Saturday, July 8, 2023

Pioneer Doll Days Camp For Dolls, 2023

Above are just a few examples of the doll crafts under our Pioneer Doll Days
 Camp for Summer. Learn to sew a bonnet, craft lunch pails, make a butter
  churn and put together doll sized washboards for doll play.

       In the summer of 2023, I will be building a collection of articles and activities for our young visitors to teach their dolls about American pioneers. This was a time when immigrants from all over the world settled uncharted territory across the North American Continent. They came with the hope of starting a new life and having land that they could farm and live on with new generations for many years to come. It was not always a time of peace; pioneers experienced calamity, struggle, poverty and survival.

Pioneer Doll Days Artifacts:

  1. How to make a lunch pail for a Pioneer doll...  - Learn to construct using paper rolls and clothespins
  2. Candle Making Mold for Dolls  - recycle and create with golf tees and cardboard
  3. How Mary and Laura made butter... - use wooden craft sticks and paper mache butter, yum...
  4. I found a doll sized kerosene lamp!  - hunt in for things that pioneers would have used inside a flee market or resale shop!
  5. DIY washboards for your pioneer dolls... - It was hard work just to stay clean on the trail or living in a cabin!
  6. Pottery and cookware for pioneer kitchens you can collect - What do you think your pioneer dolls would use in a kitchen?
  7. How to Braid a Doll's Rug - Keep your doll's toes warm inside their play cabins...
  8. Piece a Simple Patchwork Quilt for Your Doll's Bed  - Begin to keep a great pioneer obsession alive!
  9. Cut and paste your doll's campfire - No matter where your doll sleeps, by a campfire, in a log cabin, sod house or out on the prairie he or she will need to know how to craft a campfire.
  10. How to make soap for Pioneer dolls... - or any other dolls
  11. How to make Mary's doll, Nettie and Laura's doll, Susan
  12. Currier & Ives Prints for The Dollhouse - Pioneer homestead print 
  13. How to craft old-fashioned wooden spoon dolls - You can dress these folk figures to look like pioneers if you like.

More Pioneer Doll Camp Crafts:

More About Manufactured Pioneer Dolls:

More Folk Dolls Made by Pioneer Children:

Pioneer Camp Days: Articles and Stories for 5th grade readers thus far.

  1. Pioneer Home Life  - How did the pioneers "keep house?"
  2. A Pioneer Church  - Charming times and music from that old country church.
  3. A Pioneer School  - In pioneer days, as now, four things were essential to a good school...
  4. Going to Mill  - In the "good old days'' they had to resort to various expedients in preparing the food for the table. Perhaps no phase of it is more interesting than the story of how they ground their corn and wheat.
  5. Buck-Skin Breeches  - A humorous tale of young love and well...awkwardness
  6. Money of the Good Old Days - How to survive without cash.
  7. A Trapper's Predicament - How not to trap a turkey, and wolf, and a crazy man...
  8. Pioneer Vocabulary - Words which originated out of the necessities of pioneer life

Poetry:

Books/Video for Young Students - The Pioneer Days:

Learning about American Pioneers at YouTube: Advanced Skill Sets of living master craftsman!

Crops In The 18th Century:
General Histories of The Old West:
Current Personal Histories of The New-Old West:
 

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