Hickory Nut

 

Hickory Nut looks rough and rude, 
Although at heart he's very good.
If once you get inside his shell
You're sure to like him very well.

 

       Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the Hickory Nut's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the vegetable illustrations and verse from "Mother Earth's 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.

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More About Hickory Nuts:

• Craft Miss Hickory in her gingham dress
• How Native Americans Used Nuts
• Nuts and Berries
• Miss Hickory by Carolyn S. Bailey
  

A hicklory-nut doll tenderly cares for
sick children confined to their beds.

The Hickory-Nut Nurse

The hickory-nut nurse has a hard, hard face
But a heart that is tender and true;

She could not change her looks, you know,
And neither can I, or you.

But we can be helpful and kind and good
To all whom we meet and know,

So they never will think of our looks at all,
But of the goodness that lies below.

Hickory-Nut People

       "HICKORY nuts were rather hard to make into dollS; for it was almost impossible to make their heads stay on. But by putting close fitting caps on them under their bonnets, and bringing the cloth down and tying it at the neck with a string, this extended cap made a very good foundation for a body.
       It was found that bonnets and long capes were the most becoming garments for these dolls, as they seemed to harmonize best with the caps.
       Since Nuns and Nurses both dress in this way, the greater number of the Hickory-nut family turned out to be Nuns and Nurses." Margret Walker