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American Girl dolls are loved by children everywhere. They also can be expensive to buy as well as to fix. Luckily, you can easily fix mutual doll problems at home with a few uncomplicated household supplies, so your immature one can go back to enjoying playtime with their favorite doll.

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    Mist your doll's hair lightly with water. Fill up a spray bottle with water. Cover your doll's face with your hand or a cloth and dampen its hair by squirting h2o on it. Don't soak the hair; simply moisten information technology so it feels clammy when you touch it.[ane]

    • Accept care not to get water in your doll's eyes, as they are metal, and h2o tin cause them to rust.
    • Avoid brushing your doll's hair when information technology'south dry, as this can crusade pieces of it to break.

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    Unknot each tangle using a small wire brush or pick. The American Daughter company sells small wire brushes specifically for caring for your doll's hair, but yous can also use some other pocket-sized wire brush or pick from a beauty supply shop. Lightly move the wire brush or pick through your doll'due south dampened tangles to remove the knots.[two]

    • Avoid using regular plastic brushes or combs on your doll's pilus, as they will make the hair more damaged.
    • For bigger tangles and mats, simply continue working the wire through the knots until the hair is untangled. Avoid roughly pulling on the hair because you may suspension pieces of information technology off.

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    Let your doll'southward hair to air-dry if it's direct. If your doll came with straight hair and you'd like to continue it straight, you can simply allow the dampened hair to air-dry afterward you castor it. Do not utilise a blow-dryer on its hair, as this can crusade the hair to become damaged.[3]

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    Wrap the doll'due south damp hair around a pencil to create curls. If your doll had curly hair when you got information technology, merely the curls have fallen out, you can put them back in by wrapping small strands of pilus around a pencil. Grab a small strand of pilus about .25 in (0.64 cm) thick and wrap it tightly around a pencil. Hold the strand of hair in place around the pencil for 1-two minutes.[4]

    • Unwrap the curl from the pencil and take another damp piece and wrap information technology effectually a pencil. Repeat this for all of your doll'southward curls and allow them to air-dry out.
    • If you'd like to make looser curls, y'all can catch thicker pieces of hair to wrap effectually the pencil.
    • Do not brush your doll's hair after you scroll it, every bit this will brand the curls autumn back out.
    • If your doll had directly hair when you got it, information technology may non concord curls very well. This technique works best on dolls that were made with curly hair.

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    Complect your doll's damp hair to add waves. To add waves to your doll's hair, carve up the hair into 3 sections. Wrap the section on the right over the middle section to make information technology the new middle department, then wrap the section on the left over the centre, and so on.[5]

    • To make your doll'due south hair very wavy, add together lots of minor braids throughout its pilus instead of one large braid.
    • If you leave your doll'south braids in for a long time, its hair may become permanently wavy. If you want the waves to be temporary, take your doll'southward braids out later on 1 night.

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    Do not use heat on your doll's hair. Exercise not apply a hair dryer, curling iron, straightening iron, or any other heat tool on your doll's pilus. Heat will crusade your doll's pilus to melt.[vi]

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    Place 2 Usa tbsp (xxx mL) of baking soda and one United states tbsp (15 mL) of water into a small basin. Brand a cleansing paste past using a measuring spoon to add baking soda and water to a modest bowl. Stir the water into the blistering soda until the pulverisation is all absorbed into the paste.[vii]

    • Children should ask for assist with this projection if they do not unremarkably use measuring spoons or blistering soda.
    • If the paste is likewise thick, add together a few more drops of water. If information technology is very runny, add some other pinch of baking soda to thicken it. The ideal consistency should be that of toothpaste.

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    Apply some baking soda paste to a warm, wet washcloth. Take a washcloth and moisture information technology using warm water from the sink. Use your finger or a spoon to add a dollop of paste onto a section of the washcloth.[eight]

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    Rub the baking soda paste in a round motion into your doll'southward skin. Have the section of washcloth with paste on it and press it firmly into your doll's hard vinyl skin where the mark is on its face, arms, or legs. Rub the skin in a firm, circular motion with the washcloth until you run across the marker fade.[ix]

    • If the marker doesn't disappear later on the first cleaning, apply more baking soda to your washcloth and echo rubbing the marker until it's gone.
    • This cleansing process works with most makeup, marker, and paint stains.

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    Wipe the residue away with a warm, moisture washcloth. When your doll'south peel is clean, rinse your washcloth under warm running water until all the baking soda paste is rinsed away. Use the washcloth to wipe any leftover baking soda paste off of your doll.[ten]

    • Rinse your washcloth frequently as you lot wipe your doll if there is a lot of paste left on the skin.
    • Permit your doll to air-dry out or use a clean towel to dry off its skin.

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    Do non submerge your doll in h2o. American Girl dolls should not exist given baths with real water. Their optics can rust if they get wet, and the stuffing inside the doll can become damaged.[eleven]

    • Clean your doll'south peel using the baking soda and washcloth technique. Do not apply other products when wiping the skin.

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    Remove any leftover old string from the doll's neck. Your doll'due south head was attached using a slice of string or cord when it was fabricated. If the head has fallen off, it'southward probably because this cord was cut. Pull out any remaining string past grabbing the stop and tugging on it.

    • Children should enquire their parents to complete the steps of fixing their doll's caput.

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    Thread some sturdy cord into a rounded off needle or safety pin. Get some string that is similar in thickness to the string from the doll's neck. Take a needle that has been clipped, or a safety pivot, and attach the cord to the needle or pivot. Get out a long tail of at least 12 in (30 cm) on the end of the string.

    • If you're using a safety pivot, close the stop of the safety pin back up after you lot've fastened the cord. You don't want a sharp end sticking out, or the end will come out of the doll's fabric instead of effectually the neck casing.
    • Be sure to utilise a small safety pin that can easily move through the neck casing.

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    Locate the cervix casing, removing some stuffing if necessary. The neck casing is the expanse containing the string that you lot pulled out in the first step. Information technology ends in 2 holes at the back of the doll's cervix. You volition exist threading the cord through this casing, then if the area is very tight because of the stuffing inside the doll, pull some stuffing out with your fingers.

    • Don't throw the stuffing away; fix it aside to put it back into the doll afterward.

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    Push button the needle through the casing, all the way around the doll's neck. Put your needle or pin into i of the holes of the neck casing. Get together some neck casing and slide the needle or pin further into the casing, using your fingers to compression and slide the needle along the circle from the outside.

    • Proceed pushing the needle or pin through the casing until you reach the hole on the other side of the back of the doll's neck.

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    Pull out the needle when you get to the other side of the cervix casing. When y'all've got the string all the fashion through the doll's neck, pull out the needle or pin with the string attached. Brand the 2 ends of string even past pulling the end with the pin attached even with the other end that you cutting.

    • You lot can at present remove the needle or safety pin from the end of the string.

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    Supersede any stuffing that you lot removed. If you removed stuffing from the doll in a previous step, put the stuffing back in with your fingers. Push the stuffing downward and so you have room to put the doll'due south head dorsum on.

    • Leaving the stuffing out may cause your doll'southward body to be too loose, and its head may fall off again more hands.

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    Supercede the doll's head and pull the cord ends tight. Put the doll'south head dorsum into the cervix hole, pushing the doll'south cervix down into the trunk stuffing. Take hold of the ends of the string dangling from the back of the doll'southward neck casing and pull them tight to secure the doll's head in place.

    • Examination if you have the string tight enough by belongings information technology between your fingers virtually the doll'due south neck, and turning the doll upside down. If the head stays in identify, you have the string pulled tight enough.

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    Tie a potent knot in the cord. When the head is secured because the strings are tight, necktie a sturdy knot at the back of the doll's neck to keep the ends together. Clip the remaining leftover string with scissors, leaving about 2 in (5.1 cm) on each end.

    • The cord ends will be covered by your doll'south apparel. You'll need to leave the string in place to continue your doll's head on.

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    Remove your doll's caput. Work at a table with a folded towel on information technology to identify your doll's parts onto every bit yous remove them. Untie the string at the back of your doll'due south neck and remove its head.

    • If the knot in the cord is very tight, insert the abrupt point of a push pin betwixt the string pieces and wiggle it around to loosen the knot.

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    Remove the cotton fiber stuffing from the doll and place information technology into a big bowl. Pull out your doll's stuffing one handful at a time and store information technology in a big basin. Set the basin bated until after you restring her limbs and you're set to put the stuffing back in.

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    Cutting the cord between the white cup and knot or metal curling. Look within your doll's body at the joints where the limbs are attached. You'll meet a white tension loving cup and some string with either a knot at the cease or a metal crimper that holds the string in place outside the cup. Employ a pair of pair of scissors to clip the cord between the cup and the knot or crimper.

    • Echo step for all the doll's limbs if you'd like to restring all of them.

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    Remove the white tension cups from the limbs by heating them. Place the limb you lot'd like to restring into a plastic freezer bag, leaving the pocketbook open up at the top and the rest of the doll outside of information technology. Oestrus virtually 24  fl oz (710 mL) of water in a pot on the stove until it'due south near boiling. Dip the limb and joint covered in plastic into the water for 2 minutes, then remove them from the water and the purse and pull the tension cup out of the limb joint with pliers or a hemostat.

    • Don't allow water to go inside the plastic handbag or any of the doll limbs. Hold the limbs you're not restringing upwardly to a higher place the purse and the water, and dip only the bottom of the bag where the joint is inside the h2o.
    • Repeat this step for each limb you would like to restring.

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    Place the tension cup on a new piece of string and secure information technology with a crimper. Cut some 3⁄16 or 1⁄8  in (0.48 or 0.32 cm) bungee cord into a piece that's 6 in (fifteen cm) in length. Thread the tension cup and a size #18-#10 metal crimping sleeve one terminate of the string with the hole of the tension cup toward the metal sleeve on the stop.

    • Pull the string taut as y'all crimp the metal sleeve into identify with a wire crimper.
    • Repeat this step for all of the limbs that y'all are restringing.

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    Put the cord and tension cup back inside the limb. Heat the limb again by covering it in a plastic back and dipping information technology in hot water. When the limb joint is soft, button the end of the string with the metal crimper into the joint until the tension cup is inside. If you are restringing more limbs, do this for the other limbs too.

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    Reattach the limb to the body. Position the limb outside the doll's body at the hole in the textile where you removed it. Pull the string inside the doll's body and adhere some other tension cup and string on the inside to concord the limb in place using the same method y'all used in the final step. It'south helpful to utilise the doll'due south neck pigsty to work inside the body since information technology is the biggest hole of the doll.

    • Clip the string with scissors later on you accept fastened the tension cup and crimper to the inside. Leave nearly ane in (2.5 cm) across the metallic crimping sleeve at the end inside the doll.
    • Repeat this step for any other limbs you wish to restring.

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    Re-stuff the doll and put its head back on. When you've finished reattaching all the limbs you lot wanted to, accept the stuffing from the bowl and put it back inside the doll's torso through the cervix pigsty with your fingers. Put the doll'due south head dorsum on by stuffing the neck inside the cervix hole and pulling the neck string tight, and so secure the caput in place past tying the string together in a tight knot.

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Things You'll Demand

  • Spray canteen
  • Water
  • Wire brush or pick
  • Baking soda
  • Warm water
  • Small basin
  • Clean washcloth
  • Study cord or cord that can fit in doll's cervix
  • Pair of scissors
  • Rounded-off needle or modest safety pin
  • Scissors
  • Needle-nose pliers or a hemostat
  • Wire crimper
  • iii⁄16 or 1⁄8  in (0.48 or 0.32 cm) bungee cord – about 6 inches (15 cm) per limb
  • #18-#10 crimp sleeves - 2 per limb

  • If yous have a different problem with your American Girl doll, call the American Girl customer service number at ane-800-845-0005 inside the U.Due south. or Canada, or 608-831-5210 outside the U.Due south. or Canada.

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