The following three bears paper dolls have been restored for young students to enjoy and play with. In this case, baby bear is a little female. She has a checkered romper and pale colored dress with eyelet trim. Mother Bear has a lovely red coat with fur trim, a red sweater with a lace collar, a yellow cap with rosettes and a house dress. Father bear has a yellow and black suit, pajamas and a fancy lounging cap with a tassel!
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Victorian children taught their Teddy Bears manners!
It was Betty who delivered the invitation, in such a solemn fashion that the Teddy Bears all sat them down on the bed to consider. As Betty went on to explain they were all attention; even Baloo, the Indifferent One, cocked his stubby ears and leaned forward until Ab, his small charge, nearly toppled over on his nose. Of Course they would go; but what should they wear? Peter - big, tawny Peter - thought his pink neck-ribbon would be more becoming than his blue; yet he did so love blue. Little Scrub, sitting beside his beloved Barbara, wondered if it would be quit proper to wear his blue jeans. You can't imagine how excited they were: one isn't invited to a tea-party every day - that is, if one is a Teddy Bear. Not that they cared about the tea, but they did hope there would be plenty of honey.
Now, a tea-party means a rehearsal of one's manners. At that thought most of the Teddy Bears scampered away and pretended to be busily washing their paws. (Betty never interrupted them at that!). Ab and Ba, the twins, climbed into Baloo's lap and declared they'd be very good. But Peter had a request to make: Might he sit at the head of the table? Betty said he might if he could find the head of a round table.
The Bear Hunt
by Margaret Widdemer
I Played I was two polar bears
Who lived inside a cave of chairs,
And Brother was the hunter-man
Who tried to shoot us when we ran.
The ten-pins made good bones to gnaw,
I held them down beneath my paw.
Of course, I had to kill him quick
Before he shot me with his stick,
So all the cave fell down, you see,
On Brother and the bones and me-
So then he said he wouldn't play-
But it was tea-time, anyway!
Description of Coloring Page: the three bears, antique bears in three sizes, the family of bears from Goldilocks and the 3 Bears fairy tale, stuffed bears
