Garden Pink or Rose Carnation

COMMON little Garden Pink,

Went away to school—just think!

When she came home for vacation,

Made them call her Rose Carnation.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Garden Pink'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 Garden Pink is Dianthus caryophyllus. Read more about these flowers here.

Back to the Flower Children Index. 

       Young students can download, print and cut-out, old-fashioned paper scrap dolls for their personal collections and crafts from any of our family blogs.  

Victorian scrap of child
holding carnations.

       The little girl illustrated on the right, has just gathered colorful carnations from the garden to fill a vase with. She was used to advertise Enameline stove polish over 100 years ago. Children who lived long ago enjoyed collecting paper dolls every bit as much as they do today. 

       People who made products for the home would gift to customers printed paper dolls when they mailed in coupons or receipts proving that they had purchased that product, much in the same way that students might do today by collecting and mailing box tops from cereal companies in order to receive a toy.

       Print her out on your home computer and add her to your own collection of paper dolls if you like. 

• Read about paper dolls and how these were made in 1857 by Anson Davies Fitz.
• See the paper dolls children used to collect that were published on the sides of cereal boxes by the Kellogg cereal company.
• The Nestle company promoted their products with paper dolls back in the early 20th Century. 
• Learn how to craft a carnation bouquet with chocolate centers for a special friend or mother...
• How to make felt carnations for a doll...