Are you thinking about colorforms?

Colorforms. They are still available on Amazon.

Today they're referred to as "fashion plates".

Good idea for grand-daughters. Those were tons of creative fun!

Today they're referred to as "fashion plates".

No. Fashion Plates are interchangable mix and match textured plates that fit into a tray that you make "rubbings" off of. Like where you take a coin and place paper over it and rub the side of a pencil or crayon to make an impression come through.

That's it, colorforms! Thank you so much everyone.

My grands are "young" so fashion plates is what I see.

My daughter entertained herself during cross-country drives with farm and zoo scenes along the same concept. They were called magna-boards.

The Dollar Tree has them too.

I loved colorforms! When we bought our first house, I had a home furnishings layout kit that was basically the same thing.

I’m had the one with the clothes! I remember the yellow raincoat, boots, and umbrella. My sister had a Dr Doolittle one. What a great gift that will be!

God I remember those. I had a Dawn Doll and Barbie set

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Those were so much fun to play with! I also remember that I loved playing with paper dolls and trying different outfits on them.

Dawn, they still make them. Those tabs always ripped off though.

I keep bringing up colorforms and I have not found any that really seem like we grew up with. I have a feeling that the danger of swallowing them now is what prevents them from being available?They were so basic, before the Barbie or whatever cool theme took over.

I had to make my own paper dolls when I was a child, but at least I got to design all the dresses for them that I wanted. I also made the kind that would hold hands in a line when you unfolded them.

Depending on ages:

https://www.amazon.com/Colorforms-02103-Retro-Barbie/dp/B01MQOC813

functionthenlook, those tabs never worked for long. My sister and I clipped the clothes on with paper clips.

delighted to see there are some non barbi ones. I guess I can tolerate peanuts and care bears. Remember when they were just basic get dressed for the weather???

Salonva, they did have one weather one. I ended up getting pets and the market ones. I'm 64 when I was young there wasn't much cross over in toys. Not like nowadays. If a popular toy or character came out there wasn't all of those spin off products such as games, bed spreads, etc.