Trillium said "Why, deary me,
I'm just as freckled as can be,"
Her cousin Tiger-Lily said,
"Well, look at me, I'm almost red."
I'm just as freckled as can be,"
Her cousin Tiger-Lily said,
"Well, look at me, I'm almost red."
Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Trillium and Tiger Lily'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 Trillium is Melanthiaceae and Tiger Lilies are Lilium lancifolium. Learn more about the yellow wake robin here and the lily here.
The Tiger-Lily Leopard
"From the brilliant-orange tiger-lily, with its dark-brown or black spots, we are going to make a — tiger? No, a leopard. Tiger-lilies may have spots, but tigers, you know, are striped.
It is really wonderful how much this little animal, made of parts of a beautiful flower and broom-straws, looks like the stealthy, prowling, wild creature which lives in Africa and Asia. The yellow coat of the live leopard is covered with black spots, and so is that of our flower leopard. The fierce living animal has a long tail that it moves slowly back and forth in anger or when it threatens to attack another animal or a man. Our little leopard also has a long tail which, if it does not really move, looks as if it were just going to. But while the live animal is ferocious and will kill, we can only pretend that of the tiger-lily leopard. Though he looks dangerous, he cannot even nibble a green leaf.
The illustration of the tiger-lily given here is a drawing of the one from which the lily leopard was made. You will notice that at the right of the flower there is the stem and pistil of a blossom that has fallen apart.
When we make the leopard we cut off this lily-stem close to the stalk, leaving the pistil attached, to use for the back-bone and tail. Four broom-straws, about an inch and a half long and sharpened at one end, we use for legs. The pointed ends of two of the legs are pushed into the stem at the front, and the other two in part of the pistil at the back. That makes the skeleton.
Now we have to fit on the skeleton the leopard's spotted coat. After pulling the perfect flower apart we select the petal best suited for this purpose, and then take the curl partially out of it by pressing it down on the table with our fingers. The tip of the petal will have to be cut off because it comes down too far over the tail.
The blunt end of the petal will be the leopard's head, and it can be rounded up and molded with your fingers until it looks like the head of the leopard. Small ears of bits of broom-straw, pointed at one end, we must stick in the head where they belong and then, in order to make the coat stay in place, we will pin it to the skeleton at the neck, in the middle of the back, and again at the tail, with fine broom-straws. So we have the little leopard complete. " by the Beard sisters
It is really wonderful how much this little animal, made of parts of a beautiful flower and broom-straws, looks like the stealthy, prowling, wild creature which lives in Africa and Asia. The yellow coat of the live leopard is covered with black spots, and so is that of our flower leopard. The fierce living animal has a long tail that it moves slowly back and forth in anger or when it threatens to attack another animal or a man. Our little leopard also has a long tail which, if it does not really move, looks as if it were just going to. But while the live animal is ferocious and will kill, we can only pretend that of the tiger-lily leopard. Though he looks dangerous, he cannot even nibble a green leaf.
The illustration of the tiger-lily given here is a drawing of the one from which the lily leopard was made. You will notice that at the right of the flower there is the stem and pistil of a blossom that has fallen apart.
When we make the leopard we cut off this lily-stem close to the stalk, leaving the pistil attached, to use for the back-bone and tail. Four broom-straws, about an inch and a half long and sharpened at one end, we use for legs. The pointed ends of two of the legs are pushed into the stem at the front, and the other two in part of the pistil at the back. That makes the skeleton.
Now we have to fit on the skeleton the leopard's spotted coat. After pulling the perfect flower apart we select the petal best suited for this purpose, and then take the curl partially out of it by pressing it down on the table with our fingers. The tip of the petal will have to be cut off because it comes down too far over the tail.
The blunt end of the petal will be the leopard's head, and it can be rounded up and molded with your fingers until it looks like the head of the leopard. Small ears of bits of broom-straw, pointed at one end, we must stick in the head where they belong and then, in order to make the coat stay in place, we will pin it to the skeleton at the neck, in the middle of the back, and again at the tail, with fine broom-straws. So we have the little leopard complete. " by the Beard sisters
- The leopard is made from a Tiger Lily like the one shown in the illustration above.
- This is the skeleton of the leopard.
- The leopard's spotted coat is a single petal.
- The stealthy, prowling tiger-lily leopard doll.
Poems, Clip Art, etc... About Lilies:
- Stained glass coloring page of lilies from Color The Bible
- To an Easter Lily from Thrifty Scissors
- An Art Nouveau Lily coloring page from Crayon Palace
- A lovely paper doll named Lily from Easter Egg Crafts
- Lily-of-the-valley scrap paper doll from Victorian Ephemera
- One Easter Lily's Mission by Ada Stewart Shelton
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