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:

• Visiting A Pioneer Camp With The Outdoor Explorers!
• Build a Pioneer Wagon from A Box 

More About Manufactured Pioneer Dolls:

• The Faithful Friends Dolls - by doll artist Heidi Ott and a book series set in 1896 on the Illinois prairie
• The Ingalls Family Dolls - characters based upon the Little House book series 
• American Girl Doll, Kirsten Larson  - an American Swedish Pioneer doll

More Folk Dolls Made by Pioneer Children:

• Yarn Dollies: Praire Doll, Poodle, Modern Yarn Doll Version
• Corn Husk Dolls: History, Characters, 
• Hickory Nut Dolls: Miss Hickory Story and Craft
• Hitty Dolls: Her Story and make a wooden peg Hitty for kids

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:

• Where The West Begins by R. H. Ward
• The Pioneer
• The Pioneer by F.B. Linderman
• The Prairie-Schooner by Charles S. Chapman

Books/Video for Young Students - The Pioneer Days:

• The Diary of Sallie Hester: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
• 9 Terrific Quilt Stories for Kids! and The Patchwork Quilt by Valeries Flournoy
• Read Alouds for Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie Day and Going To Town
• Journey of a Pioneer Read Aloud from Katie Arkfeld

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

• EngelsCoachShop: This channel shares the historically accurate coach builds for The American West and is fascinating for children to watch and learn....
• Raising and Notching the logs of a Pioneer Style Cabin by The Woodland Escape
• Master Canoe Carver Shawn Brigman shows how to build a canoe from a single cedar tree...
• The old colonial homestead tool store and Pioneer Blacksmithing and Master Black Smiths at Beckett's Blacksmithing Shop
• 123 year old sod home built for Oklahoma Sod House Museum
• Pioneer Village Tannery by the Vigo County Parks & Recreation Department
• Finding Freedom in a Frontier Life by National Geographic: Traders and Trappers
• The Way to Native Chronicles: Buffalo Hide Tanning Preparation and Moosehide tannings stretching, fleshing, scraping by Kunaq Tahbone here and Fern Cloud talks about buffalo hide painting here.
• Pioneer Life: Soap Making by Okefenokee Swamp Park
• How to Smoke Meats From The Pioneer Eras: Smoked Bison by Townsends and Smoking Fish at Kuskokwim River Fish Camp and Salting, Curing and Smoking meats from Bill Dixon's smokehouse

Crops In The 18th Century:

• Harvesting Tobacco in the 18th Century from Mount Vernon
• Agriculture in the Old West by the Arizona Ghostrider
• American Indian Planting from Colonial Williamsburg: 3 Sisters Crops: Corn, Beans and Squash
• The unique farming practices of the Hopi: 2000 years of planting

General Histories of The Old West:

• Part 1 - Daniel Boone and The Opening Of The American West and Part 2
• The Real Wild West: A History of The American Frontier
• America's Great Indian Nations - Full Documentary
• The Transcontinental Railroad and the Forgotten Chinese Workers Who Helped Build It
• Why the gold rush is one of the darkest moments in U.S. history
• How Native Americans farmed the great plains of America

Current Personal Histories of The New-Old West:

• I'm a Black Cowboy. This is My Story: Larry Callies
• Wrangling Wild Horses in the Mountains of Montana: From the 9 Quarter Circle Ranch - 3rd generation dude rancher
• Roping as a Way of Life: The Proud History of Texas' Black Cowboys