The Burdock Folk Doll, Poem and Mini Book Page

 

Burdock and his family,
With the gardener don't agree;
But Burdock says if he's your friend,
He'll stick to you until the end.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Burdock's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the flower illustrations and verse from "Flower Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

The scientific name for Burdock is Arctium lappa. To learn more about this plant go here.

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Acorn and Burdock Eskimos

       "ALONG the orchard fence grew great broad leaved burdocks crowned with purplish pink tipped burs, which early in the season were made into all sorts of useful and beautiful objects - baskets, hanging baskets, cradles, sofas, chairs, tables and many other things.
       In autumn, when the large acorns with fringed cups began to fall, the children gathered them and made them into Eskimos. One acorn was used for the body, and one for the head, with the point on the end for a nose. Twigs of the oak served for arms and legs.
       The warmest of fur overcoats was made of the ripened burdock burs, while the furry fringed cup of the acorn made a cap that would have delighted the heart of any Eskimo.
       Then Eskimo huts or igloos were made of the burs or "furs" as the children called them. Of course every one knows that real igloos are made of blocks of ice or snow, not of fur, but ice was not to be had at that season of the year and would not have been comfortable to work with anyway.
       As the bur Eskimo was in immediate need of a home the little Wests made him the very best one they could of the materials at hand. A very neat round hut was made of burs and that it might appear more real, both it and the ground were covered with cotton snow, making a real arctic landscape." Margret Walker.

The doll made from Burdock and Burs...