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My daughter couldn’t wait until I got it out of the package! She has been sitting on the couch for an hour making “Lucy” (her interpretation of Loopsy) beautiful over and over and over again! -- Mother of 5yr old
Lalaloopsy Silly Hair dolls are translations of simple sewn rag dolls. They are made of plastic and have wire core, bendable hair that stays in place when twisted and shaped. Includes accessory clips, beads, curling brush and matching pet. Note: The doll’s head is large and very heavy.
Approx. Price: $34.99 Box Age Range: 4+ yrs # of Pieces: 11-50 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Easy Directions: None Play Locations: Indoor Adjustability: Position Levels of Play: Three Levels Batteries: None needed
Lalaloopsy’s bendable hair helps children see how they can control things in their environment.
Explore your own creativity and style using the doll and accessories.
Dolls are a way for children to explore their nurturing side.
Dolls are a familiar play product that is easy for children to understand and use.
Dolls are open ended. There is no right or wrong way to play.
The act of screwing the beads on the doll’s hair may be a soothing activity for some children.
Manipulating the accessories may keep hands busy and lessen self-stimulation or hand flapping.
Skills
Symbolic play with Lalaloopsy Silly Hair doll helps develop language skills.
Introduce new vocabulary action words as you style and accessorize the doll’s hair.
Verbal discussion can focus around the doll and her features, such as her button eyes.
Lalaloopsy can be used to encourage expressive language.
Receptive language skills can be strengthened by giving verbal directions for the child to follow.
There are duplicates of each accessory that can be used to practice matching skills.
Choice making skills can be encouraged with such ideas as how to style the doll’s hair and what accessories to use.
Attaching the accessories and bending the doll’s hair helps develop fine motor skills needed for writing and daily living.
Creativity and imagination flourish and help children understand their world: how they can make sense of and control the objects within it.
Children can use the doll to act out anxieties such as when Mom brushes the knots out of the child’s hair.
Play Ideas
Children can imitate how mom curls and accessorizes their hair.
Divide the accessories up between you and a friend to have two even piles. Take turns placing accessories on the doll. Or each child can have a side of the doll to decorate.
Bend and accessorize the hair on one side in a particular pattern and have the child copy that pattern on the other side.
Play “What’s different?” by styling both sides of the doll’s hair identically except for one or two differences. Have the child determine the differences. This helps children attend to detail and look at similarities and differences and then verbalize their findings.
Carry on conversations using the doll to talk.
Use your digital camera to take pictures of some simple style suggestions. Then put the pictures together in a cheap photo album or tape them onto a poster board. They can serve as suggestions for children to follow. This helps the abstract activity become a bit more understandable.
Have the doll talk to her pet.
Have the child straighten out the hair after you’ve twisted them into different positions.
Adaptation Ideas
Teach how to use the doll by physically modeling what a child should do. Give verbal statements as you do this so the child receives the information both verbally and visually. This can help her process and understand what to do.
Lalaloopsy’s bendable hair helps children see how they can control things in their environment.
Explore your own creativity and style using the doll and accessories.
Dolls are a way for children to explore their nurturing side.
Dolls are a familiar play product that is easy for children to understand and use.
Dolls are open ended. There is no right or wrong way to play.
Skills
There are duplicates of each accessory that can be used to practice matching skills.
Cause and effect is explored as children bend and twist the doll’s hair and it stays the way a child styled it.
Choice making skills can be encouraged with such ideas as how to style the doll’s hair and what accessories to use.
Attaching the accessories and bending the doll’s hair helps develop fine motor skills needed for writing and daily living.
Creativity and imagination flourish and help children understand their world: how they can make sense of and control the objects within it.
Children can use the doll to act out anxieties such as when Mom brushes the knots out of the child’s hair.
Lalaloopsy Silly Hair doll supports bilateral hand movements with midline results when children hold on to one part of the body and bend another.
Strength, grasping and visual perceptive skills are utilized while twisting and curling the hair into positions.
Play Ideas
Count the number of hair curls or the number of accessories.
Divide the accessories up between you and a friend to have two even piles. Take turns placing accessories on the doll. Or each child can have a side of the doll to decorate.
Make a contest – how fast all accessories can be placed on the doll. Try to beat your time or have a friendly competition with a friend.
Use your digital camera to take pictures of some simple style suggestions. Then put the pictures together in an inexpensive photo album or tape them onto a poster board. They can serve as suggestions for children to follow. This helps make the abstract activity become a bit more understandable.
Fabric clothes, bendable hair and hard plastic body enhance tactile play and stimulation.
This may be a good alternative for children who are tactilely defensive to synthetic doll hair.
Dolls are a familiar play product that is easy for children to understand and use.
Dolls are open ended. There is no right or wrong way to play.
The act of screwing the beads on the doll’s hair may be a soothing activity for some children.
Skills
Attaching the accessories and bending the doll’s hair helps develop fine motor skills needed for writing and daily living.
Creativity and imagination flourish and help children understand their world: how they can make sense of and control the objects within it.
Children can use the doll to act out anxieties such as when Mom brushes the knots out of the child’s hair.
Play Ideas
Close your eyes and match the accessories by touch alone.
Use your digital camera to take pictures of some simple style suggestions. Then put the pictures together in an inexpensive photo album or tape them onto a poster board. They can serve as suggestions for children to follow. This helps make the abstract activity become a bit more understandable.
Have the child straighten out the hair after you’ve twisted them into different positions.
Have the child make a vocal sound as she twists each accessory bead. This can help practice sounds needed to articulate words.
The hair has a wire core allowing it to maintain the form it is placed in. This helps children who are learning to lace because the hair is rigid and stays in the position independently. A child does not have to hold the hair while manipulating the accessories.
Because the hair has a wire core and maintains its form, children who can only use one hand can be successful in play.
The hair and tail of the included pet can be wrapped around a wheelchair or highchair to help keep the doll within reach.
The doll’s head is very heavy.
Skills
When you bend, curl and straighten the doll’s hair, you are rotating wrists and working on grasp.
Eye-hand coordination is used to manipulate and decorate her hair.
Fine motor skills, including pincer grasp, are used and strengthened to attach the hair accessories.
Children use two hands simultaneously to play - one to hold the hair and the other to place the accessories on.
Cause and effect is explored as children bend and twist the doll’s hair and it stays the way a child styled it.
Attaching the accessories and bending the doll’s hair helps develop fine motor skills needed for writing and daily living.
Strength, grasping and visual perceptive skills are utilized while twisting and curling the hair into positions.
Creativity and imagination flourish and help children understand their world: how they can make sense of and control the objects within it.
Play Ideas
Have the child straighten out the hair after you’ve twisted them into different positions.
Create unique, visual patterns in the doll’s hair.
Create and copy patterns in the doll’s hair with the accessories.
Use your digital camera to take pictures of some simple style suggestions. Then put the pictures together in an inexpensive photo album or tape them onto a poster board. They can serve as suggestions for children to follow. This helps make the abstract activity become a bit more understandable.
Adaptation Ideas
Hold the doll stabile for the child to be free to accessorize it.
Place the beads on the ends of the hair and have the child screw them on further. This lessens the steps necessary to be successful.
