition to ten hands, is a long braid decorated with colored bows, which symbolizes the femininity of its owner.
Folk puppet calendar According to legend, once upon a time Makosh, the patroness of artisans, took pity on a hard-working woman who couldn't keep up with the housework, and gave her two more hands. But even with four hands, the hostess could not keep up, she had so much to do. Makosh gave her two more hands, and so on until she had ten whole hands. When that didn’t help, Makosh took the “extra” eight hands from the woman and gave her a Ten Hand doll to help with the housework. Since then, girls and women began to make such a charm with their own hands, believing that with a doll they could do their job faster and better.
Paraskeva Pyatnitsa doll is considered to be the shore of women's crafts. The nickname Pyatnitsa is a translation of the name Paraskeva (from the Greek "Friday"), in paganism she was the female deity Makosh. This is one of the most powerful symbols. Goddess of family and destiny and everything connected with their strengthening and well-being. The image gradually transformed into Paraskeva - Friday, which is considered the patroness of women and female labor, the healer of mental and physical ailments, the keeper of family well-being and happiness. The doll was kept at home, women called on her to help them in their work, making her the keeper of small needlework items (ribbons, lace, spindles, bobbins, thimbles, needles), which they hung on the doll’s hand with the sentence: “Protect, mother Paraskeva, from the evil eye” .
And for the holiday of the winter solstice, which is celebrated on December 21, Spiridon - Solstice answered. The name of this amulet speaks for itself - we turn the sun .
.. the night is waning - the day is growing. This ritual doll is associated with the winter solstice, with the rite of passage to the new world, new time. There is another property of this doll - a twist of fate. In a difficult life situation, Spiridon, by turning the wheel of life, is called upon to change fate. The doll was given to a man, emphasizing that he was the “helmsman” in the house and wishing that Spiridon would help the man steer towards the most favorable opportunities. Initially, the doll was made of bast, in full growth. After the celebration was over, they were burned.
— What other projects are you going to carry out?
— The project “Historical image of the Russian people during the war of 1812” is still in progress. I cook dolls - peasants, nobles, Cossacks, hussars, there is even a general. All clothes correspond to that time. All dolls are in cotton clothes, no synthetics. Remember, there is such an expression "unbelted"? So, to prevent this from happening, a belt is required on male dolls.
