School: Whitecross, Julianstown (roll number 3380)
- Location:
- Whitecross, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Criostóir Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0685, Page 239
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- Some times on a sunny day when I had no other entertainment, I went out to a field or walked along the road side and gathered flowers such as primroses or daisy. When we had sufficient flowers gathered I sat down to make a daisy chain. This was done by means of putting a tiny hole in the stem of the flower and putting another flower through the hole and so on until the chain was long enough. Other times I made a doll. I could make this by tying some rags together by means of a piece of string, this was the doll's body. Then I made the head. To make this I made a little cloth bag and stuffed it with saw-dust. Next I sewed two pieces of cloth and stuffed them with saw-dust and did the same for the legs. Then I made the doll's clothes, these were also made from old cloth which was of no use for anything else. The doll's bed was made from a cardboard box.
- Collector
- Eileen Boylan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Julianstown, Co. Meath
