Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends: A Book of Nature Dolls and Others

Chapter 22: The Corn Cob Baby

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About This Book

This book presents a collection of craft projects, short sketches, and songs guiding children and caregivers to make dolls, figures, and toy animals from flowers, fruits, seeds, nuts, corn husks, clay, paper, and common household odds and ends. Clear instructions, patterns, jingles, and plentiful illustrations accompany step-by-step plans and brief vignettes that suggest play scenarios. Emphasizing imagination, thrift, and hands-on skill-building, the selections encourage observational acquaintance with plants and seasons while promoting creativity, resourcefulness, and simple domestic arts suitable for young makers.

The Corn Cob Baby

THE corn cob doll is a hardy little thing, able to endure the hardest usage.

It has no features, to speak of, and a dreadfully pock-marked face—yet no play baby is dearer to the heart of its owner than the corn cob baby.

Baby Bunnie gave her corn cob child a little more style than such babies usually have, by wrapping it about as babies are sometimes wrapped in foreign countries.

Red cobs were made into Indian babies, and bound into bark cradles, and hung up in the trees, like real papooses.

THE CORN COB BABY