Iris

Iris in a country garden,

Politely said, "I beg your pardon,

But I'm from sunny France you see,

And my real name is Fleur-de-Lis."

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Iris'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 Iris grows from creeping rhizomes. There are more than 300 accepted species, read more about them here.

Back to the Flower Children Index. 

More Iris To Color:

• Crocodiles and Iris Design
• Color Japanese Iris Growing in A Stream

More Iris To Cut:

• Butterfly and Iris paper chain template
  

Child holds iris. 
Victorian scrap.

       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.  

       The little girl illustrated on the right, has just gathered iris 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. 

• Download my iris clip art for craft projects here too...
• 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.