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

Chapter 53: The Yarn Child

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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 Yarn Child

THE yarn child had a hard time in the world. You would not think it to look at her, but she did.

The very first day of her life she was given to a baby who was so fond of her that he bit her, and tried to pull her to pieces; then squeezed and hugged and picked at her till it was a wonder she ever lived through it all—Lady Hollyhock never could have endured such treatment.

But the yarn child did. Her main business in life was to amuse that baby, and, no matter how she was treated, her yarn eyes were just as wide open and her yarn smile just as broad as if she had always had the best of treatment.

THE YARN CHILD