School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 230
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- Many people delight in making toys during their leisure time.There are many different kinds of toys made from wool, wood and many other things.An old lady showed me how to make a doll out of a clothes peg. This is the way to make it. Paint the features on the peg, the parts that hold the clothes are the legs and then dress the doll as desired.There is another way of making a doll.Cut a piece for body and head together, sew both together and stuff with wool or straw. Then cut pieces for hands and legs, stuff them and sew them on to the body.Engines are made from circular pieces of wood, such as parts of old blind, rollers, etc, and boxes.You should take care to make(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Richards
- Gender
- Female
