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Thursday, September 14, 2023

Hispanic and Latino Heritage

Far left, poster celebrating Cesar Chavez. Center left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor as a
young girl. Center Right, cover from children's author, Alma Flor Ada. Far Right, award
winning actress, dancer and singer Rita Moreno.
 
       "National Hispanic Heritage Month is a period from 15 September to 15 October in the United States for recognizing the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. 
       Hispanic Heritage Month began as Hispanic Heritage Week. Hispanic Heritage Week was established by legislation sponsored by Rep. Edward R. Roybal of Los Angeles and was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. In 1988, the commemorative week was expanded to a month (September 15 to October 15) by legislation sponsored by Rep. Esteban Edward Torres (D-Pico Rivera), amended by Senator Paul Simon and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. September 15 was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Hispanic countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, who all declared independence in 1821. In addition, Mexico, Chile, Belize and Puerto Rico celebrate their independence days on September 16, September 18, September 21, and September 23 respectively.
       Hispanic Heritage Week was first proclaimed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968 in Presidential proclamation 3869. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan gave annual proclamations for Hispanic Heritage Week between 1969 and 1988. National Hispanic Heritage Month was first proclaimed by President George H. W. Bush on September 14, 1989 in Presidential Proclamation 6021. Since 1989, all Presidents have given a Presidential Proclamation to mark Hispanic Heritage Month." Wikipedia

Internet Educational Resources:
Doll Play Artifacts:
Famous Latinitas For Girls To Read About and Study:
  1. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - The First Great Latin American Poet at EDSitement
  2. Juana Azurduy de Padilla - Fought for Bolivian independence...
  3. Evelyn Miralles - Engineer from Venezuela who inspires...
  4. Policarpa Salvarrieta - The Revolutionary Teen Spy from Puppet History 
  5. Susana Torre - An Argentine/American Architect
  6. Rosa A. Gonzales - An exemplary nurse from Puerto Rico 
  7. Teresa Carreno - A pianist and opera singer
  8. Hermelinda Urvina - A pilot from Ecuador
  9. Antonia Navarro - A topographic engineer and teacher from El Salvador
  10. Matilde Hidalgo - First girl in Ecuador to graduate from high school. She became a doctor...
  11. Eva Peron - First Lady of Argentina
  12. Julia Alvarez - her biography from Chicago Public Library
  13. Gabriela Mistral - She won a Nobel Prize in Literature, 1945.
  14. Juana de Ibarbourou - important Uruguayian Poet
  15. Dr. Ellen Ocha - works for NASA, astronaut
  16. Pura Belpre - an award named after the first Latina librarian who worked for the New York Public Library
  17. Mercedes Sosa - famous performer, singer, musician...
  18. Sandra Cisneros - story writer and author
  19. Mirabal sisters - "the Butterflies" who helped topple a dictator
  20. Gumercinda Paez - Elizabeth Mischke reads about this beloved teacher...
  21. Isabel Allende -  Acclaimed author, visit her website here...
  22. Sonia Sotomayor - Supreme Court Justice
  23. Frida Kahlo - famous portrait painter 
  24. Julia de Burgos - Puerto Rico poet
  25. Rigoberta Menchu Tum - a hero for Native People's Rights
  26. Gloria Estefan - a famous singer, here is her foundation's page: The Gloria Estefan Foundation
  27. Chavela Vargas - performer, musician and singer 
  28. Alicia Alonso - Cuban Prima Ballerina
  29. Victoria Santa Cruz - Professor of Drama PH.D.
  30. Mercedes Doretti - a Forensic Anthropologist 
  31. Claribel Alegria - a poet and novelist from Central America
  32. Celia Cruz - The Queen of Salsa and Good Morning America and Latin Grammy Award Winner!
  33. Sonia Solange Pierre - a Human Rights Activist
  34. Dolores Huerta - Political Activist, Her Foundation
  35. Rita Rosita Moreno - from Puerto Rico - actress, dancer and singer
  36. Veronica Michelle Bachelet - Executive Director of UN Women
  37. Maria Auxiliadora da Silva - self taught, 'outsider' painter from Brazil
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Friday, September 1, 2023

School Supplies for Dolls Entering 4th -7th Grade

       The following contemporary school supply or craft supply may be needed for the beginning of the new school year. Check with your doll's homeroom teacher for each assigned classroom list. 

Supply Per Student: 4th - 7th Grade Doll Classrooms
  1. Lunch box and thermos may be needed if your doll brings food from home
  2. Laptop (provided by school for check-out)
  3. Backpack
  4. Binders and Folders and Subject Dividers
  5. Calendar/planner
  6. highlighter markers
  7. Notepads and Index cards
  8. Calculator (optional)
  9. Rulers, hole punch, templates, Scissors
  10. Pencils, Pens, Erasers, Pencil Case, Highlighter, Pencil Sharpener
  11. Crayons, Watercolor set and or Colored Pencils
  12. Glue sticks, Bottle of white school glue
  13. Book Covers
  14. Combination Lock for a school locker
  15. Bandages, small bottle of hand sanitizer 
  16. Dry Erase Board and Dry Erase Markers
  17. 3 boxes of facial tissues
  18. 2 boxes of sanitary wipes
  19. shorts, tennis shoes, socks, tees and gym bag for sports
  20. personal hygiene: deodorant stick, hair brush, soap and soap box toothbrush and toothpaste
  21. Student ID Card, Library Card, Lunch Card

       A School Locker may be assigned to your doll, it is a loan from the school. The locker may be decorated only with things that are easy to remove at the end of the school year. Students are held responsible for the care of school property. Food and/or waste must be removed from the locker at the end of each day in order to prevent insects and rodents from being attracted to the contents of your locker. Lockers will be inspected from time to time to insure the rules are followed. Do not use this school property to store any illegal substances.

A desk will be assigned to your doll at the beginning of the school year.

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Sunday, July 23, 2023

"Little Blossoms" Doll Summer Camp

Sample crafts for the "Little Blossoms" Doll Summer Camp: flower crown,
daisy flower bed, backyard pond, and watering can.
 
Lessons For "Little Blossoms" Doll Camp: Our flower camp for dolls includes lessons below by Chandler a teacher who lived and taught and wrote several science readers for the Primary Grades based upon the flora and fauna of California.
  1. Buttercup: Lesson 1  - Ranunculus californicus, commonly known as the California buttercup, is a flowering plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae. It is a native of California, where it is common in many habitats, including chaparral and woodlands.
  2. Buttercup: Lesson 2 - You can also find California buttercups in Oregon and on islands between British Columbia and Washington.
  3. Parts of the Flower - A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. Identification chart, parts of a flower.
  4. California Poppy - Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight or cup of gold, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the United States and Mexico.
  5. Cream-Cup - Platystemon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the poppy family containing the single species Platystemon californicus, which is known by the common name creamcups.
  6. Baby-Blue-Eyes: Lesson 1  - Nemophila menziesii, known commonly as baby blue eyes or baby's-blue-eyes, is an annual herb, native to western North America
  7. Baby-Blue-Eyes: Lesson 2  - ''Baby-Blue-Eyes has several sisters, natives of California...''
  8. Wild Hollyhock  - Iliamna is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, endemic to North America. It is related to the bush mallows of California.
  9. Filaree  - ''The Filaree gets its green rosette placed early in the year. Then, it can send out its flowers early...''
  10. Miner's Lettuce  - Claytonia perfoliata, commonly known as miner's lettuce, Indian lettuce, or winter purslane, is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It is an edible, fleshy, herbaceous, annual plant native to the western mountain and coastal regions of North America. How Native Americans cooked this plant.
  11. Wild Portulaca  - ''Some people call Wild Portulaca, Red Maids‚ because she wears such a beautiful red dress, but I think more people know her by the name I use..."
  12. White Forget-Me-Not  - This flowering plant is native North America, Alaska, Canada and the United Kingdom.
  13. Wall Flower - ''If you wish to study a flower that looks like a party and smells like a party, just take a wild Wall Flower...''
  14. Shooting Star  - Primula hendersonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.
  15. Trillium - 'Trillium was called the Wake-Robin in the East because soon after it blossoms there, the robin begins to sing..."
  16. Iris: Lesson 1 - Some people call this flower the Flag, but as Iris, she is known to all the World.
  17. Iris: Lesson 2 - "What an odd flower Iris is! She has caught the curves and the colors of the rainbow and has brought them down to earth...''
  18. Blue-Eyed Grass  - ''"Blue-Eyed Grass'' we call these plants because their leaves seem so grass-like...''
  19. Fritillaria - The flowers are usually solitary, nodding and bell-shaped with bulbs that have fleshy scales, resembling those of lilies. They are known for their large genome size and genetically are very closely related to lilies. 
  20. Soap Root - Botany facts and how this unique plant was once used by minors, pioneers and Native Americans...
  21. Azalea - Wonderful odor but toxic to eat...
  22. Johnny-Jump-Up: Lesson 1 - ''Every boy I have ever known, whether his age was seven years or seventy, seems to have a tender spot in his heart for this golden beauty...''
  23. Johnny-Jump-Up: Lesson 2 - ''Not many insects visit Johnny-Jump-Up. Perhaps they find her honey too hard to reach...''
  24. Farewell to Spring - pollinated by butterflies
  25. Wild Cucumber  - Root system the size of a man!

Flower/Garden Themed Doll Crafts:

The Flower Children Garden Crafts and Flower Dolls - Miniature pages for young ones to download and print out a book for their dolls to read aloud, in simple verse. Plus new crafts, poems and stories about flowers are also included among these posts as I find them in the archive.

More Flower Poetry:

Flower Songs for Young Children:

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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 

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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Monday, June 5, 2023

DIY Doll Farmer's Market Stand

Above is our families Farmer's Market Play Set. The rocker was handcrafted using cedar.
I do not know who made this; it was purchased at resale. At the stall is also a real mini
scale and doll sized calculator that we use to add up the cost of the produce.  
 
        I honestly think this doll market set is more adorable than those sold in toy stores today. Which is a good thing, given the prices toy companies charge for them. Most all of the fruits and veggies shown on this post  were made by hand using Sculpey and then painted using acrylics. The cast iron stand and rocker were purchased at a flee market.  

"An abundance and great variety of vegetables and fresh green lettuces are flooding our
 doll's farmer's market. Fine homegrown corn and peppers for roasting are just a few our
 featured vegetables on display."

"Soon a delectable crop of peaches will arrive and every doll knows how marvelous
these taste with homemade ice cream during the summer months."

"Don't forget our berries make the very best fruit preserves for canning and no doll's
breakfast table should lack for blue berries served on top of their morning cereal!"

Our dolls market stall made from recycled crates.
 
     I've included from our crafted vegetable and fruit selections, the typical food items sold at a Mid-Western farmer's market during the summer months of June, July and August in the United States.  If you live abroad or in a Southern state or on an island, the selections you might include in your own toy market could look quite different from ours!

Edible Family Groups at Our Farmer's Market: veggies, fruit, nuts, legumes, herbs, grains, etc...

  1. Rose - Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Apple, Pear
  2. Mustard - Cauliflower, Broccoli, Brussels sprout, Cabbage, Bok choy, Radish, Turnip, Red cabbage, Mustard greens
  3. Lily/Onion - Asparagus, Onion, Garlic, Leek, Green Onion
  4. Nightshade/Potato - Tomato, Potato, Sweet potato, Peppers (all varieties)
  5. Cucumber/Melon - Cucumber, Watermelon, Cantaloupe, Squash, Chayote
  6. Carrot - Carrots, Parsnips, Celery, Cilantro, Coriander, Fennel, Anise, Caraway
  7. Sunflower/Daisy - Artichoke, Lettuce, Sunflower
  8. Legume - Beans, Peas, Bean sprouts, Snow pea, Lentil, Jicama, Peanuts
  9. Goosefoot/Beetroot - Swiss chard, Spinach, Beets
  10. Palm (tags) - Coconut, Dates
  11. Mallows - Okra
  12. Zingiberaceae- Ginger root, Turmeric, Cardamon, Galangal
  13. Rhubarb - Rhubarb root
Left, heritage tomatoes. Center, chip wood baskets full of berries etc... Right, fresh basil.

Left, the Swiss Chard, mushrooms and butternut squash. 
Center, three kinds of potatoes: sweet, red and Idaho.
Right are the giant shallots.

Left, details of pears. Right, details of cauliflowers.

Left, one of our larger doll crates made using big tongue depressors. Right,
the watermelons are painted wooden eggs.

Left the sign details up-close. Right, the back side of our market sign left unfinished
for now... Wew! we are tired!

 Additional Crafts for The Doll's Farmer's Market:
We had so many fruits and vegetables to play with that we needed extra tables! See
how to make the larger one in the back here.

  More Market Stalls for Dolls:

What's cool about the farmers market? by Foodwise

More About Farmer's Markets:
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Friday, April 21, 2023

The Wooden Doll Craft Index

Just a few examples of dolls included in our wooden collections below.

        Wooden dolls come in all shapes and sizes. In this index I will list all of our wooden doll crafts as they are published plus stories, poems and links to related content... Below, right, are examples of the types of clothespins used in many of our crafts. 

1. spring clothespins
2. clothespins + beads
3. dolly clothespins
4. wooden peg dolls
5. flat sided clothespins
Read About Some History of Wooden Dolls:

  1. Wooden peg dolls from Poland - These custom painted and dressed character dolls are made of wood and referred to as Jolie Dolls.
  2. Robert Raikes wooden doll named "Abigail" - Our wooden doll by Robert Raikes, 1990, is called "Abigail." She is from his Morning Meadow Collection.
  3. Nutcracker Dolls - Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier.
  4. Antique Peg Wooden Dolls - Nutcracker dolls, also known as Christmas nutcrackers, are decorative nutcracker figurines most commonly made to resemble a toy soldier.
  5. Schoenhut Dolls, Toys and Pianos - Schoenhut dolls were wooden dolls produced by the Schoenhut Piano Company between 1903 and 1935.
  6. Kachina Dolls - There are more than 400 different kachinas in Hopi and Pueblo culture.
  7. Matryoshka Dolls - A matryoshka doll is a Russian nesting doll which is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other.
  8. Early English Wooden Dolls 1650-1700 - England is famous for their carved wooden dolls from approximately 1650 to 1700.
Peg Doll Crafts:

Clothespin Doll Craft:

  1. Craft Cowpoke Clothespins Ready to Rope!
  2. How to make ballerina clothespin dolls...
  3. DIY Polynesian Dancing Clothespin Dolls
  4. Scout Clothespin Doll Crafts
  5. Make Raggedy Ann and Andy Clothespin Dolls
  6. Craft a Clothespin Bride and Groom
  7. DIY Bee or Hornet Clothespin Dolls
  8. Learn to make butterfly clothespin dolls...
  9. How to Craft Clothespin Doll Skiers
  10. How to craft a doll using clothespins... - This is a Hitty doll version
  11. Craft Orthodox Clergy Clothespins
  12. Craft your own clothespin dads!
  13. How to make a cute little monkey from a clothespin... 
  14. Wooden Blacksmith Toy Plans
  15. See our floral clothespin dolls: the Zinnia, the Morning Glory, the Chrysanthemum, the Wild Rose, the Hyacinth, the Pussy Willow, the Scarlet Poppy, and the Black-eyed Susan
Wooden Doll Furniture:

Old-Fashioned clothespin dolls,
patterns and method for adding
soft heads and arms. Click to
enlarge.
Poems and Stories About Wooden Dolls:

  1. Miss Hickory by Carolyn S. Bailey
  2. Travel The World With Hitty!
  3. The Clothes-Pin Dollies by Camilla J. Knight
  4. The Life of A Wooden Doll by Lewis Saxby, 1903
  5. The Doll's Journey by Louisa M. Alcott
  6. The Sewing Doll by Amelia De Wolfjeers
  7. The Wooden Doll by Edith Campbell
  8. The Nicest One 
  9. The Hidden House
  10. The Popover Family - series by Ethel Calvert Phillips

Video at YouTube by Budding Artists:

Coloring Wooden Dolls:

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