Potato

Said Dame Potato: "Hurry, Pat!
And wash you face and feed the cat,
Then run to school, or you'll be late;
Just see! It's nearly half past eight!" 

 

        Assemble a mini doll sized book: Right, is the potato'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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An Irish (Potato) Woman and Her Family

       "SOME of the joiliest visitors were from the potato patch. They were Irish, of course, and every one knows how much fun there is in all Irish people. There was not a serious looking one in the whole family.
       The mother had a most peculiar face, round and plump and happy, but deformed. Though she had more than the usual number of eyes, they were not located so she could use them as eyes.
       One was on her cheek just where others sometimes have dimples, so she used that for a dimple. Another was on her forehead, and another just where an eye should have been for seeing purposes. But, sad to tell, this one had a sprout in it, and a sprout in the eye would ruin any one's sight.
       Had it not been for the little Wests, the Irish woman might have been blind all her life. With an ordinary lead pencil an operation was performed on her face which gave her a beautiful round eye just opposite the afflicted one.
       This so pleased her that a broad smile spread over her face - a smile that she wore as long as she lived - and that was reflected in the faces of all of her family.
       If you had asked her how it happened that they were always smiling, she would have said, '''Sure, smiles are catching, just like measles." When one in a family has them, they all do. Yes, they're just as catching as measles, and much pleasanter to have.
       Other potatoes were made up into Irish maidens, with early rose complexions, and into Irish men, with sun-browned faces, and into sturdy Irish children.
       These were able to stand up very nicely too, having good substantial Irish (potato) feet.
       And who ever heard of an Irish family without a pig? And were not potatoes the most natural things in the world to make pigs of?
       Nothing could have been easier to make. A long potato was the body, four matches the legs, two pins the eyes, while a curled dandelion stem made the most natural pig tail imaginable.''  Walker

Left, an Irish potato woman. Right an Irish potato pig. - How to craft these!

More About Doll Potatoes:

• Crush & Craft Pretend Potatoes
• The Potato Famine of 1846