Create, Connect, and Give with a Ready to beBorn® Doll Kit

The Ayla Awake Ready to beBorn® kit is a meaningful therapy doll-making activity created for long-term care homes, memory care and dementia programs, community groups, schools, and families.

More than a traditional craft, our Ready to beBorn® kits combine the joy of creating with the comfort and companionship of a finished weighted therapy doll. Participants enjoy a hands-on activity and finish with a beautiful preemie-sized doll they can keep, enjoy, or give to someone special.

A Wonderful Activity for Long-Term Care

Ready to beBorn® kits offer a unique "Make & Give" opportunity for long-term care and senior living communities. Residents who enjoy creative, hands-on activities can take part in making a doll and then choose to gift their finished therapy doll to another resident who may benefit from additional comfort, companionship, or sensory support.

It is a beautiful way to bring creativity, purpose, connection, and giving together in one activity.

Doll-making can also encourage conversation, reminiscence, social interaction, and a sense of accomplishment. The activity can be enjoyed individually, with a caregiver or family member, or as part of a group, recreation, or intergenerational program.

Ayla, an Awake Preemie to Create and Love

Ayla has a friendly awake expression, realistic vinyl head, hands, and feet, and a soft cloth body. Her 1/4 limbs allow her to remain soft and cuddly while still showing her beautifully detailed hands and feet.

Once assembled and weighted, Ayla becomes a comforting preemie-sized therapy doll that is wonderful for holding, nurturing, sensory engagement, and companionship.

Our Ready to beBorn® kits include the components needed to create your doll, making them an approachable choice for activity programs and first-time doll makers.

Magnetic Pacifier Safety Notice: For memory care, senior care, and long-term care environments, we recommend choosing the "No Magnetic Pacifier" option. To ensure safety around pacemakers and other implanted medical devices, our ready-to-assemble doll kits do not include head magnets by default.

If you are assembling a doll for a setting where magnets are safe, we are happy to include them! Simply select the "Magnetic Pacifier" option when ordering your kit, and we will install the head magnet before shipping.

More Than a Doll-Making Kit

Whether Ayla is created in a long-term care home activity, dementia or memory care program, school, community group, or at home with family, Ready to beBorn® kits turn doll-making into something even more meaningful.

Create it. Love it. Gift it. Comfort.

Preemie Size • Awake • 1/4 or Full Limbs • Everything Included

Kit Details

• Doll Name: Ayla
• Original Sculpt by: Tay Freitas
• Size: 15 - 16" (preemie)
• Eyes: open (awake)
• Limbs: 1/4 or full vinyl (hands and feet)
• Body: soft doe suede cloth
• Magnetic Pacifier: optional
• Skill Level: beginner-friendly

Safety & Compliance 

Our dolls are independently laboratory tested to meet Health Canada’s Toys Regulations (SOR/2011-17), as well as CPSC and ASTM F963 in the US, EN71 in Europe, and global ISO standards.