This page contains Whitman Little Lulu activities. You may click on the pictures to see a larger version.
Little Lulu Magic Rub-Off Pictures
Little Lulu Switchable Sewing Cards
Little Lulu Jumbo Cartoon Color-ups
Happycraft Tubby Doll-Maker Kit
Little Lulu and Her Friends Paint by Number
Marge's Little Lulu Magic Kit #1650 has a 1954 copyright by Marjorie Henderson Buell. This Whitman folder contained "crayons to color and tissues to wipe off." This kit sold for 59 cents. It appears that it came out in conjunction with the Little Lulu and her Magic Tricks book and record - all promoting Kleenex Tissues.All that remain with the kit that I have are two boards, one cardboard and one paper, with a slick surface on which the child could draw and then wipe off to redraw on it. I don't know if anything else, beyond crayons and tissues, came with it.
Little Lulu Switchable Sewing Cards
These Little Lulu Switchable Sewing Cards #4779, for ages 4 to 8, have a 1972 copyright with Western Publishing Company, Inc. The box contains 5 Sewing Cards, 5 Sew-on Characters, and 5 Thick Yarn Laces. Below are pictures of the cards with the characters placed on them in the "logical" combination. The box states "Switch and Stitch around Lulu and her friends to make funny pictures!"
Little Lulu Jumbo Cartoon Color-ups
The Little Lulu Jumbo Cartoon Color-ups #4346/7115, for ages 4 to 10, have a 1973 copyright with Western Publishing Company, Inc. The box contains 3 Posters (24 3/4 x 33 3/4 in.) and 4 Giant Crayons (non toxic).
Happycraft Tubby Doll-Maker Kit
The Happycraft Tubby Doll-Maker Kit, with a 1973 Western Publishing Company, Inc. copyright, is for teen/adult. It contains the materials to make a 21 inch doll, including felt: red, yellow, turquoise, white, black, brown, pastel pink, and bright pink; yarn: brown, white, yellow, red, pastel pink, and bright pink; needle; same-size pattern; and instruction sheet. This kid has a price sticker of $1.00 on it. The Happycraft Doll-Maker Kits were available for both Tubby and Lulu dolls in two sizes, 15" and 21".
Little Lulu and Her Friends Paint by Number
Happycraft created a Little Lulu & Her Friends Paint by Number with copyright by Whitman, Western Publishing Co. The set includes 8 Pictures 11" by 14" each designed for ages 6-12. It includes 8 non-toxic watercolors, a paint brush, a mixing tray and a color guide. (You may click on the photo for a larger picture.) I'm not sure of the copyright date on this, but it appears to be in the 1970s.
1974
This is a box of Little LuLu Colorforms from Western Publishing Co., 1974. It is like a paper doll with plastic clothes that stick to Lulu. Here is Little Lulu in the different outfits in the box, with some of the accessories.
Page last updated 13 Jan 2006.
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