The World's Simplest Camera for Dolls

"DK Ultimate Sticker Collection, American Girl" has
many photo stickers you can use for this craft.

       You can collect and craft with the ordinary supplies listed below to make photos for a doll sized polaroid camera for your American Girl doll, Julie Albright. 

       World's Smallest Toys (multiple store outlets) sells a small polaroid just like the one I once owned as a child. It comes with a key chain but this is easy to remove. For your doll's own polaroid prints, you will need to collect: thin cardboard, white typing paper, photo stickers, scissors, a ruler and white school glue.

       Vintage polaroid prints are actually pretty thick so the cardboard makes an accurate representation of it. 

       Measure and cut the cardboard into 1 3/4" x1 1/4" rectangles. Use the glue to cover your cardboard pieces with white typing paper. I've included pictures below of the process for this.

      Now position the photo stickers (DK Ultimate Sticker Collection, American Girl) in the upper half of the cardboard photo paper, leaving a wider bottom boarder. All polaroid photos from the 1970s look like this. (see pictures below)

       Now brush an even coat of white glue over the entire photograph to help preserve your tiny doll craft during play. Let the glue harden before adding the small polaroid photos to your doll's collections.

Left, thin cardboard from a box of rice will due for this American Girl Doll craft.
Right, clip the corners so that your white typing paper will wrap nicely around the edges.

Left, wrapped faux photo edges. Right, now our mini polaroid camera has plenty of photos to display about it.

Left, press the tiny red button and the photo pops out. Right, measuring photos for size.

       The instant camera is a type of camera which uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after taking the picture. Polaroid Corporation pioneered (and patented) consumer-friendly instant cameras and film, and were followed by various other manufacturers. Read more... (visit the new website for polaroid cube)

Old Commercials About Polaroid Cameras:

• 1970's commercial about the Polaroid 1000
• The Best Minute of The Day, 1973 Polaroid
• Jerry Lewis with his 1960's version of the Polaroid Camera

More Old Technology for Dolls:

• Craft a vintage tape recorder for those 1960s and 70s dolls - uses tape cassette stickers
• Make a turntable and speakers for a doll