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