Morning Glory doll craft, mini book page and poetry!

Morning-Glory thought she'd look
Through the window at the cook;
Didn't know was impolite
To give a body such a fright.

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Morning Glory'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 Morning Glory is from the family Convolvulaceae. Read more about these flowers here.

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Morning-Glory Ladies from Margaret Walker

      MORNING-GLORY ladies were made by slipping a flower cup upside down over the stem of a seed pod, leaving the pod for a head. Morning-glory ladies always died young. Indeed, they hardly lived at all.
      The spirits of these lost flower children were not only seen in the sunset skies but in the rainbow, too. And when the little Wests saw the great, beautiful bow in the sky, they always repeated the words of old Nokomis to Hiawatha: 

"Tis the heaven of flowers you see there,
All the wild flowers of the forest.
All the lilies of the prairie.
When on earth they fade and perish
Blossom in that heaven above us."

How to Make a Clothespin Morning-Glory Dolly

Left, Details of the morning-glory clothespin doll include: silky yarn hair, a painted face, a
necklace of pearly Styrofoam beads. Center, painted clothespins and stands. Right, silk
flower picks from a dollar store. Take these apart and glue them to the wooden pins to 
create a garment of sorts.

See the morning-glory's costume made of silk leaves and petals.

 

Wild morning-glory illustrated.

The Wild Morning-Glory

       "In your walks through the fields and along the country roadsides have you ever noticed the wild morning-glory? Of course, you have seen it and, perhaps, gathered some blossoms, only to find them in a short time wilted in your hand or turned into little, long bags, puckered at the top as if drawn up with a string.
       When I say noticed, I mean have you thought about the flowers while you looked at them? Have you noticed their shape and beautiful color, and have you seen the great difference between the green leaf of the wild morning-glory and that of the cultivated one?
       The wild morning-glory leaf is more beautiful in shape, the vine is more graceful, and the blossom just as lovely as the cultivated morning-glory, and all this beauty need not be left behind when you gather the wild flowers which are to make the rooms of your home charming.
       While I write this, July 7, there stands on a table in our living-room a tall glass vase, wide at the top and holding plenty of water. It is filled with a mass of wild morning-glory vines, and there are four new, entirely open, pink and white blossoms while others are just twisting open.
       Four days ago, when out for a walk in the country, I gathered the vine by the roadside where it grew in the company of daisies, buttercups, and wild mustard. Lifting themselves up into the light where the warmth of the morning sun could open the buds and where the leaves could breathe in the fresh air, some of these trailing vines had wound themselves in masses around tall, strong weed-stalks.
       I gathered the vines, weed-stalks and all, breaking them off close to the ground; and now these stalks hold most of the vines upright in the vase, while other sprays droop gracefully over the edge and hang down almost to the tabletop. Only one or two flowers were in bloom when I found the vines, but there were quantities of green buds which I hoped would open later, and that is just what they are doing. It is like having wild flowers growing in one's window. And as for decoration, nothing can be more beautiful.
       Trailing vines always make pretty decorations, and many wild ones keep fresh a long while when given plenty of water. Some have flowers, some have not, but in any case they are worth gathering when you have large vases to fill. " The Beard Sisters

This big morning-glory paper doll was designed by Elise Reid Boylston.
Students may cut, color, or even decoupage this acorn
paper doll to look the way they would like it to!