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

Chapter 40: Jack O’Lantern Dreams

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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.

Jack O’Lantern Dreams

Once a greedy little boy

Ate too much pumpkin pie at night,

And the awful dreams he had

Made his hair stand up in fright.

Dreadful grinning pumpkin faces

Crowded all around his bed,

And every grinning pumpkin face

Showed a fire inside the head.

“We are ghosts,” the faces shouted,

“Of the pumpkins in those pies,

If you had not been so greedy,

We would not before you rise.”

Then the dreadful firelit faces

Faded slowly out of sight,

But the awful pain inside him

Lasted nearly all the night.