Parents' Guide to Pickle's Paper Dolls

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Educational Games
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Dana Anderson By Dana Anderson , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 4+

Sweet, colorful representation of beauty in six cultures.

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What's It About?

Kids tap on one of the six paper dolls to dress up, and then they choose a shirt for her by swiping through choices in the "closet" above the doll. Next kids choose pants or a skirt/dress, shoes, accessories, hair styles, eye type, and background for the doll. Kids can save the doll with a click of an in-app camera and then add a caption, print it, or email it. Each doll is depicted with the words in their language for "Hello. My name is ..." and then their name. There's no option to hear the words spoken.

Is It Any Good?

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Pickle is a little girl who loves paper dolls. PICKLE'S PAPER DOLLS is an app that will likely make a paper doll lover out of your kid, too. Pickle has five paper dolls from the U.S., China, Ethiopia, England, and France. It's great to see beauty from a variety of cultures celebrated in a way that little kids can related to, through dress up. It would be nice to see even more represented, as well as more cultural clothing choices that really look like the homes and each of the girl's countries. That said, Pickle's Paper Dolls is a precious, sweet app that shows little kids that beauty emanates from girls in cultures throughout the world.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Find out how to pronounce the phrases for each doll and teach them to your kid. Online translation dictionaries often offer audio pronunciations.

  • Look online for images of how other people in the dolls' countries dress, both traditionally and currently, and share them with your kid.

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