PEANUT DOLLIES

Shannon News, 11 September 1928, Page 4

PEANUT DOLLIES

Choose eight nice long peanuts for each .doll required—two of thd eight should be bent at one end to make good feet—and sew them together wny thread. Decorate the peanut representing the head with eyes, nose and mouth—ink or sharp pencil will do. Then selpct from your box of pieces suitable colours and materials for clothing the dollies in various national costumes. For instance, take a small piece .of navy blue serge to make a pair of baggy pants for a little Dutch boy and knit hjm a sweater and closefitting cap from scraps of wool or cut them from an .old woolly garment. Use, a pretty, stiff striped material for hi? sister’s full skirt. A scrap of white embroidery will make her a cap and apron, and she should have a necklace of tiny beads. Soft, fluffy wool,—buff, tan, yellow or black, curled, straight or plaited—can be sewn or glued on for hair, -. Be careful to ehoose the style and colour according to the nationality of each dolly

A Chinese mandarin can be made very gay in a rich' bright-coloured silk tunic over long black satin pants, and of course you. would want a little Japr anese girl in her dainty kimono. A gypsy can be dressed in scarlet silk shirt, and black velvet, bodice over white yoke and sleeves. With the variation of a light skirt and white apron, this will make a Swiss girl., A little Eskimo is easily dressed in small odds and ends of fur. Indeed, there is any amount of fun in seeing how many different peanut children you can make on a wet day, or-if you have a few friends to play with you, each one can make one or two of the dollies and then, tell what she knows of the land where they live.