Lemon goes all summer in groups to watch a Wild West show; Come rain or shine, they never stay At home any circus day. Assemble a doll-sized mini book: True, is the depiction of lemon and verse. Visitors can collect all of the botanical illustrations and verses from the Children of Mother Earth to print and create a little book of poetry for their dolls. Simply drag each png file. In the Word document, print, cut out all the pictures to the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze some white school glue along the […]
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Radish and Green Onion | The Doll Coloring Book
“Little Miss Radish, pretty thing,Her birthday in the spring:She and Little Onion playOut in the park all day. Assemble a doll-sized mini book: True, is the depiction and verse of radishes and green onions. Visitors can collect all of the botanical illustrations and verses from the Children of Mother Earth to print and create a little book of poetry for their dolls. Simply drag each png file. In the Word document, print, cut out all the pictures to the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze some white school glue along the pointed edge of […]
Pioneer Doll Days Camp For Dolls, 2023
Above are just a few examples of doll crafts back in the days of Pioneer Dolls Summer camp. Learn how to sew a hood, make lunch pails, and make butter Wring out and lay out doll-sized washboards for doll play. In the summer of 2023, I will be building a collection of articles and activities for our little visitors to teach their dolls about American pioneers. This was the time when immigrants from all over the world settled in an uncharted area across the North American continent. They came with the hope of starting a new life and having land […]
Pioneer Vocabulary | The Doll Coloring Book
Some of these words were entered from the old house and were not commonly used, but they were They were used by pioneers in some localities. Others were inappropriate forms or pronunciations of others lyrics but were common enough to warrant inclusion here. Still others are new words It arose from the necessities of entrepreneurial life and fell out of use with the introduction of new surroundings. There is no attempt to make a complete list of words for pioneer life, but giving Only a few of the words and phrases they used are now practically out of use. ash […]
A Pioneer Church | The Doll Coloring Book
Among the first buildings erected in any frontier community was the “Meeting House”. It was often used as a home for women and children until pioneer cabins could be built. Then it was used for the church, or as they generally call the “meeting”. In the same building, they also had other community gatherings, even using it as a schoolhouse at times. They were not very expensive and the church was not pressed for “offerings” or should I say, “collections”? She did not care about finery and the Church was never financially embarrassed. In earlier days they were usually built […]
A Trapper's Predicament!
In those days wild turkeys were common and people often caught them in a trap called a turkey pen, built or rather constructed as follows: With poles they would build a pen about six feet square on the side of a hill, and dig a hole about a foot deep in the underside reaches for the pen. They would cover it with poles and make a forest-like appearance that they would throw brush around. With the corn scattering abundantly in the ditch, the turkeys have been drawn to the pen, but the turkeys will not look for a way out […]
Going to Mill | The Doll Coloring Book
In the “old days” they had to resort to various means to prepare food for the table, and perhaps no stage is more interesting than the story of how corn and wheat were ground. In many families they had a grater. They might have called it a “stuffing machine”. It was made from a piece of tin, of whatever size it was possible to get. They punched it full of holes, bent it with the convex rough side, and then nailed it to a piece of board, forming a kind of semi-cylinder. Corn was rubbed on a cob, like clothes […]
A Pioneer School | The Doll Coloring Book
In pioneering days, as now, there were four things essential to a good school. They were the material equipment, parents, children and teacher. The idea was by no means general that girls needed an education, and because of the cruelty and hardship of people they thought any place was suitable for a school house. Sometimes it was an abandoned building. It might have been an old corn cob. In one case, at least, it was an old stable. Little attention was paid to heating, light or ventilation. If they don’t burn or freeze, that’s enough. They were not seated comfortably […]
Buck-Skin Breeches | The Doll Coloring Book
On the Big Muddy River in Jackson County, there lived in the “Old Days” a well-to-do family who had a beautiful daughter, who was admired by young men for miles around. He came there to court a young man of the neighborhood one winter’s evening, dressed in the best that pioneer life could afford. As, of course, always when a young man goes to see his best daughters, the hours fly by and it is time for him to go home, but it begins to rain and he is persuaded to stay the night. When he was shown his apartment, […]
Money of the Good Old Days
To use the language of a pioneer, “money was pure (very rare) in their day.” And they had such a variety of criteria that they rarely knew the value of their money or how its value fluctuated. If someone suggested a deal, the answer often came in the query, “What kind of money did you get?” The answer might be, “Government money,” but it’s more likely to be “state money” or “Kentucky money” or some other kind of money, or more likely it’s just a general statement of what he should do in a trade. Leather and other items had […]