 He told engineers and sculptors that he wanted the dolls to resemble little children in neighborhoods across America.Martha Armstrong-Hand, the famous doll sculptor at Mattel, made the first Kiddles in 1965.She explained that the first set of ten dolls in a premier series called "Liddle Kiddles" used only four different head molds (3 of which were sculpted by Martha and 1 sculpted by another artist) but had different hairstyles and face paint.