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

Chapter 52: The Gingerbread Maid

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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 Gingerbread Maid

The gingerbread maid is not at all fair

As any one can see,

But although she is not beautiful

She’s sweet as she can be.

There isn’t a maid in all the land

Who has lovers so many as she,

Yet she hasn’t a single accomplishment,

She’s just sweet as she can be.

Oh, Gingerbread Maid, come alive, if you can,

And teach a lesson we all should know,

Teach us how to be sweet to all that we meet,

Then we’ll have friends wherever we go.

THE GINGERBREAD MAID

The great round cooky moons were fine, too. Cooky dough seemed made on purpose for modeling.

A COOKY MOON