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| A finished photo of our 18" doll's Waldorf garden bed with veggies. |
Your dolls can pretend to plant and harvest veggies from this garden bed. What is a farm without a garden? Moms and older siblings can help younger ones sew this basic construction for a doll house or a farm camp.
Supply List:
- one regular size brown bath towel
- scrap green fabric several inches larger than the circumference of your garden bed assembled
- green embroidery floss
- large needle (a curved needle if you have one on hand.)
- stuffing
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| Left, include a few baskets and lots of veggies with this toy. Right, lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage and tiny clay turnips are tucked between the rows for play. |
I made this version of a garden bed by cutting lengths of a brown towel 3" wide, stuffing them with a soft cotton filler and sewing them shut. Then I whip stitched the terry cloth rolls together at the bottom edge of each roll. After that, I attached an additional green fabric bottom and edging using a strong embroidery floss, trapping the terry cloth rolls together inside of a soft fabric frame. You can make your garden bed any shape or size you wish; our's measures 12 x 24 inches, with an approximate depth of 2" to 3." I used nearly all of my brown terry cloth towel to make this project.
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| Left, the tops of our doll leeks peeking through the terry cloth soil. Right, see the embroidery stitched edges of the soft green frame. This "frame" holds the garden bed together. |
Our Garden
"In my little garden bed
Raked so nicely over,
First the tiny seeds I sow,
Then with soft earth cover;
Shining down, the great round sun
Smiles upon it often;
Little raindrops pattering down
Help the seeds to soften;
Soon the little plants awake
Down their roots go creeping;
Up they lift their tiny heads
Through the brown earth peeping;
High and higher still they grow,
Through the summer hours,
Till some happy day, the buds
Open into flowers."
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