Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Children's Crafts - Clothespin People from 1953

 


From the McCall's Golden Book for Children, 1953, an idea for someone small who is bored with other summer activities.  Of course, you need to have a good old-fashioned round-topped pegs for this to really work.  The kind you buy in a craft store won't do.

The book is full of ideas for children's crafts, and is available as a one-hour loan at the Open Library (You'll need an account, but it's free).

2 comments:

Sam said...

One grandmother taught us to had sew by making clothes pin doll clothes.

Lady Anne said...

I was born in 1942, and I remember making dolls like this with Mum's clothespins. She had a bunch of brightly colored plastic pins, and I'd line them up and "play wedding". Mum had a rainbow wedding, and my Aunt Jean wore a bright red dress, so the red pin was always her. Mum was a pink pin, and I'd wrap it up in toilet paper to make her gown. I showed my girls how do to this as well, put peg-pins are really hard to find nowadays.